Q 01/05

Under which pen name did Emily Brontë publish Wuthering Heights in 1847?

A) Currer Bell

B) Acton Bell

C) Ambrose Bell

D) Ellis Bell

Answer · why

D) Ellis Bell

Ellis Bell: the sisters kept their initials but picked names that hid their sex, sensing that 'authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice'.

Q 02/05

Which disease is blamed for Emily Brontë's death in December 1848, a year after Wuthering Heights appeared?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Cholera

C) Smallpox

D) Diphtheria

Answer · why

A) Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis killed her while critics still called the book too savage; only later was it ranked among the finest novels in English.

Q 03/05

Wuthering Heights was first published in a three-volume set together with which other book?

A) Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey

B) Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

C) Charlotte Brontë's The Professor

D) Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Answer · why

A) Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey made up the third volume, but the publisher held both books back until their sister's Jane Eyre had become a hit.

Q 04/05

Who played Cathy in Emerald Fennell's 2026 film of Wuthering Heights, opposite Jacob Elordi?

A) Florence Pugh

B) Margot Robbie

C) Sydney Sweeney

D) Anya Taylor-Joy

Answer · why

B) Margot Robbie

Margot Robbie also produced the film, and Fennell deliberately chose a loose retelling rather than a faithful adaptation of the book.

Q 05/05

What does the snowed-in tenant reach through his broken window to seize, only to grasp a ghostly hand instead?

A) A loose shutter

B) A fir branch

C) A trapped bird

D) A fallen icicle

Answer · why

B) A fir branch

A fir branch was rattling its cones on the glass, but when he knocked through to grab it his fingers closed on a small ice-cold hand.