Notable as important nineteenth-century novels by women, Mary
Shelley’s Frankenstein and Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights treat
women very differently. Shelley produced a“masculine” text in which the
fates of subordinate female characters seem entirely dependent on the
5 actions of male heroes or anti-heroes.
Bronte produced a more realistic narrative portraying a world
where men battle for the favors of apparently high-spirited, independent
women. Nevertheless, these two novels are alike in several crucial ways.
Many readers are convinced that the compelling mysteries of each plot
10 conceal elaborate structures of allusion and fierce, though shadowy,
moral ambitions that seem to indicate metaphysical intentions, though
efforts by critics to articulate these intentions have generated much
controversy. Both novelists use a storytelling method that emphasizes
ironic disjunctions between different perspectives on the same events as
15 well as ironic tensions that inhere in the relationship between surface
drama and concealed authorial intention, a method I call ans evidentiary
narrative technique.

1. The primary purpose of the passage is to
(A) defend a controversial interpretation of two novels
(B) explain the source of widely recognized responses to two novels
(C) delineate broad differences between two novels
(D) compare and contrast two novels
(E) criticize and evaluate two novels

2. According to the passage, Frankenstein differs from Wuthering Heights in its
(A) use of multiple narrators
(B) method of disguising the author’s real purposes
(C) portrayal of men as determiners of the novel’s action
(D) creation of a realistic story
(E) controversial effect on readers

3. Which of the following narrative strategies best exemplifies the “evidentiary narrative technique”
mentioned in line 17?
(A) Telling a story in such a way that the author’s real intentions are discernible only through
interpretations of allusions to a world outside that of the story
(B) Telling a story in such a way that the reader is aware, as events unfold, of the author’s underlying
purposes and the ways these purposes conflict with the drama of the plot
(C) Telling a story in a way that both directs attention to the incongruities among the points of view
of several characters and hints that the plot has a significance other than that suggested by its
mere events
(D) Telling a story as a mystery in which the reader must deduce, from the conflicting evidence
presented by several narrators, the moral and philosophical significance of character and event
(E) Telling a story from the author’s point of view in a way that implies both the author’s and the
reader’s ironic distance from the dramatic unfolding of events

4. According to the passage, the plots of Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein are notable for their
elements of
(A) drama and secrecy
(B) heroism and tension
(C) realism and ambition
(D) mystery and irony
(E) morality and metaphysics