1. Which of these excerpts from Beowulf evidences both pagan and Christian influences? (1) O"... Dared to touch... Hrothgar's glorious/Throne, protected by God..." O"Grendel, who haunted the moor....... and made his home in a hell...". O"... the poet's clear songs.../recalling.../The Almighty making the earth..." O"... 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? O"... the battle's only survivor/Swam up and away from those silent corpses..." O"... Then the Geats' brave prince entered/Herot, covered with glory..." O"... then struck off/His head with a single swift blow..." O"... 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? O"Vomiting fire and smoke, the dragon/Burned down their homes." O"Then it hurried back/To its tower, to its hidden treasure, before dawn..." O"... Beowulf's/Sorrow beat at his heart: he accused/himself..." O"... 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) COURSE 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? Oresignation Oanger Odespondence O contentment 5. Which of these lines from The Canterbury Tales" "Prologue" best exemplifies a Franklin? (1 p O"He was a model among landed gentry." O"As Sheriff he checked audit, every entry." O"There was no such conveyancer as he..." O"He lived for pleasure and had always done..." 6. Which of these best explains Chaucer's choice to include a "Prologue" in The Canterbury Tales? Oto pay homage to Christian martyrs to describe the politics of the period O to introduce the characters who will be telling their tales O to explain the purpose of the narrative to follow (1 point) 7. Which line from "The Pardoner's Tale" best displays the Pardoner's true attitude toward those (1 pow who look to him for spiritual guidance? O"... Them from it, I can bring them to repent..." F6 FB 8 7. Which line from "The Pardoner's Tale" best displays the Pardoner's true attitude toward those (1 point) who look to him for spiritual guidance? O"... Them from it, I can bring them to repent..." O"... A string of starving children, all agape." O"... A livelihood. I do not preach in vain." O"Once dead what matter how their souls may fare?" 8. In "The Wife of Bath's Tale," with which of these statements does the Knight decry his fate? (1 point) O"You're old, and so abominably plain,/So poor... so low-bred..." O"I could set right what you suppose a blunder,/That's if I cared to..." O"Christ wills we take our gentleness from Him..." O"But gentleness, as you will recognize,/Is not annexed... to possessions." 9. "My love is like to ice, and I to fire;/How comes it then that this her cold so great/Is not dissolved by my so hot desire..." In these opening lines from Spencer's Sonnet 30, what is the speaker lamenting? O the brevity of life Ounreciprocated love Ohis unending poverty Ohis physical discomfort 10. Read this excerpt from Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: (1 point) (1 point) COM 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? OOur love can endure our physical absence from each other. OOur love becomes thinner the farther we are apart. OOur 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 joy? (1 point) O... And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries..." O"... With what I most enjoy contented least..." O"... Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope..." O"... For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings..." 12. "Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds..." In these lines from Sonnet 116, how does Shakespeare describe true love? O as fleeting O as unpredictable O as unchanging O as indefinable (1 point) (1 point) 13. Which of these excerpts from Pepys's The Fire of London most clearly indicates that the work (1 point) is a first-person account? O"Extraordinary good goods carried in carts..." O"Everybody endeavoring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river..." O"Here I saw Mr. Isaake Houblon, the handsome man, prettily dressed and dirty..." O"Poor Mitchell's house, as far as the Old Swan, already burned that way..." 14. From which of these excerpts can it be most clearly inferred that Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1 point) is intended as a mock epic? O"But this bold lord with manly strength endued..." O"All that I dread is leaving you behind!" "Oh thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate..." O"In various talk th' instructive hours they passed..." 15. Read this excerpt from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal, in which he explains how poor (1 point) 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? O The wealthy take enormous advantage of the poor. O The poor would be eager to sell their infants for food. O The poor would take advantage of the wealthy if they could. O The wealthy are not able to financially maintain their properties. COUR 16. Which line from Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard most clearly equates (1 point) the end of the day with loneliness? ..The moping owl does to the moon complain..." "One morn I missed him on the custom'd hill..." 11 And leaves the world to darkness, and to me." O"The plowman homeward plods his weary way..." ... 17. When the speaker in The Wanderer refers to Fate as fickle, he or she means that Fate cannot be (1 point) O counted on. O taunted. O anticipated. O seen as random. 18. The speaker in The Wanderer believes that wisdom comes to those who are not covetous, or (1 point) Ozealous. O apathetic. Ogreedy. O envious. 19. According to The Canterbury Tales, Canterbury contains the grave of a person who died for his religious beliefs in other words, a O clergyman. Oradical. Odisciple. O martyr. (1 point) COURSE 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 O respect. O affection. O authority. Opassion. 21. In The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, fields are described as wanton, or (1 point) Obarren. Owild. O luxurious. deadly. O common. O young. O elite. Oold. 22. "Twere profanation of our joys/To tell the laity our love" As used here, in this line from John (1 point) Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, the ord laity means people who are the opposite of 23. In How Soon Hath Time, Milton speculates that people may consider him a full-grown adult, due to his semblance, or PABIULESSON= 360&page=1&id O outward appearance. O inner poise. Oprofessional endeavors. Oinner duplicity. (1 point) (1 point) COURSE TREE 24. In A Modest Proposal, Swift suggests the poor Irish children might be an overlooked commodity, or O obligation. Omeans of nourishment. Ocause of trouble. Omarketable product. 25. "And froze the genial current of the soul."In this line from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard the word genial means Oboiling. O hostile. unfeeling. Ocheerful. 26. Identify the term that best describes the italicized word. They watched the flock of birds fly south, in what looked like perfect formation. O concrete noun O compound noun O proper noun O collective noun 27. Identify the term that best describes the italicized word. He could not help blaming himself for the accident, although nobody else did so. O intensive pronoun Oreflexive pronoun O indefinite pronoun O demonstrative pronoun (1 point) (1 point) (1 point) (1 point) COURSE T 28. Identify the term that best describes the italicized word. Nobody was really surprised when the votes were counted and Frank became class president. O transitive verb O intransitive verb O auxiliary verb Olinking verb 29. Identify the term that best describes the italicized word. Keith wondered what the qualifications were for the lifeguard job. O proper adjective O indefinite adjective O interrogative adjective O demonstrative adjective 30. Identify the term that best describes the italicized words. (1 point) Neither whales nor dolphins are fish, although many believe that they are. O correlative conjunctions O coordinating conjunctions O demonstrative pronouns Opossessive pronouns Opredicate nominative Opredicate adjective O objective compliment O direct object (1 point) 31. Identify the term that best describes the italicized words. The committee decided that Pedro's logo was the most appropriate representation of the organization's mission. (1 point) (1 point)