Chapter 2-3 Wuthering Heights Homework Questions –
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: TENSION
Chapter 2
2. What signs exist 3. How is Mrs.
4. How is the young
1. What drives
that
neither
Heathcliff
man, Haerton
Mr. Lockwood to
Lockwood
nor
characterized?
Earnshaw,
return to
other guests are
(Wife of
characterized?Explain
Wuthering
welcome
at
Heathcliff,
Junior
the incongruity
Heights? (Textual
Wuthering
who is deceased)
between his
support and
Heights?
In
what
ways
does
appearance and his
inference)
her treatment of
behavior? How is he
Lockwood seem
dressed? How does he
3 sentences
hostile? Which
behave? How does he
minimum
simile is used to
treat Lockwood?
describe her
attitude?
3 direct quotes from
the text. 3 sentences
6 direct quotes
minimum.
from the text. 5
sentence
minimum
response.
5. Despite being
6. How does
7. What false
8. Lockwood next
uninvited,
Lockwood has
returned to WH
and now makes a
request of
Heathcliff which
Heathcliff
refuses. What
does Lockwood
request? Why?
9. What kind of
interactions take
place between
Mrs. Heathcliff
and Joseph?
Heathcliff treat
the young lady,
Mrs.
Heathcliff?How
does Lockwood’s
opinion of
Heathcliff change
as a result?
Bring in a
minimum of 2
quotes textual
support.
10. Lockwood
solicits Mrs.
Heathcliff’s help.
At first she refuses
and then she
relents. How does
she try to assist
him?
assumption does
Lockwood make
about the
relationship
between
Heathcliff and the
young lady? How
does Heathcliff
correct his false
assumption?
falsely assumes that
the young lady is
married to Hareton
Earnshaw? How does
Hareton respond to
this assumption?
3 quotes incorporated
into response as
support needed.
11. In what way
does Lockwood
suffer
embarrassment at
the end of the
chapter 2?
Chapter 3: Background information. Mr. Lockwood is reading Catherine
Earnshaw’s diaries, sleeping in Catherine Earnshaw’s room at Wuthering Heights
because it is too dangerous to walk back through stormy weather to Thrushcross
Grange.
FLASHBACK THROUGH DIARY ENTRIES
*Catherine Earnshaw, Hindley Earnshaw = brother and sister. Lived at Wuthering
Heights.
*Heathcliff = adopted sibling
Wuthering Heights originally belonged to the Earnshaws.
HAUNTED DREAMS/GHOSTS
GOTHIC ELEMENTS—Haunted mansion/ Dreams/
Supernatural/Ghosts/Cats/Fires/Witches
12. Lockwood discovers a diary. The book containS journal entries written about 25
years ago by a young lady named Catherine who wrote various names on the diary
including Catherine Earnshaw-Heathcliff-Linton. The entries reveal that she and
Heathcliff were companions when they were young, and that Heathcliff was treated
terribly by Hindley and Joseph. How do they mistreat Heathcliff? How do they mistreat
Catherine? (Cite 10 direct quotes/phrases from the text in your response. 5 sentences
minimum response. )
13. Lockwood is stuck at Wuthering Heights overnight. He has a nightmare after he
reading Catherine’s diary. Lockwood dreams he goes to church with Joseph and hears a
sermon. Describe the fight that breaks out in the church during the dream. Why does it
break out?
14. Lockwood is awakened again from another dream when he hears branches tapping on
the window. He encounters the ghost of Catherine. What interaction takes place between
Catherine’s ghost and Lockwood? What cruel act does Lockwood inflict upon the ghost?
Why? How long does the ghost claim to have been haunting Wuthering Heights?
15. How was this incident foreshadowed by this quote? “While leading the way
upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the candle, and not
make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the chamber
she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly. I
asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived
there a year or two; and they had so many queer goings on, she could
not begin to be curious.”
16. How does Heathcliff react to Lockwood’s screaming in the middle of the night and
the information Lockwood conveys about the interaction with the ghost? What request
does Heathcliff make of the ghost? Why do you think he makes this request? (Pp. 51-53)
Does his reaction seem unusual? Why? Why not? (5 sentence minimum response.
Incorporate 3 textual quotes minimum as support.)
17. How does Heathcliff mistreat Mrs. Heathcliff at this juncture in the novel? – p. 57,
59?
18. Give this chapter a title
Mr. Heathcliff escorts Lockwood back to Thrushcross Grange so Lockwood
doesn’t get lost. As it turns out, the distance between Wuthering Heights and
Thrushcross Grange is only 2 miles.