Chapter III Practice Quiz — Wuthering Heights
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Practice Quiz: Chapter III
Where does Zillah put Lockwood to sleep in Chapter 3?
In a forbidden bedroom that Heathcliff never willingly allows anyone to use, containing an old-fashioned closet-bed built into an oak case.
What three names does Lockwood find scratched on the window ledge?
Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton, repeated in various sizes of handwriting.
What does Lockwood find among the mildewed books on the ledge?
A diary written by young Catherine Earnshaw in the margins of old books, dated about twenty-five years earlier.
What event has just occurred before Catherine writes her diary entry?
Her father, Mr. Earnshaw, has recently died, and her brother Hindley has taken control of Wuthering Heights.
How does Hindley treat Catherine and Heathcliff in the diary entry?
He forces them to endure Joseph's three-hour sermons in a cold garret, forbids them from playing, and threatens to turn Heathcliff out of the house.
What do Catherine and Heathcliff do to rebel against Joseph's religious instruction?
Catherine hurls her religious book into the dog kennel, and Heathcliff kicks his to the same place. They then plan to escape onto the moors.
Who is Joseph in Wuthering Heights?
Joseph is the old, deeply religious servant at Wuthering Heights who speaks in thick Yorkshire dialect and imposes stern Calvinist morality on the household.
What happens in Lockwood's first dream in Chapter 3?
He dreams of attending a sermon by Reverend Jabez Branderham divided into 490 parts, each on a different sin, until the congregation attacks him with their pilgrim's staves.
What biblical allusion is central to the Jabez Branderham dream?
The phrase "seventy times seven" from Matthew 18:22, where Jesus instructs Peter to forgive not seven times but seventy times seven. The dream pushes this to the unforgivable "First of the Seventy-First."
What does Lockwood grasp when he reaches through the window in his second dream?
Instead of a fir branch, his fingers close on the ice-cold hand of a ghostly child who identifies herself as Catherine Linton.
What does the ghost of Catherine say to Lockwood?
She sobs, "Let me in - let me in! I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!" and claims to have been "a waif for twenty years."
How does Lockwood react to the ghost grabbing his hand?
He cruelly pulls the ghost's wrist onto the broken glass and rubs it back and forth until blood runs down, then piles books against the window to block it.
How does Heathcliff respond when he learns about Lockwood's nightmare involving Catherine?
He becomes enraged, then breaks down in grief, wrenching open the window and sobbing, "Come in! come in! Cathy, do come. Oh, do - once more! Oh! my heart's darling!"
What do the three names on the window ledge symbolize?
They represent Catherine's fragmented identity across her key relationships: Earnshaw (maiden name), Heathcliff (soul bond), and Linton (marriage), foreshadowing the novel's central conflicts.
What role do the moors play in Catherine's diary entry?
The moors represent freedom and escape. Catherine and Heathcliff plan to flee onto the moors to escape Hindley's tyranny and Joseph's religious oppression.
What is the significance of the window in Chapter 3?
The window symbolizes the barrier between the living and the dead, the present and the past. It is the threshold through which Catherine's ghost tries to enter and through which Heathcliff desperately calls to her.
What narrative technique does Emily Bronte use by having Lockwood read Catherine's diary?
Nested narration or a story-within-a-story. Lockwood's account contains Catherine's diary, creating layers of perspective that bridge past and present.
What Gothic elements appear in Chapter 3?
A haunted forbidden room, ghostly apparitions, nightmares, an isolated setting during a snowstorm, the blurring of reality and the supernatural, and intense emotional extremes.
Why is Lockwood an unreliable witness to the ghost scene?
He is exhausted, nauseated from bad tea, half-asleep, and has been reading Catherine's name repeatedly. Bronte deliberately makes it ambiguous whether the ghost is real or a dream.
Who is Hareton Earnshaw and how does he appear in Chapter 3?
Hareton is the young man at Wuthering Heights, Hindley's son. He appears at dawn rummaging for a spade to dig through snowdrifts, cursing at everything he touches and ignoring Lockwood completely.
What does Heathcliff's reaction to the ghost reveal about his character?
It reveals that beneath his cruel exterior, Heathcliff is consumed by grief and undying love for Catherine. His desperate plea shows he genuinely believes her spirit may be present.
What is dramatic irony in the scene where Lockwood tells Heathcliff about his dream?
Lockwood casually describes the ghost and calls Catherine a "wicked little soul," unaware that Heathcliff is deeply connected to Catherine. The reader senses the pain Lockwood unknowingly inflicts.
What word means "tearful" and is used to describe Catherine's writing in Chapter 3?
Lachrymose. The narrator says Catherine "waxed lachrymose" in her next diary entry about Hindley making her cry.