English Tests Trimester 2
In the last stanza of Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," the urn offers which truth to the reader?
"beauty is truth, truth beauty"
The Victorian Age is named for the reign of Queens Victoria which lasted from:
1837-1901
In Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," how many times does the speaker call on the wind to hear him?
3
Act V of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, why is Alfred Doolittle so upset with Henry Higgins? A: He blames Henry for causing the chain of events that made him a wealthy middle class man. B: He blames henry for mistreating Eliza. C: He is angry that Henry only gave him five pounds. D: He is angry that Henry refuses to teach him to speak like a gentleman.
A
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. In these lines Keats admires the lovers on the Grecian Urn because________________. A: they will never grow old and die B: they live in a more beautiful country C: they are in the midst of a festive dance D: they seem to be wealthy and wise
A
From A. E. Housman's To An Athlete Dying Young: Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay, And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. Eyes the shady night has shut Cannot see the record cut, And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears. Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honors out, Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man. From this portion of the poem, the speaker is suggesting that: A: The young athlete will never see his glory fade. B: The young athlete was also a good farmer. C: The young athlete was too proud of his accomplishments. 1D: The young athlete was deaf.
A
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! In these lines, Keats is contemplating a Grecian urn. Why does the speaker say, "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter"? A: because they play the music of the soul B: because they can never play the wrong notes C: because we can imagine our favorite songs D: because silence is golden
A
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who saidTwo vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. ____________________________________ One truth Shelley was trying to express with this poem is: A: power and glory will pass away B: people should follow their king C: art can have no lasting impact D: strangers should not be trusted
A
In Act III of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, what is one of Mrs. Higgin's prime concerns? A: What will happen to Eliza after Henry Higgins is done with her. B: Who will pay her son Henry for all the lessons he has given Eliza. C: When the next time Henry will be back to visit. D: How much longer Colonel Pickering has before he must return to the army.
A
In Act IV of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Eliza is most likely so upset because _________. A: she feels unappreciated by Higgins B: she didn't get to dance with the prince C: she misses her father D: she got into an argument with Mrs. Pearce
A
In the following lines, what does Gray suggest about those who lie in the country churchyard? "Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. " A: they could have been famous, or teriible, just as those men of history B: Cromwell is innocent of the crimes history accuses him of C: poor people lead lives of insignificance and little worth D: Milton is an overrated poet
A
Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! In this portion of Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, what is the speaker most likely asking for? A: the wind to inspire his poetry B: the wind to transport him to heaven C: the wind to destroy his enemies D: the wind to bring winter
A
One thing Blake suggests is common to both the Tiger and the Lamb is: A: they both were made by God B: They both are innocent C: they both care for their young D: they both hate Man
A
Read the following lines and answer the question below. "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre." How does the speaker know these things about the dead A: He is using his imagination to consider the lives they may have had. B: He has researched their lives in the local public records. C: He grew up with these people, and so knows them personally. D: He has interviewed local people that knew them.
A
The Man He Killed BY THOMAS HARDY "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. "I shot him dead because --Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like --just as I--Was out of work -had sold his traps- No other reason why. "Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown." This poem is an example of Naturalism because: A:It emphasizes that life / nature is often indifferent to human suffering. B: It is an anti-war poem C: It is a dramatic monologue D: It is a sonnet
A
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies. Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp! When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears: Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye, Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Which of the following choices is the Tyger LEAST likely to be a symbol for? A: the Lamb B: the Devil C: disillusionment from experience D: the destructive forces of industrialization
A
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Before high-pilèd books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain; When I behold, upon the nights starred face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting lovethen on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. From this poem, what is one thing Keats is afraid to lose when he dies? A: the chance to write all of his poems B: the chance to have children C: the chance to become rich and famous D: the chance to serve his country
A
Which character in Pygmalion undergoes the most dramitic personal transformation (outward and inward)? A: Eliza Doolittle B: Alfred Doolittle C: Henry Higgins D: Freddy
A
Which of the following choices is NOT a setting of Pygmalion? A: Col. Pickering's apartment B: a London street C: Henry Higgins's apartment D: Mrs. Higgins's house
A
from A. E. Housman's To An Athlete Dying Young Smart lad, to slip betimes away From fields where glory does not stay, And early though the laurel grows It withers quicker than the rose. Eyes the shady night has shut Cannot see the record cut, And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears. Now you will not swell the rout Of lads that wore their honors out, Runners whom renown outran And the name died before the man. Which of the following works is Housman's To An Athlete Dying Young most closely related to thematically?
A
In Act II of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, who attempts to get payment for Eliza staying at Higgins's apartment?
Alfred Doolittle
British Romantic writers had a lasting influence on:
American Transcendentalists
The Man He Killed BY THOMAS HARDY "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. "I shot him dead because --Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like --just as I--Was out of work -had sold his traps- No other reason why. "Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown." This poem is based on which historical event?
Boer War
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. In these lines from Coleridge's "Kuala Khan," the speaker is most likely decribing what? A: the torment and power of the Romantic poet B: the difficulty of learning to play an instrument C: a place he once visited as a child D: a place he hopes to travel to in the near future
D
In Act I of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, who gets into the cab at the end of the act?
Eliza
In Act II of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, who comes to Higgins for language and etiquette lessons?
Eliza Doolittle
Act IV of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, begins after the triumph of passing Eliza off as high class at the _____.
Embassy Ball
In Act I of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, who does NOT give Eliza any money?
Freddy
William Blake's later work deomonstrated his ever-deepening reflections on _____________.
God and the power of the imagination
from Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. From this portion of the poem, how does the speaker feel about what the future will bring?
He is afraid and uncertain
In Act I of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, who does Pickering claim he was trying to find?
Higgins
In George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, what is the setting of Act II?
Higgins' Study
The British Empire spread throughout the world during the Victorian Age due to:
Imperialism
Blake published a volume of poems that paired dark and mysterious verse with light and happy ones. This volume was called Songs of...
Innocence and Experience
from Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?: Ah, yes! You dig upon my grave . . . Why flashed it not on me That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find To equal among humankind A dog's fidelity!" Mistress, I dug upon your grave To bury a bone, in case I should be hungry near this spot When passing on my daily trot. I am sorry, but I quite forgot It was your resting-place." In this poem, Thomas Hardy makes use of which literary device?
Irony
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet 43 is written in which form?
Italian Sonnet
Gerard Manley Hopkins's role as a / an _________ greatly influenced his poetry.
Jesuit priest
Read the following section of Tennyson's Ulysses: This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,---Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labour, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. From this portion, Ulysses believes his son will be a good:
King
In Act III of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, where does Higgins test Eliza's progress in learning how to seem "upper class?"
Mrs. Higgins's home
In Act II of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, who tries to teach Higgins some manners?
Mrs. Pearce
_________ novels, plays and poems tend to present a grim, almost fatalistic view of the world, in which mostly lower-class characters are trapped by circumstances beyond their control for reasons they cannot determine
Naturalism
Tennyson's Ulysses continues the story of:
Odysseus
In Act I of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, which British author does Higgins mention?
Shakespeare
In Act V of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, what does Eliza say she learned from Col. Pickering?
She learned what real manners are, as well as self respect
In the afterward, Shaw explains what happens after the end of Act V. According to Shaw, what becomes of Eliza?
She marries Freddy and they open a flower shop together
Some justified the power of the rich as the "natural order" of things. This idea is known as:
Social Darwinism
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote 44 sonnets and published them under which title?
Sonnets from the Portuguese
from Robert Browning's My Last Duchess Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Willt please you rise? We'll meet The company below, then. From this portion of the poem, the reader can assume what?
The Duke had his last Duchess murdered
It is believed that the following lines were intended to be the epitaph for _______. "THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth A youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown. Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heav'n did a recompense as largely send: He gave to Mis'ry all he had, a tear, He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God."
Thomas Gray
In his poem, "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth's claims that nature (Tintern Abbey) offers the benefits of tranquil restoration, inspiration and _______.
a blessed mood
In his poem,The World Is Too Much With Us, Wordsworth says he'd rather be:
a pagan
In addition to being a poet, William Blake was also an accomplished:
artist
Lord Byron worked hard to overcome and compensate for a physical defect by excelling at __________.
boxing and fencing
The Romantics found great value in the lives and experiences of:
children
The Man He Killed BY THOMAS HARDY "Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. "I shot him dead because --Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand like --just as I--Was out of work -had sold his traps- No other reason why. "Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown." This poem gives a sense of a real speaker by using:
colloquial speech
Robert Browning's My Last Duchess makes use of which form of poetry?
dramatic monologue
Much of Keats poetry was fueled by his fear of:
dying young
A poem that laments a death or some other great loss is a/an_______________ .
elegy
Tennyson's In Memoriam is which genre of poetry?
elegy
a brief statement, often inscribed on a gravestone, that commemorates a dead person is called a/an___________.
epitaph
After a series of unfortunate scandals, Lord Byron decided to ______________ when he was 28 years old.
exiled himself from England
But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. According to these lines, Gray believes _________ held the country people back from knowledge.
extreme poverty
In Act I of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle is selling _______.
flowers
I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said- "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. How many personas are there in this poem?
four
Read the following section of Tennyson's Ulysses: It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. From this portion, Ulysses is trying to convince his friends to:
go on one last adventure
How did Robert Browning fall in love with Elizabeth Barrett?
he fell in love with her poetry first
In Act V of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, why is Alfred Doolittle so dressed up?
he is on his way to be married
Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote 44 sonnets originally intended for:
her husband
Tennyson's In Memoriam was written to memorialize:
his friend Arthur Henry Hallam
For thou art with me here upon the banks Of this fair river; thou my dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once, In the previous lines of Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," the speaker is addressing _______________.
his sister
In his poem, Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth prays that _________ will derive the same benefits from nature as he has.
his sister
In Act IV of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, what does Eliza throw at Higgins?
his slippers
The Romantics believed that __________ could be a source of deep truth.
imagination
In Gray's, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, the speaker encourages us to do what?
imagine the lives of the dead
And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led: more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, not any interest Unborrowed from the eye.--That time is past, The above lines from Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" express what Wordsworth felt when he visited this place as a youth. We can best describe this experience as ________.
innocent and joyous
Gerard Manley Hopkins's believed that everything was characterized by an intricate and unique design - a kind of spiritual fingerprint that he called:
inscape
In Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," what three things does the speaker describe as being driven by the wind?
leaves, clouds and waves
One cause for Coleridge's development as a writer was his _________.
lonely childhood spent in books
from Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. From this portion of the poem, what does the speaker have faith in?
love
Read the following passage from Tennyson's In Memoriam: He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. The mood of these lines can best be described as:
melancholy, but hopeful
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. These lines of Byron's poem make use of _________ .
natural imagery
For the Romantics, true enlightenment came not from isolating oneself in bookish studies, but rather from_______.
nature
In his poem,The World Is Too Much With Us, Wordsworth's essential claim is that man has lost his connection to:
nature
British Romantic writers found inspiration primarily in:
nature and distant cultures
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odors plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear! What kind of poem is this that Shelly wrote to praise the West Wind?
ode
Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing wooly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice, Making all the vales rejoice! Little Lamb who made thee Dost thou know who made thee Little Lamb I'll tell thee, Little Lamb I'll tell thee! He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child: I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by his name. Little Lamb God bless thee. Little Lamb God bless thee. This poem makes use of which literary device?
parallelism
Coleridge composed Kubla Khan from a dream he had after taking opium and __________.
reading a book about exotic cultures
Robert Browning's My Last Duchess explores soem of the darker motives of the human psyche. In this way it is a good example of:
realism
For his poem,The World Is Too Much With Us, Wordsworth chose which poetic form?
sonnet
Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things--For skies of couple-color as a branded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches-- wings; Landscape plotted and piecedfold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; dazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise Him. In this poem, Hopkins praises God through the wonder he finds in:
strange, unique, varied things
In Act I of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, what is Henry Higgins seen doing?
taking notes on how people talk
O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth, and fill (Driving sweet buds like flocks to feed in air) With living hues and odors plain and hill: Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh hear! What rhyme scheme is used in this poem?
terza rima
The Romantic Period was preceded by which British literary period?
the Enlightenment/ Age of Reason
Romanticism was, in some ways, a reaction against:
the Industrial Revolution
In Blakes, The Tiger, the speaker compares the tiger to...
the Lamb
British Romantic writers found inspiration in:
the mysterious and supernatural
Robert Browning's My Last Duchess is based upon which historical event?
the mysterious death of the Duke of Ferrara's wife
William believed that poetry is the result of...
the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
In his poem,Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth's claims that nature (Tintern Abbey) offers the benefit of:
tranquil restoration
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 't would win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. In these lines from Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," the speaker expresses his wish to:
visit the actual Pleasure Dome
