Year 9: The Gothic - Quiz 1

What Northern European tribe leant its name to this literary genre?

• The Bears

• The Jutes

• The Beaker Folk

• The Goths

What other literary movement is the Gothic Genre related to?

• Postmodernism

• Romanticism

• Modernism

• Folk

What does 'The Gothic' combine to make it such a rich literary genre?

• Comedy and Romance

• Terror and Romance

• History and Romance

• Horror and Romance

Who is credited as having 'invented' the Gothic genre with their novel 'The Castle of Otranto'?

• Jane Austen

• Ann Radcliffe

• Horace Walpole

• Lord Byron

Gothic texts aimed for a ...

• pleasing sort of happiness.

• pleasing sort of sadness.

• pleasing sort of terror.

• pleasing sort of melancholy.

Gothic texts often aimed to explore ...

• the fear and loathing in all human experience.

• the boredom of modern existence.

• the importance of religion in human experience.

• the inevitable decay and collapse of human creations.

What did the Gothic and Romantic genres celebrate?

• Emotion and Nature.

• Reason and Logic.

• Love and Hate.

• War and Peace.

Which writer was a celebrated female Gothic novelist?

• Virginia Woolf

• Aphra Behn

• Ann Radcliffe

• Elizabeth Browning

What two things did Ann Radcliffe argue were so different that they 'expand[s] the soul, and awaken[s] the faculties'?

• Fear and loathing.

• Terror and horror.

• Terror and romance.

• Horror and history.

In the 18th/19th centuries, was writing seen as something appropriate for women to be involved in?

• Yes.

• No.