A. His habitat is equivalent to the Garden of Eden.
B. He is a mistake.
C. He is the first of his kind.
D. He is responsible for the burden of original sin.
A. She is sexually deviant.
B. She exemplifies unfeminine anger.
C. She is not submissive.
D. She is understood to be mad.
A. The ethereal quality of the interior space of Gothic architecture
B. The scientific advancement of the ribbed vault and flying buttress associated with Gothic architecture
C. The reduction in width of the stone masonry in Gothic architecture
D. The immense scale typical of Gothic structures
A. A psychoanalytic term that explains terror
B. The supernatural
C. “Unheimlich”
D. A sense of uncomfortable strangeness
A. The concern for the sanctity of legal inheritance
B. The interest in the lessons and values of the Middle Ages for England in the 18th century
C. The support for the British class system
D. The belief in British superiority to foreign countries
A. The ancestral castle
B. Psychological terror
C. The supernatural
D. Physical violence
A. The idea that women should advise men
B. The idea that the Victorian woman represents “the new woman”
C. The idea that women are pure and morally superior to men
D. The idea that confinement in the home may induce madness
A. He reads the Bible.
B. He is taught by Victor about the Bible.
C. He reads Milton’s “Paradise Lost.”
D. He listens outside church services.
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
A. The use of poetic prose in the Gothic novel
B. The Gothic novel’s interest in the apocalyptic prophecies found in Hebrew and Christian Scriptures
C. The ascendency of human reason in the Gothic novel
D. The representation of contemporary life in the Gothic novel