WH to the End

Chapter 11
1. What upsets Nelly when she visits the Heights?
2. What does Nelly do after she sees Heathcliff kissing Isabella?
3. What happens as a result of this?
4. What does Heathcliff say Catherine has done to him and what is he going to do about it?
5. How does Catherine insult her husband in front of Heathcliff?
6. What uncharacteristic thing does Edgar do?
7. Why does Heathcliff leave the Grange without getting even with Edgar?
8. What decision does Catherine make after the trouble between her husband and her friend?
9. What does Edgar ask Catherine, and how does she respond?
10. Why is Nelly unconcerned about Catherine at first?how is Catherine behaving?
Chapter 12
1. After three days of fasting,what did Cathy say was happening to her?
2. How has Edgar spent the days in which Catherine stayed in her room?
3. What promise does Catherine make about Heathcliff?
4. What is Edgar’s reaction when he sees his wife?
5. How does he chide Nelly and he orders her never to do what?
6. What has become of Isabella?
7. Who do you think tried to hang Isabell’s dog?
Chapter 13
1. How long did Heathcliff and Isabella stay away?
2. What happened to Catherine while they were gone?
3. Who is the “mere ruin of humanity” to whom Dr. Kenneth
4. In spite of Catherine’s illness, there is some cause for hope. What is it, and why is it important to Edgar?
5. Why doesn’t Isabella leave Wuthering Heights?
6. How does Heathcliff treat her?
7. What is Hareton like?
Chapter 14
1. What does Heathcliff insist Nelly do?
2. Does Nelly think it is a good idea?
3. How does Heathcliff get Nelly to help him?
4. What is the “single pleasure” Isabella can imagine?
Chapter 15
1. Without being told, what does Heathcliff immediately know about Catherine?
2. What happens when they see each other?
3. How is their reunion marred? What tragedy follows?
Chapter 16.
1. What happens that night?
2. Does Nelly tell Heathcliff about Catherine’s death?
3. What does Heathcliff demand Catherine do?
Chapter 17
1. Why do you think Emily Bronte chose to have Isabella stop at Thrushcross Grange when she escaped from Heathcliff?
2. What story does Isabella tell about Hindley and Heathcliff and what was the result?
3. Why did Heathcliff throw a knife at Isabella?
4. What happened between Isabella and her brother after this?
5. What did Nelly say was the difference between Edgar’s coping with his wife’s death and Hindley’s coping with his?
6. What finally happened to Isabella?
7. What news did Dr. Kenneth bring to Nelly that disturbed her deeply?
8. Why do you think Joseph said he would have preferred it if he had gone for the doctor for Hindley?
Chapters 18-20
1. Who educated young Catherine Linton?
2. Where did Catherine spend the time during her first thirteen years?
3. Why did Mr. Linton have to leave Thrushcross Grange?
4. What did Isabella hope would happen to her son, Linton?
5. Where did Nelly find Cathy on the day she did not return home for tea?
6. Who was absent from Wuthering Heights on the day Cathy visited there?
7. How did Cathy insult Hareton?
8. What was Cathy’s reaction when she learned that Hareton was her cousin?
9. How did Nelly get Cathy to keep quiet about her trip to WH?
10. Who was returning with Mr. Linton after Isabella’s death?
11. Describe Linton Heathcliff?
12. Why did Joseph come to TG at about the time the people there would be going to bed?
13. What did Edgar tell Joseph about Linton on the night Linton arrived in TG?
14. Who accompanied Linton to WH?
15. What astonishing news did Linton get early the next morning?
16. What was Heathcliff’s reaction to his son?
17. Why does Heathcliff say he will not hurt Linton?

Chapters 21-22
1. How did the housekeeper of WH describe Linton to Nelly?
2. How does Heathcliff control himself and refrain from hurting his son?
3. Why didn’t they celebrate Cathy’s birthday at TG?
4. Whom did Cathy and Nelly meet when they were out looking for moor-game on Cathy’s sixteenth birthday?
5. Where did Heathcliff entice Cathy to go?
6. What surprise did Cathy find at WH?
7. Why did Linton say Cathy must come to WH rather than his going to TG?
8. Why didn’t Hareton tell Cathy what was written over the main door of WH?
9. Why did Edgar say he did not want Cathy’s going to WH?
10. What did Cathy give the milk-fetcher the next morning?
11. What did the milk-fetcher do for Cathy?
12. Why was Cathy distraught when she found her little drawer empty?
13. Why was Edgar unable to accompany Cathy on their evening walks?
14. When Cathy climbed over the wall to get her hat, whom did she meet?
15. What disturbing news did Heathcliff give Cathy?
16. Where were Nelly and Cathy going the next day at the end of Ch
Chapters 23-25
1. How does Linton respond to Cathy’s visit?
2. How did Linton like writing to Cathy?
3. What reason did Heathcliff give Linton for Cathy’s absence from WH?
4. Why did Cathy give Linton’s chair a push and cause him to cough terribly?
5. Why after Linton tells Cathy that he can’t bear listening to her does he say she must come again?
6. What happened to Nelly as a result of her wet journey to WH?
7. For how long was Nellie sick?
8. What had Catherine been doing secretly every night while Nelly was ill?
9. What did Cathy do when Hareton showed her what he had learned?
10. What did Linton do because Cathy had scorned him?
11. Whom did Linton tell Cathy had caused the fight with Hareton?
12. How did Edgar react to the truth of Cathy’s going to WH?
13. Under what condition did Edgar say he would be happy to allow Cathy marry Linton?
14. What was Cathy’s only way of keeping TG?
15. Who was Edgar’s heir?
26-28
1. How would you describe Linton this time?
2. How did Cathy enjoy her first visit with Linton?
3. Of whom or what was Linton terrified?
27
1. Why was Cathy annoyed that Linton did not excuse her from her visit to Him the following Thursday?
2. Why did Cathy go into WH when she knows her father did not want her to?
3. What did Heathcliff do when both Nelly and Cathy inside?
4. What did Cathy do to physically hurt Heathcliff?
5. How did Heathcliff react to Cathy’s biting him?
6. What did Linton say Heathcliff’s plan was?
7. What did Heathcliff say when Cathy said her father would be very grieved about her absence?
28
1. How long was Nelly kept at WH?
2. What did Linton tell Nelly about all of Cathy’s possessions?
3. What happened to Cathy’s locket?
4. How did Cathy escape?
5. Why was it a good thing that Cathy got home when she did?

29.
1. Why had Heathcliff come to TG the evening after Cathy’s father’s funeral?
2. Why did Heathcliff say he could not let Cathy and Linton live at the G?
3. What did Heathcliff get the man who was digging Edgar’s grave do?
4. What did Heathcliff bribe the sexton to do when Heathcliff would also be buried?
5. What did Heathcliff say he had done on the night Catherine had been buried?
6. Why didn’t Heathcliff open Catherine’s coffin on the night she was buried?
7. What gave Heathcliff a sense of calm when he was in Catherine’s grave the night she was buried?
8. Why did Heathcliff say he could not sleep in Catherine’s bed after the funeral?

30
1. What does Zillah think about Cathy?
2. Who takes care of Linton?
3. Why does Heathcliff say he will not send for the doctor for Linton?
4. What had Linton written in his will?
5. What did Hareton do to help Cathy with books?
6. What was Cathy’s reaction to Hareton’s touching her hair?
7. What did Hareton ask Zillah to ask Cathy to do for him?
8. Why did Cathy say she had come downstairs?
9. Where does Lockwood intend to spend the next six months after January?
31.
1. What was Lockwood’s opinion of the looks of both Hareton and Cathy?
2. Why did Hareton get Nelly’s letter before Cathy did even though it was meant for Cathy?
3. Why does Cathy say she cannot answer Nelly’s letter?
4. Of what did Cathy accuse Hareton?
5. What was Hareton doing with the books?
6. Why did Cathy not accept the books when Hareton gave them to her?
7. What did Hareton finally do with the books?