Assess students' understanding of central symbols and recurring themes in 18th–19th century Gothic literature — including the uncanny, decay, the sublime, doubling, gendered confinement, and haunted/ruined settings — by asking for identification, brief textual analysis of representative passages, and explanation of how these motifs express historical, social, and psychological concerns across key authors (e.g., Walpole, Radcliffe, Shelley, Poe, Stoker).