SparkNotes: Wuthering Heights: Quiz

1. What is inscribed above the entrance of Wuthering Heights?

(A) “Hindley Earnshaw, 1729”

(B) “1623”

(C) “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”

(D) “Hareton Earnshaw, 1500”

2. What kind of countryside surrounds Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange?

(A) Moorland

(B) Savannah

(C) Forest

(D) Grassy plains

3. What destination does the young Catherine have in mind when she leaves Thrushcross Grange for the first time?

(A) Wuthering Heights

(B) The fairy caves at Penistone Crags

(C) The nearby village

(D) London, where her cousin Linton lives

4. What is the name of the village near Wuthering Heights?

(A) Loch Crag

(B) Gimmerton

(C) Heatherton

(D) Purvey

5. In what region of England was Emily Brontë raised?

(A) Sussex

(B) Gloucestershire

(C) Yorkshire

(D) Warwickshire

6. Who plan(s) to live at Thrushcross Grange at the end of the novel?

(A) Young Catherine and Hareton

(B) Lockwood

(C) Heathcliff

(D) Young Catherine and Linton Heathcliff

7. Over the course of the novel, which characters claim to see Catherine’s ghost?

(A) Heathcliff, Hareton, young Catherine, and Joseph

(B) Edgar Linton and Heathcliff

(C) Joseph and Nelly Dean

(D) Lockwood and Heathcliff

8. On what day do young Catherine and Hareton plan to be married?

(A) New Year’s Day

(B) The Ides of March

(C) The anniversary of Heathcliff’s death

(D) Valentine’s Day

9. Why does young Catherine climb over the garden wall?

(A) To escape from the Grange

(B) To meet with Linton

(C) To retrieve her hat, which fell off as she stretched for the fruit of a tree

(D) To escape her mother’s ghost

10. Who raises Hareton during the early years of his life?

(A) Hindley

(B) Heathcliff

(C) Catherine

(D) Nelly

11. Who does Lockwood believe would have given young Catherine a fairy tale life, if only she would have fallen in love with him?

(A) Heathcliff

(B) Hareton

(C) Linton

(D) Lockwood

12. Which of the following characters dies first?

(A) Mrs. Earnshaw

(B) Mr. Earnshaw

(C) Mrs. Linton

(D) Edgar Linton

13. Which of the following characters dies last?

(A) Mr. Linton

(B) Catherine

(C) Heathcliff

(D) Linton

14. According to Heathcliff, when will Catherine’s body decompose?

(A) When a hundred centuries have passed

(B) When Edgar Linton is finally cursed to hell

(C) Never

(D) When Heathcliff can join her in the earth

15. Where does Lockwood record Nelly’s story?

(A) In a novel

(B) In his diary

(C) In the margins of his Bible

(D) In Catherine’s diary

16. Which character speaks the words “I am Heathcliff!”

(A) Linton Heathcliff

(B) Hareton

(C) Heathcliff

(D) Catherine

17. Which three names does Lockwood find inscribed in the window ledge near his bed at Wuthering Heights?

(A) Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff

(B) Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley Earnshaw, and Hareton Earnshaw

(C) Isabella Linton, Isabella Heathcliff, and Isabella Earnshaw

(D) Nelly, Joseph, and Zillah

18. Where does Earnshaw originally find Heathcliff?

(A) London

(B) Boston

(C) Liverpool

(D) Gimmerton

19. Where is Catherine buried?

(A) In a churchyard overlooking the moors

(B) In the chapel

(C) Under a stone wall

(D) She is not buried, but cremated, and her ashes are scattered in the Thames

20. At what age is Linton taken away from Thrushcross Grange by Heathcliff?

(A) Four

(B) Twenty

(C) Eleven

(D) Thirteen

21. At what age is Linton reunited with young Catherine?

(A) Twenty-two

(B) Nineteen

(C) Sixteen

(D) Forty-three

22. Whom does Hindley force to work as a servant in his home?

(A) Joseph

(B) Heathcliff

(C) Heathcliff’s son, Linton

(D) Edgar Linton

23. Whom does Heathcliff force to work as a servant in his home?

(A) Hindley

(B) Catherine

(C) Hareton

(D) Isabella Linton

24. Where do Catherine and Heathcliff first become close?

(A) In the nursery at Wuthering Heights

(B) During Catherine’s visit to Liverpool

(C) At Isabella Linton’s birthday party

(D) On the moors

25. Whom does Edgar Linton sometimes forbid his daughter to visit?

(A) Linton Heathcliff

(B) Hareton Earnshaw

(C) Isabella Linton

(D) The evangelical servant Joseph