This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Gothic > Gothic Literature – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Gothic Literature Quiz 16 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which is not TRUE about Characters in Gothic literature? A) Tormented. B) Irrational. C) Physically ill. D) Calm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calm. 2. Gothic Fiction is a genre of literature that combines elements of ..... and ..... A) Fantasy and romance. B) Horror and romance. C) Horror and fantasy. D) Romance and comedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Horror and romance. 3. Based on its use in the sentence, what is the most likely meaning of "clamoured" ? I reapproached the wall; I replied to the yells of him who clamoured. A) Questioned. B) Complained. C) Climbed. D) Shouted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shouted. 4. Which one represents a Doppleganger? A) Dr. Jekyl. B) Dracula. C) Frankenstein's monster. D) Eve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dr. Jekyl. 5. In ambiguous gothic literature, the supernatural elements ..... A) Are real. B) Are not real. C) Might be real or not real. D) Are eventually found to have rational explanations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Might be real or not real. 6. At the start of the Fall of the House of Usher, what does the narrator do? A) Listens to Usher's improvisations on the guitar. B) Travels with Usher to visit the Usher family home. C) Travels to visit Usher at the Usher's family home. D) Helps Usher bury Usher's sister Madeline. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Travels to visit Usher at the Usher's family home. 7. The gothic mascot is a ..... A) Unicorn. B) Eagle. C) Gargoyle. D) Lion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gargoyle. 8. Where was Flannery O'Connor born? A) Augusta, Georgia. B) Savannah, Georgia. C) Charlotte, North Carolina. D) Greenville, South Carolina. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Savannah, Georgia. 9. The vocabulary used in gothic novels is designed to create what sort of atmosphere? A) An amusing atmosphere. B) A mysterious atmosphere. C) A warm atmosphere. D) An ominous atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An ominous atmosphere. 10. In "The Masque of the Red Death, " who dies at the end of the story? A) Prospero only. B) Prospero's guests only. C) The red death masquerader. D) Prospero and all of his guests. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prospero and all of his guests. 11. A lexical verb is A) A verb that helps out another verb. B) A verb that describes and action or state of being. C) A word that describes a verb. D) A verb that shows the probability or certainty of something happening. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A verb that describes and action or state of being. 12. What lesson do Prince Prospero and his courtiers learn? A) No one can outwit death. B) The ebony clock is evil. C) Black rooms are bad luck. D) Helping the poor is good. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No one can outwit death. 13. When the Raven says, "Nevermore, " the speaker takes this response to be- A) The bird's name. B) A prophecy. C) A message from Lenore. D) The words of an evil spirit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The bird's name. 14. When the narrator in "The Black Cat" buries his wife in the wall, which Gothic technique used? A) Family curse. B) Enclosure/claustrophobia. C) Cemetery. D) Revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enclosure/claustrophobia. 15. How did Roderick and the Narrator meet? A) Work. B) Theater. C) Pub. D) As childhood friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As childhood friends. 16. The repetition of identical sounds WITHIN a line of poetry. A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 17. Which word cannot describe the mood in Gothic literature? A) Spooky. B) Gloomy. C) Eerie. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 18. Whose story included a building of a wall in a basement A) Edgar Allan Poe. B) Stephen King. C) Mary Shelley. D) Katherine Mansfield. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Edgar Allan Poe. 19. All of these events can usually be found in the Gothic, apart from ..... A) Murder. B) People going mad. C) Kidnapping. D) Song and dance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Song and dance. 20. Which language technique is demonstrated in the following sentence:'The crunch and snap of brittle leaves and twigs echoed in the forest.' A) Alliteration. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Sibilance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesGothic Literature Quiz 1Gothic Literature Quiz 2Gothic Literature Quiz 3Gothic Literature Quiz 4Gothic Literature Quiz 5Gothic Literature Quiz 6Gothic Literature Quiz 7Gothic Literature Quiz 8Gothic Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books