1. Gothic Review Warm ups
5-13 Jan

2. ENERGIZER: 5 January
As a way to start reviewing for our final, we’ll begin each day with a warm up about everything we’ve covered in the semester.
For each warm up, please write your responses in your notebooks. We’ll add something every day to create our own basic study guide and notes. Overall, try to do this from memory. Give yourself a minute to remember and, if nothing comes, go through your other notes.
Let’s start with Frankenstein.
1. Who wrote Frankenstein and in what year was it first published?
2. Briefly describe the characters below (who they are and a character trait) and their relationships to each other.
Victor Frankenstein
Elizabeth Lavenza
Robert Walton
Alphonse Frankenstein
Henry Clerval
Justine Moritz
Caroline Beaufort
Waldman and Krempe
Kirwin
The Delaney’s
Creature
3. What is the difference between the 3 parts of this novel?

3. ENERGIZER: 6 Jan
Add your responses for “Scandal in Bohemia” to your warm up from yesterday on Frankenstein:
1. Who comes to Holmes and Watson in disguise? What does he require?
2. What are Holmes’ feelings toward Irene Adler?
3. What is the plan for Watson?
4. How is it that Holmes will get Irene to tell him herself where the picture is?
5. What does the letter reveal about Irene’s intentions with the picture?
6. What is Holmes’ reward for “solving” this mystery?

4. ENERGIZER: 9 January
On your review warm up paper, please add the following for Hound of the Baskervilles:
1. Briefly recount the inception of the curse of the Baskerville family.
2. What is strange about what Dr. Mortimer recounts of the night of Sir Charles’ death? (consider his location, his feelings about the curse, what he was doing, etc)
3. What weird thing happens to Henry Baskerville when he arrives in his London hotel? What is eventually revealed about that event?
4. What is a red herring and who in this story would be considered one? Why?
5. What is Laura Lyons role in this story?
6. What of Beryl Stapleton’s role?
7. Who is the real culprit? How did he use the Baskerville curse to his advantage? And what happens to him in the end?

5. ENERGIZER: 10 January
On your review warm up paper, please add the following for The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
1. At the beginning of the story, when Utterson and Enfield share a story about a grotesque man that runs over a little girl, who signs the check the man gives to the grieving family?
2. What kind of person was Dr. Jekyll when he was young? What does Utterson think might be the connection between him and Hyde?
3. Who witnesses the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, and how does that person demonstrate the Gothic/Psych Thriller element of an unreliable narrator?
4. What is strange about the new will Jekyll gives to Utterson?
5. According to Jekyll’s testimony, why is Hyde smaller than Jekyll?
6. What does Jekyll reveal about the potion he created?

6. ENERGIZER: 11 Jan
On your review warm up paper, please add the following for “Murders in the Rue Morgue:”
1. How did the narrator become acquainted with Auguste Dupin?
2. What was heard coming from upstairs on the night of the murders?
3. Why is Le Bon arrested? What did Madame L'Espanaye do three days before her death?
4. Why does Dupin rule out the motive for the crime being robbery?
5. Who committed the murder? How does Dupin deduce this?
6. How is a sailor involved in this murder and how does Dupin get the Maltese Sailor to come to him?

7. ENERGIZER: 12 Jan
On your review warm up paper, please add the following:
“Demon Lover”
1. What is strange about the relationship between Kathleen and the soldier that we learn from the flashbacks?
2. The young Kathleen’s clearest memory about saying goodbye to her soldier is how he…
“Tell-Tale Heart”
3. What does the narrator want people to think about him?
4. Where does the narrator of “The Tell- Tale Heart” hide the old man's body?
5. Why does the narrator finally confess to the murder?
“Call of Cthulhu”
6. Which creature does Cthulhu in part have a physical resemblance to?
7. What is the narrator’s uncle a professor of and where?
8. Where did Legrasse find the statue?
“The Lottery”
9. Why do the townspeople participate in the lottery?
“Suffer the Little Children”
10. How does Miss Sidley keep tabs on/control her students?
11. What happens to Miss Sidley at the end?

8. ENERGIZER: 13 Jan
On your review warm up paper, please add the following:
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
1. How did Tarry Town get its name? Sleepy Hollow?
2. Who do the villagers believe the Headless Horseman is?
3. What are the names of the 3 main characters?
4. What happens at Van Tassels’ party that sets up Ichabod’s encounter with the Horseman?
5. What happens to Ichabod at the end of the story?
“Porphyria’s Lover”
Describe Porphyria.
How might the weather be symbolic?
What happens to Porphyria? Why?
What is the narrator’s justification for what he has done?
“Half-Hanged Mary”
What types of people were vulnerable to being hung in this time period?
Who are "the bonnets"? Why are they afraid?
What favors had she done for the women?
What is she trying to convince herself to do?
How have things changed since her hanging? How has she changed? What is her mental state?