This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Gothic > Gothic Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gothic Literature Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. A) Plot. B) Atmosphere. C) Imagery. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 2. Women in Gothic Novels are usually portrayed as ..... A) Weak and vunerable. B) Strong. C) Powerful. D) Little Mix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Weak and vunerable. 3. What characterized the females in Poe's stories? A) Dead or dying. B) Insane. C) Guilty. D) In love with the protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dead or dying. 4. Which deadly illness frequently appeared in Edgar Allan Poe's life? A) Polio. B) COVID-19. C) Varicella. D) Tuberculosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tuberculosis. 5. Why does Montresor want revenge on Fortunato? A) Fortunato killed Montresor's family in an accident. B) Forunato took all of his money. C) Fortunato insulted him. D) Fortunato is too prideful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fortunato insulted him. 6. Which is an external feeling coming from the physical environment of a text? A) Tone. B) Setting. C) Mood. D) Atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atmosphere. 7. What kind of word is the hyphenated word:The dreams are stiff-frozen as they stand. A) Compound adverb. B) Compound adjective. C) Compound verb. D) Compound noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound adjective. 8. What were Gothic writers interested in? A) The Individual and Technology. B) The Individual and the Working class. C) The Individual and Education. D) The Individual and Isolation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Individual and Isolation. 9. What does it mean if a story has an unreliable narrator? A) The characters lie to each other often. B) The readers cannot trust what the narrator says and thinks. C) The narrator is trustworthy and honest. D) The entire story is made up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The readers cannot trust what the narrator says and thinks. 10. In Poe's Tell Tale Heart, How does the narrator kill the old man? A) With a pillow. B) By smothering him with the heavy mattress. C) By shooting him. D) By strangling him with his hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By smothering him with the heavy mattress. 11. Which of the following sentences uses a synonym of the word "separate" in the STRONGEST way? A) Our dog started to tatter the pillow with her teeth. B) A lion will rend its prey into pieces. C) Dion didn't mean to tear his shirt sleeve. D) I watched Sue rip the paper in two. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A lion will rend its prey into pieces. 12. What happened to the father in Portrait of a girl in glass? A) He divorced the mother and left. B) He left his family behind. C) He was killed in a tragic accident. D) Nothing it just didn't go into detail about his story line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He left his family behind. 13. The most sophisticated Gothic tales blended what two concepts? A) The Supernatural and the Psychological. B) The Old and the New. C) Violence and Machinery. D) Reason and Religion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Supernatural and the Psychological. 14. What is a recurring theme in Gothic Literature? A) Human nature is prone to excess and obsession. B) Human emotion is a better guide for behavior than reason. C) Human nature is essentially noble and good. D) Human emotion is a result of a person's physical needs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human nature is prone to excess and obsession. 15. What role does romance play in gothic literature? A) It's absolutely never present in gothic lit. B) It could have it, but it's not essential. C) It's there, but the protagonist will rarely experience it. D) Every work of gothic lit has romance in it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It could have it, but it's not essential. 16. Who died in the story? A) Roderick Usher, Lady Madeline. B) Lady Madeline, The Narrator. C) The Doctor, Roderick Usher. D) The Doctor, The Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roderick Usher, Lady Madeline. 17. Which of these is NOT an element of Gothic Literature A) Murder. B) Terror. C) Romance. D) The surpernatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Romance. 18. What does Tom Walker find in the "Old Indian Fort" ? A) A skull with an ax in it. B) A feather headdress. C) His dead wife. D) An old musket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A skull with an ax in it. 19. What is the name of the narrator of Portrait of a girl in glass? A) Tom. B) Laura. C) Amanda. D) Jim. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tom. 20. Which of the following is NOT a typical Gothic setting? A) Church. B) Shopping centre. C) Castle. D) Wild remote place. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shopping centre. 21. What do Southern Gothic writers like to depict in detail? A) Southern food like butter beans and collards. B) Southern settings like barns and porches. C) Southern attire like overalls and floweredy dresses. D) Southern hospitality like Ta'll come back now, ya hear?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Southern settings like barns and porches. 22. Which word BEST describes the mood of the story thus far? A) Peaceful. B) Cheerful. C) Gloomy. D) Sad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gloomy. 23. Gothic architecture was intended to inspire ..... A) Peace and Calm. B) Awe and Fear. C) Guilt and Shame. D) A love for Justin Bieber. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Awe and Fear. 24. Why does Laura pretend to go to business school? A) Jim is there. B) She wants the money. C) Tom makes her. D) She doesn't want to disappoint her mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She doesn't want to disappoint her mother. 25. A struggle between opposing forces. The problem of the story. A) Climax. B) Exposition. C) Conflict. D) Rising Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conflict. 26. Which of the following suggests that the revelers will not live long in "The Masque of the Red Death" ? A) The white room. B) The locked gates. C) The ebony clock. D) The red window panes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The ebony clock. 27. What is the SETTING at the beginning of "The Monkey's Paw" ? A) Night, clear, warm. B) Day, hot, sunny. C) Day, cloudy, raining. D) Night, cold, wet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Night, cold, wet. 28. Gothic literature will have the following mood: A) Dark. B) Light. C) Playful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dark. 29. What detail foreshadows, or hints, that Morris's story about the monkey's paw may be true? A) Mr. White feels the paw move. B) Herbert beats Mr. White at chess. C) Morris tells stories about his life in India. D) Mr. White says he has all he really wants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mr. White feels the paw move. 30. Why is Edgar Allen Poe considered Gothic writer? A) He writes about the natural world. B) He writes about romantic love. C) He writes about the certainty of death. D) He writes about his own personal experiences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He writes about the certainty of death. 31. At first, the speaker thinks the noise he hears is- A) His friends playing tricks on him. B) The wind blowing the door open. C) His enemy stalking him. D) Someone at the door. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Someone at the door. 32. From "The Masque of the Red Death":"The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous." Define "pestilence." A) Bugs. B) Famine. C) Contagious disease. D) War. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contagious disease. 33. What fact ruins Laura's evening with Jim? A) Jim breaks her glass animals. B) Jim is engaged. C) Jim thinks she's ugly. D) Her mother won't leave them alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jim is engaged. 34. Southern towns in Southern Gothic stories have A) A sense of style and architecture. B) A sense of place and belonging. C) A sense of isolation and longing. D) A sense of peace and quiet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sense of place and belonging. 35. What Gothic element does The Scarlet Letter contain? A) The novel's setting. B) It's dealings with the supernatural. C) Its focus on dark aspects of human nature. D) It's focus on death and destructin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its focus on dark aspects of human nature. 36. After Madeline dies, the narrator helps Usher do what? A) Call the funeral home. B) Prepare for her burial. C) Nothing, he leaves. D) Helps to dig her grave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prepare for her burial. 37. What did gothic writers usually write about? A) Fame and fortune. B) Darkness and the supernatural. C) Love and hate. D) Nature and beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Darkness and the supernatural. 38. Who wrote "Fall of the House of Usher" ? A) Washington Irving. B) James Fenimore Cooper. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edgar Allan Poe. 39. A feeling that something bad will happen A) Foreshadow. B) Foreboding. C) Something that was before. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreboding. 40. Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" includes tortured character(s) such as ..... A) Usher & Madeline. B) The narrator. C) Irene and her brother. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Usher & Madeline. 41. PART A:Which BEST describe the mood of the story? A) Psychotic. B) Angry. C) Lively. D) Joking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Psychotic. 42. The narrator and Usher were hearing sounds coming from the ..... A) Library. B) Kitchen. C) Bathroom. D) Dungeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dungeon. 43. Which author is infamous for using an unreliable narrator? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Mary Shelly. C) J.K. Rowling. D) Stephen King. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe. 44. What type of conflict does Hester's punishment represent? A) Individual vs. supernatural. B) Individual vs. self. C) Individual vs. society. D) Individual vs. individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Individual vs. society. 45. In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death, " Death picked up the speaker in a ..... A) Carriage. B) Car. C) Chariot. D) Wagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carriage. 46. Which of the following is NOT a Gothic writer? A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Sylvia Plath. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Mary Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sylvia Plath. 47. What is the meaning of the word isolation? A) In a crowd. B) Left alone. C) Packaging that keeps something cold. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Left alone. 48. In "House of Usher, " what happened to Roderick Usher? A) He went to live with the narrator. B) He drowned in a lake. C) He moved away. D) He died from fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He died from fear. 49. All of the following are common settings of Southern Gothic Literature EXCEPT ..... A) Plantations. B) Wealthy town with up and coming economies. C) Slave quarters. D) Broken down towns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wealthy town with up and coming economies. 50. What type of character becomes the "hero" of southern gothic narratives? A) The love-interest. B) The outsider. C) The explorer. D) The guilty character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The outsider. 51. Which of the following represents the grotesque? A) The Hunchback of Notre Dame. B) Frankenstein's monster. C) Dracula. D) A werewolf. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Hunchback of Notre Dame. 52. Why did the narrator love the story she read? A) It drew her into the mind of the narrator. B) She likes creepy stories. C) It was her first Gothic Literature peice she had ever read. D) She related to the narrator of the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It drew her into the mind of the narrator. 53. What author is know for writing Gothic Romantic works such as the Fall of the House of Usher and The Raven A) Walt Whitman. B) Harper Lee. C) Arthur Miller. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edgar Allan Poe. 54. In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death, " an appropriate theme for the poem is: A) Childhood memories should live forever. B) Life is promising. C) Death is favorable. D) Death is inevitable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Death is inevitable. 55. What does the setting of a piece of Gothic literature typically represent? A) The decay of a thriving world. B) The advancement of science. C) The darkness inside of people. D) The growth of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The decay of a thriving world. 56. Usher and Madeline are afflicted by what? A) Happiness. B) A mental disease. C) Sibling rivalry. D) Hunger pains. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A mental disease. 57. Which of the images below could be considered Gothic? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 58. What does the albatross symbolize? A) All birds. B) The crew. C) Death. D) Guilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Guilt. 59. How does Tom know Jim O'Connor? A) From college. B) From work. C) From the movies. D) From a mutual friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From work. 60. What are the three most important aspects of gothic literature? A) Characters, setting, theme. B) Characters, plot, personification. C) Characters, plot, tone. D) Plot, setting, personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characters, setting, theme. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesGothic Literature Quiz 1Gothic Literature Quiz 2Gothic Literature Quiz 3Gothic Literature Quiz 5Gothic Literature Quiz 6Gothic Literature Quiz 7Gothic Literature Quiz 8The Gothic Novel Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books