Wuthering Heights

1. Is Wuthering Heights a novel about love? If so, what kind? If not, what is its
primary theme?
2. Although Nelly and Lockwood are the primary narrators, other characters
get to narrate a chapter or two, though Edgar does not. What effect does the
lack of insight into his character's point of view have on Wuthering Heights?
3. Compare and contrast Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
4. What role does the supernatural play in Wuthering Heights?
5. A multitude of ordered pairs exist throughout the text. What are the most
significant dualities? What does Bront gain by creating symmetry between
generations? What does she lose?
1.

What is inscribed above the entrance of Wuthering Heights?

(A) Hindley Earnshaw, 1729

(B) 1623
(C) Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
(D) Hareton Earnshaw, 1500
2.
What kind of countryside surrounds Wuthering Heights and
Thrushcross Grange?
(A) Moorland
(B) Savannah
(C) Forest
(D) Grassy plains
3.
What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she
leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?
(A) Wuthering Heights
(B) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags
(C) The nearby village
(D) London, where her cousin Linton lives
4.

What is the name of the village near Wuthering Heights?

(A) Loch Crag

(B) Gimmerton
(C) Heatherton
(D) Purvey
5.

In what region of England was Emily Bront raised?

(A) Sussex
(B) Gloucestershire
(C) Yorkshire
(D) Warwickshire
6.

Who plans to live at Thrushcross Grange at the end of the novel?

(A) Young Catherine and Hareton

(B) Lockwood
(C) Heathcliff
(D) Young Catherine and Linton Heathcliff
7.
Over the course of the novel, which characters claim to see Catherines
ghost?
(A) Heathcliff, Hareton, young Catherine, and Joseph
(B) Edgar Linton and Heathcliff
(C) Joseph and Nelly Dean
(D) Lockwood and Heathcliff
8.

On what day do young Catherine and Hareton plan to be married?

(A) New Years Day

(B) The Ides of March
(C) The anniversary of Heathcliffs death
(D) Valentines Day
9.

Why does young Catherine climb over the garden wall?

(A) To escape from the Grange

(B) To meet with Linton

(C) To retrieve her hat, which fell off as she stretched for the fruit of a tree
(D) To escape her mothers ghost
10.

Who raises Hareton during the early years of his life?

(A) Hindley
(B) Heathcliff
(C) Catherine
(D) Nelly
11.
Who does Lockwood believe would have given young Catherine a fairy
tale life, if only she would have fallen in love with him?
(A) Heathcliff
(B) Hareton
(C) Linton
(D) Lockwood
12.

Which of the following characters dies first?

(A) Mrs. Earnshaw

(B) Mr. Earnshaw
(C) Mrs. Linton
(D) Edgar Linton
13.

Which of the following characters dies last?

(A) Mr. Linton

(B) Catherine
(C) Heathcliff
(D) Linton
14.

According to Heathcliff, when will Catherines body decompose?

(A) When a hundred centuries have passed

(B) When Edgar Linton is finally cursed to hell

(C) Never
(D) When Heathcliff can join her in the earth
15.

Where does Lockwood record Nellys story?

(A) In a novel
(B) In his diary
(C) In the margins of his Bible
(D) In Catherines diary
16.

Which character speaks the words I am Heathcliff!

(A) Linton Heathcliff

(B) Hareton
(C) Heathcliff
(D) Catherine
17.
Which three names does Lockwood find inscribed in the window ledge
near his bed at Wuthering Heights?
(A) Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff
(B) Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley Earnshaw, and Hareton

Earnshaw

(C) Isabella Linton, Isabella Heathcliff, and Isabella Earnshaw

(D) Nelly, Joseph, and Zillah
18.

Where does Earnshaw originally find Heathcliff?

(A) London
(B) Boston
(C) Liverpool
(D) Gimmerton
19.

Where is Catherine buried?

(A) In a churchyard overlooking the moors

(B) In the chapel
(C) Under a stone wall

(D) She is not buried, but cremated, and her ashes are
Thames.

scattered in the

20.
At what age is Linton taken away from Thrushcross Grange by
Heathcliff?
(A) Four
(B) Twenty
(C) Eleven
(D) Thirteen
21.

At what age is Linton reunited with young Catherine?

(A) Twenty-two
(B) Nineteen
(C) Sixteen
(D) Forty-three
22.

Whom does Hindley force to work as a servant in his home?

(A) Joseph
(B) Heathcliff
(C) Heathcliffs son, Linton
(D) Edgar Linton
23.

Whom does Heathcliff force to work as a servant in his home?

(A) Hindley
(B) Catherine
(C) Hareton
(D) Isabella Linton
24.

Where do Catherine and Heathcliff first become close?

(A) In the nursery at Wuthering Heights

(B) During Catherines visit to Liverpool
(C) At Isabella Lintons birthday party

(D) On the moors

25.

Whom does Edgar Linton sometimes forbid his daughter to visit?

(A) Linton Heathcliff

(B) Hareton Earnshaw
(C) Isabella Linton
(D) The evangelical servant Joseph

The Turn of the Screw

1. What motivates the governess to accept such an unusual position?
2. Describe the circumstances surrounding each appearance of an apparition.
3. How does Mrs. Grose come to believe in the presence of the ghosts?
4 Why does James emphasize so strongly the sweetness and innocence of the
children?
5. Why does the governess fail to investigate Miles' expulsion from school?
6. What is gained by having the governess relate the story?
7. How do you account for little Flora's illness at the end of the story?
8. What does the governess think of her employer?
9. Is it important that this was the governess' first position?
10. How responsible is the governess for the fate of the children
1. What is the governesss relationship to Douglas?
(A) He is her father
(B) She was his sisters governess
(C) She was his wifes sister
(D) He is her husbands brother
2. Whom does the governess see peering into the dining-room window on a
Sunday?
(A) Flora

(B) Mrs. Grose

(C) Miss Jessel
(D) Peter Quint
3. Whom does Mrs. Grose see peering into the dining-room window on a
Sunday?
(A) Flora
(B) The governess
(C) Miss Jessel
(D) Peter Quint
4. Who claims not to see Miss Jessel at the lake?
(A) Flora and Mrs. Grose
(B) The governess
(C) Miles
(D) Miles and Flora
5. What does Miles do to distract the governess while Flora wanders off?
(A) He rattles off mathematical proofs
(B) He plays cards
(C) He plays the piano
(D) He dances with her
6. What does Miles bring up as he is walking to church with the governess?
(A) Ghosts
(B) Learning Italian
(C) His relationship with Peter Quint
(D) School
7. What does Miles confess to stealing?
(A) The governesss letter to her employer
(B) The governesss candle

(C) Floras hairbrush

(D) The governesss manuscript
8. Whom does the governess see out on the lawn one night?
(A) Peter Quint
(B) Miles
(C) Flora
(D) Miss Jessel
9. Where do Mrs. Grose and the governess find Flora?
(A) On the opposite shore of the lake
(B) Out on the lawn
(C) In the governesss bedroom
(D) In the kitchen
10. What is a key factor in the governesss agreement to take the position at
Bly?
(A) Her employers good looks
(B) She needs money
(C) Her father has died, and she has nowhere else to go
(D) She was a friend of Miss Jessel
11. Whom does the governess see sitting at the bottom of the stairs?
(A) Peter Quint
(B) Miles
(C) Miss Jessel
(D) Flora
12. At whom does the governess scream in the schoolroom?
(A) Peter Quint
(B) Miles
(C) Miss Jessel

(D) Flora
13. What does Quint vanish into on the staircase?
(A) A dimming of the lights
(B) Silence
(C) The wall
(D) The floor
14. Whom does Miles first name when the governess points out a vision in the
last scene?
(A) Peter Quint
(B) Miles
(C) Miss Jessel
(D) Flora
15. Who narrates the prologue?
(A) Douglas
(B) Griffin
(C) The governess
(D) An anonymous narrator
16. Where is Bly?
(A) Essex
(B) London
(C) Suffolk
(D) Massachusetts
17. What does the headmasters letter say?
(A) The school cannot keep Miles
(B) Miles has been bad
(C) Miles is too young to go to school here
(D) Miles has won an award

18. According to Miles, why cant he return to school?

(A) He harmed other boys
(B) He said things
(C) He initiated inappropriate relationships
(D) He wrote profanities on the bathroom walls
19. Where does the governess find Flora when she realizes Flora is out of
bed?
(A) Out on the lawn
(B) With Miss Jessel
(C) Under the window blind
(D) In Miless room
20. Why does Flora leave Bly?
(A) She is going to school
(B) She is going to a friends house
(C) She wants to travel the country
(D) She is sick

Pygmalion
1. What is the dramatic importance of phonetics in all of the acts?
2. How is phonetics related to manners in all of the acts?
3. What is the dramatic function of the Eynsford-Hill family in the first act?
4. How might Alfred Doolittle be considered extraneous to the play? How
would the play be different if his part were left out of a production?
5. How does Doolittle's change in social position reflect on Eliza's
transformation?
6. How are Mrs. Pearce and Mrs. Higgins more alike than is Eliza to each of
these ladies? How is she similar to each of them?
7. Discuss the relationship between Higgins and his mother.
8. Explain the numerous intentional violations of manners on Higgins' part. At

the end of the play, how can we tolerate the fact that Higgins calls Eliza a
"damned impudent slut"?
9. Who should be given the most credit for Eliza's transformation from a
flower girl into a duchess? Could either Eliza or Higgins have accomplished
this feat without the other?
10. Why do you think that Higgins and Eliza should never marry? Or do you
think that they should marry? Explain.

BY what name does Eliza address Freddy the first time that they encounter
each other?
(A) Charlie
(B) Freddy
(C) Captain
(D) Kind sir
When the Flower Girl gets in the taxi at Covent Garden after the
thunderstorm, where does she initially tell the taxicab to take her?
(A) 27A Wimpole Street
(B) Bucknam Pellis [Buckingham Palace]
(C) The Ambassador's garden party
(D) Angel Court, Drury Lane
Higgins claims that English is the language of:
(A) The Queen
(B) The noblest race
(C) All mankind
(D) Shakespeare, Milton, and The Bible
Why does the crowd hiding from the rain get so upset with Higgins for taking
notes of the Flower Girl's speech?
(A) They think that he is a busybody plainsclothes policeman who won't leave
an innocent girl alone

(B) They think he is trying to take advantage of her

(C) They think he has not enough gumption to get his own taxi
(D) He's ugly
What have Pickering and Higgins written respectively?
(A) Sanskrit in Mime; Higgins Says
(B) Dialects of India; Higgins' Guide to Phonetics
(C) Spoken Sanskrit; Higgins' Universal Alphabet
(D) The Speech of Gentlemen; How to Make a Duchess in Six Months
How does Eliza Doolittle dress herself up when she visits Higgins to ask to
take speech lessons?
(A) She takes a long-overdue bath
(B) She wears a blue kimono with cunning white flower embroidery
(C) She brings her voluble father as a reference
(D) She wears three mismatched ostrich feathers in her tattered hat
What reason does Higgins give for deciding to take on the experiment?
(A) He wants to prove to Pickering that he is indeed the greatest teacher alive
(B) Eliza's presence in the house will be an amusement to Mrs. Pearce
(C) Only to shut the girl up from all her dreadful crying
(D) Because life is but a series of inspired follies, and one must never lose a
chance to commit one
After she threatens to leave because is so unfeeling, what does Henry give
Eliza to convince her to stay?
(A) Half a chocolate cream
(B) A silk handkerchief
(C) Five pounds
(D) A blue kimono
What does Eliza usually wear to sleep?

(A) A ragged nightgown

(B) Her day clothes
(C) Stolen coats
(D) Nothing
When Alfred Doolittle says he is willing to sell his daughter for fifty pounds,
Pickering asks him if he has no morals. Alfred says what in response?
(A) "What's the good of morals?"
(B) "Have you any?"
(C) "Can't afford them."
(D) "My wife won't let me have any."
All of the following witness Eliza Doolittle's phonetic debut at Mrs. Higgins' athome except:
(A) Mrs. Eynsford Hill
(B) Clara and Freddy
(C) Alfred Doolittle
(D) Colonel Pickering
Which of the following summarizes Higgins' essential attitude towards
women?
(A) "They'd never want me."
(B) "Pretty girls are a dime a dozen."
(C) "What are women?"
(D) "They're all idiots."
What does Freddy think Eliza is speaking when he meets her at Mrs. Higgins'
at-home?
(A) Cockney
(B) Queen's English
(C) Gutter slang
(D) The new small talk

Upon finding out about the experiment, Mrs. Higgins thinks that her son and
his friend Pickering are:
(A) Adorably eccentric
(B) Entirely correct
(C) Infinitely stupid
(D) Relentlessly scientific
Who claims that Eliza must be a Hungaraian princess?
(A) Henry Higgins
(B) Nepommuck
(C) The ambassador
(D) Clara
What does Eliza fling in Higgins' face
(A) Half-eaten chocolates
(B) The money he lent her
(C) His damned slippers
(D) Her rotten flowers
Eliza has been called all the following except
(A) The beauty of the Orient (by the Ambassador)
(B) Heartless guttersnipe (by Higgins)
(C) A common girl (by Mrs. Pearce)
(D) Darling, darling, darling (by Freddy)
When Freddy catches Eliza running out of Higgins' house, what is she actually
on her way to do?
(A) To ask her father to take her back
(B) To jump into the river
(C) To offer her services to Nepommuck
(D) To sell all the jewelry she has stolen from the house

From whom does Eliza say she learns self-respect?

(A) Mrs. Pearce
(B) Colonel Pickering
(C) Her father
(D) Mrs. Higgins
Why does Higgins tell Eliza she should return to with him?
(A) For the fun of it
(B) For the hell of it
(C) For the aesthetics of it
(D) For the science of it
Who does Eliza marry in the course of the play, to a viewing audience's
understanding?
(A) Pickering
(B) Freddy
(C) Higgins
(D) No one
For what organization must Alfred Doolittle lecture in order to make three
thousand pounds a year?
(A) The Church of England
(B) The American Philanthropic Brotherhood
(C) The Wannafeller Moral Reform World League
(D) The Fabian Society
How much money does Alfred Doolittle want for his daughter from Higgins?
(A) Three thousand pounds a year
(B) Fifty pounds
(C) Five pounds
(D) Nothing

"A-a-a-a-a-ah-ow-ooh!" is the favorite call of which of following characters?

(A) Alfred Doolittle
(B) Eliza
(C) Clara
(D) Higgins
The last act shows the characters getting ready for whose wedding?
(A) Alfred Doolittle and his woman's
(B) Higgins and Mrs. Pearce
(C) Pickering and Eliza's
(D) Clara and H.G. Wells'

Nemesis
1.

What is Jason Rafiel's son's name?

2.

What was the name of the Headmistress of St Agnes' school?

3.

How much money had Jason Rafiel's son been left in his will?

4.

What was Mr Rafiel's son's fiancee's name?

5.

What was the mode of transport on the "Historic Homes and Gardens"

tour?

6.

If Jane was successful at solving the mystery surrounding the Rafiels

what was her reward to be?

7.

What were the names of the Bradbury-Scott sisters?

8.

How was Elizabeth Temple murdered?

9.

Who witnessed someone running away from the scene of the crime?

10.

What is the name of the Rafiels' country pile?

11.

What is the name of Mr Rafiel's solicitors?

12.

What was the name of the girl who disappeared from the village at the
same time as the murder?

13.

What was Mr Rafiel's son known as in his life as a down and out
(tramp)?

14.

Why were Miss Barrow and Miss Cooke watching Miss Marple?

15.

Who was the muderer?

The Eyre Affair

16. If you could jump right into any novel with Ms. Nakajima, which novel
would you choose to visit? What classic novel endings have left you
unsatisfied? What endings would you change if you had the power to
do so?

17. Acheron Hades claims that pure evil is as rare as pure good. Do you
think either exists in our world?

18. Two of the main plot devicestime travel and book jumpingillustrate
the infinite possibilities of alternate endings. If you could travel through
time, is there anything in history, either in the broad sense or in your
own personal history, that you would go back and revise?

19. If you could choose Ms. Nakajima's ability to jump into novels,
Thursday's father's ability to travel through time, or Acheron Hades'
ability to defy mortality, which power would you choose to have and
why?

20. Despite the fact that he is her one true love, Thursday holds a grudge
against Landen Parke-Laine for over ten years because he betrayed her
brother when they returned from the Crimean War. Whom do you think
Thursday's first allegiance should have been to, her lover or her
brother? Do you think her decision to return to Landen comes out of
weakness or strength?

21. In the hands of villains like Jack Schitt and Acheron Hades, the Prose
Portal could be exploited for villainous deeds, but it could also have
been used to do good deeds such as producing a cure for terminal
diseases. Would you choose to destroy the Prose Portal as Mycroft does
without trying to extract good use out of it first? Do you think the risk
of the destruction it could cause outweighs the possibilities for good?

22. Thursday's brother, the very Irreverend Joffy, tells her, "The first
casualty of war is always truth." Do you think this is true? Why or why
not?

23. Thursday says, "All my life I have felt destiny tugging at my sleeve.
Few of us have any real idea what it is we are here to do and when it is
that we are to do it. Every small act has a knock-on consequence that
goes on to affect those about us in unseen ways. I was lucky that I had
so clear a purpose." In a world where time is so pliable, can there be
such a thing as destiny? Was there a defining moment in your life when
you understood what your own purpose was?

24. Who is the worse villain, Acheron Hades or Jack Schitt? Which
sentence do you think is worsedeath by a silver bullet to the heart or
an eternity trapped in Poe's "The Raven"?