Gothic Literature Quiz 6 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was a prominent feature in Gothic Architecture?

Correct Answer: D) Stain Glass.

2. The creature in Mary Shelly's novel is

Correct Answer: C) Frankestein's monster.

3. Poe's mother, brother, and wife all died of what disease?

Correct Answer: A) Tuberculosis.

4. Which description BEST defines Edgar Allan Poe?

Correct Answer: A) A famous Gothic writer/author.

5. The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities.

Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia.

6. The ..... is a character who does not follow the cultural mainstream and may become a hero in his or her own right.

Correct Answer: C) Outsider.

7. A feeling of thoughtful sadness, typically with no obvious cause

Correct Answer: A) Melancholy.

8. Which of the following is the BEST way to describe an explanatory essay?

Correct Answer: A) An explanatory essay explains a topic.

9. In Poe's Tell Tale Heart, what did the narrator try to convince you that he was NOT?

Correct Answer: D) Mad.

10. How long did it take for the Red Death to kill someone after they contracted it?

Correct Answer: D) Thirty minutes.

11. What happens when Hooper decides not to remove his veil for Elizabeth?

Correct Answer: B) She leaves him.

12. Gothic statues were used to .....

Correct Answer: D) Ward off evil spirits.

13. What does supernatural mean?

Correct Answer: A) Something not possible by science.

14. What did the peanut butter say to the grape on Christmas?

Correct Answer: C) Tis the season to be jelly.

15. What does Tom regret as he begins to get old?

Correct Answer: A) His deal with the Devil.

16. Southern Gothic Literature includes

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

17. Which of these is a modern, living gothic writer?

Correct Answer: C) Horace Walpole.

18. Which of the following is NOT a type of evil?

Correct Answer: B) Abnormal.

19. Which of the answer choices gives a word built from the base word satisfy by adding a Prefix AND A Suffix?

Correct Answer: C) Dissatisfaction.

20. Mary Shelley wrote which thriller about a killer supernatural being?

Correct Answer: C) Frankenstein.