| Which of these excerpts from Beowulf evidences both pagan and Christian influences? | D. “…sacrificed to old stone gods,/…hoping for…the devil’s guidance…” |
| Which of these excerpts from Beowulf most completely describes the aftermath of Grendel’s mother’s attack upon the Danes? | C. “…sorrow/had returned to Denmark. They’d traded deaths…” |
| Which of these excerpts from beowulf’s “the battle with the dragon” most plainly casts Beowulf as the tale’s protagonist? | C. “…the Geats/deserved revenge; Beowulf, their…lord, began to plan it…” |
| Read this excerpt from “the seafarer””…hardship groaned/around my heart. Hunger tore/at my sea-weary soul…”Which best describes the tone evoked by these words? | C. Despondence |
| Which of these lines from the Canterbury tales prologue best exemplifies a franklin? | A. He was a model among landed gentry |
| Which of these helps explain Chaucer’s choice to include a prologue in the Canterbury tales? | B. To set it up as a first hand account |
| Which line from a pardoner’s tale best explains the reason the pardoner preaches to the masses? | C. “Out come the pence, and specially for myself…” |
| In “the wife of bath’s tale,” which of these statements discloses the fate of the knight? | B. “Before this court I ask you then, sir knight,/to…take me for your wife.” |
| “Such is the power of love in gentle mind,/that it can alter all the course of kind.”Which of these best restates these closing lines from Spencer’s Sonnet 30? | D. Love ultimately makes no sense |
| Read this excerpt from Donne’s A valediction: forbidden mourning:”Moving of th’ earth brings arms and fears,/men reckon what it did and meant,/but trepidation of the spheres,/though greater far is innocent.”What statement best paraphrases the lines above? | B. The power of nature cannot compare to the power of love. |
| Which of these lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 portrays the emotion of envy? | D. “…desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope…” |
| “Love is not time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks/within his bending sickle’s compass come.”In these lines from Sonnet 116, how does Shakespeare describe true love? | C. As unchanging |
| Which of these excerpts from pepy’s the fire of London most clearly indicates that the work is a first-person account? | B. “We did put mr. hater, poor man, robbed a little; but he got very little rest…” |
| From which of these excerpts can it be most clearly inferred that Pope’s the rape of the lock is intended as a mock epic? | C. “Oh thoughtless mortals! Ever blind to fate…” |
| Read this excerpt from Jonathan swift’s a modest proposal.”Thirdly, whereas the mantenaince of a hundred thousand children….”Why does Swift include these sorts of “facts and statistics” in his essay? | A. To make his use of verbal irony more effective. |
| Which line from Thomas Gray’s elegy written in a country churchyard most clearly equates the end of he day with loneliness? | “..and leaves the world to darkness, and to me.” |
| If the speaker in the wife’s lament were to return home, it would make her blithe, or | B. Happy |
| When the speaker in the wanderer describes a wall as serpentine, he or she means that the wall is | B. Winding |
| According to the Canterbury tales, Canterbury contains the grave of a person who died for his religious beliefs–in other words a | D. Martyr |
| “A woman wants the self-same sovereignty/over her husband as over her lover…” in this excerpt from “the wife of bath’s tale” the word sovereignty means | C. Authority |
| The opening stanza of a valediction: forbidding mourning describes the deaths of men who are virtuous, or | B. Morally good |
| “There profanation of our joys/to tell the laity of our love” as used here, in this line from john donne’s a valediction:forbidding mourning, the word laity means people who are the opposite of | C. Elite |
| In milton’s paradise lost, Satan views his fall from heaven as an ignominy, or | C. Public disgrace |
| In elegy written in a country churchyard, Thomas Gray speculates that many a person’s potential has likely been thwarted by penury, or extreme | B. Poverty |
| “And froze the genial current of the soul.” In this line from elegy written in a country churchyard the word genial means | D. Cheerful |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordPride | D. Collective noun |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordHimself | B. Reflexive pronoun |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordLooked | D. Linking verb |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordWhat | C. interrogative adjective |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordsNeither nor | A. Correlative conjunctions |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordSham-wow | C. Objective compliment |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordsPolitician humanitarian | B. Compound predicate nominative |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordsFew of the applicants | D. Complete subject |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordsMaintaining a perfect gpa | D. Gerund phrase |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordsOften called shooting stars | B. Participial phrase |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordsWhich he thought he’d never see | A. Adjectival clause |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized words if you make a trip to mount Vernon | D. Adverbial clause |
| Identify the term that best describes the italicized wordsWill it make a sound? | A. Independent clause |
| Identify the sentence structureAlthough the was drafted into the Vietnamese war, Muhammad Ali refused to fight. | D. Complex sentence |
| Identify the sentence structureHe steeled his nerve, and he walked into the police station to confess | B. Compound sentence |
| Choose the correct verb—– that you will fail is a sure guarantee that you will. | B. Assuming |
| Choose the correct verbMany colleges admit adults who —– high school | D. Have not completed |
| Choose the correct verbShe hoped that —– to France would enable her to learn the language | C. Going |
| Choose the correct verbHe realized that he —- to the barber shop for the past several weeks | D. Had not gone |
| Choose the correct verbStudents these days often —– spending time at safe, well-run community centers | D. enjoy |
English 12 A unit 6: semester exam/ Lesson 2: Semester exam
February 24, 2020