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3.
Which of these excerpts from/Beowulfs/ The Battle With the Dragon
*most *plainly casts the dragon as the tales antagonist?
/(1 point)/
4.
Read this excerpt from The Seafarer.
* resignation
* anger
* despondence
* contentment
5.
Which of these lines from /The Canterbury Tales/ Prologue states the
purpose of the characters pilgrimage?
/(1 point)/
7.
Which line from The Pardoners Tale *best* displays the Pardoners
true attitude toward those who look to him for spiritual guidance?
/(1 point)/
8.
In The Wife of Baths Tale, which of these statements discloses the
fate of the Knight?
/(1 point)/
9.
Such is the power of love in gentle mind,/That it can alter all the
course of kind.
10.
Read this excerpt from Donnes /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.
* 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 Shakespeares /Sonnet 29/ portrays the emotion
of envy?
/(1 point)/
12.
Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/Within his bending
sickles 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 Pepyss /The Fire of London /*most* clearly
indicates that the work is a first-person account?
/(1 point)/
14.
Which of these excerpts from Popes /The Rape of the Lock /*most
*clearly depicts the upper-class as petty and shallow?
/(1 point)/
15.
Read this excerpt from Jonathan Swifts /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
landlords rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a
thing unknown.
16.
Which line from Thomas Grays /Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
/*most *clearly equates the end of the day with loneliness?
/(1 point)/
17.
When Wextons son conquered the dragon in /The Death of Beowulf/, it
left him /flushed/, or
/(1 point)/
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 Pardoners Tale/, the three rioters hold an
informal discussion, or a
/(1 point)/
* cask.
* crone.
* parley.
* brooch.
20.
* respect.
* affection.
* authority.
* passion.
21.
In Shakespeares /Sonnet 29/, he describes the earth as /sullen/, or
/(1 point)/
* grotesque.
* alluring.
* luxurious.
* gloomy.
22.
As used in the title of John Donnes /A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning/, the word /valediction/ is the *antonym* of the word
/(1 point)/
* longing.
* greeting.
* resolution.
* initiation.
23.
In Miltons /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.
* concrete noun
* compound noun
* proper noun
* collective noun
27.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized word.
* 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.
33.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
* 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.
* appositive phrase
* participial phrase
* gerund phrase
* infinitive phrase
36.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
* adjectival clause
* noun clause
* independent clause
* adverbial clause
37.
Identify the term that best describes the italicized words.
* 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.
* Do not assume
* Have not assumed
* Assumed
* Assuming
42.
Choose the correct verb.
* 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)/
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.
* 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:
4491066 unit and the Renaissance: 14851660 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.
A. The pagan Germans, Greeks, and other ancient peoples believed that
fame and glory are the only things that survive a persons 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 Popes 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)/
/(25 points)/
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