English Literature Mcqs

A. The relative location of the room in which the “troubled” women are kept
B. The state of disrepair when the houses are first encountered by the protagonists
C. The relative location of the houses within the larger communities
D. The relative age of the houses

A. The reference to ancestral halls
B. The uncommon nature of the event
C. The first-person narrator
D. The dichotomy between the concepts of ordinary and estate

A. Romantic literary criticism has been stubbornly limited with regard to queer readings.
B. Deviant sexuality, including homosexuality, has historically been associated with Romantic literature.
C. The sexual lives of Romantic-era authors are not relevant to our understanding of queer Romanticism.
D. The “Queer Gothic” is understudied.

A. That sexual purity was less important than society’s safety
B. That female sexuality is dangerous and must be destroyed
C. That women are not one-dimensional
D. That men consider themselves responsible for their own fates

A. They are almost always the subjects of omens and curses.
B. They are typically heroes.
C. They always express deviant sexual tendencies.
D. They are perceived as dangerous because they are unknown.

A. The unknown
B. Transgression
C. Reason
D. The grotesque

A. It represents male sexuality.
B. It suggests female complicity in sexual deviance.
C. It refers to the location of murder in Gothic novels.
D. It symbolizes the forced sequestration of women both before and after marriage.

A. Stoker’s “Dracula”
B. Beckford’s “Vathek”
C. Ancient civilizations worldwide
D. Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto”

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.

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