1. Which of these excerpts from Beowulf evidences *both *pagan and
Christian influences?
Dared to touch… Hrothgar’s glorious/Throne, protected by God…”
Grendel, who haunted the moor…/… and made his home in a hell…”
the poet’s clear songs…/recalling…/The Almighty making the earth…”
sacrificed to the old stone gods,… hoping for… the Devil’s guidance…”
2. Which of these excerpts from Beowulf most directly describes the
outcome of the conflict between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother?
* “…the battle’s only survivor/Swam up and away from those silent
corpses…”
* “… Then the Geats’ brave prince entered/Herot , covered with glory…”
* “… then struck off/His head with a single swift blow…”
* “… almost all agreed that Grendel’s/Mighty mother, the she-wolf, had
killed him.”
3.
Which of these excerpts from/Beowulf’s/ “The Battle With the Dragon”
*most *plainly casts the dragon as the tale’s antagonist?
/(1 point)/
* “Vomiting fire and smoke, the dragon/Burned down their homes.”
* “Then it hurried back/To its tower, to its hidden treasure, before
dawn…”
* “… Beowulf’s/Sorrow beat at his heart: he accused/himself…”
* “… So Beowulf swam sadly back/To Geatland, almost the only survivor…”
4.
Read this excerpt from “The Seafarer.”
“… hardship groaned/Around my heart. Hunger tore/At my sea-weary soul…”
Which of these *best* describes the tone evoked by these words?
/(1 point)/
* resignation
* anger
* despondence
* contentment
5.
Which of these lines from /The Canterbury Tales’/ “Prologue” states the
purpose of the characters’ pilgrimage?
/(1 point)/
* “To ride abroad had followed chivalry…”
* “To a poor Order that a man’s well shriven…”
* “To arbitrate disputes on settling days…”
* “To seek the holy blissful martyr, quick…”
6.
Which of these helps explain Chaucer’s choice to include a “Prologue” in
The Canterbury Tales?
/(1 point)/
* to set it up as a collection of folktales
* to set it up as a first-hand account
* to set it up as stream-of-consciousness poetry
* to set it up as a children’s tale
7.
Which line from “The Pardoner’s Tale” *best* displays the Pardoner’s
true attitude toward those who look to him for spiritual guidance?
/(1 point)/
* “… Them from it, I can bring them to repent…”
* “… A string of starving children, all agape.”
* “… A livelihood. I do not preach in vain.”
* “Once dead what matter how their souls may fare?”
8.
In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” which of these statements discloses the
fate of the Knight?
/(1 point)/
* “… think of a new request,/Take all my goods, but leave my body free.”
* “Before this court I ask you then, sir knight,/To… take me for your
wife.”
* “I may be foul, I may be… old,/Yet will choose not to be, for all
the gold…”
* “Alas that any of my race and station/Should ever make so foul a
misalliance!”
9.
“Such is the power of love in gentle mind,/That it can alter all the
course of kind.”
Which of these *best* restates these closing lines from Spencer’s
/Sonnet 30/?
/(1 point)/
* Love must be reciprocated to be real.
* Love can drive a person to madness.
* Love can never truly be achieved.
* Love ultimately makes no sense.
10.
Read this excerpt from Donne’s /A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning/:
“Our two souls therefore, which are one,/Though I must go, endure not
yet/A breach, but an expansion,/Like gold to airy thinness beat.”
With statement *best* paraphrases the lines above?
/(1 point)/
* Our love can endure our physical absence from each other.
* Our love becomes thinner the farther we are apart.
* Our souls are as precious as gold.
* Our souls can endure any breach that arises between them.
11.
Which of these lines from Shakespeare’s /Sonnet 29/ portrays the emotion
of envy?
/(1 point)/
* “… I all alone beweep my outcast state…”
* “… Haply I think on thee, and then my state…”
* “… From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate…”
* “… Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope…”
12.
“Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/Within his bending
sickle’s compass come.”
In these lines from /Sonnet 116/, how does Shakespeare describe true love?
/(1 point)/
* as fleeting
* as unpredictable
* as unchanging
* as indefinable
13.
Which of these excerpts from Pepys’s /The Fire of London /*most* clearly
indicates that the work is a first-person account?
/(1 point)/
* “Extraordinary good goods carried in carts…”
* “We did put Mr. Hater, poor man, to bed a little; but he got very
little rest…”
* “Everybody endeavoring to remove their goods, and flinging into the
river…”
* “Poor Mitchell’s house, as far as the Old Swan, already burned that
way…”
14.
Which of these excerpts from Pope’s /The Rape of the Lock /*most
*clearly depicts the upper-class as petty and shallow?
/(1 point)/
* “In various talk th’ instructive hours they passed…”
* “But this bold lord with manly strength endued…”
* “… Who sought no more than on his foe to die.”
* “…At every word a reputation dies.”
15.
Read this excerpt from Jonathan Swift’s /A Modest Proposal/, in which he
explains how poor parents could benefit by selling their infants for use
as food.
“Secondly, the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own,
which by law may be made liable to distress, and help pay their
landlord’s rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a
thing unknown.”
What point is Swift really making?
/(1 point)/
* The wealthy take enormous advantage of the poor.
* The poor would be eager to sell their infants for food.
* The poor would take advantage of the wealthy if they could.
* The wealthy are not able to financially maintain their properties.
16.
Which line from Thomas Gray’s /Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
/*most *clearly equates the end of the day with loneliness?
/(1 point)/
* “…The moping owl does to the moon complain…”
* “One morn I missed him on the custom’d hill…”
* “… And leaves the world to darkness, and to me.”
* “The plowman homeward plods his weary way…”
17.
When Wexton’s son conquered the dragon in /The Death of Beowulf/, it
left him /flushed/, or
/(1 point)/
* weakened from exertion.
* saddened from exhaustion.
* reddened with exhilaration.
* shaking in frustration.
18.
When the speaker in /The Wanderer /describes a wall as /serpentine/, he
or she means that the wall is
/(1 point)/
* high.
* winding.
* straight.
* ancient.
19.
At one point in /The Pardoner’s Tale/, the three rioters hold an
informal discussion, or a
/(1 point)/
* cask.
* crone.
* parley.
* brooch.
20.
“A woman wants the self-same sovereignty/Over her husband as over her
lover…” In this excerpt from “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” the word
/sovereignty/ means
/(1 point)/
* respect.
* affection.
* authority.
* passion.
21.
In Shakespeare’s /Sonnet 29/, he describes the earth as /sullen/, or
/(1 point)/
* grotesque.
* alluring.
* luxurious.
* gloomy.
22.
As used in the title of John Donne’s /A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning/, the word /valediction/ is the *antonym* of the word
/(1 point)/
* longing.
* greeting.
* resolution.
* initiation.
23.
In Milton’s /Paradise Lost/, Satan views his fall from heaven as an
/ignominy/, or
/(1 point)/
* challenge.
* private shame.
* public disgrace.
* benefit.
24.
In /A Modest Proposal/, Swift suggests the poor Irish children might be
an overlooked /commodity/, or
/(1 point)/
* obligation.
* means of nourishment.
* cause of trouble.
* marketable product.
25.
“And froze the genial current of the soul.”In this line from /Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard/ the word /genial/ means
/(1 point)/
* boiling.
* hostile.
* unfeeling.
* cheerful.
26.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized word.
Although the woman was attacked by a /swarm/ of bees, she managed to
escape with little injury.
/(1 point)/
* concrete noun
* compound noun
* proper noun
* collective noun
27.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized word.
Please, ask /yourself/ what you can do to help others.
/(1 point)/
* intensive pronoun
* reflexive pronoun
* indefinite pronoun
* demonstrative pronoun
28.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized word.
The suspect /looked/ as though he knew more than he was letting on.
/(1 point)/
* transitive verb
* intransitive verb
* auxiliary verb
* linking verb
29.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized word.
Keith wondered /what/ the qualifications were for the lifeguard job.
/(1 point)/
* proper adjective
* indefinite adjective
* interrogative adjective
* demonstrative adjective
30.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
/Neither/ whales /nor/ dolphins are fish, although many believe that
they are.
/(1 point)/
* correlative conjunctions
* coordinating conjunctions
* demonstrative pronouns
* possessive pronouns
31.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized word.
We called the neighbors’ cat /Sham-Wow/, although we know that was most
likely not its name.
/(1 point)/
* predicate nominative
* predicate adjective
* objective compliment
* direct object
32.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
He worked for decades to become a successful /politician/ and
/humanitarian/.
/(1 point)/
* compound direct object
* compound predicate nominative
* compound subject
* compound verb
33.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
/Most of the passengers/ received their refunds within a week.
/(1 point)/
* simple subject
* complete predicate
* complete subject
* simple predicate
34.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
/
Transporting pollen/ is the function of worker bees.
/(1 point)/
* appositive phrase
* infinitive phrase
* prepositional phrase
* gerund phrase
35.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
Meteors, /often called shooting stars/, can be seen on almost any
cloudless night.
/(1 point)/
* appositive phrase
* participial phrase
* gerund phrase
* infinitive phrase
36.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
The microphone, /which he chose to use/, did not work well.
/(1 point)/
* adjectival clause
* noun clause
* independent clause
* adverbial clause
37.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
We left the auditorium /before the concert was over/.
/(1 point)/
* noun clause
* verb clause
* adjectival clause
* adverbial clause
38.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
/My mother reported/ that she had found an apartment for us.
/(1 point)/
* independent clause
* adverbial clause
* noun clause
* adjectival clause
39.
Identify the sentence structure.
Without her cat in her lap, she felt alone during the long train ride.
/(1 point)/
* simple sentence
* compound sentence
* complex sentence
* compound-complex sentence
40.
Identify the sentence structure.
She realized that she had little chance of winning, but she entered the
contest anyway.
/(1 point)/
* simple sentence
* compound sentence
* complex sentence
* compound-complex sentence
41.
Choose the correct verb.
______that you cannot go to college without a high school diploma.
/(1 point)/
* Do not assume
* Have not assumed
* Assumed
* Assuming
42.
Choose the correct verb.
He realized that ______friendly to others sometimes made him feel
better.
/(1 point)/
* has been
* have been
* being
* been
43.
Choose the correct verb.
She hoped that ______to France would enable her to learn the language.
/(1 point)/
* has been gone
* will be going
* going
* gone
44.
Choose the correct verb.
He realized that he ______to the barber shop for the past several weeks.
/(1 point)/
* did not go
* does not go
* goes
* had not gone
45.
Choose the correct verb.
Students these days often ______spending time at safe, well-run
community centers.
/(1 point)/
* has enjoyed
* enjoying
* having enjoyed
* enjoy
46.
Compare and contrast the lyric poetry of the Anglo-Saxon period to the
Renaissance based on the selections you read in the Anglo-Saxon Period:
449–1066 unit and the Renaissance: 1485–1660 unit. Describe what
literary devices were commonly used and what themes were most frequently
addressed in both periods. Include at least one specific example from
each period. Your response should be at least one paragraph long.
/(5 points)/
47.
Thomas Gray has sometimes been classified as a pre-Romantic writer.
Romantic writers valued emotional experience over logical arguments,
nature and common people over organized society, and imagination over
reason. What evidence from “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
supports Gray’s classification as a pre-Romantic? Your response should
be at least one paragraph long.
/(5 points)/
48.
The purpose of Geoffrey Chaucer’s /The Canterbury Tales/ is to present
the entire spectrum of human personalities by showing their qualities,
flaws, and eccentricities. How does the author accomplish this feat?
What attitude toward humankind emerges from this narrative poem? Your
response should be at least one paragraph long.
/(5 points)/
49.
Respond to one of the essay prompts below. In your response, be sure to
cite specific examples from the literature you are writing about. Please
proofread your responses carefully before submitting each answer. You
may refer to your textbook and notes for this portion of the test.
A. The pagan Germans, Greeks, and other ancient peoples believed that
fame and glory are the only things that survive a person’s death. What
elements in /Beowulf/ show the value of a person's fame and reputation
for the Anglo-Saxon society? Write an essay in which you use examples
from the poem to support your answer./(25 points)/
B. //In /The Rape //of the //Lock/, Alexander Pope satirized the
idleness, egocentrism, and self-indulgence of the English aristocracy.
Do you think that today there is a social class or group of people that
displays similar characteristics and could deserve Pope’s mockery? Write
a satirical essay describing an attitude of self-indulgence or
self-importance displayed by a group of people today. Use literary
devices such as hyperbole, or exaggeration, to point out ridiculous
elements in the subject you chose. /(25 points)/
C. Each of the historical periods you studied in this course presented a
hero or an idealized vision of the perfect individual. In the
Anglo-Saxon times, the hero was a strong, honorable warrior with no
fear. In the Middle Ages, the hero was a knight who was loyal to his
lord and his lady and who protected the innocent. The so-called
“Renaissance man” of the fifteenth century was a genius who was
well-versed in science, poetry, and the arts. During the Enlightenment,
the ideal man combined the intelligence of the ancient philosophers and
the love for logic and scientific truth brought about by the most recent
discoveries. Which of these archetypal figures do you think would be
most appreciated today? Which one do you think would most benefit
contemporary society? Support your ideas with specific examples from
selections you read throughout the course.
/(25 points)/
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