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1. What literary purpose does Emilys stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
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A. Emily is tested regarding the guilt and ghosts of sins past.

B. Emily learns the story of Sister Agness past.

C. Emily comes to understand the benefits of a cloistered life.

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

2. What is Gothic about the narrative structure of Frankenstein ?
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A. The erratic movement of time and place

B. The reliable narrator

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

D. The readers unwavering empathy for Frankenstein

3. For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ?
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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

D. The anticipation of the violation of ones person versus an act of physical violence

4. Why does Radcliffe favor the term romance as the subtitle to The Mysteries of Udolpho ?
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A. Radcliffe considers her work a continuation of the sentimental novel of the 18th century.

B. It frees Radcliffe from a strict adherence to common life, allowing her to place Emily in challenging situations.

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

D. It acknowledges the lack of supernatural plot tricks.

5. Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase the explained supernatural ?
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A. The fallen world

B. The Other

C. The uncanny

D. The sublime

6. Why is The Castle of Otranto often considered a reaction against the Enlightenment ?
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A. It marks a return to more primitive ways of pre-Enlightenment thought and expression.

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.

7. Which character best represents the concept of terror versus that of horror in Lewiss The Monk ?
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A. Baptiste

B. Ambrosio

C. Agnes

D. Matilda

8. In what way do the houses in The Yellow Wallpaper and Jane Eyre differ from each other as Gothic literary structures ?
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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

D. The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists

9. What do scholars Michael ORourke and David Collings argue about Queer Romanticism ?
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A. Romantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.

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.

10. It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. How does this opening sentence of Gilmans The Yellow Wallpaper NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?
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A. The uncommon nature of the event

B. The first-person narrator

C. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

D. The reference to ancestral halls

11. Who does NOT represent the new woman ?
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A. Antonia

B. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

C. Jane Eyre

D. Mina Murray Harker

12. How is Thornfield in Jane Eyre different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels ?
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A. It is located in England.

B. It contains vault-like spaces.

C. It is mysterious.

D. It is an ancestral estate.

13. Which statement best summarizes the parallel between Frankenstein and Prometheus ?
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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.

D. Both suffered for their attempt to do divine work.

14. In what century and in what literary era was the first Gothic novel written ?
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A. 17th century; Enlightenment

B. 18th century; Enlightenment

C. 18th century; Romanticism

D. 19th century; Romanticism

15. The Gothic novel was intended to have which of the following effects on the reader ?
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A. To create a sense of mystery, gloom, and suspense

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

16. Which one of the following events inspired the trend of body transformation in Gothic novels ?
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A. The end of the Vitalist Controversy

B. The end of absolute monarchy

C. The increase in scientific experimentation

D. The decline in animal dissections

17. Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
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A. Aberrant mental states

B. Violence

C. Sexual rapacity

D. Daydreams

18. What have literary critics read into the vampirism in Stokers Dracula ?
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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.

C. The novel presents the vampire count as a father-figure of great power.

D. The vampire represents the future.

19. When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern ?
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A. A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world.

B. A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination.

C. The personification of nature is regressive.

D. People are foolishly superstitious.

20. What is the significance of the bloody bedchamber in Gothic fiction ?
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A. It represents male sexuality.

B. It suggests female complicity in sexual deviance.

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

D. It symbolizes the forced sequestration of women both before and after marriage.

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