Genre The Novel

Question 1

Nancy Armstrong

Answer 1

‘The history of the novel cannot be understood apart from the history of sexuality’

Question 2

When was ‘Don Quixote’ written?

Answer 2

1605 & 1616

Question 3

shepherdess Marcela gender quote (if they love a woman she should have to love him back)

Answer 3

Her ‘courteousness and fair looks draw on everybody to love her; but then her dogged stubborn coyness breaks their hearts, and makes them ready to hang them selves

Question 4

Sancho quote on Aldonza Lorenzo (dulcinea)

Answer 4

‘By the Mass, she is a notable, strong-built, sizeable, sturdy, manly lass, and one that will keep her chin out of the mire, I warrant her’

Question 5

DQ: the goatherd talking to the goat after his girlfriend betrayed him

Answer 5

‘Thou art a female, and therefore never canst be quiet: curse on thy freakish humours, and all theirs whom thou so much resembleth’

Question 6

Teresa Panza standing up to her husband

Answer 6

‘You men will be masters, and we poor women are born to bear the clog of obedience, though our husbands have no more sense than a cuckoo’

Question 7

Opinion on Wuthering Heights, 1846

Answer 7

Made me realise how much I love peeling away layer after layer to reach remarkable depths as the way the novel is told reveals the layers: lockwood’s surface narration and nelly’s version of events