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1 a household, tenant, landlord, gypsy,

mistress

b A landlord owns the proprty and thetenant lives in it and pays rent to the

landlord.

c False. A moor is covered in grass and

small bushes.

d False. A mouse is a very small, timidanimal.

e True

f False. You shiver when you are cold or

frightened.

g False. You say it very quietly.

h True

2 a The new tenant at Thrushcross Grange

b The owner of Wuthering Heights and

Thrushcross GrangeHeathcliffs servants

c Mr Lockwoods housekeeper

d The owner of the books; Hindleys sister;

Heathcliffs lover

e Mrs Heathcliffs cousin; the last member

of the Earnshaw family.

3 Some ideas: hes rich but careful with his

money; he is dark-skinned like a gypsy; he

has the manners of a gentleman; he does

not dress well; he has a bad temper and is

unfriendly, even cruel and rude; he played

with Catherine when they were children; he

loves Catherine; he is strange.

4 Open answer

5 Open answer

6 a misery

b naughty

c degrade

d creepe weep

f exclaim

g superior

h fury

i scorn

7 a Old Mr Earnshaw is talking to Mrs

Earnshaw about the child Heathcliff, who

he has just brought home.

b Heathcliff is telling Nelly about his and

Catherines visit to Thrushcross Grange.

c Hindley is talking to Heathcliff after

Heathcliff has made himself look clean

and tidy just before the visit by the Linton

children.

d Heathcliff is talking to Nelly in the kitchen

after he has come out of his prison.

e Catherine is talking to Heathcliff. She

wants him to go away because Edgar is

coming. She hurts him badly by sayingthis. But Hindley has not allowed

Heathcliff to be educated like Catherine.

Instead he has made him do only

physical work and Heathcliff has become

silent and lacks confidence and is not

good company.

f Edgar is talking to Catherine. She has

lost her temper and hit first Nelly and

then little Hareton. Edgar has tried to

make her let go of the child, and so she

has hit him also.

g Catherine is talking to Nelly. They are

talking about whether Catherine is wrongto accept Edgars offer of marriage.

8 Open answer

9 Open answer

10 Some ideas are: At Thrushcross, it is

comfortable and people are kind, well-mannered and well-dressed. Perhaps the

Answers to Book activities children are a little spoilt. There are lots ofservants. At Wuthering Heights, life is

rougher. The children run wild and wear

rough clothes. Hindley is cruel to Heathcliff.

When Hindleys wife dies and Hindley

becomes violent and drunk, no one comes to

visit. The teacher stops coming and only two

servants stay.

11 Open answer

12 a oblong b knowledge

13 a three years

b At Wuthering Heights

c Hareton has changed and become wild

and violent. Heathcliff has come between

Hareton and his father, taking control of

Haretons upbringing. He has taught

Hareton to swear and made sure the boy

has no education by sending away the

teacher. He is encouraging Hareton to

run wild by telling him he can do what helikes.

d She finds him kissing Isabella.

e She goes away with Heathcliff and they

get married. Two months later the pair

return to Wuthering Heights.

f He wants to win back the money that

Heathcliff has won from him through

playing cards.

g After Heathcliff and Edgar fight,

Catherine becomes ill with a brain fever.

She seems to have recovered, though

she is not the same as she was, when

Heathcliff comes to see her. After this

visit she falls into unconsciousness and

her baby, a second Catherine, is borntwo months early. Catherine dies two

hours later.

h Heathcliff

i her childhood

j Heathcliffs and Edgarsk because she had made Heathcliff so

angry with her that he could not control

himself and he threw a knife at her.

i Heathcliff shows no sympathy for

Hindley, although he does tie upHindleys gunshot wound. Heathcliff is

hard and cold. After Hindley dies,

Heathcliff seems to show satisfaction at

a difficult piece of work well done.

14 a He has bought all of Hindleys property.He has done this by giving Hindley

money in return for his land so that

Hindley has money to play cards.

b Heathcliff says that he would like to be

responsible for Hareton. He threatens totake his own son from Isabella if Edgar

tries to take Hareton from him. Edgardoes not really want Hareton, so the boy

stays with Heathcliff.

15 When Heathcliff says my murderer hemeans Catherine. She has caused him so

much pain he feels he will die, but at the

same time he loves her. When he says but

yours - How can I?it is less clear. Yours

means Catherines murderer. So his question

is: how can he love Catherines murderer?

But who is Catherines murderer? Whose

fault is it that Catherine is dying? Heathcliff

has just said that Catherine herself is to

blame for being false to her own heart. She

has killed herself. So he could mean that he

cannot love her because she is responsible

for taking herself from him. So he both loves

her and doesnt love her.

However, earlier Catherine has accused

Heathcliff and Edgar of causing her illness,

and Heathcliff tries to defend himself againsther accusation. Perhaps he feels guilty

about what he has done. So he could also

mean that he cannot love himself because it

is his fault that she has become so ill.

16 Cathy Lintons parents are Edgar Linton and

his wife Catherine Earnshaw. The parents of

Hareton Earnshaw are: Hindley Earnshaw

and his wife Frances. The parents of Linton

Heathcliff are Heathcliff and his wife, Isabella

Linton.

17 (the names are given in order)

a Isabella, Linton

b Cathy, Nelly (Ellen)

c Heathcliff and Hindley; Linton Heathcliff

d Cathy, Linton

e Heathcliff, Linton, Cathy

f Nelly (Ellen), Cathy

g Edgar, Nelly

h Edgar, LintonI Edgar, Linton, Heathcliff (or Cathy?)

18 Some ideas: Hareton: strong, good-looking

and healthy; dresses in farm workers

clothes; is uneducated but intelligent; suffers

when he is laughed at for his ignorance and

becomes angry; tries to learn to read to

make Cathy like him; loves his master and

protector, Heathcliff.

Linton: blond hair and blue eyes; attractive

with a prettyface; tall; bad-tempered and

unhappy because of his poor health; not

good company; sometimes he seems like a

spoilt child, but this is understandable; he

does not like being uncomfortable.

19 Open answer20 a Because Linton will inherit Thrushcross

Grange from Edgar. If Linton dies first, it is

possible that Edgar might be able to make

sure that Cathy gets Thrushcross.

b Cathy is trying to get the key to the room inwhich Heathcliff has locked her and Nelly.

Cathy bites Heathcliffs hand and he hits her.

Nelly then tries to stop him and he pushes

her.

c Edgar dies before his lawyer, Mr Green,arrives. Mr Green is late because Heathcliff

has kept him at the Heights.

d Heathcliff breaks off one side of Catherines

coffin. He does this so that when he dies he

can lie next to her. His own coffin will alsohave the side broken off nearest to

Catherine.

e Cathy has no money or property of her own.

Heathcliff has made sure that Linton left all

his money and Cathys (as his wife), to him.Heathcliff is claiming that he is the owner of

Thrushcross through his own wife, Isabella.Cathy has no money or friends who can help

her to fight this. So she has no choice but to

stay at Wuthering Heights.f Cathy feels bored in her room and starts to go

down to the kitchen. At first she makes rude

remarks about Hareton but then realises that

it is her fault that he is not friendly to her.

She realises that she likes her cousin, and

she is sorry for her past behaviour. She is

grateful to him for defending her to

Heathcliff.

g Heathcliff has been like a father to Hareton.

h Heathcliff no longer enjoys his revenge.

Hareton, who looks very like her, reminds

him of Catherine. He suffers terrible pain

from her memory and because he lost her.

He cannot bear to see or think of Cathy, the

child of his lover and his enemy. Nelly thinks

that he now feels guilty about what he hasdone (p134), though he denies this. He

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stops eating. He starts to act strangely andto seem oddly cheerful. He seems to see

something, or someone, that is not there

the ghost of Catherine. He has found her

at last.

21 Open answer

Communicative activities

Activities after reading a section

Chapters 14

Open answers

Chapters 1120

Some suggestions

Heathcliffs good points and things whichexcuse his behaviour:

* As a child he had no parents. he was

shown kindness by old Mr Earnshaw and

Catherine but not by Hindley or Mrs

Earnshaw.

* After old Mr Earnshaw dies, the young

Heathcliff is made to suffer by Hindley. He

is degraded and treated like a servant, and

prevented from receiving any education.

He is made to feel stupid and unattractive.

* His physical appearance dark and like agypsy causes racial prejudice.

* No one teaches him moral values

Hindley lets him run wild. Catherine is

taught how to behave by the Lintons.

* He has a strong and proud nature. It isnatural that he should want revenge on

Hindley.

* He loves Catherine desperately.* He is able to bear his treatment by

Catherine until she seems not to want him,even though this is a mistake.

* Everything which follows is the result of all

of this.

* He leaves Wuthering Heights, learns from

somewhere else what Hindley hasprevented him from learning ie how to

behave like a gentleman and returns with

money.

* He is driven to violence against Isabella

only because she makes him angry bytalking about Catherine.

* He is wild with grief for Catherine. Even

Nelly sees that he has a heart and

feelings the same as other men.

His bad points and all the bad things hehas done.

* He has a proud, strong nature which

means that he wants revenge.

* He is cruel and selfish and violent and

bitter.

* He uses Isabella without pity to get his

revenge on both Catherine and on Edgar

Linton.

* He takes advantage of Hindleys state to

get all his money from him.

* He does to Hareton what Hindley has done

to him, ie prevents him from learning

anything and makes sure he becomes a

rough, rude child.

* He shoots Hindley and throws a knife at

his wife. He hangs Isabellas dog.

* He threatens to take Isabellas child if

Edgar tries to take Hareton from him.

* He shows no sadness at Hindleys death.

Instead he seems pleased.* By the time Catherine and Hindley are

Answers to Factsheet activities

dead, Heathcliff has become evil andwicked.

Chapters 2128

Open answers

Chapters 2938

Some suggestions:

(a)

* Heathcliff threatens his son so that he will

trick Cathy and Nelly into going into the

Heights.

* He does not show any concern for his sons

health.

* He locks Cathy and Nelly in a room in the

Heights.

* He hits Cathy (when she bites him) and

pushes Nelly when she tries to help Cathy.

* He forces Cathy to marry Linton.

* He will not allow a message to be sent toEdgar.

* He tells Cathy and Nelly about the men from

the Grange after they have gone.

* He keeps Nelly locked in a room for five

days and lies about her in the village.

* He makes sure that Linton is unpleasant

and cruel to Cathy.

* He breaks Cathys pictures of her parents.

* He hits Cathy again.

* He makes sure that the lawyer is delayed.

* He will not let Cathy and Linton stay at the

Grange.

* He seems to want to make Cathy work for

him.

* He makes Cathy walk to the Grange.

* He will not help Cathy nurse his son, Linton.

* He make Linton leave all his money to him,

not his wife.

(b) suggestions* First, Heathcliff explains to Nelly about the

ghost of Catherine that has been with him

for eighteen years, killing me slowly, with

the ghost of a hope. He has suffered

unbearable misery.

* Cathy says, correctly, that Heathcliff has no

one to love him and that he is miserable

(p116). Perhaps the lack of love together

with his desire for revenge are enough to

make him so cruel, violent, selfish and

interested in money.

Students Activities

Activities before reading the book.

1 (a) At the end of the eighteenth century

(b) Wuthering Heights

(c) Thrushcross Grange

(d) Earnshaws: Catherine, Hindley,Mr Earnshaw their father. Lintons: Edgar

Linton

(e) A street child found in Liverpool by Mr

Earnshaw and brought home to live with

his family.

(f) Heathcliff and Catherine fall in love.

(g) Open answer

2 Open answer

Activities while reading the book.

Chapters 12

1 (a) not near other houses distant from

society, this loneliness

(b) cold and windy the wildness of the

weather in time of storm; the power of

the north wind; the trees ...lean towards

the ground; ... bushes all stretching

their branches in one direction as if

begging for the warmth of the sun(d) old the date 1500

(e) not well looked after the grass isgrowing up between the stones; the

plants are growing wild

2 His house has the furniture and appearance

of a simple Yorkshire farmer but he himself

seems to be a gentleman.

3 (a) F

(b) T

(c) F

(d) T

(e) F

(f) F

Chapters 34

(a) The names Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine

Linton, Catherine Heathcliff

Catherine Earnshaw

(b) Badly. He calls him a gypsy, and will not lethim play with Catherine, or eat with the

family. He says that their father was too kindto Heathcliff and that he wants to put

Heathcliff in his right place.

(c) He thinks it is the branch of a tree but hefinds that it is the hand of a childs ghost,

which calls itself Catherine Linton.

(d) Twenty years ago.

(e) First, he is sleeping in the room that

Heathcliff does not want anyone to use;second, he has woken Heathcliff up by

shouting; third he mentions Catherines

name.

(f) The first name, Earnshaw is her family

name. Her father is Mr Earnshaw and her

brother is Hindley. Linton is her married

name. As we know, she married Edgar

Linton. Heathcliff is a surname she

probably imagined for herself because she

was in love with Heathcliff.

(g) Two(h) Hareton Earnshaw

Chapters 57

1 When Mr Earnshaw brings Heathcliff to the

Heights, Catherine is six years old and

Hindley is fourteen. At first, neither child

likes Heathcliff because they do not get the

presents they wanted. A little later,

Catherine starts to be friendly to Heathcliff.

Hindley still dislikes him, however, and often

hits him. Mrs Earnshaw does not stop

Hindley from hurting Heathcliff. MrEarnshaw is angry with his son for his

treatment of Heathcliff, and Heathcliff soon

becomes Mr Earnshaws favourite. So

Hindley is jealous of Heathcliff and they

have bad fights.2 Suggested answers:

(a)After old Mr Earnshaw dies, Hindley returns

home with his new wife/ becomes the

master of Wuthering Heights.

(b) Hindleys wife dislikes Heathcliff and soHindley again starts to treat him very badly.

(c) Heathcliff does not mind Hindleys treatment

at first because he spends his time with

Cathy running wild over the moors.

(d) But after Catherine stays at ThrushcrossGrange, things start to change.

(e)When Catherine returns, she finds that

Heathcliff has become dirty and strange.

(f) Heathcliff is angry because of the way he is

made to feel/because he feels embarrassedand degraded.

Chapters 810

1 l Isabella and Edgar Linton come for avisit.

g Edgar is rude about Heathcliffs hair.

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b Heathcliff throws an apple pie at Edgar.

h Hindley locks Heathcliff away upstairs.

n Catherine goes secretly to the top of the

house to see Heathcliff.

I Heathcliff swears to get his revenge on

Hindley.

j Hareton Earnshaw is born.

c Hindleys wife dies and Hindley starts to

live a wild life.

e Catherine tells Heathcliff that she finds

his company dull.

m Edgar is shocked by Catherines violent

temper.

o Edgar and Catherine become more than

friends.

a Heathcliff hears Catherine saying she

will marry Edgar Linton.

d Heathcliff disappears in a storm.

f Catherine waits for Heathcliff andcatches a fever.

k Edgar and Catherine are married.

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(a)Heathcliff is talking to Nelly outside

Thrushcross. they = Catherine and Edgar,

she = Catherine(b)Nelly is talking to Edgar in the sitting room

at Thrushcross. She = Catherine; he =

Heathcliff

(c) Isabella is talking to Catherine at

Thrushcross. him = Heathcliff.(d)Nelly is talking to Isabella and Catherine at

Thrushcross. They = Heathcliff and Hindley

(e)Heathcliff is talking to Catherine in the

library at Thrushcross. the truth = that

Isabella is in love with Heathcliff(f) The child Hareton is talking to Nelly on the

moor. The first he Heathcliff; my father =Hindley; the second he = Hindley

Chapters 1416

Suggested answers. In some cases other

answers may be possible.

(a)Nelly calls Heathcliff worthless when she

finds him kissing Isabella.

(b)Heathcliff calls Catherine jealous because

she is angry when he kisses Isabella.

(c) Nelly says Catherine is upset when Nelly

tells Edgar about Heathcliffs behaviour.

(d)Heathcliff calls Edgar weak-kneed when

Cathy throws the key into the fire.

(e)Cathy tells Heathcliff he has played an evil

trick on her.

(f) mad and (g) wild. Catherine uses these

words about herself when she is starting to

become ill through what has happened.

(h)Catherine says Edgar is selfish because hewont let her see Heathcliff.

(i) Nelly says of herself that she is the only

sensible person in the house.

(j) Edgar calls Nelly heartless when he finds

out that she has not told him before that

Catherine is ill.

(k) Nelly says that the Earnshaws have violent

natures.

(l) Isabella says in her letter to Nelly that she

has been foolish.

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Suggested answer

1 Nelly goes to Wuthering Heights with a

message from Edgar to Isabella.

2 Heathcliff persuades Nelly to take a letter to

Catherine.

3 Heathcliff comes to see Catherine and he

sees that she will not live long.

4 They accuse each other and forgive each

other but their powerful love for eachother is clear.

5 Catherines daughter is born and

Catherine dies.

6 Heathcliff curses Catherine so that her

ghost will always be with him.7 Isabella leaves Heathcliff and comes to

Thrushcross.

8 She tells how Hindley planned to kill

Heathcliff but that Heathcliff got hold of

the gun and shot Hindley.9 Isabella leaves the area for the south,

and has a son.

10 Hindley dies six months later, aged

twenty seven.

11 Heathcliff now owns all of Hindleysproperty and takes control of his son,

Hareton.

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Suggested answers

(a)Cathy Linton is a beautiful child with

dark eyes and blond hair. She has high

spirits but she is kind and loving. She is

also a little spoilt and likes to have her

own way and can be naughty. She is

protected from the world by her father so

she is quite innocent. She is adventurous.

(b)Heathcliff does not seem to think much of

Linton. He says he hatesLinton who he

thinks is too much like his mother

because he has a pretty, girlish face;

Heathcliff says Linton is a miserable

thingand worthless. He seems only to

be interested in Linton for what he can

get through him. But he says he will treat

Linton well, even if he does not love him.(c) In his will, old Mr Linton left Thrushcross

first to his son, Edgar, and then, if Edgar

had no son, to his sister Isabella. This

means that when Edgar dies, ownership

of Thrushcross will pass not to Cathy, but

Isabella. However, Isabella is dead, so

the next in line to inherit Thrushcross

after Edgar dies will be Linton Heathcliff.

Linton is Heathcliffs son, so if Edgar

should die, then Heathcliff would certainly

have some control of Thrushcross while

Linton is a child.(d)It is possible that Heathcliff is being

generous. At the moment it certainly

looks as if Cathy will not inherit

Thrushcross after her father dies, and so

by marrying Linton Cathy would be sureto be safe and could stay at Thrushcross.

But it is also possible that Linton may die

before Edgar dies. Nelly says that in this

situation, Cathy would be the next to

inherit Thrushcross. Heathcliff says this isnot true, and that as Lintons father, he

would get Thrushcross. However, he

could be absolutely sure of getting his

hands on Thrushcross if Cathy married

Linton. This is because if Linton diesbefore Edgar and if Edgar is somehow

able to make sure that Cathy inherits

Thrushcross, Heathcliff would be able to

control the property if Cathy was Lintons

wife. So Heathcliff may not be really asgenerous as he pretends. In fact he is

being rather clever in a deceitful way.

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1 Open answers

2 Linton seems to be more ill than before

although he says he is not. He also acts a

little strangely, as if he has not come to

meet Cathy because he wants to, but

because his father wants him to. Perhaps

his father has made him go there to

encourage their relationship. Or is there

another reason?

Chapters 2931

1 Suggestions.

(a) If Nelly had told Edgar about Lintons true

character, Edgar would probably have tried

to stop Cathy from marrying Linton/Edgar

would probably have changed his will

sooner.

(b)If Nelly had not encouraged and helped

Cathy to meet Linton on the second

Thursday, they would not have been tricked

by Linton and Heathcliff.(c) If Cathy and Nelly had not gone to

Wuthering Heights with Linton andHeathcliff, Linton would have been hurt by

his father.

(d) If Cathy and Nelly had opened the window

and called out to the servants from the

Grange, they would have rescued them.(e) If Nelly had told Edgar about Lintons

illness, he would have understood what

danger Cathy was in.

(f) If Mr Green had not been delayed at the

Heights, Edgar would have been able tochange his will and Cathy would have been

safe

1 Open answer

Chapters 3238

1 In 1802, the gate is not chained and the

doors are open. There is a smell of gardenflowers. The unhappiness of the previous

year has gone.2 Cathy and Hareton are no longer angry

and miserable. Instead of being met by the

bad-tempered Joseph, Mr Lockwood finds

Nelly cheerful and singing songs.

3 All this has happened because Heathcliff isdead and Cathy and Hareton now love

each other and are going to be married.

4 Suggested answer:

Catherine: Come to me, Heathcliff. Im

waiting for you.Heathcliff: My dearest love, I am here, I am

here.

Catherine: Are you suffering? Am I causing

you pain?

Heathcliff: You know that you are killing me

little by little. You pretend to be here but

you are not.Catherine: But I am here. I have always

been with you. Cant you see me?

Heathcliff: Yes, I see you now. I knew that I

would see you in the end.

Catherine: You have had your revenge. You

do not need to do any more. It is time to let

the children have some happiness.

Heathcliff: Yes, you are right. I no longer

enjoy destroying their lives.

Catherine: Let us have our own happiness

now. Do you want to remain on this earth?

Heathcliff: No, there is no reason for me to

be alive any more. I long to join you in the

grave. But how can I?

Catherine: Tonight I will come to take you,

my darling. Leave your window open.

Heathcliff: I will be waiting.