Which character best represents the concept of terror versus that of horror in Lewis’s “The Monk” ?

Related Mcqs:

1. According to Radcliffe, what is the difference between terror and horror ?

   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.

2. For many scholars, what distinguishes terror from horror in the Gothic novel ?

   A. The anticipation of the violation of one’s person versus an act of physical violence
   B. Plotted revenge versus random violence
   C. The male Gothic versus the female Gothic
   D. The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector

3. How does Lewis portray the Catholic confessional in “The Monk”?

   A. As a path to redemption
   B. As a necessary control
   C. As a voyeuristic activity
   D. As a model for contemporary police work

4. Why does one scholar suggest that “The Monk” represents literary transvestism ?

   A. The habited nuns
   B. Ambrosio’s rape and murder of his sister
   C. Lewis’s use of a female pseudonym in the original edition
   D. Lewis’s choiceof a feminine literary genre

5. The character named Comus is often seen by critics as a prototype of what character Milton later portrayed ?

   A. Jesus
   B. Samson
   C. Satan
   D. Adam

6. Mary Shelley wrote the novel Frankenstein in the form of a frame story that starts one character wring letters to his sister. Who is that character ?

   A. Captain Cooper
   B. Victor Frankenstein
   C. Captain Robert Walton
   D. Sergent Thomas Vincent

7. In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by________________?

   A. Nicoll
   B. Goddord
   C. Bradley
   D. Coleridge

8. In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this ?

   A. Bradley
   B. Dr. Johnson
   C. Nicoll
   D. None of these

9. Neo-Slave narratives are contemporary novels written about slavery. Toni Morrison’s Beloved is about the ghost of a baby the character Sethe murdered to keep her from being recaptured by their master. The opening chapter of the novel represents the neo-slave narrative by its________________?

   A. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
   B. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
   C. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
   D. Insistence on desegregation.

10. What role does Rosario play in the Gothic atmosphere of “The Monk” ?

    A. Queer provocateur
    B. Heroine in distress
    C. Angel in the house
    D. Pursued protagonist