This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Gothic > The Gothic Novel – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Gothic Novel Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is Gothic about the narrative structure of "Frankenstein" ? A) The erratic movement of time and place. B) The readers' unwavering empathy for Frankenstein. C) The reliable narrator. D) The mix of language in terms of voice, diction, and rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The erratic movement of time and place. 2. What literary convention is used pervasively in "The Mysteries of Udolpho" ? A) The uncanny doubling of characters. B) First-person narration. C) Satire. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The uncanny doubling of characters. 3. When Mary Shelley writes about ghosts, what is her concern? A) People are foolishly superstitious. B) The personification of nature is regressive. C) A world devoid of supernatural phenomena is a better world. D) A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A belief in ghosts is a belief in imagination. 4. Who does NOT represent the "new woman" ? A) Antonia. B) Jane Eyre. C) Mina Murray Harker. D) Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antonia. 5. Who should NOT be viewed as Prometheus in Shelley's "Frankenstein" ? A) Frankenstein. B) Frankenstein's monster. C) Robert Walton. D) Mary Shelley. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frankenstein's monster. 6. Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel? A) Daydreams. B) Violence. C) Aberrant mental states. D) Sexual rapacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Daydreams. 7. What does the character Dracula symbolize in the novel? A) Theories of evolution. B) Ancient evil. C) The consciousness. D) Modern science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ancient evil. 8. All of the following define the Gothic EXCEPT: A) The grotesque. B) The unknown. C) Reason. D) Transgression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reason. 9. What role does Rosario play in the Gothic atmosphere of "The Monk" ? A) Heroine in distress. B) Angel in the house. C) Queer provocateur. D) Pursued protagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Queer provocateur. 10. For what historical event did the Gothic serve as a metaphor? A) The Industrial Revolution. B) The American Revolution. C) The French Revolution. D) The Battle of Waterloo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The French Revolution. 11. Which of the following is NOT a theme of "The Castle of Otranto" ? A) Unnatural forces overwhelming human endeavor. B) The return of the past to the present. C) The destruction of humanity through scientific experimentation. D) The rupture of the everyday by acts of violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The destruction of humanity through scientific experimentation. 12. The vampire myth is NOT associated with which of the following? A) Incest. B) The fear of being buried alive. C) Life rituals with blood. D) The fear of dying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incest. 13. All of the following refer to "the uncanny" EXCEPT: A) A psychoanalytic term that explains terror. B) "Unheimlich". C) A sense of uncomfortable strangeness. D) The supernatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The supernatural. 14. To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed? A) Sigmund Freud. B) Edmund Lewis. C) Mary Shelley. D) Edmund Burke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sigmund Freud. 15. What is the significance of "the Other" in Gothic novels? A) They are almost always the subjects of omens and curses. B) They are typically heroes. C) They always express deviant sexual tendencies. D) They are perceived as dangerous because they are unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They are perceived as dangerous because they are unknown. 16. In "The Castle of Otranto" which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture? A) It is a necessary part of the social order. B) It is essentially fair. C) It is monstrous. D) It will naturally fall out of favor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is monstrous. 17. In what way does Radcliffe depart from Walpole's earlier tradition? 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She resolves the appearance of supernatural phenomena. 18. What constitutes a "monstrous Other" in "The Yellow Wallpaper" ? A) Cousin Henry and Julia. B) Reading. C) Writing. D) John. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John. 19. In "Jane Eyre" how does Bertha NOT trouble the patriarchy? A) She is sexually deviant. B) She exemplifies unfeminine anger. C) She is not submissive. D) She is understood to be mad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She is understood to be mad. 20. The popularity of which Gothic novelist is parodied in Austen's "Northanger Abbey" ? A) Ann Radcliffe. B) Mary Shelley. C) Matthew Lewis. D) Horace Walpole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ann Radcliffe. 21. In "Dracula" what does the death of Lucy suggest? A) That sexual purity was less important than society's safety. B) That female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed. C) That women are not one-dimensional. D) That men consider themselves responsible for their own fates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed. 22. Which character best represents the concept of terror versus that of horror in Lewis's "The Monk" ? A) Ambrosio. B) Baptiste. C) Matilda. D) Agnes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Matilda. 23. How is "Jane Eyre" different from the novels of the first wave of English Gothic novels? A) It explains strange phenomena. B) The theme of imprisonment is prominent. C) Its protagonist is at risk for sexual transgression. D) It is a Bildungsroman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is a Bildungsroman. 24. Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase "the explained supernatural" ? A) The uncanny. B) The fallen world. C) The "Other". D) The sublime. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The uncanny. 25. All of the following are labyrinthine in "The Mysteries of Udolpho" EXCEPT: A) Emily's mind. B) The plot. C) Emily's misfortunes. D) Valancourt's character. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Valancourt's character. 26. How does Stoker's "Dracula" challenge contemporary sexual taboos? A) Mina and Jonathan decide to live together without being married. B) Lucy becomes a sexual predator. C) Van Helsing is a bachelor. D) John Seward remains devoted to Lucy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lucy becomes a sexual predator. 27. How does Lewis portray the Catholic confessional in "The Monk" ? A) As a voyeuristic activity. B) As a necessary control. C) As a model for contemporary police work. D) As a path to redemption. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As a voyeuristic activity. 28. Which cultural theme is NOT referenced in Stoker's "Dracula" ? A) Imperialism. B) The Woman Question. C) Theories of Darwinian evolution. D) Labor unions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Labor unions. 29. What is distinctive about Emily's bedchamber at Udolpho? A) It is haunted. B) It contains a secret passageway. C) It does not lock from the inside. D) It is lavishly furnished. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It does not lock from the inside. 30. Which term is most closely affiliated with the female Gothic? A) Horror. B) Terror. C) Sentimentalism. D) Ghosts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terror. 31. What is the origin of the vampire myth? A) Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto". B) Beckford's "Vathek". C) Stoker's "Dracula". D) Ancient civilizations worldwide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ancient civilizations worldwide. 32. How do theorists suggest that the Gothic novel resembles queer and camp? A) Many protagonists' mothers are absent. B) Women's issues are interrogated. C) Gender issues are often overlooked. D) The body is represented in abnormal ways. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The body is represented in abnormal ways. 33. How does Emily show initiative in "The Mysteries of Udolpho" ? A) She takes control of her own money. B) She leaves home in search of adventure. C) She rejects her aunt's invitation to travel to Italy. D) She converts to Catholicism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She takes control of her own money. 34. What is Strawberry Hill? A) The inspiration for "The Castle of Otranto". B) The ancestral home of Horace Walpole. C) The ancestral home of Ann Radcliffe. D) One of the settings in "The Mysteries of Udolpho". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The inspiration for "The Castle of Otranto". 35. Why does one scholar suggest that "The Monk" represents literary transvestism? A) The habited nuns. B) Ambrosio's rape and murder of his sister. C) Lewis's use of a female pseudonym in the original edition. D) Lewis's choiceof a feminine literary genre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lewis's choiceof a feminine literary genre. 36. What Gothic literary convention did NOT originate with Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" ? A) The supernatural. B) Psychological terror. C) The ancestral castle. D) Physical violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Psychological terror. 37. In what way does Thornfield Hall differ from the Castle of Otranto, Udolpho, and the Convent of St. Clare? A) It serves as a kind of prison. B) It is the scene of redemption for the Byronic hero. C) It is the scene of sexual transgression. D) It is the scene of violence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is the scene of redemption for the Byronic hero. 38. In what way is Dracula NOT an "Other" figure? 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is Christian. 39. What is the significance of the "wandering Jew" motif? A) Religious upheaval. B) The presence of omens. C) The curse of immorality. D) Insanity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The curse of immorality. 40. All of the following are associated with Gothic architecture EXCEPT: A) Neo-classicism. B) The Middle Ages. C) Complicated floor plans. D) Vaulted ceilings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Neo-classicism. 41. According to Radcliffe, what is the difference between terror and horror? A) Horror is only a sense of the sublime. B) Terror contracts the soul. C) Terror involves uncertainty and obscurity. D) Horror fails to awaken and expand the soul. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Horror fails to awaken and expand the soul. 42. In "Dracula" what is the significance of the typewriter? A) It allows women to participate in the novel. B) It serves as a path to the public sphere for women. C) It is a less effective tool than traditional folklore weapons. D) It becomes a way to conceal information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It serves as a path to the public sphere for women. 43. Why do most scholars assume that Radcliffe favored "explained supernaturalism" ? A) Her sense of morality and decorum. B) Her defiance of contemporary culture. C) Her lack of imagination. D) Her full embrace of the Gothic vision of Walpole, Beckford, and Lewis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her sense of morality and decorum. 44. Which of the following best describes how the novel "Frankenstein" is understood by critics? 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As an exploration on the effects of science on humanity. 45. In which way does Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" include elements of the uncanny? A) It features a body transformation. B) An everyday object causes her terror. C) An apparently normal person is revealed as a man. D) It reflects a woman's everyday life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An everyday object causes her terror. 46. What does the term "angel in the house" signify? A) The idea that women should advise men. B) The idea that the Victorian woman represents "the new woman". C) The idea that women are pure and morally superior to men. D) The idea that confinement in the home may induce madness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The idea that women are pure and morally superior to men. 47. In "The Gothic Sublime" how does Mishra characterize the Gothic novel? A) As the antithesis of postmodernism. B) As a version of the Romantic novel. C) As a set of literary devices developed in the 18th century but applicable to present day. D) As the resolution of madness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) As a set of literary devices developed in the 18th century but applicable to present day. 48. In "The Castle of Otranto" what "monstrous Other" does Manfred embody? A) The outcast. B) The undead. C) The cursed. D) The transgendered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cursed. 49. What quality does the Gothic novel of the 18th and early 19th centuries share with the majority of English novels of the same time period? A) An English setting. B) An epistolary format. C) A focus on the individual. D) Realism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A focus on the individual. 50. How is Thornfield in "Jane Eyre" different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels? A) It is an ancestral estate. B) It contains vault-like spaces. C) It is located in England. D) It is mysterious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It is located in England. 51. In "The Yellow Wallpaper" what does Gilman suggest about madness? A) That it is necessary to contain mad women. B) That it is an artificial patriarchal tool. C) That female madness is a serious obstacle to women's liberation. D) That men also are mad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That it is an artificial patriarchal tool. 52. How does Frankenstein's monster learn about the Garden of Eden? A) He listens outside church services. B) He is taught by Victor about the Bible. C) He reads Milton's "Paradise Lost.". D) He reads the Bible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He reads Milton's "Paradise Lost.". 53. Which one of the following events inspired the trend of body transformation in Gothic novels? A) The end of the Vitalist Controversy. B) The end of absolute monarchy. C) The decline in animal dissections. D) The increase in scientific experimentation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The increase in scientific experimentation. 54. In "Frankenstein" how do dreams function? A) They provide relief from the real world. B) They obscure deep emotions. C) They prophesy future destruction. D) They are part of the unconscious controlled by science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They prophesy future destruction. 55. Why do critics see Frankenstein's monster as equivalent to the Biblical Adam? A) His habitat is equivalent to the Garden of Eden. B) He is a mistake. C) He is responsible for the burden of original sin. D) He is the first of his kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He is the first of his kind. 56. Why is the concept of the sublime important in Gothic literature? A) It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport. B) It reminds readers of their civic duties. C) It creates a sense of contentment. D) It leads the reader to overlook the beauty of nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport. 57. What is NOT Gothic about the room to which the female protagonist of "The Yellow Wallpaper" is confined? A) It has bars on the window. B) It is removed from the main area of the house. C) It is locked. D) It is sunny. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is sunny. 58. How does the character Dracula unsettle the Victorian patriarchy? A) He threatens to spread his madness to women. B) His sexuality appeals to women. C) He protects women's chastity and virginity. D) He provides a way for Victorian men to blame their actions on women. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His sexuality appeals to women. 59. In "The Monk" what event does NOT represent the theme of entrapment of women? A) Antonia's death. B) Agnes's admittance to the convent. C) The magic mirror. D) Matilda's dressing as Rosario. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Matilda's dressing as Rosario. 60. In what way is "The Monk" a reaction to the French Revolution? A) It includes apocalyptic themes. B) It condemns the misuse of power. C) It represents society as relatively stable. D) It predicts the upheaval of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It condemns the misuse of power. 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