Victory and Despair: The Roaring Twenties, Modernism, and Postwar Outlooks — Test
Question 5 • English Language Arts 11
Which excerpt from the passage best exemplifies why Delilah is a traditional Southern gothic character?
Answer
A
The Blackwood Manor had always been a place of darkness and despair, its once-grand halls now crumbling into ruin.
B
But none were as haunted as Delilah Blackwood, the current mistress of the manor.
C
With her sunken eyes, pallid skin, and tangled black hair, she cuts an eerie, ghostly figure as she wanders the decaying halls of her once-grand ancestral home.
D
The manor itself seems to whisper dark secrets, the shadows shifting and writhing as if alive with malevolent spirits.