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🌹🌹WUTHERING HEIGHTS – EMILY BRONTE
1. What is Wuthering Heights? It is the name of a house.
2. Whom does Senior Earnshaw bring home? The orphan Heathcliff.
3. Who marries Catherine? Edgar
4. Why does Heathcliff torture Isabella? Because he wants to take revenge on her brother.
5. How long does Heathcliff keep away from Catherine? For three years.
6. What is Isabella’s child name? Linton.
7. What does Heathcliff hallucinate? The deceased Catherine.
8. Who is Cathy? Catherine’s child.
9. What is inscribed above the entrance of Wuthering Heights? “Hareton Earnshaw, 1500”
10. What kind of countryside surrounds Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange?
Moorland
11. What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross
Grange for the first time? The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
12. What is the name of the village near Wuthering Heights? Gimmerton
13. In what region of England was Emily Brontë raised? Yorkshire
14. Who plans to live at Thrushcross Grange at the end of the novel? Young Catherine and
Hareton
15. Over the course of the novel, which characters claim to see Catherine’s ghost? Lockwood
and Heathcliff
16. On what day do young Catherine and Hareton plan to be married? New Year’s Day
17. Why does young Catherine climb over the garden wall? To retrieve her hat, which fell off
as she stretched for the fruit of a tree
18. Who raises Hareton during the early years of his life?Nelly
19. Who does Lockwood believe would have given young Catherine a fairy tale life, if only
she would have fallen in love with him?Lockwood
20. Characters dies first? Mr.Earnshaw
21. Characters dies last? Heathcliff
22. According to Heathcliff, when will Catherine’s body decompose? When Heathcliff can
join her in the earth
23. Where does Lockwood record Nelly’s story?In his diary
24. Which character speaks the words “I am Heathcliff!”- Catherine.
25. Which three names does Lockwood find inscribed in the window ledge near his bed at
Wuthering Heights? Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff
26. Where does Earnshaw originally find Heathcliff? Liverpool
27. Where is Catherine buried? In a churchyard overlooking the moors
,28. At what age is Linton taken away from Thrushcross Grange by Heathcliff?13
29. At what age is Linton reunited with young Catherine? `16
30. Whom does Hindley force to work as a servant in his home? Heathcliff
31. Whom does Heathcliff force to work as a servant in his home? Hareton
32. Where do Catherine and Heathcliff first become close? On the moors
33. Whom does Edgar Linton sometimes forbid his daughter to visit?Linton Heathcliff.
34. Where does Heathcliff live? Wuthering Heights
35. Why does Lockwood visit Heathcliff in Chapter 1? To rent property from him
36. Why does Heathcliff think his dogs attacked Lockwood? Lockwood tried to steal
something
37. What does Joseph accuse Lockwood of stealing? A Lantern
38. To which Shakespearean hero does Lockwood compare himself after Joseph and Heathcliff
accuse him of stealing? King Lear
39. Who intercedes in the argument in Chapter 2 and ensures that Lockwood can spend the
night at Wuthering Heights? Zillah
40. What did Joseph make Catherine and Heathcliff do as children? Listen to sermons
41. Where is Lockwood's nightmare about Catherine Linton set? Wuthering Heights.
42. How does Lockwood wake up Heathcliff? By crying out in his sleep.
43. How long has Ellen Dean lived at Thrushcross Grange? 18 years
44. What does Lockwood mean when he says that "my predecessor's name was Linton"?
Linton rented Thrushcross Grange before Lockwood did
45. What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool? Fruit
46. Who took care of Heathcliff when he had measles as a child? Nelly Dean
47. Which of these best describes Cathy Earnshaw's personality when she was a child?
Mischievous
48. Whose arms does Mr. Earnshaw die in? Cathy Earnshaw's
49. Who forces Heathcliff to work in the fields after Mr. Earnshaw dies? Hindley
50. What is Hindley's wife Frances afraid of? Death
51. What happens to Cathy the first time she goes to Thrushcross Grange? A dog bites her
52. Cathy does something to cause tension between herself and Heathcliff when she returns
from her first visit to the Lintons. What does she do? She comments on Heathcliff's bad
hygiene
53. What time of year does Cathy return from her stay at Thrushcross Grange? Christmas
54. Who does Heathcliff envy? Edgar Linton
55. Why do most of the servants leave Wuthering Heights after Frances dies?
56. Hindley becomes a cruel master
57. Why does Ellen stay in the room when Edgar Linton visits Cathy? Hindley asked her to
58. How does Cathy shock Linton when he comes to visit her? She pinches Ellen.
59. Which of these does Hindley do when he gets angry? Fire his gun.
60. Under what pseudonym did Emily Bronte first publish this novel? Ellis
61. The story is based on the interactions of two households. What are they called? Thrushcross
Grange and Wuthering
62. Which family resides at Thrushcross Grange? The Lintons
, 63. Which family resides at Wuthering Heights? The Earnshaws
64. The novel beings with Mr. Lockwood's visit to Wuthering Heights. What was his reason
for this visit? He was a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, and wanted to meet his landlord.
65. Lockwood is one of the two narrators. The other is...Ellen Dean.
66. How did Heathcliff find himself at Wuthering Heights? He was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw.
67. As a boy, Heathcliff was bullied by...Hindley.
68. Throughout the novel who is Heathliff's closest companion and defender? Cathy
69. What event causes young Cathy to spend five weeks at Thrushcross Grange? She is
attacked by a dog and unable to walk.
70. Which of Cathy's actions does Heathcliff view as the ultimate betrayl? Her marriage to
Edgar Linton.
71. "Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Which characters says this, and
who is it about? Cathy, referring to Heathcliff
72. Which character elopes with Heathcliff? Isabella Linton
73. How does Cathy die? Of brain fever, after giving birth.
74. When Hindley dies, what becomes of Hareton? He lives with Heathcliff.
75. What is the name of Heathcliff's son? Linton
76. [19:23, 16/7/2019] Sadavel.k: How does Heathcliff accomplish his goal of ruining both
the Earnshaw and Linton families? Luring Catherine into a marriage with Linton.
77. • In the early days of their aquantience, Catherine was cruel to Hareton. Later, she
earns his forgiveness by... teaching him how to read and write.
78. Heathcliff realizes his plan to torment the children of his enemies has backfired when the
cousins Hareton and Catherine fall in love. What stops him from harming them at the
moment in which he has the most power to do so? The parallels of Hareton and Catherine's
relationships to Heathcliff and Cathy's.
79. In the novel, who speaks in a gruff, nearly unintelligible accent? Joseph
80. Which of the following questions is NOT commonly speculated by readers?
81. Did Hareton have a mental disability?
82. Where is Heathcliff buried after his death? Beside Cathy.
83. Which three words best describe the novel's mood? Somber, tragic, haunting
84. What natural element would the author compare this novel to? A storm
[19:23, 16/7/2019] Sadavel.k: 🌹🌹🌹
🌹An Essay on Dramatic Poesy (DRYDEN)... is written in the form of a dialogue among four
gentlemen: Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander. Neander speaks for Dryden himself.
Eugenius favours modern English dramatists by attacking the classical playwrights, who did not
themselves always observe the unity of place.
🌹What are the four charges against poetry?
Reply to four charges Stephen Gosson in his School of Abuse, leveled four charges against poetry.
They were : (i) A man could employ his time more usefully than in poetry, (ii) It is the 'mother of
, lies', (iii) It is immoral and 'the nurse of abuse' and (iv) Plato had rightly banished poets from his
ideal commonwealth.
🌹What is the significance of an apology for poetry?
His Apology for Poetry is aspirited defense of poetry against allthe charges laid against it since
Plato. He considers poetry as the oldest of all branches of learning andestablishes its superiority.
An Apology for Poetry is the most important contribution to Renaissance literary theory.
What are the three kinds of poetry according to Sidney?
The three kinds of poetry, according to Sidney , are : (a) religious poetry, (b) philosophical poetry,
and (c) poetry as an imaginative treatment of life and nature. He calls special attention to the third
class of poets, for 'these be they that, as the first and most noble sort may justly be termed vates.'
🌹Which philosopher is associated with the dictum poetry is the mother of lies?
The philosopher who called poetry "Mother of all Lies" is Plato, who banished poetry from his
ideal world.
🌹Who said poetry is a speaking picture? Philip Sidney
🌹What does Sidney call poet haters in Defence of poesy?
An Apology for Poetry (or, The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan
poet Philip Sidney. ... In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on
fiction.
[19:38, 16/7/2019] Sadavel.k: 🌹What is the significance of an apology for poetry?
His Apology for Poetry is a spirited defense of poetry against all the charges laid against it since
Plato. He considers poetry as the oldest of all branches of learning and establishes its superiority.
An Apology for Poetry is the most important contribution to Renaissance literary theory.
🌹What are the three kinds of poetry according to Sidney?
The three kinds of poetry, according to Sidney , are : (a) religious poetry, (b) philosophical poetry,
and (c) poetry as an imaginative treatment of life and nature. He calls special attention to the third
class of poets, for 'these be they that, as the first and most noble sort may justly be termed vates.
1. To Sidney, what is the primary reason poetry is the most important discipline?
Poetry makes women fall in love with you.
Poetry possesses a beauty not found in other studies.
Poets have a unique power to create and drive men to virtue.✅
Plato said so in ancient Greece.
Poetry requires the most skill to make.
🌹🌹WUTHERING HEIGHTS – EMILY BRONTE
1. What is Wuthering Heights? It is the name of a house.
2. Whom does Senior Earnshaw bring home? The orphan Heathcliff.
3. Who marries Catherine? Edgar
4. Why does Heathcliff torture Isabella? Because he wants to take revenge on her brother.
5. How long does Heathcliff keep away from Catherine? For three years.
6. What is Isabella’s child name? Linton.
7. What does Heathcliff hallucinate? The deceased Catherine.
8. Who is Cathy? Catherine’s child.
9. What is inscribed above the entrance of Wuthering Heights? “Hareton Earnshaw, 1500”
10. What kind of countryside surrounds Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange?
Moorland
11. What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross
Grange for the first time? The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
12. What is the name of the village near Wuthering Heights? Gimmerton
13. In what region of England was Emily Brontë raised? Yorkshire
14. Who plans to live at Thrushcross Grange at the end of the novel? Young Catherine and
Hareton
15. Over the course of the novel, which characters claim to see Catherine’s ghost? Lockwood
and Heathcliff
16. On what day do young Catherine and Hareton plan to be married? New Year’s Day
17. Why does young Catherine climb over the garden wall? To retrieve her hat, which fell off
as she stretched for the fruit of a tree
18. Who raises Hareton during the early years of his life?Nelly
19. Who does Lockwood believe would have given young Catherine a fairy tale life, if only
she would have fallen in love with him?Lockwood
20. Characters dies first? Mr.Earnshaw
21. Characters dies last? Heathcliff
22. According to Heathcliff, when will Catherine’s body decompose? When Heathcliff can
join her in the earth
23. Where does Lockwood record Nelly’s story?In his diary
24. Which character speaks the words “I am Heathcliff!”- Catherine.
25. Which three names does Lockwood find inscribed in the window ledge near his bed at
Wuthering Heights? Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff
26. Where does Earnshaw originally find Heathcliff? Liverpool
27. Where is Catherine buried? In a churchyard overlooking the moors
,28. At what age is Linton taken away from Thrushcross Grange by Heathcliff?13
29. At what age is Linton reunited with young Catherine? `16
30. Whom does Hindley force to work as a servant in his home? Heathcliff
31. Whom does Heathcliff force to work as a servant in his home? Hareton
32. Where do Catherine and Heathcliff first become close? On the moors
33. Whom does Edgar Linton sometimes forbid his daughter to visit?Linton Heathcliff.
34. Where does Heathcliff live? Wuthering Heights
35. Why does Lockwood visit Heathcliff in Chapter 1? To rent property from him
36. Why does Heathcliff think his dogs attacked Lockwood? Lockwood tried to steal
something
37. What does Joseph accuse Lockwood of stealing? A Lantern
38. To which Shakespearean hero does Lockwood compare himself after Joseph and Heathcliff
accuse him of stealing? King Lear
39. Who intercedes in the argument in Chapter 2 and ensures that Lockwood can spend the
night at Wuthering Heights? Zillah
40. What did Joseph make Catherine and Heathcliff do as children? Listen to sermons
41. Where is Lockwood's nightmare about Catherine Linton set? Wuthering Heights.
42. How does Lockwood wake up Heathcliff? By crying out in his sleep.
43. How long has Ellen Dean lived at Thrushcross Grange? 18 years
44. What does Lockwood mean when he says that "my predecessor's name was Linton"?
Linton rented Thrushcross Grange before Lockwood did
45. What gift did Mr. Earnshaw promise to bring Nelly Dean from Liverpool? Fruit
46. Who took care of Heathcliff when he had measles as a child? Nelly Dean
47. Which of these best describes Cathy Earnshaw's personality when she was a child?
Mischievous
48. Whose arms does Mr. Earnshaw die in? Cathy Earnshaw's
49. Who forces Heathcliff to work in the fields after Mr. Earnshaw dies? Hindley
50. What is Hindley's wife Frances afraid of? Death
51. What happens to Cathy the first time she goes to Thrushcross Grange? A dog bites her
52. Cathy does something to cause tension between herself and Heathcliff when she returns
from her first visit to the Lintons. What does she do? She comments on Heathcliff's bad
hygiene
53. What time of year does Cathy return from her stay at Thrushcross Grange? Christmas
54. Who does Heathcliff envy? Edgar Linton
55. Why do most of the servants leave Wuthering Heights after Frances dies?
56. Hindley becomes a cruel master
57. Why does Ellen stay in the room when Edgar Linton visits Cathy? Hindley asked her to
58. How does Cathy shock Linton when he comes to visit her? She pinches Ellen.
59. Which of these does Hindley do when he gets angry? Fire his gun.
60. Under what pseudonym did Emily Bronte first publish this novel? Ellis
61. The story is based on the interactions of two households. What are they called? Thrushcross
Grange and Wuthering
62. Which family resides at Thrushcross Grange? The Lintons
, 63. Which family resides at Wuthering Heights? The Earnshaws
64. The novel beings with Mr. Lockwood's visit to Wuthering Heights. What was his reason
for this visit? He was a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, and wanted to meet his landlord.
65. Lockwood is one of the two narrators. The other is...Ellen Dean.
66. How did Heathcliff find himself at Wuthering Heights? He was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw.
67. As a boy, Heathcliff was bullied by...Hindley.
68. Throughout the novel who is Heathliff's closest companion and defender? Cathy
69. What event causes young Cathy to spend five weeks at Thrushcross Grange? She is
attacked by a dog and unable to walk.
70. Which of Cathy's actions does Heathcliff view as the ultimate betrayl? Her marriage to
Edgar Linton.
71. "Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same." Which characters says this, and
who is it about? Cathy, referring to Heathcliff
72. Which character elopes with Heathcliff? Isabella Linton
73. How does Cathy die? Of brain fever, after giving birth.
74. When Hindley dies, what becomes of Hareton? He lives with Heathcliff.
75. What is the name of Heathcliff's son? Linton
76. [19:23, 16/7/2019] Sadavel.k: How does Heathcliff accomplish his goal of ruining both
the Earnshaw and Linton families? Luring Catherine into a marriage with Linton.
77. • In the early days of their aquantience, Catherine was cruel to Hareton. Later, she
earns his forgiveness by... teaching him how to read and write.
78. Heathcliff realizes his plan to torment the children of his enemies has backfired when the
cousins Hareton and Catherine fall in love. What stops him from harming them at the
moment in which he has the most power to do so? The parallels of Hareton and Catherine's
relationships to Heathcliff and Cathy's.
79. In the novel, who speaks in a gruff, nearly unintelligible accent? Joseph
80. Which of the following questions is NOT commonly speculated by readers?
81. Did Hareton have a mental disability?
82. Where is Heathcliff buried after his death? Beside Cathy.
83. Which three words best describe the novel's mood? Somber, tragic, haunting
84. What natural element would the author compare this novel to? A storm
[19:23, 16/7/2019] Sadavel.k: 🌹🌹🌹
🌹An Essay on Dramatic Poesy (DRYDEN)... is written in the form of a dialogue among four
gentlemen: Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander. Neander speaks for Dryden himself.
Eugenius favours modern English dramatists by attacking the classical playwrights, who did not
themselves always observe the unity of place.
🌹What are the four charges against poetry?
Reply to four charges Stephen Gosson in his School of Abuse, leveled four charges against poetry.
They were : (i) A man could employ his time more usefully than in poetry, (ii) It is the 'mother of
, lies', (iii) It is immoral and 'the nurse of abuse' and (iv) Plato had rightly banished poets from his
ideal commonwealth.
🌹What is the significance of an apology for poetry?
His Apology for Poetry is aspirited defense of poetry against allthe charges laid against it since
Plato. He considers poetry as the oldest of all branches of learning andestablishes its superiority.
An Apology for Poetry is the most important contribution to Renaissance literary theory.
What are the three kinds of poetry according to Sidney?
The three kinds of poetry, according to Sidney , are : (a) religious poetry, (b) philosophical poetry,
and (c) poetry as an imaginative treatment of life and nature. He calls special attention to the third
class of poets, for 'these be they that, as the first and most noble sort may justly be termed vates.'
🌹Which philosopher is associated with the dictum poetry is the mother of lies?
The philosopher who called poetry "Mother of all Lies" is Plato, who banished poetry from his
ideal world.
🌹Who said poetry is a speaking picture? Philip Sidney
🌹What does Sidney call poet haters in Defence of poesy?
An Apology for Poetry (or, The Defence of Poesy) is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan
poet Philip Sidney. ... In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on
fiction.
[19:38, 16/7/2019] Sadavel.k: 🌹What is the significance of an apology for poetry?
His Apology for Poetry is a spirited defense of poetry against all the charges laid against it since
Plato. He considers poetry as the oldest of all branches of learning and establishes its superiority.
An Apology for Poetry is the most important contribution to Renaissance literary theory.
🌹What are the three kinds of poetry according to Sidney?
The three kinds of poetry, according to Sidney , are : (a) religious poetry, (b) philosophical poetry,
and (c) poetry as an imaginative treatment of life and nature. He calls special attention to the third
class of poets, for 'these be they that, as the first and most noble sort may justly be termed vates.
1. To Sidney, what is the primary reason poetry is the most important discipline?
Poetry makes women fall in love with you.
Poetry possesses a beauty not found in other studies.
Poets have a unique power to create and drive men to virtue.✅
Plato said so in ancient Greece.
Poetry requires the most skill to make.
