This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Gothic > The Gothic Novel – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Gothic Novel Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. In which way does Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" include elements of the uncanny? A) It reflects a woman's everyday life. B) An everyday object causes her terror. C) An apparently normal person is revealed as a man. D) It features a body transformation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An everyday object causes her terror. 6. 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. 7. In "The Gothic Sublime" how does Mishra characterize the Gothic novel? A) As a version of the Romantic novel. B) As a set of literary devices developed in the 18th century but applicable to present day. C) As the antithesis of postmodernism. D) As the resolution of madness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As a set of literary devices developed in the 18th century but applicable to present day. 8. In "The Castle of Otranto" what "monstrous Other" does Manfred embody? A) The undead. B) The outcast. C) The cursed. D) The transgendered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cursed. 9. 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) Realism. B) An epistolary format. C) A focus on the individual. D) An English setting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A focus on the individual. 10. 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. 11. 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 men also are mad. D) That female madness is a serious obstacle to women's liberation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) That it is an artificial patriarchal tool. 12. How does Frankenstein's monster learn about the Garden of Eden? A) He reads the Bible. B) He is taught by Victor about the Bible. C) He reads Milton's "Paradise Lost.". D) He listens outside church services. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He reads Milton's "Paradise Lost.". 13. Which one of the following events inspired the trend of body transformation in Gothic novels? A) The decline in animal dissections. B) The increase in scientific experimentation. C) The end of absolute monarchy. D) The end of the Vitalist Controversy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The increase in scientific experimentation. 14. In "Frankenstein" how do dreams function? A) They provide relief from the real world. B) They prophesy future destruction. C) They are part of the unconscious controlled by science. D) They obscure deep emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They prophesy future destruction. 15. 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 the first of his kind. D) He is responsible for the burden of original sin. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is the first of his kind. 16. Why is the concept of the sublime important in Gothic literature? A) It leads the reader to overlook the beauty of nature. B) It reminds readers of their civic duties. C) It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport. D) It creates a sense of contentment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport. 17. 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. 18. 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. 19. In "The Monk" what event does NOT represent the theme of entrapment of women? A) Antonia's death. B) Matilda's dressing as Rosario. C) Agnes's admittance to the convent. D) The magic mirror. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matilda's dressing as Rosario. 20. In what way is "The Monk" a reaction to the French Revolution? A) It includes apocalyptic themes. B) It represents society as relatively stable. C) It condemns the misuse of power. D) It predicts the upheaval of society. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It condemns the misuse of power. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesThe Gothic Novel Quiz 1The Gothic Novel Quiz 2The Gothic Novel Quiz 4Gothic Literature Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books