Catherine II

Question 1

Lockwood’s description of Catherine (1)

Answer 1

small features, very fair, flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck

Question 2

Cathy does witchcraft (1)

Answer 2

‘I’ll show you how far I’ve progressed in the Black Art’

Question 3

Nelly comments on Cathy’s beginning in the world (1)

Answer 3

its beginning was as friendless as its end is likely to be

Question 4

The side of Cathy that Nelly likes (1)

Answer 4

she could be as soft and mild as a dove

Question 5

Gothic entrapment- Cathy grows up not having left the Grange (2)

Answer 5

1) Till she reached the age of 13 she had not once been beyond the range of the park by herself
2) Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist to her

Question 6

Cathy longs to go to Penistone Crags, showing a connection with her mother (1)

Answer 6

‘Now am I old enough to go to Penistone Crags?’ was the constant question in her mouth’

Question 7

Nelly loses Cathy as she gets closer to Wuthering Heights, showing her independence (1)

Answer 7

she dived into a hollow; and before I came in sight of her again, she was two miles nearer Wuthering Heights than her own home’

Question 8

Cathy goes against Nelly’s word, and sends the letter (1)

Answer 8

letter was finished and forwarded to its destination’

Question 9

Cathy’s love for her father (2)

Answer 9

1) ‘I love him more than myself, Ellen’

2) ‘I should never love anybody better than papa’

Question 10

Gothic entrapment- the Grange is a prison to her (1)

Answer 10

‘The Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my jailer’

Question 11

Cathy sneaks out at night to see Linton (1)

Answer 11

I remarked a fresh colour in her cheeks, and a pinkness over her slender fingers

Question 12

Cathy’s idea of a perfect day (2)

Answer 12

1) ‘rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above’
2) ‘whole world awake and wild with joy’

Question 13

Cathy’s idea of a perfect day compared to Linton’s (1)

Answer 13

‘He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee’

Question 14

Heathcliff is reminded to his Cathy when looking at Cathy (1)

Answer 14

seized with a sort of surprise at her boldness or possibly, reminded by her voice and glance, of the person whom she inherited it from

Question 15

Heathcliff’s cruel plan for making Cathy marry Linton (1)

Answer 15

‘she must either accept him or remain a prisoner’

Question 16

Cathy becomes infected by Wuthering Heights and grows horrible (1)

Answer 16

‘and the more hurt she gets, the more venomous she grows’

Question 17

Cathy and Hareton’s hair blending (1)

Answer 17

her light, shining ringlets blending, at intervals, with his brown locks

Question 18

Heathcliff cannot stand Cathy looking at him (1)

Answer 18

‘What fiend possesses you to stare back at me, continually, with those infernal eyes of yours?’

Question 19

The effect Cathy’s presence has on Heathcliff (1)

Answer 19

‘Her presence invokes only maddening sensations’