A. Cousin Henry and Julia
B. Reading
C. Writing
D. John
Related Mcqs:
- 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. - 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. - “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 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 - 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 - In “The Castle of Otranto” what “monstrous Other” does Manfred embody ?
A. The undead
B. The outcast
C. The cursed
D. The transgendered - All of the following are ways Dracula represents the “monstrous Other” EXCEPT_______________?
A. Dracula as foreign invader
B. Dracula as sexual predator
C. Dracula as usurper of the British class system
D. Dracula as transgressor of God’s order - “The tragic-comedy which is the product of the English theatre is one the most monstrous inventions that ever entered into a poet’s thought.” Whose view is this ?
A. John Dryden’s
B. Alexander Pope’s
C. Joseph Addison’s
D. Dr. Johnson’s - Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” begins with the following lines: “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?/ Only the monstrous anger of the guns./ Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle/Can patter out their hasty orisons.” Which of the following statements best describes these lines ?
A. These lines suggest that it was difficult to define patriotism during the Great War, but soldiers who died in battle provided the best example of patriotism.
B. These lines suggest that the Great War lasted much longer than it should have.
C. These lines equate humans with animals, and they anthropomorphize weapons to show a world where there is no place for human values.
D. These lines represent a modern funeral dirge that mimics the rhythm of ancient Greek funeral dirges. - 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
