10 questions🇬🇧English
🌬️ Wuthering Heights – A-level
English Literature · A-level — plot, characters, narrators, Gothic themes and key quotations from Brontë's novel
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Questions
Under which pseudonym was Wuthering Heights first published in 1847?
George Eliot
Ellis Bell
Currer Bell
Acton Bell
20s
Which character, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, opens the novel as its first narrator?
Mr Lockwood
Joseph
Nelly Dean
Edgar Linton
20s
Whom does Catherine Earnshaw marry?
Mr Lockwood
Linton Heathcliff
Edgar Linton
Heathcliff
20s
In which city does Mr Earnshaw find the young Heathcliff and bring him home?
Liverpool
Manchester
Leeds
London
20s
According to Lockwood, what does the word "wuthering" describe?
Crops withering on poor moorland soil
A house built on an ancient burial site
A farm far from any village or town
Atmospheric tumult in stormy weather
30s
Which words of Catherine's does Heathcliff overhear before he leaves Wuthering Heights?
"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now"
"He's always, always in my mind"
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"
"I am Heathcliff"
30s
Catherine says her love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. What does she compare her love for Heathcliff to?
The eternal rocks beneath
A storm sweeping over the moor
A river running to the sea
A fire burning in the hearth
30s
Why does Heathcliff force young Cathy to marry his son, Linton Heathcliff?
To fulfil Catherine Earnshaw's dying wish
To reconcile the Earnshaws and the Lintons
To gain control of Thrushcross Grange
To keep Cathy away from Hareton
30s
In Lockwood's dream at Wuthering Heights, what name does the ghost child at the window give?
Isabella Linton
Catherine Linton
Catherine Earnshaw
Catherine Heathcliff
30s
Heathcliff says, "we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it". Who is he speaking about?
Edgar Linton
Linton Heathcliff
Hindley Earnshaw
Hareton Earnshaw
30s