Category: The Gothic Novel

A. She creates a strong male hero to rescue Emily.
B. She is not concerned with issues of rightful inheritance.
C. She sets the novel in present day.
D. She resolves the appearance of supernatural phenomena.

A. The body is represented in abnormal ways.
B. Women’s issues are interrogated.
C. Gender issues are often overlooked.
D. Many protagonists’ mothers are absent.

A. He is from a foreign land.
B. He is racially different.
C. He is Christian.
D. He is a connection to a different time.

A. The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe
B. The ancestral home of HoraceWalpole
C. One of the settings in “The Mysteries of Udolpho”
D. The inspiration for “The Castle of Otranto”

A. As potentially productive when used correctly
B. As something needed for humans to advance
C. As a way to resolve human madness
D. As inherently monstrous

A. As a commentary on Victorian England
B. As an apolitical horror story
C. As a novel ghostwritten by Perce Shelley
D. As an exploration on the effects of science on humanity

A. The reference to ancestral halls
B. The uncommon nature of the event
C. The first-person narrator
D. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

A. It is an ancestral estate.
B. It contains vault-like spaces.
C. It is located in England.
D. It is mysterious.

A. As a plot structure that diminishes the Gothic novel’s intensity
B. As the reader’s inward turn to examine his or her own tangled consciousness
C. As a means for characters to directly confront unconscious problems
D. As a place for the distressed heroine to hide

A. It is the scene of violence.
B. It is the scene of sexual transgression.
C. It is the scene of redemption for the Byronic hero.
D. It serves as a kind of prison.