English 4
Which statement by Heathcliff most strongly suggests the reason(s) he is angry?
"'Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself."
Which passage from the poem lines 144-300 best describes Grendel's nature?
"All were endangered; young and old / were hunted down by that dark death-shadow"
Which of the following statements uses first person point of view?
"Be that as it may, I could not help thinking, as I looked at the works of Shakespeare..."
Which sentence from the text most strongly helps the reader form inferences about Gulliver and the Lilliputians in Chapter IV of Gulliver's Travels?
"He began with compliments on my liberty; said 'he might pretend to some merit in it;' but however, added, that if it..."
Which sentence from this Pride and Prejudice excerpt best supports the idea that gossipy Mrs. Bennett is also rationally minded?
"My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be anything extraordinary now."
In "To His Excellency George Washington," which line from the poem most strongly supports how the speaker creates a sense of Columbia?
"See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan,"
Which line from the poem most closely supports the theme of the poem?
"That when we live no more we may live ever."
Choose the sentence that would best connect the passage below (paragraph 1) with the rest of the excerpt: Victoria came to the British throne in 1837 as a girl of eighteen; at her death in 1901, most of her subjects had never known any other ruler. Personally, Victoria was most interested in her own family—her husband, Prince Albert, and their nine children. As "mother of the empire," however, she also played a major symbolic role in unifying Britain's widespread colonies. By Queen Victoria's sixtieth anniversary Diamond Jubilee in 1897, she ruled one-quarter of the world's population.
"The age of her reign, which would carry her name, is associated with self-improvement, bourgeois values, and an absolute faith in science and progress."
Which of the following best exemplifies third person omniscient?
"The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a beach."
Which line from the poem most strongly supports the how the freemen are viewed in "Liberty Tree?"
"Unmindful of names or distinction they came,"
Which passage from the text most clearly explains why Wordsworth chose to depict rural life in his poems?
"because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated"
The Latin phrase nullius in verba most closely means _________.
"take no one's word for it"
Which of the following selections best expresses the thematic connection the author draws between super heroes and corporations in DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes?
A battle between corporations can be similar to a struggle for power between super heroes.
Which pivotal event was mainly responsible for the beginning of constitutional government in England?
A king held accountable to his barons for tax increases
What is the meaning of the word humanism as it is used in the text British Literature & History: The English Renaissance (1485-1650)?
A philosophical outlook centered on the human condition and affairs of the world.
Based on the passage, Literary History: The Epic and the Epic Hero, which of the following is most closely an example of a kenning? The classical Greek epics also established the use of certain literary devices. One of these is the epithet, a word or brief phrase often used to characterize a particular person, place, or thing. For example, the goddess Athena is "gray-eyed" and the sea is "wine-dark." Standardized comparisons known as kennings perform a similar function in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf. For example, a king is a "ring-giver" and the sea is the "whale-road." Both epithets and kennings helped epic poets mold their ideas to their poetic forms.
A teacher described as a knowledge-speaker
In the reading British Literature & History: The English Renaissance (1485-1650), which of the following best explains the conditions which led to the beginning of the English Renaissance?
A unified Britain and the partial disintegration of the Catholic Church freed up scholarship and inquiry into the human condition.
Which of the following statements best summarizes lines 144 - 300 of Beowulf?
A vicious monster continually attacks the Danes for 12 years, until a great warrior from a neighboring kingdom arrives by ship to try and slay the beast.
Based on the entire text, Literacy History: The Epic and the Epic Hero, which of the following anecdotes most closely describes an epic hero?
After traveling for months with a walking stick, a thin wrap for extra warmth, and a knapsack needing to be replenished with food, a young man arrives at an elder's hut. He knocks at the door, wondering if he will find the answers he seeks. His people are depending on him and he will do everything he can to help.
Who is most likely the speaker of the poem, "My Last Duchess?"
Alfonso
Which answer choice best describes the speaker in "In Memoriam, A.H.H."?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Which inference about Mrs. Dalloway is best supported by the opening sentence?
All of the above
With which of the following statements would Mary Wollstonecraft most likely agree?
All of the above
"Columbia" in Wheatley's poem most closely refers to ___________.
America
Which of the following term best describes the poet who wrote "Beowulf"?
Anglo-Saxon
Enlightenment ideas led to many important historical achievements. Match each achievement to the idea from which it developed.
Arguments against authoritarian rule by Milton, Locke, and Hobbes - The Federalist Papers The use of the scientific method - Modern Science Locke's theory of natural, inalienable rights - The Declaration of Independence
What do the following lines reveal mainly about the combatants' attitudes toward each other in Le Morte d'Arthur? When King Arthur prepared to depart for the meeting in the field he warned all his host that if they should see any sword drawn, "see that ye come on fiercely and slay that traitor Sir Mordred, for I in no wise trust him." Likewise, Sir Mordred warned his host: "If ye see any sword drawn, see that ye come on fiercely and then slay all who stand before you, for in no way will I trust this treaty; I know well that my father wishes to be avenged upon me."
Arthur and Mordred strongly distrust each other.
Which of the following best summarizes what happens at the conclusion of this excerpt in Le Morte d'Arthur?
Arthur kills and is mortally wounded by his enemy and disappears into legend.
Which of these conclusions about Ashe's research is best supported by the last paragraph of the excerpt in "Conversation with Geoffrey Ashe"?
Ashe has researched the subject thoroughly and is now looking for what he may have missed.
Which of the following best explains the Romantic movement and its relationship to what came before it? It represented a move from spiritual and artistic preoccupations to those of science and technology.
It was a turn toward the natural, mystical and impressionistic, away from the hard science and logic of the Enlightenment
Which sentence is parallel? You need to work quickly and decisively. Like father, like son. Both A and B
Both A and B
What poetic device do you notice in the following lines from "Lake Isle of Innisfree?" "I will arise and go now, for always night and dayI hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore:While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,I hear it in the deep heart's core."
Both A and C
Which of the following best describes the connection between the scientific method and democracy?
Both focus on the power and ability of the individual.
What is most strongly a similarity between Hrothgar and Grendel's mother in Beowulf?
Both of them are motivated by revenge
In Thomas Paine's "Liberty Tree," how does the author mostly emphasize the principal subject of the poem?
By capitalizing and repeating the word Liberty
In the following passage from "Conversation with Geoffrey Ashe", how mainly does Ashe develop the understanding that King Arthur's legend has remained popular over time? [...] Arthur isn't purely a medieval character. He keeps fading out and coming back, and he has been pictured differently in different periods. I think there is a constant factor that has a great deal to do with his vitality. One way or another, his legend embodies the dream of a golden age which is found in many societies and mythologies. It's a haunting, persistent dream. Even modern novelists, well aware that there never was a real golden age, have pictured Arthur's reign as a time when people of vision and courage were on top for a while, surviving against the odds, and going down gloriously. It's something we would like to believe in.
By connecting the "golden age" represented in the legend of King Arthur to a common ideal among cultures
How mainly did the spread of political unrest during Romanticism influence the work of some of its major figures?
By giving them a strong tendency to support activist causes of their time
How mainly did reformers in the Victorian Era speak out for social reform, according to the passage below (paragraphs 24-25)? Equally determined Victorian voices spoke out on behalf of the poor and helpless. Carlyle, for example, passionately exposed the underlying flaws in Victorian society, warning of Britain's moral, as well as literal, starvation. His writings inspired many writers and reformers, including Karl Marx and the novelist Charles Dickens.Doctors, ministers, journalists, and private philanthropists organized many charitable organizations, including the Ladies' Society for the Education and Employment of the Female Poor, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Reformers within Parliament used Blue Book reports to educate the well-to-do middle class about the poor. Reports on, for example, child labor in coal mines, were widely read, leading to reform laws.
By the establishment of issue-specific groups to address distinct problems through direct action and lobbying of elected officials
In the DC Comics reading, which character from Whiz Comics most closely resembled Superman?
Captain Marvel
"Pass it along, the wiring party's going out"— And yawning sentries mumble, "Wirers going out." Unraveling; twisting; hammering stakes with muffled thud, They toil with stealthy haste and anger in their blood." How does the author use ambiguity to portray the tone in these lines?
Certain words such as "party's" could have more than one meaning and reveals sarcasm in the author's tone.
Who is the poet that wrote "Sonnet 43?"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who is Queen Elizabeth addressing with the Speech to the Troops at Tilbury?
Elizabeth is addressing her soldiers before a battle.
Which of the following best describes Coifi's reaction to the doctrine Paulinus brings King Edwin (paragraph 4, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People)?
Coifi is ready for a new religion
Which of the following selections best describes England's reaction immediately following the Parliamentary army's triumph?
Conflicted and nervous
Which selection most closely expresses the meaning of this line from the third stanza of "To His Excellency, George Washington?" "Hear every tongue thy guardian aid implore!"
Consider all of the people that ask you for protection.
Which of the following selections best states Mary Wollstonecraft's central argument in the Chapter II excerpt?
Encouraging women to seek intellectual pursuits would not only improve their lives, it would make their marriages stronger.
Read this section from Beowulf (lines 1377 - 1383) and answer the follow-up question. This region is best described as
Evil
What does the phrase "serve her turn" most closely mean as it is used in the following passage (paragraph 4)? "Her 'pretense was to repeat [the ministers'] sermons,' the governor added, 'but when that was done, she would comment upon the doctrines, interpret passages at her pleasure, and expound dark places of Scripture and make it serve her turn,' going beyond, 'wholesome truths' to 'set forth her own stuff.'"
Gain a personal benefit
Order the events from the American Jezebel excerpt chronologically:
Governor Winthrop believes this time period is "sweetness and light." - 1634 Anne Hutchinson gathers with small groups of women to discuss theology. - 1635 Men accompany their wives to weekly discussions by Anne Hutchinson. - 1636 Anne Hutchinson is placed on trial - 1637
In Le Morte d'Arthur, what causes Sir Bedivere to disobey King Arthur's command to throw the sword in the lake?
Greed
Which of the following statements best identifies Grendel's struggle in the first part of the excerpt (Grendel by John Gardner)?
Grendel is a giant that wishes to have the same benevolent qualities as Hrothgar.
Which of the following selections best explains Grendel's realization in the final paragraph of the excerpt (Grendel by John Garnder)? I staggered out into the open and up toward the hall with my burden, groaning out, "Mercy! Peace!" The harper broke off, the people screamed. (They have their own versions, but this is the truth.) Drunken men rushed me with battle-axes. I sank to my knees, crying. "Friend! Friend!" They hacked at me, yipping like dogs. I held up the body for protection. Their spears came through it and one of them nicked me, a tiny scratch high on my left breast, but I knew by the sting it had venom on it and I understood, as shocked as I'd been the first time, that they could kill me—eventually would if I gave them a chance. I struck at them, holding the body as a shield, and two fell bleeding from my nails at the first little swipe. The others backed off. I crushed the body in my hug, then hurled it in their faces, turned, and fled. They didn't follow.
Grendel realizes he must fight back against the Danes as long as they fear him.
What do the following lines from Chapter 4, Grendel, mainly reveal about Grendel in relation to the Danes? "I listened, huddled in the darkness, tormented, mistrustful. I knew them, had watched them; yet the things he said seemed true. He sent to far kingdoms for woodsmen, carpenters, metalsmiths, goldsmiths—also carters, victualers, clothiers to attend to the workmen—and for weeks their uproar filled the days and nights. I watched from the vines and boulders of the giants' ruin, two miles off."
Grendel remains an outsider to the community of Danes.
At the end of Le Morte d'Arthur the narrator says he is not sure what happened to King Arthur. Some say he was buried by a hermit who was once the bishop of Canterbury. What do other people say happened to him?
He did not die but will live again.
What mainly does the following dialogue reveal about Mr. Bennet (paragraphs 11-19) in Pride and Prejudice? "What is his name?""Bingley.""Is he married or single?""Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!""How so? how can it affect them?""My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.""Is that his design in settling here?""Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.""I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party."
He does not demonstrate eagerness regarding his wife's plans.
In Pride and Prejudice, which of the following best explains Mr. Bennet's assessment of his daughters as marriage prospects for Mr. Bingley?
He doesn't see anything special about his daughters except for Lizzy.
What do the following lines mostly reveal about the narrator in Sonnet 29 ?Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featur'd like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
He enjoys neither friendship nor confidence in his own abilities.
What is most likely the author's intent in his description of the conflict between the Lilliputians and Blefuscudians in Chapter IV of Gulliver's Travels?
He is connecting them to the French Catholics and British Protestants.
Which of the following selections best summarizes what Arthur sees in his vision in Le Morte d'Arthur?
He sees Gawain, who persuades him to make a treaty with Mordred.
At the end of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," why does the ancient Mariner travel from land to land?
He travels about to tell his tale.
Which statement about Mr. Bennet is best supported by the following passage (paragraphs 29-31)? "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.""Ah! you do not know what I suffer.""But I hope you will get over it, and live to see many young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood."
He uses his sense of humor to defuse tension with his wife.
When did the speaker in "The Wanderer" leave his home?
His lord died.
Which of the following best explains the narrator's outlook on his own life in Sonnet 29?
His love redeems all other dissatisfactions.
Which of the following inferences about Hrothgar is best supported by the following passage (paragraph 1, Grendel)?
Hrothgar believes victory should be displayed so the strength of a people can be acknowledged.
Which of the following best explains the meaning of the following lines (1326 - 1333) of Beowulf?
Hrothgar wants the men to know that Aeschere was brave and good
What is the stream of consciousness writing technique?
Is the non-traditional form of writing in which the reader gets to directly see a characters' flow of thoughts
What is mainly the significance of the phrase nullius in verba in relation to Enlightenment ideals?
It encourages discovery and the scientific method over taking words as truth alone.
How does the following excerpt add to the development of the theme of the essay Literary History: The Development of the Sonnet?Traditional sonnets have fourteen lines, each of which is written in iambic pentameter. That is, each line has five metric units, or feet, and each foot consists of an unstressed syllable (marked ? ) followed by a stressed syllable (marked ? ). The rhythm of a line of iambic pentameter is shown in this example from Spenser's Sonnet 30:My love is like to ice, and I to fire
It explains the mechanics of the sonnet form.
There are some commonly adopted conventions in the structure and elements of an epic poem. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an epic poem?
It usually tells a tale of two star-crossed lovers fighting to be together.
Place the following events in correct chronological order, according to the British Literature & History: Puritanism to Enlightenment.
John Milton publishes an essay defending freedom of the press - FIRST King Charles I is beheaded - SECOND Public music is banned and theaters are closed in England - THIRD Aphra Behn is a popular playwright and the first English woman to make her living as a professional writer - FOURTH
What literary device is most strongly represented in the following line from "Beowulf?"
Kenning
In Le Morte d'Arthur what does Sir Gawain tell King Arthur in a dream?
King Arthur will be killed if he fights Mordred the next day.
Which of the following inferences about King Edwin is best supported by the following passage (paragraph 1, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People)?
King Edwin has strongly questioned his own faith.
Which of the following statements does NOT support the Liberty Tree metaphor?
Liberty is unconquerable and need not fight for its existence, like a tree.
What do the following lines(1349 - 1365) mainly tell us about Grendel in the epic poem Beowulf?
Little to nothing about Grendel's parents or offspring is known.
Which sentence is parallel?
Louise will be swimming, biking and running for her triathlon this weekend.
What is most strongly a theme of the poem?
Love can last longer than life, making lovers immortal.
Which of the following best identifies two central ideas of the excerpt from American Jezebel?
Male officials feel threatened by a woman they believe is suppressing their power; a woman takes initiative to offer insights about weekly sermons.
What mainly does Wollstonecraft say is to blame for the "false system of education" in the following passage (paragraph 1)? One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the books written on this subject by men, who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilized women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to cherish a nobler ambition, and by their abilities and virtues exact respect.
Men want women to be objects of desire, rather than intellectual beings.
Which of the following best expresses central idea in the section "Monasteries"?
Monasteries were integral in maintaining historical accounts and educating communities.
Which of the following selections best explains Mordred's relationship to Arthur in Le Morte d'Arthur?
Mordred is Arthur's treasonous son.
Identify where Caesura is found in the following lines from "Beowulf"
NOT Caesura is not shown in any of these lines Caesura is found after "then" AND after "Herot"
When Beowulf requests that he alone "May purge all evil from this hall," what does he mean by purge?
NOT Drive Out Overcome
What do the following lines reveal mainly about Thomas Carlyle's opinion of the laboring class (paragraph 19)? All true Work is sacred; in all true Work, were it but true hand-labor, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the Earth, has its summit in Heaven. Sweat of the brow; and up from that to sweat of the brain, sweat of the heart; which includes all Kepler calculations, Newton meditations, all Sciences, all spoken Epics, all acted Heroisms, Martyrdoms,--up to that "Agony of bloody sweat," which all men have called divine! O brother, if this is not "worship," then I say, the more pity for worship; for this is the noblest thing yet discovered under God's sky. Who art thou that complainest of thy life of toil? Complain not. Look up, my wearied brother; see thy fellow Workmen there, in God's Eternity; surviving there, they alone surviving: sacred Band of the Immortals, celestial Bodyguard of the Empire of Mankind.
NOT He believed intellectual work, such as that of Kepler, Newton, and the epic poets, to be superior to physical labor. His sarcasm reveals pity and scorn for anyone forced to endure a life of manual labor.
Which of the following best describes how the second stanza contributes to the overall style of the poem? I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,Or all the riches that the East doth hold.My love is such that rivers cannot quench,Nor ought but love from thee give recompense.
NOT It transitions from a conversational style to a sermon style. It uses financial imagery to establish an experimental style.
What is most likely the author's intent in describing Anne Hutchinson's appearance in paragraph 2 of the excerpt? Paragraph 2: There was nothing auspicious about Anne Hutchinson's appearance as she stood in the doorway alongside several male relatives and supporters, awaiting the start of the trial. She was forty-six years old, of average height and bearing, with an unremarkable face. Her petticoat fell almost to the ground, revealing only the tips of her leather boots. Against the cold she wore a wool mantua, or cloak. A white coif covered her hair, as was the custom of the day. Besides that and her white linen smock and neckerchief, she wore all black. She was a stranger to no one present, having ministered as midwife and nurse to many of their wives and children. All knew her to be an active member of the church of Boston, the wife of the wealthy textile merchant, William Hutchinson, the mother of twelve living children, and the grandmother of one, a five-day-old boy who just that Sunday had been baptized. There was, in short, no outward sign to show she was an enemy of the state.
NOT To show that she looked different from other women in her community To show that she was dressed as if she were better than her neighbors
Which man was considered to be "the leader of Modernism" beginning in the 1920s?
T.S. Eliot
According to the Introduction, who encouraged Mary Shelley to expand Frankenstein into a full-length novel?
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which of these inferences is best supported by the excerpt shown below from British Literature & History: The English Renaissance (1485-1650)?Queen Elizabeth I, Henry VIII's second daughter, came to the throne in 1558. Famous for her wit and eloquence, she knew Greek, Latin, and several modern languages and loved music, dancing, and the theater. Her long reign of forty-five years was marked by religious conflicts, political intrigue, and threats of war. She turned England into a great sea power capable of defeating the feared Spanish Armada. With a nimble intelligence and strong personality, she also supported a flourishing period of cultural achievement. Elizabeth's court served as a forum for daring displays of wit that the queen greatly admired—and in which she skillfully participated. Her favorites, privileged members of the court, exemplified the qualities she most admired. Sir Walter Raleigh, for example, combined many occupations: soldier and sailor, explorer of Virginia and Guiana, poet and scientist, possible spy. He began to write his History of the World while imprisoned in the Tower of London by Elizabeth's successor, her cousin James I.
Queen Elizabeth's intellectual passion encouraged her subjects' pioneering in thought and expression.
Which of the following inferences is best supported by the passage below (paragraph 30)? In 1789 the French Revolution seemed to offer young people a chance to realize these dreams. Wordsworth and Coleridge, among many others, responded to the ideals of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" and were infused with enthusiasm for the revolutionary cause. As Wordsworth exulted (in lines later included in his long autobiographical narrative poem The Prelude), "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, / But to be young was very heaven!" When these ideals seemed betrayed by the bloody excesses of the Reign of Terror, both men slipped into conservative views. The next generation of Romantics, such as Percy Bysshe Shelley, who had been inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's youthful political radicalism, felt betrayed and continued to support revolt both at home and abroad.
Second-generation Romantics were more committed to ideals than to following the teachings of their elders
Which of the following best explains the historical circumstances which led to the Victorian Age?
Technological advances, as well as the gains of imperialism, produced a society with the leisure to improve itself.
Read this section from DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes to analyze the interaction of events. The toughest competitor of all was Captain Marvel, who got his start in Whiz Comics (February 1940). The product of a large, established firm called Fawcett Publications, Captain Marvel in his heyday was the biggest seller in the business, but in some ways he seemed suspiciously close to Superman. DC decided to sue. "It took a long time," says Jack Liebowitz. The legal battle dragged on for years as the two corporations duked it out like super heroes, and the dust didn't settle until 1953. DC editor Jack Schiff compiled a scrapbook documenting similarities, but the district court dismissed DC's complaint. DC appealed, and the case was heard by no less a jurist than Judge Learned Hand, who reversed the dismissal and remanded the case back to the lower court. At this point Fawcett finally decided to settle, and agreed to stop publishing Captain Marvel. For all of that, Captain Marvel is a great character. Created by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the scripts developed a humorous slant in scripts provided by Otto Binder. The often obtuse hero was a "Big Red Cheese" to his brilliant enemy Dr. Sivana, and was nearly defeated by an intellectually advanced earthworm called Mr. Mind. Beck's simple artwork had real appeal, and kids loved the idea that young Billy Batson could turn into the "World's Mightiest Mortal" simply by uttering the magic word "Shazam!" In 1973, events came full circle when DC acquired the rights from Fawcett to revive the character with a comic book called Shazam!, and a successful TV series followed in 1974. Which of the following describes the relationship between the publication of Whiz Comics and Shazam! in the passage above?
Shazam! revived Captain Marvel, who was introduced in Whiz Comics.
What do the following lines reveal about the speaker in "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury? I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.
She knows her gender is something for which she compensates with mental strength.
What do the following lines reveal about the structure of the Italian (or ´Petrarchan´) sonnet?The Italian sonnet is often called the Petrarchan sonnet after Francesco Petrarch, the poet who made it famous. Many of Petrarch's sonnets are about unrequited love, a common topic for sonnets that follow this form.
That the Italian sonnet has two distinct parts with different purposes and rhyme schemes, and a designated switch between the two.
What mainly did the beheading of King Charles I symbolize for Cromwell and the Puritans?
That the king's former subjects were now in charge
In the background reading entitled British Literature & History: The Anglo-Saxon Period and Middle Ages (449-1485), which of the following statements is best supported by paragraphs 1-4?
The Anglo-Saxon people were invaders, and then became "subjects" themselves.
What is one archetypal idea that "The Lamb" symbolizes?
The Creator
Which of the following statements about Danes is best supported in lines 144 - 300 of Beowulf?
The Danes offered sacrifices to pagan gods, in the hopes that the gods would save them from Grendel.
Which of the following statements about the Danes is best supported in lines 144-300 of Beowulf?
The Danes offered sacrifices to pagan gods, in the hopes that the gods would save them from Grendel.
Romantic poets like William Wordsworth lived here:
The Lake District
Which of these inferences about Gulliver and the Lilliputians is best supported by Chapter IV of Gulliver's Travels?
The Lilliputians freed Gulliver in hopes he would fight for them.
From the background reading, British Literature and History, The Victorian Age, what is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 33)? The Realist novel, which had proved itself so effective in rousing emotion, began to seem too good at raising falsely comforting feelings. A new generation of novelists were influenced in part by Darwinism to look for natural, rather than spiritual, forces guiding the course of human life. In France, for example, the novelist Emile Zola wrote novels according to a set of beliefs called Naturalism. Naturalistic novels, plays, and poems tend to present a grim, almost fatalistic view of the world, in which mostly lower-class characters are trapped in circumstances beyond their control for reasons that they cannot determine. Zola observed that he was subjecting his fictional characters to "the same analytical examination that surgeons perform on corpses." For novelists following in the path of Zola, clinical knowledge of the human condition replaced teary sympathy.
The Realist novel was judged too sentimental by writers who sought a more straightforward examination of the challenges faced by ordinary people
What sound devices help emphasize the movement of the ship in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"? Till noon we quietly sailed on, Yet never a breeze did breathe; Slowly and smoothly went the ship. Moved onward from beneath.
The alliteration of the b and s sounds emphasizes the ship's gentle movement.
What sound devices help emphasize the movement of the ship in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?" Till noon we quietly sailed on, Yet never a breeze did breathe; Slowly and smoothly went the ship. Moved onward from beneath.
The alliteration of the b and s sounds emphasizes the ship's gentle movement.
What mainly does Ashe identify as the reason for the lack of historical documentation for King Arthur's conquests in "Conversation with Geoffrey Ashe"?
The documentation of King Arthur was likely destroyed.
Which inference about the "freemen" is best supported by the poem in "Liberty Tree?"
The freemen are humble
Which best explains the reason for the following paragraph from "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury? Let tyrants fear. I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects; and therefore I am come amongst you, as you see, at this time, not for my recreation and disport, but being resolved, in the midst and heat of the battle, to live and die amongst you all; to lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust.
The queen wants her subjects to know she is not commanding from above but will fight and die with them if necessary.
What is the central idea of this excerpt from British Literature & History: The English Renaissance (1485-1650)? Living up to its name, humanism depended more on personal contact than on systematic instruction at schools and universities. The friendships formed by humanists—in private study with one another, in the royal courts where they served as political advisers, and in their personal correspondence—inspired many significant works in this period. Reading humanist works often seems like overhearing a conversation between friends. Sir Thomas More, lord chancellor of England, and Desiderius Erasmus of Holland shared one of the most remarkable of these friendships. Whenever he visited London, Erasmus lived in More's home. There, he wrote his best-known work, The Praise of Folly, which he dedicated to his English friend. Erasmus considered More, with his cultivated intellect, sparkling wit, deep learning, and broad culture, to be the ideal humanist, calling him omnium horarum homo, which is usually translated "a man for all seasons." More's most celebrated work, his satire Utopia (1516), presents his vision of an ideal society, freed from convention and ruled by reason. More coined the title of this work from Greek words that mean "no place."
The intellectual explosion we call humanism was largely an intellectual, rather than academic, exchange between diverse individuals all over Europe.
What is most likely the interviewer's reason for asking Geoffrey Ashe about the relationship between the King Arthur legend and archaeology in "Conversation with Geoffrey Ashe"? The study of Arthur seems to be becoming a literary pursuit rather than a historical one, and perhaps with some justification, given the scarcity of hard evidence. What about archaeology...do you think that can ever tell us anything about Arthur, or is it a dead end?
The interviewer knows Geoffrey Ashe has participated in an archaeological dig in search of "King Arthur's Camelot."
How do we know that the narrator from "Mrs. Dalloway," by Virginia Woolf, is told in the third-person omniscient?"
The narrator describes what the characters are thinking, and feeling, and also uses "he" or "she" when referring to characters.
Which is most likely an opinion of the narrator of this excerpt from Pride and Prejudice?
The neighbors of a newcomer feel entitled to re-distribute his wealth through arranging marriages
What is most closely the meaning of the following lines from the poem (first stanza)? "If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me ye women if you can."
The speaker believes she has more joy for her husband than other wives have for theirs.
Which of the following statements about religion would King Edwin's council most likely agree with in The Ecclesiastical History of the English People?
The value of a religion is measured by whether one's faith is rewarded.
Which of the following statements best explains the effect(s) of World War I on the perspectives of artists and writers in Britain?
The war's horrors undid traditional notions of honor and duty, and mechanized war changed the parameters of visual art.
Which selection best explains the interaction between the watchman and Beowulf in lines 144 - 300?
The watchman requires that Beowulf announces his reason for docking and remarks on his honorable appearance.
What does the following excerpt most strongly reveal about the British government's willingness to grant voting rights to women (paragraph 13, Modern Age background reading? Women composed another disaffected group that began to seek greater political power. The suffrage movement in Britain, which had long been working peacefully to secure votes for women, took a bold new direction after Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. Under the leadership of Pankhurst and her daughters, British suffragettes used unusual publicity stunts to call attention to their demands. They pelted government officials with eggs, chained themselves to lampposts, burned railroad cars, and smashed the windows of fashionable department stores. The British government finally relented and gave women over thirty the right to vote in 1918; ten years later, the voting age for women was lowered to twenty-one.
Their reaction was slow and grudging.
Which conclusion about the Lilliputians is best supported by Part I, Chapter IV of Gulliver's Travels?
There are major wars taking place over disagreements that seem like they should be minor issues
Identify a major characteristic of Romantic Poets.
They wrote about faraway places and were fascinated with nature.
What does the following passage reveal mainly about the Romantics (paragraph 24)? Romantics preferred their nature wild and untamed. Their landscape gardens, for example, kept a space for wilderness, with winding paths through tangled woods leading to sudden, startling views. Instead of the arranged prettiness of an ornamental garden, they preferred the sublime experience of the Swiss Alps, where the overwhelming scale of nature inspires awe rather than mere appreciation. In his poem "The Tables Turned," William Wordsworth recommended that we shut our books and lift our eyes to the natural world around us: "Enough of science and of art; / Close up those barren leaves; / Come forth, and bring with you a heart / That watches and receives."
They believed that raw nature was the best place for humanity to seek both enjoyment and philosophy.
Which of the following is most closely a shared trait of Royalists and Puritans?
They both believed their rights to rule came from God.
What do the following lines from Chapter IV of Gulliver's Travels mainly reveal about the Lilliputians? For as to what we have heard you affirm, that there are other kingdoms and states in the world inhabited by human creatures as large as yourself, our philosophers are in much doubt, and would rather conjecture that you dropped from the moon, or one of the stars; because it is certain, that a hundred mortals of your bulk would in a short time destroy all the fruits and cattle of his majesty's dominions: besides, our histories of six thousand moons make no mention of any other regions than the two great empires of Lilliput and Blefuscu.
They refuse to believe that there are other "giants" like Gulliver because it would be overwhelming to think of what danger any more could pose.
What is most likely the poet's reason for choosing the rhyme scheme, which established throughout the poem, Sonnet 29, suddenly changes just before the end?
To contrast and emphasize the statement in the last two lines.
Which of the following best explains why the author organizes the text under different headings in British Literature & History: The Anglo-Saxon Period and Middle Ages (449-1485) background reading?
To identify key influences in the development of British history and literature.
The author's purpose in writing literary history: The Epic and the Epic Hero is most likely_____
To inform readers about a style of literature that contributes to an understanding of a people
What is most likely the author's reason for making this speech, "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury?
To inspire her subjects to battle an invading army.
What is most likely the author's reason for beginning the essay, Literary History: The Development of the Sonnet, in this manner?The word sonnet comes from the Italian sonetto, meaning "a little sound or song." For more than seven hundred years, poets have used these highly structured fourteen-line poems to explore such issues as the fleeting nature of love and profound questions of mortality. During the 1300s, Italian poet Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) popularized the sonnet. By the end of the sixteenth century, poets throughout much of Europe were writing sonnets. Many of the most recognizable poems in history were written in sonnet form. Romantic poet William Wordsworth wrote that the sonnet was the key with which "Shakespeare unlocked his heart."
To introduce the sonnet's form and use, and supply the origin of the term.
What is most likely the purpose of the counsellor's metaphor in the following passage (paragraph 5, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People)? Another of the king's chief men agreed with this advice and with these wise words and then added, "This is how the present life of man on earth, King, appears to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us. You are sitting feasting with your eldermen and thanes in winter time; the fire is burning on the hearth in the middle of the hall and all inside is warm, while outside the wintry storms of rain and snow are raging; and a sparrow flies swiftly through the hall. It enters in at one door and quickly flies out through the other. For the few moments it is inside, the storm and wintry tempest cannot touch it, but after the briefest moment of calm, it flits from your sight, out of the wintry storm and into it again. So this life of man appears but for a moment; what follows or indeed what went before, we know not at all. If this new doctrine brings us more certain information, it seems right that we should accept it." Other elders and counsellors of the king continued in the same manner, being divinely prompted to do so.
To link the expansive concept of faith to a relatable situation
What is most likely the author's reason for including excerpts from poetry, ballads, and songs?
To provide contextual sources that show the beliefs and cultural activities of the time period.
What is most likely the author's point in including the following metaphor (paragraph 10) in "A Vindication of the Rights of Women?" ...The woman who has only been taught to please, will soon find that her charms are oblique sun-beams, and that they cannot have much effect on her husband's heart when they are seen every day, when the summer is past and gone....
To relate the idea of affection to something temporary, like the seasons
What is most likely the author's purpose for including the following lines in the third stanza of "Liberty Tree" by Thomas Paine? "With timber and tar they Old England supplied,And supported her power on the sea;Her battles they fought, without getting a groat,For the honor of Liberty Tree."
To show that the people in the poem continue to fight for Old England without compensation
Why does Geoffrey Ashe most likely make the following reference to depictions of biblical scenes in "Conversation with Geoffrey Ashe"? You'll see a painting of the angel appearing to Mary, and a window at the back looks out on a French chateau that couldn't possibly have existed in Nazareth.
To suggest that artists may often draw content from their surroundings
What mainly does the text identify as one of Alexander Pope's greatest achievements?
Translating Homer's epics
Which characteristic of Anglo-Saxon poetry is illustrated by "The Seafarer"?
Use of Caesura
Which of the following authors was known for using the stream of consciousness writing technique?
Virginia Woolf
Choose the sentence that best adds descriptive detail to the Shelley quote below (paragraph 36). Poets are the hierophants [interpreters] of an unapprehended inspiration, the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present, the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire: the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World.
What they imagine works its way into the culture and the individual mind, becoming action.
Which inference about the speaker is most strongly supported by the first stanza? Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms,She flashes dreadful in refulgent arms.See mother earth her offspring's fate bemoan,And nations gaze at scenes before unknown!See the bright beams of heaven's revolving lightInvolved in sorrows and the veil of night!
Wheatley believes that America is protected by divine providence
In "To His Excellency George Washington," which inference about the speaker is most strongly supported by the poem?
Wheatley hopes America will be victorious against Britain.
Who is Swift really poking fun at in Gulliver's Travels? How did the students in the video identify this
Whigs and Tories; Catholics and Protestants
"She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager—a fat, loose-lipped man—guffawed. He bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting—no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress."—What comparison was Virginia Woolf making here, based on the time period in which she lived?
Women during Shakespeare's time period had similar limitations placed on them as women in the Victorian time period
Based on your reading of "A Vindication of the Rights of Women," what can you conclude about women's education at the time this piece was written?
Women were taught ladylike accomplishments such as music and sewing.
What is most closely the central idea of the passage below (paragraph 28)? from the preface to Lyrical Ballads by William WordsworthThe principal object, then, which I proposed to myself in these poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them throughout, as far as was possible, in a selection of language really used by men; ... Low and rustic life was generally chosen, because in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer and more emphatic language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings co-exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently, may be more accurately contemplated, and more forcibly communicated; because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings; and, from the necessary character of rural occupations, are more easily comprehended; and are more durable; and, lastly, because in that conditions the passions of men are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature.
Wordsworth found the possibility for clearer and more direct poetic themes, and language, among country people.
Which is the best translation of this line of dialect from "To a Mouse"? Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
Your small house is also destroyed!
Place the statements into the chart in the correct order of ideas to rephrase the last stanza of the poem, To My Dear and Loving Husband:
__2__ I ask that you be immensely rewarded for the love you have given. __3__ Let us continue to love one another throughout our entire lives. __1__ Your love has provided more value to my life than I can reciprocate. __4__ Our love is so powerful and good that it will continue forever.
"In Memoriam, A.H.H". was written by Tennyson to commemorate ___________.
a dead close friend.
Which of the following is the best definition of parody?
a humorous imitation of another work
What is the subject of the speaker's monologue in "My Last Duchess"?
a portrait of his wife
What figure of speech is used in the following line of poetry from Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts?" In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away...
allusion
The excerpt "Conversation with Geoffrey Ashe" is best described as __________.
an interview between a history website, Britannia.com, and an expert on King Arthur, Geoffrey Ashe
Which of the following is not a sound device?
analogy
What is most closely the meaning of scarce as it is used in the following passage from "To His Excellency George Washington? "To His Excellency George Washington? One century scarce perform'd its destined round,When Gallic powers Columbia's fury found;And so may you, whoever dares disgraceThe land of freedom's heaven-defended race!
barely
What is most closely the meaning of surreal as it is used in the following passage from DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes? The bizarre brainchild of cartoonist Jack Cole, Plastic Man got some acid in an open wound and ended up "stretchin' like a rubber band." Cole had a surreal imagination and the convoluted contortions of his character were a joy to behold.
bizarre
What event (or events) mainly caused the fall of the British Empire?
both World War I and World War II
Which answer best describes the effect of alliteration in the following line from Yeats' "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"? I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore
by repeating the "l" sound, the poet is striving to create a gentle, lulling effect that imitates the musicality of the waves
Which of the following does not contribute to a writer's style?
conflict
Which of the following is NOT a feature of modernism?
content with current events
What is that "Good Night" to which the speaker refers in the poem, "Do not Go Gentle into That Good Night"?
death
In "To His Excellency George Washington," the speaker creates a sense of Columbia mainly by ___________.
describing the land with human characteristics
In lines 5, 6, and 9 of "To My Dear and Loving Husband," the speaker uses what type of imagery to express her gratitude to her husband for his love? 5 I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, 6 Or all the riches that the East doth hold. 9 Thy love is such I can no way repay;
financial
To what does Wollstonecraft compare the minds of women in "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?"
flowers that are planted in soil that is too rich
During the postwar era, what caused the English language to spread and evolve?
former English colonies were breaking free and beginning to use the language in different ways around the world
Which vocabulary word correctly completes this sentence? It took great ____ to speak out for women's rights as Mary Wollstonecraft did in the 1700s
fortitude
The second paragraph adds to the development of Mrs. Dalloway mainly by _________. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning—fresh as if issued to children on a beach.
giving more information about the servant and her duties
In Part 1 of Gulliver's Travels, which of the following selections best explains why the Lilliputians fed Gulliver and transported him to the capital city?
hey realized that they would be safer with him as an ally than as an enemy.
In "To His Excellency George Washingon" the speaker's purpose is mainly to __________ General Washington.
honor
Read this section from "Sonnet 29" to analyze how word choice impacts tone and answer the follow-up question. Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,Haply I think on thee, and then my state,Like to the lark at break of day arisingFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth bringsThat then I scorn to change my state with kings. Which of the following best describes the overall tone of this section of the poem?
hopeful
What is the tone of the "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?'
horror and awe
In lines 5-6, the speaker uses what type of figurative language to show how much she values her husband's love? 5 I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold, 6 Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
hyperbole
What is the subject of the first part of "The Seafarer"?
living a life at sea
In "To My Dear and Loving Husband," the speaker says her husband's love is greater to her than ____________.
mines of gold
The speaker says her husband's love is greater to her than ____________.
mines of gold
T.S. Eliot was a ________________.
modern
Based on the test, Grendel is mainly seen by others as
monstrous
What is most closely the meaning of the word cult as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 15)? Young writers increasingly wanted to reduce the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason. One solution was to replace it with a kind of sympathetic feeling called "sensibility." Whereas in the seventeenth century the physician William Harvey discovered that the heart was responsible for the circulation of the blood, the Romantics were far more interested in the way the heart represents the origin of emotion than in its mechanics. This cult of sensibility first emphasized the physical reactions we have when our hearts are moved—blushing, turning pale, and fainting. They read these visible movements of the blood as signs of inner moral sympathy and virtue.
noun | a devotion to an idea, movement, person, or work
The word cycles in the following passage most closely means ______________
noun | series of creative works or performances dealing with a particular subject or theme
What is most closely the meaning of bugbear in the following passage? Indeed, the word masculine is only a bugbear. There is little reason to fear that women will acquire too much courage or fortitude, for their apparent inferiority with respect to bodily strength must render them, in some degree, dependent on men in the various relations of life, but why should it be increased by prejudices that give a sex to virtue and confound simple truths with sensual reveries?
noun | something that excessively frightens or annoys people
What figure of speech is evident in line 1 of "My Dear and Loving Husband?" Line 1: "If ever two were one, then surely we."
paradox
Grendel is written in ____________ tense, from a ___________ point of view.
past; first person
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People is written in __________ tense, from a __________ point of view.
past; third person
This excerpt from Le Morte d'Arthur is told in ___________ tense, from a ___________ point of view.
past; third person
What does Queen Elizabeth promise to her audience?
payment
Read this section from Chapter IV of Part I of Gulliver's Travels to analyze satire in the passage. What is Jonathan Swift poking fun at in this passage? It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy: but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments. During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lustrog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).
religious beliefs
Writing that pokes fun at people's weaknesses or foolishness by mimicking actual conditions or events is called ____________.
satire
Mary Wollstonecraft criticizes past writings on women mainly because ___________.
she finds that they talk down to women and paint them as weaker
There is little reason to fear that women will acquire too much courage or fortitude, for their apparent inferiority..." What choice most closely defines the underlined word?
strength
What does the wife think her husband us doing in "The Wife's Lament"?
suffering great sadness
What creates irony in a work of literature?
the contradiction between appearance and reality
Which sentence or phrase from the following passage (lines 1377 - 1383) includes hyperbole that supports that description?Thence the welter of waters washes upwan to welkin when winds bestirevil storms, and air grows dusk,and the heavens weep. Now is help once morewith thee alone! The land thou knowst not,place of fear, where thou findest outthat sin-flecked being. Seek if thou dare!
the heavens weep
Identify the letter of the choice that best answers the question. What characteristic of the Romantic Movement did Shelley try to achieve in Frankenstein, according to the Introduction?
to evoke intense, vivid feelings
In Le Morte d'Arthur, why does Sir Gawain want King Arthur to delay the war with Mordred for a month?
to give Lancelot time to come to his aid
Which of the following states a purpose of the passage "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury?
to inspire confidence in Elizabeth's leadership
The ___________ of a text expresses the attitude of an author toward a subject, a character or person, or an audience
tone
True or False? Parallelism is a rhetorical device that helps emphasize ideas, establish rhythm, and make a text or speech more memorable.
true
In The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, King Edwin's feelings towards Paulinus can be best described as ________.
trusting
Which of the following adjectives best explains Gulliver's attitude toward the Lilliputians in Paragraph 4 of Chapter I of Gulliver's Travels?
unfazed
Which of the following is the best synonym for vales in these lines from "The Lamb"? By the stream & o'er the mead... Making all the vales rejoice!
valleys
What is most closely the meaning of the word flag as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 4)? "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end."--Winston Churchill, speech, June 4, 1940
verb | to weaken
The most heroic status an Anglo-Saxon could attain was as a ____________-
warrior
What is most closely the meaning of will as it is used in the passage below (lines 212-216) of Beowulf?
| noun | a deliberate intention or act
