This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Gothic > Gothic Literature – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gothic Literature Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What did the children do the first time they saw Mr. Hooper with the black veil? A) They worshiped him and rejoiced. B) The children attacked him for his devilish appearance. C) They stopped their games and ran away. D) Screamed so loud all the windows in the town broke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They stopped their games and ran away. 2. Examples of metonymy include all of the following except ..... A) Raining outside. B) Doors creaking. C) Woman crying. D) Wind howling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Woman crying. 3. The genre of southern literature that became popular in the A) 1900s-1920s. B) 1960s-1970s. C) 1940s-1960s. D) 1970s-1980s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1940s-1960s. 4. Fill in the blank:The author uses ..... to suggest what may happen next in the story. A) Similes. B) Forward showing. C) Foreshadowing. D) Cats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foreshadowing. 5. Name another Gothic author A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. B) Walt Whitman. C) Emerson. D) Thoreau. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 6. Who did Edgar Allan Poe live with after leaving the military? A) His foster family, the Allans. B) He lived on his own with his pet cat, Pluto. C) He moved into his dorm at the University of Virginia. D) He moved in with his aunt Maria and cousin Virginia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He moved in with his aunt Maria and cousin Virginia. 7. Forget community-who or what were Gothic writers interested in? A) Falwed heroes. B) Reason. C) Technology. D) The wealthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falwed heroes. 8. Gothic literature includes all except ..... A) Happy endings. B) Bleak setting. C) Depressing tone. D) Dark mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Happy endings. 9. When was the Gothic Literary movement most popular in America? A) 1750-1850. B) 1980-1990. C) 1700-1750. D) 1800-1900. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1750-1850. 10. What effect does foreshadowing have? A) Makes you think something bad is going to happen. B) Reflects what characters are thinking. C) Reminds you of something that happened before. D) Creates a picture in the reader's head. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Makes you think something bad is going to happen. 11. O'Connor's stories are set in ..... A) The urban south. B) The rural north. C) The urban north. D) The rural south. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The rural south. 12. What did the narrator fear? A) The spooky setting. B) Her parents divorcing. C) The power being out at night during a storm. D) The way her life would change if her parents divorced. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The way her life would change if her parents divorced. 13. A brief introduction of the setting, characters, and opening situation. A) Exposition. B) Resolution. C) Rising Action. D) Climax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exposition. 14. All of these are characteristics of Gothic architecture EXCEPT A) Gargoyles. B) Low Ceilings. C) Stained Glass Windows. D) Ornate Structures. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Low Ceilings. 15. When was Gothic Literature Created? A) 1790. B) 1764. C) 1898. D) 1777. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1764. 16. Waiting for something to happen, or being in a state of anxiousness because you are expecting something is called: A) Anticipation. B) Awareness. C) Self-Delusion. D) Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anticipation. 17. What surrounds the House of Usher? A) A small lake. B) Farmland. C) A city. D) A forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A small lake. 18. Fear from INSIDE yourself is ..... A) Mystery. B) Dread. C) Terror. D) Horror. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horror. 19. Men are often ..... A) Happy with their lives and at peace. B) Singing songs and skipping. C) Taking selfies and putting them on Facebook. D) In a rage in reflection of unseen inner torment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In a rage in reflection of unseen inner torment. 20. According to Hawthorne, what is the saddest of all prisons? A) Life. B) Guilt. C) One's own heart. D) Suspicion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One's own heart. 21. Who is the real monster in Frankenstein? A) Society. B) The creature. C) Victor Frankenstein. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Society. 22. What is a doppleganger? A) Two characters who are similar in appearance. B) Ghostly counterpart of another person. C) A twin. D) The villain of a gothic novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ghostly counterpart of another person. 23. One characteristic of Dark Romantic literature is that: A) The characters were always logical. B) The setting was usually bright and uplifting. C) There was often a supernatural element. D) The plot was usually underdeveloped. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) There was often a supernatural element. 24. What emotion was most abundant in this book? A) Anger. B) Sadness. C) Amusement. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sadness. 25. In what century did Gothic literature begin? A) 20th. B) 18th. C) 16th. D) 17th. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 18th. 26. Edgar's birth mother, Eliza, ..... A) Was an actress. B) Died of Tuberculosis. C) Died when Edgar was almost 3 years old. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 27. Who wrote the Original Gothic Fiction book? A) Horacio Walpole. B) J.D. Priestley. C) R.L Stevenson. D) Barack. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horacio Walpole. 28. What is the Mariner forced to do by the crew? A) Wear the albatross around his neck. B) Go over to the other ship. C) Drink his own blood. D) Walk the plank. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wear the albatross around his neck. 29. Transgression is ..... A) A movement in time. B) Pushing the boundaries. C) Understanding society. D) A change in the weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pushing the boundaries. 30. The mood of Gothic literature is almost always A) Gloomy. B) Fear. C) Isolation. D) Supernatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gloomy. 31. The reader can understand what from Elizabeth's talk with Mr. Hooper? A) Hooper is doomed to be lonely. B) Hooper wants to call off the engagement. C) Elizabeth understands why Hooper wears the veil. D) Elizabeth rejects him only because she's worried of a scandal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hooper is doomed to be lonely. 32. How did the doctor greet the narrator upon his arrival? A) Sadly. B) Sternly. C) Happily. D) Rudely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rudely. 33. What does horror mean? A) Happiness. B) Worry. C) An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. D) Crazy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust. 34. Murder, family secrets, suicide, and exorcisms are all an example of what? A) Gothic characters. B) Metonymy. C) Gothic setting. D) Gothic plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gothic plot. 35. Who does Old Scratch say he represents? A) Those who believe in the afterlife. B) Puritans. C) Those who are greedy and dishonest. D) Those who were wrongfully persecuted by white men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Those who were wrongfully persecuted by white men. 36. What was the tone of the story? A) Dark/thought provoking. B) Enlightened/Enthusiastic. C) Sarcastic. D) Rainbows and sunshine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dark/thought provoking. 37. What was a prominent feature in Gothic Architecture? A) Small buildings. B) Small columns. C) No ribbed vaulting. D) Stain Glass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stain Glass. 38. The creature in Mary Shelly's novel is A) Franken. B) Yes. C) Frankestein's monster. D) Frankestein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frankestein's monster. 39. Poe's mother, brother, and wife all died of what disease? A) Tuberculosis. B) Thrombocytopathy. C) Toxocariasis. D) Thanatophobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tuberculosis. 40. Which description BEST defines Edgar Allan Poe? A) A famous Gothic writer/author. B) The author of "My Introduction to Gothic Literature". C) The author's grandfather. D) The author's first love and her former boyfriend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A famous Gothic writer/author. 41. The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities. A) Consonance. B) Onomatopoeia. C) End rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 42. The ..... is a character who does not follow the cultural mainstream and may become a hero in his or her own right. A) Grotesque. B) Innocent character. C) Off kilter character. D) Outsider. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Outsider. 43. A feeling of thoughtful sadness, typically with no obvious cause A) Melancholy. B) Melon ball. C) Mellifluous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melancholy. 44. Which of the following is the BEST way to describe an explanatory essay? A) An explanatory essay convinces the reader to believe a certain topic. B) An explanatory essay tells a story. C) An explanatory essay is an autobiography. D) An explanatory essay explains a topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An explanatory essay explains a topic. 45. In Poe's Tell Tale Heart, what did the narrator try to convince you that he was NOT? A) Mad. B) Stupid. C) Smart. D) Evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mad. 46. How long did it take for the Red Death to kill someone after they contracted it? A) Thirty minutes. B) A day. C) An hour. D) Thirty days. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thirty minutes. 47. What happens when Hooper decides not to remove his veil for Elizabeth? A) She leaves him. B) She forces him to. C) She stabs him. D) She stops asking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She leaves him. 48. Gothic statues were used to ..... A) Ward off evil storms. B) Ward off evil people that are mean. C) Ward off evil spirits. D) Stop birds from pooping on the cathedral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ward off evil spirits. 49. What does supernatural mean? A) A person who scares you. B) A superhero. C) Something not possible by science. D) A gothic person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Something not possible by science. 50. What did the peanut butter say to the grape on Christmas? A) Tis the season to be jelly. B) It's lunch time!. C) Grape my day. D) Nothing. Peanut butter cannot talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tis the season to be jelly. 51. What does Tom regret as he begins to get old? A) His deal with the Devil. B) His greedy and unscrupulous business practices. C) His lack of involvement in his local community. D) His refusal to give to charity in his younger days. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) His deal with the Devil. 52. Southern Gothic Literature includes A) Monster-like characters. B) Oppressed characters. C) Decay. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 53. Which of these is a modern, living gothic writer? A) Horace Walpole. B) Snoop Dog. C) Mary Shelley. D) Steven King. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Horace Walpole. 54. Which of the following is NOT a type of evil? A) Supernatural. B) Physical. C) Abnormal. D) Moral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abnormal. 55. Which of the answer choices gives a word built from the base word satisfy by adding a Prefix AND A Suffix? A) Dissatisfaction. B) Satisfaction. C) Satisfactorily. D) Dissatisfy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dissatisfaction. 56. Mary Shelley wrote which thriller about a killer supernatural being? A) Dracula. B) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. C) The Vampyre. D) Frankenstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Frankenstein. 57. This author was a gothic horror author A) Dan Rice. B) Mary Shelley. C) Stephen King. D) Charles Bukowski. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mary Shelley. 58. The mood of a gothic tale is most often ..... A) Unsettling. B) Energetic. C) Calm. D) Uplifting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unsettling. 59. Which of these is a symbol of fleeting time and the certainty of death in "The Masque of the Red Death? " A) The ebony clock. B) The masque. C) The red window. D) The Prince's dagger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ebony clock. 60. On his death-bed, what does Hooper claim to see? A) God's face. B) The young woman who had died. C) A veil on every face. D) Only darkness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A veil on every face. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesGothic Literature Quiz 1Gothic Literature Quiz 3Gothic Literature Quiz 4Gothic Literature Quiz 5Gothic Literature Quiz 6Gothic Literature Quiz 7Gothic Literature Quiz 8The Gothic Novel Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books