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| What are Heathcliff's feelings about the room in which Lockwood spends the night? |
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| He had an odd notion about the chamber, and never let anyone lodge there willingly |
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| In what three words is the bed initially described? |
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| How is the bed described by Lockwood on further inspection thereof? |
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| A sort of old-fashioned couch, very conveniently designed to obviate the necessity for every member of the family having a room to himself |
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| How does Lockwood feel once inside the bed? |
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| Secure against the vigilance of Heathcliff |
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| What three names are scrawled all over the ledge? |
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| Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, Catherine Linton |
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| What forms in Lockwood's mind when he drifts off to sleep? |
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| How does Lockwood describe the air around him when he goes to sleep? |
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| The air swarmed with Catherines |
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| What odour is given when Lockwood's candle wick reclines on one of the antique volumes in the room? |
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| What kind of book does Lockwood first take down from Cathy's library? |
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| What does Catherine write on the inside cover of the testament? |
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| Catherine Earnshaw, her book |
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| What comment does Lockwood give on the state of Cathy's books? |
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| Scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen and ink commentary |
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| How does Lockwood describe his attempts to read Cathy's writing? |
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| Decypher her faded hieroglyphs |
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| What is Cathy's exclamation on page 20, where Lockwood reads her diary? |
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| How does Cathy compare Hindley to her father on page 20? |
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| Hindley is a detestable substitute |
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| What does Cathy say concerning her and Heathcliff's rebellion? |
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| H. and I are going to rebel - we took our initiatory step this evening |
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| What are Hindley and his wife doing while Joseph leads a church service in the garret of Wuthering Heights? |
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| Basked downstairs before a comfortable fire - doing anything but reading their bibles |
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| How does Cathy describe Joseph at the bottom of page 20? |
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| How does Cathy describe Hindley on page 21? |
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| On what does Hindley insist on Sundays? |
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| Perfect sobriety and silence |
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| How are Frances and Hindley described by Cathy when together? |
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| Like two babies, kissing and talking nonsense by the hour - foolish palaver that we should be ashamed of |
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| What are the names of the books cast into the dog-kennel by Heathcliff and Cathy? |
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| 'The Helmet of Salvation' and 'The Broad Way to Destruction' |
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| How is Hindley's position on the hearth at the top of page 22 described? |
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| What does Heathcliff say that he and Cathy should do having been thrown into the back-kitchen by Hindley? |
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| Appropriate the dairy woman's cloak and have a scamper on the moors |
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| What does Cathy say of Hindley's treatment of Heathcliff on page 22? |
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| He has been blaming father (how dared he?) for treating H. too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place |
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| What does Lockwood claim are the reasons for passing such a terrible night? |
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| In the first dream, what item does Lockwood neglect to bring to the chapel? |
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| What is the fate of the one who commits 'the First of the Seventy First'? |
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| Publicly exposed and excommunicated |
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| What does Lockwood say of the swamp near the chapel? |
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| Whose peaty moisture is said to answer all the purposes of embalming on the few corpses deposited there |
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| Why is the clergyman's wage kept at £20 p.a.? |
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| His flock would rather let him starve than increase the living by one penny from their own pockets |
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| When Lockwood is attacked by the church congregation, how do the blows fall? |
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| Blows, aimed at me, fell on other sconces |
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| The whole chapel resounded with what? |
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| Rappings and counter-rappings |
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| Every man's hand is against whom during the assault in the chapel? |
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| When Lockwood breaks the window to stop the rapping on the pane, what does he seize? |
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| The fingers of a little, ice-cold hand |
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| What does Lockwood experience having grabbed the hand of the young girl, expecting a branch? |
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| The intense horror of nightmare came over me |
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| What does the girl on page 25 say her name is? |
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| How does Lockwood react when the girl says that her name is Catherine Linton? |
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| Why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton |
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| How does Lockwood react to the terror of the second dream? |
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| Terror made me cruel... I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed-clothes... maddening me with fear |
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| For how long does Cathy's spirit say to have been a waif? |
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| How is Heathcliff described on entrance to the room? |
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| A candle dripping over his fingers, and his face as white as he wall behind him |
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| What is Heathcliff said to be doing at the bottom of page 26? |
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| Crushing his nails into his palms, and grinding his teeth |
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| How does Lockwood describe the Heights at the top of page 27? |
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| Swarming with ghosts and goblins |
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| What remark does Heathcliff give concerning Lockwood's yells of fright? |
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| Nothing could excuse it, unless you were having your throat cut |
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| How does Lockwood describe the position of Cathy as a changeling? |
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| A just punishment for her mortal transgressions |
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| How does Lockwood assess his position following his experiences in Cathy's room? |
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| I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself |
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| What is Lockwood's first concern following Heathcliff's lamentations? |
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| The spectre showed a spectre's ordinary caprice |
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| What is in the back-kitchen when Lockwood enters? |
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| How does Lockwood describe the cat on page 29? |
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| How does Hareton perform his orisons? |
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| In a series of curses directed against every object he touched |
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| What is Heathcliff's tirade against Cathy Linton on page 30? |
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| The rest of them do earn their bread - you live on my charity! You shall pay me for the plague of having you eternally in my sight |
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| How does Lockwood describe the snow-swept landscape of the moors outside Wuthering Heights? |
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| How is Lockwood once he has returned to Thrushcross Grange? |
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