Lesson 4.1.1.9

4.1.1.9 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Quiz: AQA English Literature A, Unit 1

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The 20 questions

  1. Who is the outsider narrator who first visits Wuthering Heights and frames the story?

    • Heathcliff, the foundling adopted by Mr Earnshaw
    • Hindley Earnshaw, the heir of Wuthering Heights
    • Edgar Linton, the magistrate of the district
    • Lockwood, a tenant who rents Thrushcross Grange

  2. Which character tells most of the inner story to Lockwood?

    • Hareton Earnshaw, the young man raised at the Heights
    • Nelly Dean, the housekeeper who served both houses
    • Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister who married Heathcliff
    • Joseph, the old servant at Wuthering Heights

  3. Why is Heathcliff's origin as a foundling important to the plot?

    • It explains his training as a surgeon in London
    • It makes him the rightful heir to Thrushcross Grange
    • It proves that he is Catherine's own brother by birth
    • It makes him an outsider whose low status Hindley resents

  4. The declaration 'I am Heathcliff' is made by:

    • Nelly Dean, who is loyal to the Earnshaw family
    • Edgar Linton, who is jealous of Heathcliff
    • Catherine Earnshaw, who feels their bond is intense
    • Isabella Linton, who is in love with Heathcliff

  5. Why does Catherine decide to marry Edgar Linton rather than Heathcliff?

    • She believes marriage to Edgar will raise her status and secure her position
    • Edgar forces her to marry him at gunpoint in the church
    • She is in love with Hindley and prefers his company
    • Heathcliff leaves for America to marry someone else

  6. How does Catherine die?

    • In childbirth, after giving birth to a daughter
    • By drowning in the lake on the moor near the Heights
    • By a fall from a horse on the moor road
    • By an illness contracted during a long stay in London

  7. Which Brontë novel is set on the Yorkshire moors and was first published in 1847?

    • Villette, a novel about a teacher in Brussels
    • Shirley, a novel about the Luddite disturbances
    • Jane Eyre, a governess's autobiography in Gothic form
    • Wuthering Heights, a story of passion on the moors

  8. Heathcliff's revenge against Hindley and the Lintons is best described as:

    • a successful legal case in a court of justice
    • a destructive cycle of cruelty that passes to the next generation
    • a comic episode with no lasting consequences for anyone
    • a plan to restore the Earnshaws' lost fortune

  9. Which character, Hindley's son, reconciles with the younger Catherine at the end?

    • Joseph, the old servant who attends the chapel
    • Lockwood, the tenant who narrates the frame
    • Frances Earnshaw, the wife of Hindley who died young
    • Hareton Earnshaw, who has been brutalised and then educated

  10. The structure of Wuthering Heights, with its nested narrators, is best described as:

    • a diary kept by Catherine during her illness
    • a series of letters exchanged between the two families
    • a framed narrative in which outer narrators relay others' accounts
    • a single first-person account narrated by Heathcliff

  11. What is the purpose of Lockwood's perspective in the novel?

    • It shows that the Grange servants are wicked and deceitful
    • It shows that the story is filtered through layers of interpretation
    • It proves that Heathcliff is a good and kind man
    • It removes all ambiguity from the plot's events

  12. Which literary term best describes Heathcliff's relationship with Catherine?

    • a comic rivalry carried out in public for amusement
    • a formal political alliance between two great families
    • a passionate bond that transcends social and moral boundaries
    • a purely religious devotion expressed in prayer alone

  13. Heathcliff's final wish, to be buried beside Catherine, is significant because it:

    • suggests that love and obsession persist beyond death
    • proves that Edgar had forgiven him before he died
    • shows he has finally repented of his cruelty to God
    • gives Hareton the Heights as a reward for loyalty

  14. Which feature of the moors supports a reading of the novel's wildness and passion?

    • The calm sea and sandy beaches of a seaside resort
    • The urban industrial setting of a northern city
    • The exposed landscape and harsh weather mirror untamed emotion
    • The orderly gardens of Thrushcross Grange and its lawns

  15. Which contrast does the novel draw between the two houses?

    • Both houses are equally refined, wealthy and calm in tone
    • Wuthering Heights is rough and passionate, while Thrushcross Grange is refined
    • Thrushcross Grange is a rough farm and the Heights a palace
    • Both houses are located together in the centre of London

  16. Which feature of the narrative encourages readers to question the account's reliability?

    • A chorus of villagers who sing the moral at the end
    • A list of dates and documents from the local archives
    • A chronological narrative with a single omniscient voice
    • Multiple narrators who report what others have told them

  17. The storyline of the younger generation, with the younger Catherine and Hareton, suggests:

    • that the cycle of destruction can be broken through education and forgiveness
    • that the Lintons will regain their lost wealth and status
    • that Lockwood will marry the younger Catherine in the end
    • that Heathcliff returns to life to live at the Heights

  18. Which literary movement is the novel most associated with, given its focus on passion, nature and the individual?

    • Imagism, with short and exact images
    • Romanticism, with Gothic elements
    • Naturalism, with scientific detachment
    • Modernism, with fragmented narrative

  19. How does the novel use the supernatural, such as Catherine's ghost, to convey meaning?

    • It suggests the dead remain psychologically present and obsession can persist
    • It shows that Lockwood is himself a ghost haunting the house
    • It proves the supernatural is literally true in every scene
    • It is included only to provide light comic relief

  20. Which character is most responsible for the early violence and degradation at the Heights?

    • Hindley Earnshaw, who abuses Heathcliff
    • Nelly Dean, who looks after the household
    • Lockwood, who arrives as a stranger at the Heights
    • Hareton Earnshaw, who is a child in the early chapters

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