A. Emily is tested regarding the guilt and ghosts of sins past.

B. Emily learns the story of Sister Agness past.

D. Emily is confronted with the duality of the human mind, at once rational and then mad.

B. The reliable narrator

C. The mix of language in terms of voice, diction, and rhythm

D. The readers unwavering empathy for Frankenstein

A. The male Gothic versus the female Gothic

B. Plotted revenge versus random violence

C. The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector

A. Radcliffe considers her work a continuation of the sentimental novel of the 18th century.

C. Radcliffe wants to emphasize the happy ending of the marriage of Emily and Valancourt.

D. It acknowledges the lack of supernatural plot tricks.

A. The fallen world

B. The Other

D. The sublime

B. It suggests that reason is more important than emotion.

C. It shows the possible dangers of science.

D. It exposes the deep flaws in medieval ways of thinking about the world.

A. Baptiste

B. Ambrosio

C. Agnes

A. The relative location of the houses within the larger communities

B. The relative age of the houses

C. The relative location of the room in which the troubled women are kept

B. Deviant sexuality, including homosexuality, has historically been associated with Romantic literature.

C. The sexual lives of Romantic-era authors are not relevant to our understanding of queer Romanticism.

D. The Queer Gothic is understudied.

A. The uncommon nature of the event

C. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

D. The reference to ancestral halls

B. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

C. Jane Eyre

D. Mina Murray Harker

B. It contains vault-like spaces.

C. It is mysterious.

D. It is an ancestral estate.

A. Both were successful because they followed the laws of nature.

B. Both refused to use science to do innovative work.

C. Both worked collaboratively.

A. 17th century; Enlightenment

C. 18th century; Romanticism

D. 19th century; Romanticism

B. To make the reader feel distaste for supernatural themes

C. To generate feelings of intense pleasure

D. To make the reader dislike modern society

A. The end of the Vitalist Controversy

B. The end of absolute monarchy

D. The decline in animal dissections

A. Aberrant mental states

B. Violence

C. Sexual rapacity

A. The vampire represents a beloved father who seeks to gather together all the women and young men (sons).

B. The vampire represents sexual impotence.

D. The vampire represents the future.

A. A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world.

C. The personification of nature is regressive.

D. People are foolishly superstitious.

A. It represents male sexuality.

B. It suggests female complicity in sexual deviance.

C. It refers to the location of murder in Gothic novels.

B. It is essentially fair.

C. It is a necessary part of the social order.

D. It will naturally fall out of favor.

B. It offers a secure refuge for the novels protagonist.

C. It provides the space for a large community of people to congregate.

D. It represents the glory of a bygone age.

A. Edmund Lewis

B. Mary Shelley

C. Edmund Burke

A. The hand represents the superiority of the Enlightenment over medievalism.

B. The hand symbolizes the danger of marriage.

C. The hand signifies the mysterious pull of the labyrinth.

A. That it is necessary to contain mad women

B. That female madness is a serious obstacle to womens liberation

C. That men also are mad

B. An epistolary format

C. Realism

D. An English setting

A. That sexual purity was less important than societys safety

B. That men consider themselves responsible for their own fates

C. That women are not one-dimensional

B. It represents the rise in psychological pathologies or madness in women in the late 19th century.

C. It represents a doubling of Queen Victoria by English women as they remake themselves in her image.

D. It represents the pollution of the ideal woman by foreign influences.

A. It serves as a kind of prison.

B. It is the scene of sexual transgression.

D. It is the scene of violence.

A. The ancestral home of HoraceWalpole

B. The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe

C. One of the settings in The Mysteries of Udolpho

A. Beckfords Vathek

B. Stokers Dracula

D. Walpoles The Castle of Otranto

A. They are typically heroes.

B. They are almost always the subjects of omens and curses.

C. They always express deviant sexual tendencies.

B. Terror involves uncertainty and obscurity.

C. Horror is only a sense of the sublime.

D. Terror contracts the soul.

B. To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane

C. To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well

D. To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel

A. Theories of Darwinian evolution

B. The Woman Question

C. Imperialism

A. As a model for contemporary police work

B. As a necessary control

D. As a path to redemption

A. The unknown

B. The grotesque

D. Transgression

A. It is a less effective tool than traditional folklore weapons.

B. It becomes a way to conceal information.

D. It allows women to participate in the novel.

A. It creates a sense of contentment.

C. It leads the reader to overlook the beauty of nature.

D. It reminds readers of their civic duties.

A. The consideration of the sensibilities of the protagonists

C. Plots taken from everyday life

D. The focus on the middle and working classes

A. The concern for the sanctity of legal inheritance

C. The support for the British class system

D. The belief in British superiority to foreign countries

A. She is not concerned with issues of rightful inheritance.

C. She sets the novel in present day.

D. She creates a strong male hero to rescue Emily.

A. It includes apocalyptic themes.

C. It predicts the upheaval of society.

D. It represents society as relatively stable.

A. The idea that the Victorian woman represents the new woman

B. The idea that confinement in the home may induce madness

D. The idea that women should advise men

A. The ascendency of human reason in the Gothic novel

C. The use of poetic prose in the Gothic novel

D. The representation of contemporary life in the Gothic novel

A. The rupture of the everyday by acts of violence

B. Unnatural forces overwhelming human endeavor

C. The return of the past to the present

A. She leaves home in search of adventure.

B. She rejects her aunts invitation to travel to Italy.

C. She converts to Catholicism.

B. Lewiss use of a female pseudonym in the original edition

C. Ambrosios rape and murder of his sister

D. Lewiss choiceof a feminine literary genre

A. It is removed from the main area of the house.

B. It is locked.

D. It has bars on the window.

A. Agness admittance to the convent

B. Antonias death

C. The magic mirror