NGRT-Wuthering Heights

This time, I remembered I was lying in the oak closet, and I heard distinctly the ________wind, and the driving of the snow

• soft

• calm

• temperate

• tranquil

• gusty

I heard also the fir bough but it _______ me so much, that I resolved to silence it.

• Pleased

• annoyed

• pacified

• fascinated

If __________ ; and, I thought, I rose.

• only

• necessary

• possible

• satisfied

• avoidable

I thought, I rose and _______ to undo the window.

• endeavored

• continued

• pretended

• resolved

• deliberated

Why did the narrator break the window?

• He was trying to escape.

• He wanted to stop the noise.

• He wanted to help the child.

• He felt he was suffocating.

• He thought he could call for help.

What shocks the narrator as he reaches out for the branch?

• It is very cold outside.

• The branch has a hard and pointed end.

• He cuts himself on the glass.

• He feels a child's face.

• A small, cold hand grasps his.

What makes the narrator behave cruelly?

• His wrist is cut and bleeding.

• He feels the cold coming through the window.

• He is overcome with fright.

• He is determined to catch the creature.

• He has psychological problems.

All of these words used in the passage are linked to the child. Which is the odd one out?

• tenacious

• sobbed

• melancholy

• wailed

• doleful

Which word suggests that the narrator is starting to panic?

• stopped

• exclude

• lamentable

• snatched

• prayer

Apart from the phrase 'The intense horror of nightmare', what evidence is there, in the text, that the narrator thought he was dreaming?

• He said he was lying in a wooden closet.

• The phrase 'when awake' suggests that he was now asleep.

• He said he 'discerned obscurely.

• He said he closed his ears when he meant his eyes.

• The phrase 'could not stir a lımb' proves it.