Name_______________________________ Classwork/Homework

Wuthering Heights
Homework #6 pages 132-163, chapters 11 and 12
9 points

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences.

1. Nelly sees Hareton and takes it as an omen of

what? (Look up the word omen if you don’t
know what it means.)

2. What does Heathcliff want to use Isabella for? What does he want to do that he feels Catherine has
done? (Look to the top of page 138.)

3. What are three words that Heathcliff uses on pages 140-141 to either insult Edgar to his face, or to
Catherine? What is his tone?

4. Do you agree with Catherine when she says to Nelly, "I am in no way blameable in this matter"?
Why or why not?
5. Why did Nelly tell Edgar about Catherine's plan to fake a fit? What did she want to accomplish?

6. Catherine exiles herself to her room. What happens?

7. Explain what Catherine means on page 157 when she says, "What you touch at present you may
have; but my soul will be on that hill-top before you lay your hands on me again"?

8. Do you believe that Catherine really is sick? Why or why not?

9. How might Nelly Dean's biases affect the telling of this part of the story? (Consider the comments
she makes to Edgar and to herself throughout her telling.)