K E Y T O T H E E X E R C I S E S

W. W. Jacobs – Amelia B. Edwards – E. A. Poe – Bram Stoker

G othic
Page 27 – exercise 3 6. If Mr White hadn’t taken the paw
Open answers. from the fire, it would have
burned.
Page 28 – exercise 1 7. If Herbert hadn’t suggested to
1. B 2. C 3. B 4. C 5. A wish for £200, Mr White probably
wouldn’t have made a wish.
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8. If the Whites hadn’t made a wish,
SHORT STORIES a. 6 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 e. 5 f. 1 Herbert wouldn’t have been killed
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a. Sad and empty, with time passing Page 40 – exercise 4
slowly.
KEY TO THE EXERCISES 1 2
b. He says that Herbert’s body was
AND EXIT TEST C F
so badly mutilated that he could
hardly recognise him. 3 C H I L L E D
c. She says that she is not afraid of E E 4 5
Notes on the Authors 6. astonishing 7. Chinese the son she nursed.
8. definitive 9. explorer 10. European C E 7 M S
Page 6 – exercise 1 d. Because she had such a strange
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a. Edwards b. Poe c. Stoker Page 20 – exercise 1 and unnatural expression on her
face as she waited for him to 8
M T N A
d. Jacobs e. Edwards f. Poe g. Stoker 1. F 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. F 6. F 7. T
make the wish. 9 T A L I S M A N T R
Page 26 – exercise 1 e. Because nothing happened. S T R 11 E E
THE MONKEY’S PAW a. It looked rather ordinary. f. A quiet knock at the door. 10 C R E E P T 12 B L I N D
b. It was playful and ironic. g. Because Mrs White had to get a
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c. He was from the firm where chair to reach the top bolt of the
Open answers. door. A 13 P A W 14 15 O I
Herbert worked, and he had come
to tell the Whites that Herbert h. The knocking stopped. P E 14 J U G G L E R S
Page 8 – exercise 3 E E O R C
had been killed. Page 38 – exercise 2
1. cold and wet 2. his son Herbert d. The man from the firm told her 16 C R E E K 17 O R D E R
3. a red face 4. three drinks that Herbert was not in any pain. 2. d 3. c 4. b 5. g 6. a 7. f 8. e
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5. 21 years 6. better off e. He was caught in some machinery. Page 38 – exercise 3 E
Page 17 – exercise 1 f. Because Herbert had been a good Possible answers:
worker. 2. If Morris hadn’t joined the army
1. B 2. C 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. A Page 41 – exercise 5
g. Because the amount of money the and gone to India, he wouldn’t
Page 19 – exercise 2 firm gave him was exactly the Open answers.
have got the monkey’s paw.
a. I wish my brother were home today. amount he had wished for. 3. If the Whites had finished paying Page 42 – exercise 6
b. I wish I could dance. Page 27 – exercise 2 for their house, they wouldn’t Possible answer:
c. I wish there was a lift. have wanted to wish for £200. Finally Mrs White managed pull the
1. had died 2. walked 3. told
d. I wish I lived in a big city. 4. If Morris hadn’t told Mr White bolt and the door slowly opened. A
4. explained 5. had come 6. was
e. I wish we had 200 pounds. about the paw, Mr White wouldn’t gust of cold air blew into the house
7. needed 8. had found 9. refused
f. I wish I could speak Spanish. have been interested in having it. and with it came something that
10. had told 11. was 12. closed
Page 19 – exercise 3 13. was 14. had pretended 15. had 5. If Morris hadn’t brought the paw looked like a small tree covered with
learned 16. was 17. rubbed 18. had with him to the Whites’ house, rags. Mrs White was not frightened
1. translation 2. Oriental they wouldn’t have been tempted
given 19. came 20. saved because this strange apparition did
3. collection 4. Arabic 5. unlike to make a wish.

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not seem to have anything human
about it, but gradually she recognised
and then she saw. She recognised her
son’s shirt, a piece of his trousers and
the shine of his belt buckle. At first
this recognition brought her joy, but
then she saw. She saw her son’s hair
on a crushed, bloody mass, bones
coming out of the fabric and one
whole hand (the only part of Herbert
that had survived the machine’s
maw) which seemed to want to
caress her. She fought with herself a
moment to block out everything but
her son’s beckoning hand, but she
could not chase from her sight the
other horrible details. The battle lost,
she screamed to her husband, ‘Get
the paw, dear God, get the paw!’
THE PHANTOM COACH
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A. 1. going 2. ago 3. as 4. it 5. of
6. change 7. but 8. in 9. which
10. getting
C. Open – A frightening
supernatural experience.
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A. 6 B. 3 C. 8 D. 5 E. 2 F. EXTRA
HEADING G. 4 H. 7 I. 1
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a. F. He had only told one other
person.
b. T.
c. F. He said it was very common for
people to get lost.
d. F. He merely accepted his
presence.
e. T.
f. T.
g. F. He believed in the supernatural.
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h. F. He told Jacob to take him to the 2. 1835: the accident happened the precipice nine years ago. This part
crossroads where the night mail 3. 1840: the last time the master of the story I know is true because I
for Dwolding stops. saw a stranger myself have met that odd professor of
4. 1844: August: the narrator got ghosts, and I have also heard about
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married that horrible accident. I am quite
1. anybody answer my certain, though, that James Murray’s
2. if he was going Page 62 – exercise 3
physical and mental suffering excited
3. snow did not stop a. Wine makes me feel sleepy. in his brain the vision of this phantom
4. loved each other b. Will you let me sleep on your sofa coach. However, Mr Murray would not
5. I had not broken tonight? listen to me. He says that he believes
6. even though I received c. My parents will let me go to the and will always believe in the evidence
7. without saying party if I finish my homework. of his senses: in other words, he is
8. will cost you much less d. ‘I will let you go, if you tell me the sure that he was the fourth passenger
name of the other criminals,’ said of a phantom coach.
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the policeman.
1. gun on his shoulder 2. excited his e. The policeman made them move Page 63 – exercise 5
imagination 3. the stone wall their car. Open answers.
4. three miles 5. the wall 6. a night f. Red roses always make me think
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mail coach 7. the four passengers of my boyfriend in Paris.
8. the master’s talk of the supernatural g. I’m sorry but I can’t let you come 1. had lost his way 2. snowstorm was
in if you don’t have a ticket. coming 3. old man with a lantern
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4. student of the supernatural
Open answers. Page 63 – exercise 4 5. story of his life 6. return to
Page 61 – exercise 1 Possible answer: Dwolding 7. night mail coach
Yesterday I treated a young man 8. hour and a quarter 9. had been an
a. Four.
named James Murray who had fallen accident 10. the four passengers
b. Because the road was steep and
over a precipice and broken his arm. inside 11. saw a coach coming
dangerous.
This young man was quite fortunate 12. three passengers inside 13.
c. Three.
because he fell into some snow, which neither moved nor spoke 14. falling
d. It was rotten and in disrepair.
broke his fall, and because he was to pieces 15. the passengers were
e. The strange smell inside made
found by some shepherds. Otherwise, dead 16. jump out of the coach
him feel sick.
he would have surely died. When he 17. When he woke up 18. had been
f. They looked dead: their faces
was conscious he asked to talk to me the fourth passenger
glowed with the light of
alone. He told me that he had not
putrefaction; their clothes were
simply fallen over the precipice but The Gothic Craze
rotten; and only their eyes were
that he had been inside a night mail
living and menacing. Page 70 – exercise 1
coach. What is more, he told me that
g. She believed that he had fallen a. It was nearly synonymous with
this night mail coach was actually a
over a precipice into the snow the ‘Dark Ages’.
‘phantom’ coach. He also told me that
below. b. They were often set in Medieval
he had been in the house of a
h. The place where the night mail times and described haunted
professor of some kind who studies
coach had fallen nine years earlier. houses, castles, dungeons, secret
the supernatural. This professor’s
Page 61 – exercise 2 servant led him to the wall where the passageways, flashes of lightning,
accident happened, and told him about screams, bloody hands, ghosts,
1. 1821: the master started to live graveyards, corpses coming to life
alone a night mail coach that had gone over
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c. After the publication of The Castle
of Otranto.
d. He noted that the relationship
was often very intense.
e. He was obsessed with creating life.
f. Ann Rice and Stephen King are two
examples mentioned in the text.
g. Because Gothic elements are still
particularly present in literature
and films.
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE
OF USHER
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1. grim 2. ghastly 3. melancholy
4. oppressive 5. sullen
1. d 2. c 3. b 4. a 5. e
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Open answers.
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1. autumn day 2. poetic or beautiful
3. childhood friends 4. personal
friend 5. works of art 6. been
handed down from father to son.
7. were ruined and crumbling.
8. books and musical instruments.
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1. C 2. B 3. C 4. C 5. B 6. A 7. B
8. C
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a. 3 b. 4 c. 2 d. 1
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a. give back b. give up c. gave out
d. give away e. gave out
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She gave up trying to live. OR She
gave up her fight against her disease.
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a. F. He stopped playing music and
painting.
b. T
c. T
d. F. He took him away from the
window.
e. T
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a. There was a whirlwind and a
strange glowing vapour.
b. He had a kind of mad laughter in
his eyes.
c. A knight who breaks into the
home of an evil hermit and finds a
dragon there, which he then kills.
d. The sound of wood cracking apart,
a shriek and a metallic ringing
sound.
e. He died of fear.
f. Yes, he did. He said that he would
not die from any particular
danger, but from fear. His sister
did not actually kill him, but he
died of the terror of that moment.
g. It was the moon shining through
the widening crack in the house.
h. The house itself felt apart and
then into the dark lake; Roderick
died of fear and Madeline, in the
end, died from her efforts to
escape from the vault.
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a. The narrator explained it
‘scientifically’: the glow came
from lightning or from the rotten
plants.
b. Usher, it seems, felt that it was
connected with his sister’s
attempts to escape from the
vault.
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Open answers.
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1. B 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. A
8. C
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1. C 2. A 3. B 4. E D – not used
THE JUDGES HOUSE
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1. C 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. B
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1. mathematics 2. three hours
3. three weeks 4. an absurd prejudice
5. three month’s 6. many years
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1. D 2. A 3. C 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. B
8. C
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a. 4 b. 5 c. 1 d. 2 e. 3
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a. speak my mind b. make up your
mind c. keep my mind on d. be out
of your mind e. I’ve changed my
mind f. Make up your mind
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1. C 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B
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a. Because he thought that he would
have a hallucination during the
night and need to ring the bell to
call for help.
b. Because it was of the Judge, who
was seated in the same room
where he was and who had the
same eyes as the huge rat.
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c. They had the same eyes and evil
look.
d. So that Malcolm could not call for
help.
e. The Judge disappeared from the
picture.
f. He lifted his black hat and put it
on his head.
g. Because Malcolm was swinging
from it.
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a. go b. open, run c. standing
d. squeaking e. saying f. telling
g. burning h. rain
Pages 120, 121 – exercises 3, 4
Open answers.
Page 122 – exercise 5
Possible answer:
April 6th 1898
A few days ago a young man named
Malcolm Malcolmson came to our
town to study for a mathematics
examination. He came here because
he felt that there would be no
distractions. Unfortunately, he
decided to live in that old Jacobean
house which had belonged to an
infamous hanging judge. Mrs Witham
had told him all about this evil judge
so I became worried. I felt, as a
doctor, that a young man who was
studying for long periods of time all
alone in an old house would be
susceptible to hallucinations. This is
why I told him about the alarm bell
and its use. I know that it was his
choice to hang himself, but I cannot
help feeling to blame for this tragedy.
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The Monkey’s Paw 2. Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F), and then
1. Answer the following questions. correct the false ones.

a. What does Sergeant Morris think of Mr White’s desire to travel to India? a. James Murray met a friendly old man on the moors
when he was lost.
b. Why did Mr White have a hard time making a wish at first?
b. The master of the house received many visitors.
c. What did Mr White wish for in the end?
c. James Murray was not very impressed by the master’s
d. Before his wish actually came true, what made Mr White think that the
talk about the supernatural.
monkey’s paw was truly magical?
d. The stone wall was broken because the night mail coach
e. Who thought of using the paw to bring back Herbert?
had crashed through it nine years earlier.
f. Why did it take some time for Herbert to come home after Mr White
had made the second wish? Score ___/8

2. Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F), and then The Fall of the House of Usher
correct the false ones.
1. Answer the following questions.
a. Sergeant Morris himself had never tried to make a wish
with the monkey’s paw. a. Why did the narrator and Roderick Usher know each other?

b. The third wish of the first man who owned the monkey’s b. What was the nature of Roderick Usher’s disease?
paw was death. c. What was the storm like?
c. Sergeant Morris said that the wishes always came true in d. What were the sounds they heard while the narrator was reading the
some incredible way. book?
d. The firm of Maw and Meggins gave the Whites two hundred
2. Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F), and then
pounds because they felt responsible for Herbert’s death.
correct the false ones.
e. Mr White was worried about what Herbert would look like
a. Roderick Usher wanted to see the narrator because he felt
if he came back to life.
lonely. because he hoped that his company would make him
f. Herbert never entered the house.
feel better.
Score ___/12 b. Roderick Usher believed that his home was alive.
c. In the end, the narrator too began to feel that the house
The Phantom Coach was alive.
1. Answer the following questions. d. Roderick Usher was killed by the terror he felt when his
sister fell on him.
a. Why has James Murray only told one other person about his strange
experience? Score ___/8
b. What did the master of the house study?
c. How many people died in the accident?
d. How many inside passengers did James Murray see in the phantom
coach.

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The Judge’s House The Monkey’s Paw
1. Answer the following questions. 1. a. He thinks that he is better off
at home. b. Because he felt that
a. Why did Malcolm Malcolmson decide to go Benchurch? he already had everything he
b. What animals made a lot of noise in the old house? needed. c. Two hundred pounds.
c. What had been the original use of the rope of the alarm bell? d. It moved in his hand when he
made the wish. e. Mrs White.
d. Why did the alarm bell ring? f. Because the cemetery was two
miles away from their home.
2. Say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F), and then 2. a. F. He had made three wishes
correct the false ones. and was sorry he had. b. T c. F.
a. The Judge’s House was a modern building that looked like He said that they came true in a
way that seemed perfectly natural.
a castle.
d. F. They gave them money in
b. The Judge’s House had been empty for a long time because consideration of Herbert’s service
its rent was too high.
to the firm. e. T f. T.
c. Mrs Witham screamed when Malcolm told her that he had
tried to hit the rats with a poker. The Phantom Coach
d. Malcolm noticed that the huge rat had eyes just like those 1. a. He doesn’t want anybody to try
of the Judge in the painting. and convince him that his strange
experience was just a
Score ___/8 hallucination. b. He studied the
supernatural. c. Seven: 4 inside
TOTAL Score ___/36 passengers, the coachman, the
guard and an outside passenger.
d. Three.
2. a. F. The man he met was old, but
he was not in the least friendly
and did not offer to help him.
b. F. James Murray was his first
guest in four years. c. F. His talk
had excited his imagination. d. T.
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1. a. They had been childhood
friends. b. He suffered from
extreme acuteness of the senses
so that the could only tolerate
certain tastes, sounds, light and
textures. c. There was a
whirlwind that blew a strange
glowing vapour around the house.
d. They heard Madeline escaping
from the family vault.
2. a. F. He wanted to see him. b. T
c. T d. T
The Judge’s House
1. a. Because it was a quiet little
town without any of the
attractions of the seaside or
countryside, and so he could
dedicate all his attention to
studying. b. Rats. c. It had been
the rope that the Judge had used
to hang his victims. d. Because
Malcolm’s body swung from its
rope.
2. a. F. It was a Jacobean building
that looked like a fortress. b. F. It
had been empty for a long time
because people had an ‘absurd
prejudice’, i.e., it had been the
home of an evil hanging judge.
c. F. She screamed when he had
told her that he had hit the
biggest rat with a Bible. d. T.
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