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.
Related Mcqs:
- “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 ?
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 - 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 - 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. - What constitutes a “monstrous Other” in “The Yellow Wallpaper” ?
A. Cousin Henry and Julia
B. Reading
C. Writing
D. John - In what way do the houses in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Jane Eyre” differ from each other as Gothic literary structures ?
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 - How does the uncanny function in “Frankenstein” ?
A. The normal activity of vivisection is represented as horrible.
B. Seemingly normal characters are actually terrifying.
C. The dramatic landscape provides an alternative to the usual world.
D. The monster’s grotesque body is actually made of human parts. - All of the following refer to “the uncanny” EXCEPT________________?
A. A psychoanalytic term that explains terror
B. The supernatural
C. “Unheimlich”
D. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness - To whom is the concept of the uncanny attributed ?
A. Sigmund Freud
B. Edmund Lewis
C. Edmund Burke
D. Mary Shelley - The Freudian concept of “the uncanny” refers to_________________?
A. a feeling of being disconnected from the world.
B. a sense of something being familiar and foreign at once.
C. terror at the thought of death.
D. a realization of one’s empowered position in the world. - Harold Nicholson described which poet as ’Very yellow and glum. Perfect manners’ ?
A. e. e. Cummings
B. T. S. Elliot
C. John Greenleaf Whittier
D. Walt Whitman
