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- Which cultural theme is NOT referenced in Stoker’s “Dracula” ?
MCQs: Which cultural theme is NOT referenced in Stoker’s “Dracula” ?
MCQs 1: What have literary critics read into the vampirism in Stoker’s “Dracula” ?
The novel presents the vampire count as a father-figure of great power.
The vampire represents a beloved father who seeks to gather together all the women and young men (sons).
The vampire represents sexual impotence.
The vampire represents the future.
MCQs 2: How is Thornfield in “Jane Eyre” different from the structures found in the first wave of Gothic novels ?
It is an ancestral estate.
It contains vault-like spaces.
It is located in England.
It is mysterious.
MCQs 3: In “The Castle of Otranto” which attitude does Walpole express towards primogeniture ?
It is a necessary part of the social order.
It is essentially fair.
It is monstrous.
It will naturally fall out of favor.
MCQs 4: How is the concept of “the new woman” Gothic ?
It represents a “doubling” of Queen Victoria by English women as they remake themselves in her image.
It represents the “transformation” of the traditional Victorian woman from the private sphere to the public sphere.
It represents the rise in psychological pathologies or “madness” in women in the late 19th century.
It represents the “pollution” of the ideal woman by foreign influences.
MCQs 5: Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase “the explained supernatural” ?
MCQs 6: Why has Bertha been characterized as the “madwoman in the attic” by literary scholars ?
To represent the expansion of Gothic literary spaces from only subterranean spaces to attics as well
To represent the shift from the male Gothic villain to the female Gothic villain in the Victorian Gothic novel
To make reference to the rise of personal responsibility in Victorian England for the care of the sick and insane
To make an ironic statement about the point of view and marginalization of the “Other” in Victorian England
MCQs 7: How does the use of Gothic architecture assist the Gothic novelist ?
It engenders confusion for both the novel’s protagonist and readers.
It offers a secure refuge for the novel’s protagonist.
It provides the space for a large community of people to congregate.
It represents the glory of a bygone age.
MCQs 8: In what way do the houses in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Jane Eyre” differ from each other as Gothic literary structures ?
The relative location of the room in which the “troubled” women are kept
The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists
The relative location of the houses within the larger communities
The relative age of the houses
MCQs 9: “It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.” How does this opening sentence of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” NOT immediately suggest the Gothic ?
The reference to ancestral halls
The uncommon nature of the event
The first-person narrator
The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate
MCQs 10: What do scholars Michael O’Rourke and David Collings argue about “Queer Romanticism” ?
Romantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.
Deviant sexuality, including homosexuality, has historically been associated with Romantic literature.
The sexual lives of Romantic-era authors are not relevant to our understanding of queer Romanticism.
The “Queer Gothic” is understudied.
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