Wuthering Heights

Question 1

At one point Nelly describes Cathy’s figure as both plump and slender (True or False)

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What does Hareton learn to do by Volume 2, Chapter X

Answer 2

read

Question 3

In Volume 2, Chapter VII, in Edgar’s eyes, Heathcliff seemed a…

Answer 3

Murderer

Question 4

What bird does Cathy NOT list when talking to Linton about her ideal July day?

Answer 4

Mockingbirds

Question 5

How does Cathy cause Linton’s coughing fit?

Answer 5

she pushes him

Question 6

What personal memento was Catherine Linton [nee Earnshaw] buried with?

Answer 6

Edgar and Heathcliff’s hair

Question 7

To whom is the following said:
“if I were you, I’d go stretch myself over her grave, and die like a faithful dog”

Answer 7

Heathcliff

Question 8

How old is Cathy in Volume II, IV when she ventures off her family estate for the first time . . .

Answer 8

13

Question 9

After finding out Catherine died, Heathcliff does ALL of the following EXCEPT

Answer 9

Fall to his knees and scream Catherine’s name

Question 10

Fall to his knees and scream Catherine’s name

Answer 10

Penistone Craggs

Question 11

At a critical point in the story Nelly gets sick. For how long is she ill?

Answer 11

3 weeks

Question 12

Which of the following characters is alive at the start of Volume II?

Answer 12

Edgar Linton

Question 13

who is being described in the following passage: “with the Earnshaw’s handsome dark eyes, but the Lintons’ fair skin, and small features, and yellow curling hair. _____ spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart, sensitive and lively to excess in its affections. That capacity for intense attachments reminded me of —— mother . . . “

Answer 13

Cathy

Question 14

Who was responsible for delivering Cathy’s letters to Linton?

Answer 14

A milkfetcher

Question 15

Who comes to retrieve Linton from Thrushcross Grange?

Answer 15

Joseph

Question 16

what is the name of Cathy’s pony?

Answer 16

Minny

Question 17

At one point Cathy cries because she knows Linton will be disappointed if she does not go back to Wuthering Heights

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What weapon does Isabella take from Hindley

Answer 18

Pistol

Question 19

Complete the following quotation from Chapter XIV, “She degenerates into a mere ______________________________”

Answer 19

slut

Question 20

At one point, Catherine tears apart a pillow with her sharpened fingernails.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

In chapter XI, we learn that Hareton calls Hindley

Answer 21

Devil daddy

Question 22

When Heathcliff returns after an absence in Chapter X, Nelly almost doesn’t recognize him . . . except that his ___________________________ gave him away

Answer 22

eyes

Question 23

In Chapter 10, Isabella claims that her love for her lover is stronger than Catherine’s love for her husband.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

At one point Mrs. Linton threatens to jump out a window and kill herself

Answer 24

True

Question 25

In Chapter XIII, we learn that Mrs. Linton “encountered and conquered” ________________________________________________________________

Answer 25

a brain fever

Question 26

Throughout the reading, who proves to be rather a coward

Answer 26

Edgar

Question 27

In Chapter XI, Nelly calls Heathcliff a _________________________________________ for “making love” to Miss Linton

Answer 27

Judas

Question 28

In Chapter 12 we learn that one type of bird’s feather provides a kind of magical spell that won’t allow one to die in a bed containing it… name that life-protecting bird

Answer 28

pigeon

Question 29

By the end of Volume I, Catherine we learn that Catherine is pregnant.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

In Chapter XIV, Heathcliff admits to

Answer 30

hanging Isabella’s pet dog

Question 30

In a strange moment [one of many in this novel], Hindley shoves ____________________________ between Nelly’s teeth.

Answer 30

a knife

Question 30

Who says this: ‘If I war yah, maister, I’d just slam t’ boards i’ their faces all on ‘em, gentle and simple! Never a day ut yah’re off, but yon cat o’ Linton comes sneaking hither; and Miss Nelly, shoo’s a fine lass! shoo sits watching for ye i’ t’ kitchen; and as yah’re in at one door, he’s out at t’other; and, then, wer grand lady goes a-courting of her side! It’s bonny behaviour, lurking amang t’ fields, after twelve o’ t’ night, wi’ that fahl, flaysome divil of a gipsy! ! They think I’m blind; but I’m noan: nowt ut t’ soart!—I seed young_________ boath coming and going, and I seed yah’ [directing his discourse to me], ‘yah gooid fur nowt, slattenly witch! nip up and bolt into th’ house, t’ minute yah heard t’ maister’s horse-fit clatter up t’ road.’

Answer 30

Joseph

Question 30

At the end of Chapter X Heathcliff threatens to _____________________________________ “if he was ever menaced”

Answer 30

rip someone’s fingernails off

Question 31

How does Heathcliff thwart his own revenge at the start of Chapter IX.

Answer 31

he catches a falling baby

Question 32

In Chapter XI, who was in danger of “splitting its skull against my knuckles”

Answer 32

Edgar

Question 32

Much of Chapter XIII consists of …

Answer 32

a letter from Isabella

Question 32

In Chapter XII, as Catherine is dying…. Edgar is

Answer 32

among his books

Question 33

Finish this incredibly famous and Etsy-able quotation of Catherine’s: “Nelly, I am ______________________________”

Answer 33

Heathcliff

Question 33

To whom is Isabella suddenly irrissitibly attracted to in Chapter X?

Answer 33

Heathcliff

Question 33

In Chapter X Heathcliff seems to be getting the better of Hindley

Answer 33

Answer:
through cards and gambling