Catherine I

Question 1

The structure of the book seen through Catherine’s names

Answer 1

Catherine Earnshaw, here and there varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton

Question 2

Lockwood touches the ghost of Cathy’s hand

Answer 2

my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand

Question 3

The words of Cathy’s ghost (2)

Answer 3

1) ‘Let me in - let me in!’

2) ‘twenty years, I’ve been a waif for twenty years!’

Question 4

Reference to the wind in Chapter 3 (1)

Answer 4

wind whirled wildly through

Question 5

Nelly’s summary of Cathy as a child

Answer 5

too mischievous and wayward for a favourite

Question 6

Cathy’s plan to break both Heathcliff and Edgar’s hearts (1)

Answer 6

‘I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own’

Question 7

Cathy’s seizure (1)

Answer 7

her hair flying over her shoulders, her eyes flashing, the muscles of her neck and arms standing out preternaturally

Question 8

In Chapter 12, Cathy speaks of hauntings (1)

Answer 8

‘I’ve been tormented! I’ve been haunted, Nelly!’

Question 9

Cathy longs for her childhood (1)

Answer 9

‘I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free…’

Question 10

Cathy longs to be on the moors and wants the window open (Chapter 12) (1)

Answer 10

‘I’m sure I should be myself again were I once among the heather on those hills… Open the window again wide, fasten it open!’

Question 11

Catherine talks to Heathcliff as she is delirious (1)

Answer 11

‘they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me; but I won’t rest till you are with me… I never will!’

Question 12

Cathy predicts her own death (1)

Answer 12

‘Next spring you’ll long again to have me under this roof’

Question 13

The wind dies down as Cathy dies (1)

Answer 13

‘the scarcely perceptible wind’

Question 14

Cathy thinks she is better than everyone else (1)

Answer 14

‘I shall be incomparably beyond and above you all!’

Question 15

Cathy blames Heathcliff for killing her (1)

Answer 15

‘You have killed me - and thriven on it, I think’

Question 16

Cathy smiles while she is dead (1)

Answer 16

her lips wearing the expression of a smile

Question 17

Cathy’s grave (1)

Answer 17

It was dug on a green slope, in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor

Question 18

Cathy (represented through the wind) pervades Wuthering Heights (1)

Answer 18

‘there was no sound but the moaning wind, which shook the windows every now and then’

Question 19

Cathy gives her reasons for wanting to marry Edgar (1)

Answer 19

‘And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood’

Question 20

Cathy is preoccupied with a longing for spiritual freedom, beyond the mortal state (1)

Answer 20

‘The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there’

Question 21

Cathy talks about the differences between herself and Edgar through elemental forces (1)

Answer 21

‘as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire’