1. Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the lande gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and ______?
A:) Western Fiction
B:) Gothic Fiction
C:) Bildungsroman Fiction
D:) Romance Fiction
springline- Correct option: B:) Gothic Fiction
2. Wuthering Heights is now considered a classic of English literature, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, and for its challenges to religious ,societal values and________?
A:) Victorian realism
B:) Elizabethan Morality
C:) Victorian Morality
D:) Elizabethan realism
springline- Correct option: C:) Victorian Morality
3. Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights after Emily's death which was published in ________?
A:) 1850
B:) 1851
B:) 1852
D:) 1853
springline- Correct option: A:) 1850
4. Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She published under the pen name _______?
A:) Ellis pen
B:) Ellis Diary
C:) Ellis host
D:) Ellis Bell
springline- Correct option: d) Ellis Bell
5. Wuthering Heights ; In 1801, Mr. Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshire, pays a visit to his landlord, Heathcliff, at his remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. There he meets a reserved young woman (later identified as Cathy Linton); Joseph, a cantankerous servant; and Who was an uneducated young man and who speaks like a servant ?
A:) Joseph
B:) Hareton
C:) Edgar Linton
D:) Heathcliff
springline- Correct option: B:) Hareton
6. Wuthering Heights ; Thirty years earlier, the Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights with their children, Hindley and Catherine, and a servant — Nelly herself. Returning from a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw brings a young orphan whom he names _________?
A:) Heathcliff
B:) Zillah
C:) Mr. Green
D:) Frances
springline- Correct option: A:) Heathcliff
7. Wuthering Heights ; Hindley departs for university, returning as the new master of Wuthering Heights on the death of his father three years later. He and his new wife Frances allow Heathcliff to stay, but only as a servant. Heathcliff and Catherine spy on Edgar Linton and his sister Isabella, children who live nearby at Thrushcross Grange. Catherine is attacked by their dog, and Who take her in and sending Heathcliff home ?
A:) Frances
B:) Mr. Lockwood
C:) Dr. Kenneth
D:) the Lintons
springline- Correct option: d) the Lintons
8. Wuthering Heights ; Frances dies after giving birth to a son, Hareton. Two years later, Catherine becomes engaged to Edgar. She confesses to Nelly that she loves Heathcliff, and will try to help but cannot marry him because of his low social status. Nelly warns her against the plan. Who overhears part of the conversation and, misunderstanding Catherine's heart, flees the household?
A:) Edgar
B:) the Linston
C:) Heathcliff
D:) Isabella
springline- Correct option: C:) Heathcliff
9. Wuthering Heights ; Edgar and Catherine marry, and three years later Heathcliff unexpectedly returns — now a wealthy gentleman. He encourages Isabella's infatuation with him as a means of revenge on Catherine. Enraged by Heathcliff's constant presence at Thrushcross Grange, Who cuts off the contact ?
A:) Heathcliff
B:) Edgar
C:) Isabella
D:) Catherine
springline- Correct option: B:) Edgar
10. Emily Brontë's solitary and reclusive nature has made her a mysterious figure and a challenge for biographers to assess. Except for Ellen Nussey and Louise de Bassompierre, Emily's fellow student in Brussels, she does not seem to have made any friends outside her family. Her closest friend was her sister _____?
A:) Anne
B:) Mary
C:) Elizabeth
D:) Brown
springline- Correct option: A:) Anne
11. Wuthering Heights ; When Heathcliff discovers that Catherine is dying, he visits her in secret. She dies shortly after giving birth to a daughter, Cathy, and Heathcliff rages, calling on her ghost to haunt him for as long as he lives. Isabella flees south where she gives birth to Heathcliff's son, ______?
A:) Edgar
B:) Joseph
C:) Frances
D:) Linton
springline- Correct option: d) Linton
12. Wuthering Heights ; Twelve years later, Isabella is dying and the still-sickly Linton is brought back to live with his uncle Edgar at the Grange. Cathy and Linton gradually develop a relationship. Heathcliff schemes to ensure that they marry, and on Edgar's death demands that the couple move in with him. He becomes increasingly wild and reveals that on the night Catherine died he dug up her grave, and ever since has been plagued by her ghost. When Linton dies, Who has no option but to remain at Wuthering Heights ?
A:) Nelly
B:) Isabella
C:) Catherine
D:) Cathy
springline- Correct option: D:) Cathy
13. Wuthering Heights ; Lockwood grows tired of the moors and moves away. Eight months later he sees Nelly again and she reports that Cathy has been teaching the still-uneducated Hareton to read. Heathcliff was seeing visions of the dead______?
A:) Isabella
B:) Linton
C:) Catherine
D:) Nelly
springline- Correct option: C:) Catherine
14. Wuthering Heights ; Lockwood learns that Cathy and Hareton plan to marry and move to the Grange. Joseph is left to take care of the declining Wuthering Heights. Who says that the locals have seen the ghosts of Catherine and Heathcliff wandering abroad together, and hopes they are at peace ?
A:) Nelly
B:) Hindley
C:) Cathy Linton
D:) Mr. Lockwood
springline- Correct option: A:) Nelly
15. Wuthering Heights ; Heathcliff is a foundling from Liverpool, who is taken by Mr Earnshaw to Wuthering Heights, where he is reluctantly cared for by the family, and spoiled by his adopted father. He and Catherine Earnshaw grow close, and their love is the central theme of the first volume. His revenge against the man she chooses to marry and its consequences are the central theme of the second volume. Heathcliff has been considered a __________?
A:) Anti hero
B:) Byronic hero
C:) Herald hero
D:) Trickster hero
springline- Correct option: B:) Byronic hero
16. The critics have pointed out that Heathcliff reinvents himself at various points, making his character hard to fit into any single type. He has an ambiguous position in society, and his lack of status is underlined by the fact that ‘Heathcliff’ is both his given name and his surname. The character of Heathcliff may have been inspired by ________?
A:) Mary Bronte
B:) Anne Bronte
C:) Branwell Bronte
D:) Elizabeth Bronte
springline- Correct option: C:) Branwell Bronte
17. Wuthering Heights ; The Character of Catherine Earnshaw ;First introduced to the reader after her death, through Lockwood's discovery of her diary and carvings. The description of her life is confined almost entirely to the first volume. She seems unsure whether she is, or wants to become, more like Heathcliff, or aspires to be more like Edgar. Who is the main narrator of the story ?
A:) Ellen Dean
B:) Edgar
C:) Heathcliff
D:) Linton
springline- Correct option: A:) Ellen Dean
18. Wuthering Heights ; Who Introduced as a child in the Linton family, he resides at Thrushcross Grange and Whose style and manners are in sharp contrast to those of Heathcliff, who instantly dislikes him ?
A:) Mr. Linton
B:) Mr. Green
C:) Edgar
D:) Frances
springline- Correct option: C:) Edgar
19. Wuthering Heights ; Who is a servant to three generations of the Earnshaws and two of the Linton family, and Humbly born, she regards herself nevertheless as Hindley's foster-sister, and she lives and works among the rough inhabitants of Wuthering Heights but is well-read, and she also experiences the more genteel manners of Thrushcross Grange ?
A:) Mrs. Linton
B:) Isabella Linton
C:) Zillah
D:) Nelly
springline- Correct option: d) Nelly
20. Wuthering Heights ; Hindley Earnshaw who is a Catherine's elder brother, Hindley, despises Heathcliff immediately and bullies him throughout their childhood before his father sends him away to college. Hindley returns with his wife, Frances, after Mr Earnshaw dies. Heathcliff beats Hindley up at one point after Hindley fails in his attempt to kill Heathcliff with a _________?
A:) poison
B:) pistol
C:) Knife
D:) rifle
springline- Correct option: B:) pistol
21. Wuthering Heights ; Hareton Earnshaw The son of Hindley and Frances, raised at first by Nelly but soon by Heathcliff. Joseph works to instill a sense of pride in the Earnshaw heritage (even though Hareton will not inherit Earnshaw property. Who is one of the more sympathetic characters of the novel, she is also somewhat snobbish towards Hareton and his lack of education and She falls in love with and marries Linton Heathcliff ?
A:) Ellen Dean
B:) Mrs. Linton
C:) Cathy Linton
D:) Isabella
springline- Correct option: C:) Cathy Linton
22. Wuthering Heights ; Who is a servant at Wuthering Heights for 60 years who is a rigid, self-righteous Christian but lacks any trace of genuine kindness or humanity and he speaks a broad Yorkshire dialect and hates nearly everyone in the novel ?
A:) Joseph
B:) Zillah
C:) Nelly
D:) Joseph
springline- Correct option: d) Joseph
23. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was first published in London in 1847 by Thomas Cautley Newby, appearing as the first two volumes of a three-volume set that included Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey. The authors were printed as being Ellis and Acton Bell; Emily's real name did not appear until _______?
A:) 1850
B:) 1851
C:) 1852
D:) 1853
springline- Correct option: A:) 1850
24. Wuthering Heights's violence and passion led the Victorian public and many early reviewers to think that it had been written by a man. Who was further contextualizes this reaction: ‘Expecting in the wake of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre to be swept up in an earnest Bildungsroman, they were instead shocked and confounded by a tale of unchecked primal passions, replete with savage cruelty and outright barbarism’ ?
A:) Mr. Lockwood
B:) Frances
C:) Mr. Linton
D:) Thomas Joudrey
springline- Correct option: d) Thomas Joudrey
25. A servant to Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights during the period following Catherine's death. Although she is kind to Lockwood, she doesn't like or help Cathy at Wuthering Heights because of Cathy's arrogance and Heathcliff's instructions. Who is that servant?
A:) Zillah
B:) Nelly
C:) Joseph
D:) Frances
springline- Correct option: A:) Zillah
26. Wuthering Heights ; Dr Kenneth who is a longtime doctor of Gimmerton and a friend of Hindley's who is present at the cases of illness during the novel. Although not much of his character is known, he seems to be a rough but honest person. Who is Edgar's corruptible lawyer and he should have changed Edgar's will to prevent Heathcliff from gaining Thrushcross Grange?
A:) Zillah
B:) Mr. Green
C:) Joseph
D:) Frances
springline- Correct option: B:) Mr. Green
27. The English poet and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti admired the book, writing in 1854 that it was ‘the first novel I've read for an age, and the best (as regards power and sound style) for two ages, except Sidonia’. In 1948, Who excluded Wuthering Heights from the great tradition of the English novel because it was ‘a 'kind of sport'–an anomaly with 'some influence of an essentially undetectable kind ?
A:) Michael Wilson
B:) Tanya Grae
C:) Jane Urquhart
D:) F.R. Leavis
springline- Correct option: d) F.R. Leavis
28. Until late in the 19th century ‘Jane Eyre was regarded as the best of the Brontë sisters' novels’. This view began to change in the 1880s with the publication of Mary Robinson's biography of Emily in_______?
A:) 1880
B:) 1881
C:) 1882
D:) 1883
springline- Correct option: d) 1883
29. There is no evidence that either Thrushcross Grange or Wuthering Heights are based on actual buildings, but various locations have been speculated as inspirations. Top Withens, a ruined farmhouse in an isolated area near the Haworth Parsonage, was suggested as the model for Wuthering Heights by Ellen Nussey, a friend of ________?
A:) Anne Bronte
B:) Charlotte Brontë
C:) Emily Bronte
D:) Maria Bronte
springline- Correct option: B:) Charlotte Brontë
30. Brontë possessed an exceptional classical culture for a woman of the time. She was familiar with Greek tragedies and was a good Latinist. In addition she was especially influenced by the poets John Milton and William Shakespeare. There are echoes of Shakespeare's King Lear and Romeo and Juliet in Wuthering Heights. Romanticism was also a major influence, which included the Gothic novel, the novels of Walter Scott and the poetry of_______?
A:) Lord Byron
B:) Shelly
C:) Wordsworth
D:) John Keats
springline- Correct option: A:) Lord Byron