Wuthering Heights Midterm Review

"Rough as a saw edge, and hard as whinstone. The less you meddle with him the better..."

Heathcliff

"He was and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbors."

Joseph

"A bold, wicked slip she was—but she had the bonniest eye, and the sweetest smile and lightest foot in the world."

Catherine (Cathy) Earnshaw

"Till within a week of her death, that gay heart never failed her."

Frances Earnshaw

"I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!"

Edgar Linton

"She was at that time a charming young lady of eighteen; infantile in manners, though possessed of keen wit, keen feelings, and a keen temper, too, if irritated."

Isabella Linton

" He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation. The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long ..."

Hindley Earnshaw

"I was almost always at Wuthering Heights; because my mother had nursed Mr. Hindley Earnshaw ... and I got used to playing with the children: I ran errands too, and helped to make hay, and hung about the farm ready for anything that anybody would set me to."

Nelly Dean

"A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for [Edgar's] younger brother, so strong was the resemblance: but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect that Edgar Linton never had."

Linton Heathcliff

"She was the most winning thing that ever brought sunshine into a desolate house: a real beauty in face, with the Earnshaws' handsome dark eyes, but the Lintons' fair skin and small features, and yellow curling hair. Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections."

(daughter) Catherine Linton

The Earnshaw house is Wuthering Heights and the Lintons' estate is Thrushcross Grange.

True

Wuthering Heights is a tale of revenge.

True

"Wuthering" is an adjective describing stormy weather.

True

Ms. Nelly Dean is housekeeper at Wuthering Heights when the story opens.

False

Jospeh is a good-natured servant.

False

Mr. Lockwood is a tenant of Thrushcross Grange.

True

Heathcliff is fair and handsome judging by the social standards of the day.

False

The dogs attack Lockwood on the servants' orders when he first visits Wuthering Heights.

True

A fight between Heathcliff and Edgar produces such turmoil in Catherine that she becomes seriously ill.

True

Mr. Lockwood spends a horrifying night in the home of Heathcliff when he first arrives in Yorkshire.

True

Heathcliff becomes a wealthy man in the story.

True

Wuthering Heights is a finer home than Thrushcross Grange.

False

Heathcliff cheats Hareton Earnshaw out of his property.

True

Old Mr. Earnshaw brings Heathcliff home from Liverpool.

True

Catherine and Hindley like Heathcliff at first sight.

False

Hindley marries without his father's knowledge.

True

Cathy remains at Thrushcross Grange three months after being bitten by the Linton's dog.

False

Cathy is much improved in manners and appearance during her stay at Thrushcross Grange.

True

Cathy confides in Ms. Nelly Dean.

True

Ms. Dean has to remove the shot from Hindley's gun when he comes home drunk.

True

Catherine wants to marry Edgar Linton to spite Heathcliff.

False

Cathy becomes ill because she refuses to come in out of the rain after Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights.

True

Cathy and Edgar Linton are married several years after his father's death.

True

Mr. Lockwood suffers no ill effects from his second visit to Wuthering Heights.

False

Heathcliff is completely transformed in appearance when he returns from abroad.

True

Isabella Linton falls in love with Heathcliff.

True

Heathcliff and Isabella...

elope

After Heathcliff and Isabella are married, Edgar Linton...

ends all bonds of his relationship with Isabella.

After Ms. Dean leaves Mrs. Hindley's home, Hareton Earnshaw...

grows undisciplined

Isabella finds Wuthering Heights...

filthy from lack of care

Mr. Lockwood...

does not know what being in love means

Young Cathy sends letters to Linton Heathcliff with...

the boy who brings the milk

Heathcliff...

prefers Hareton to his own son

Following her marriage, Isabella escapes Heathcliff...

while he's fighting with Hindley

In appearance and temper, Linton is the complete opposite of...

Hareton

Heathcliff wants his son to marry Cathy so that Heathcliff can...

get her inheritance

Hindley dies...

in a drunken state

After Heathcliff's death, rumors persist that he...

haunts the moors

Hareton...

will not allow Cathy to speak ill of Heathcliff

In the end, Heathcliff's revenge is thwarted by...

Cathy and Hareton's love for each other

Heathcliff's love for the elder Catherine...

never diminishes with the passage of time

A symbol of Catherine's dual love for Heathcliff and Edgar is...

the locket that's buried with her

When Heathcliff dies, his funeral is attended by...

only Earnshaw, Ms. Dean, the sexton, and six pall bearers

At the time of Edgar Linton's death, his daughter, Cathy...

persuades Linton to unlock the door

After Heathcliff's death, Hareton and Cathy plan to...

be married on New Year's Day