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- Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
MCQs: Which psychological issue is NOT typical of the Gothic novel ?
MCQs 1: What literary purpose does Emily’s stay with the nuns at the convent NOT serve ?
Emily is confronted with the duality of the human mind, at once rational and then mad.
Emily is tested regarding the guilt and ghosts of sins past.
Emily comes to understand the benefits of a cloistered life.
Emily learns the story of Sister Agnes’s past.
MCQs 2: 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 ?
MCQs 3: Who does NOT represent the “new woman” ?
MCQs 4: Why is “The Castle of Otranto” often considered a reaction against the Enlightenment ?
It shows the possible dangers of science.
It exposes the deep flaws in medieval ways of thinking about the world.
It marks a return to more primitive ways of pre-Enlightenment thought and expression.
It suggests that reason is more important than emotion.
MCQs 5: Which cultural theme is NOT referenced in Stoker’s “Dracula” ?
MCQs 6: 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 7: 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 8: 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 9: 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 10: Which of the following terms is most closely related to the phrase “the explained supernatural” ?
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