English 12 A Final Exam UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
From which of these excerpts from Beowulf can a pagan influence best be inferred? - CORRECT
ANSWER ...And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,/Made heathen vows...
Which of these excerpts from Beowulf most directly describes the outcome of the conflict between
beowulf and grendel's mother? - CORRECT ANSWER ... the battle's only survivor/Swam up
and away from those silent corpses...
which of these excerpts from beowulf best describes what beowulf expects the outcome of his battle
with the dragon to be ? - CORRECT ANSWER ...soon/Would leave this brief life, but would
take the dragon/ With him...
...hardship groaned/Around my hear. Hunger tore/At my sea-weary soul...
Which of these best describes the tone evoked by these words? - CORRECT
ANSWER despondence
which of these lines from the canterbury tales' prologue best describes the chivalry of the knight? -
CORRECT ANSWER ...truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy...
how does chaucer's choice to set the canterbury tales' prologue in spring contribute to the narrative? -
CORRECT ANSWER it casts the idea of religious pilgrimage as a new beginning
which line from the pardoner's tale best explains the reason the pardoner preaches to the masses? -
CORRECT ANSWER out come the pence, and specially for myself
in the wife of bath's tale, with which of these statements does the knight decry his fate? - CORRECT
ANSWER you're old, and so abominably plain,/So poor... so low-bred...
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 line form spencer's sonnet 30? - CORRECT
ANSWER love ultimately makes no sense
, 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.
which statement best paraphrases the lines above? - CORRECT ANSWER the power of nature
cannot compare of the power of love
which of these lines from shakespeare's sonnet 29 portrays the emotion of joy? - CORRECT
ANSWER ...for thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings...
let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments...
in these lines from sonnet 116, how does shakespeare describe true love? - CORRECT
ANSWER as invulnerable
which of these excerpts from pepys's the fire of london most clearly indicates that the work is a first-
person account? - CORRECT ANSWER so i rose and slipped on my night-gown, and went to
her window...
which of these excerpts from pope's the rape of the lock most clearly depicts the upper-class as petty
and shallow? - CORRECT ANSWER ...at every word a reputation dies.
thirdly, whereas the maintenance of an hundred thousand children, from two years old, and upwards,
cannot be computed at less than ten shillings...
why does swift include these sorts of facts and statistics in his essay? - CORRECT ANSWER 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
the day with loneliness? - CORRECT ANSWER ...and leaves the world to darkness, and to me.
when wexton's son conquered the dragon in the death of beowulf, it left him flushed, or - CORRECT
ANSWER reddened with exhilaration.
when the speaker in the wanderer describes a wall as serpentine, he or she means that the wall is -
CORRECT ANSWER winding
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
From which of these excerpts from Beowulf can a pagan influence best be inferred? - CORRECT
ANSWER ...And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,/Made heathen vows...
Which of these excerpts from Beowulf most directly describes the outcome of the conflict between
beowulf and grendel's mother? - CORRECT ANSWER ... the battle's only survivor/Swam up
and away from those silent corpses...
which of these excerpts from beowulf best describes what beowulf expects the outcome of his battle
with the dragon to be ? - CORRECT ANSWER ...soon/Would leave this brief life, but would
take the dragon/ With him...
...hardship groaned/Around my hear. Hunger tore/At my sea-weary soul...
Which of these best describes the tone evoked by these words? - CORRECT
ANSWER despondence
which of these lines from the canterbury tales' prologue best describes the chivalry of the knight? -
CORRECT ANSWER ...truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy...
how does chaucer's choice to set the canterbury tales' prologue in spring contribute to the narrative? -
CORRECT ANSWER it casts the idea of religious pilgrimage as a new beginning
which line from the pardoner's tale best explains the reason the pardoner preaches to the masses? -
CORRECT ANSWER out come the pence, and specially for myself
in the wife of bath's tale, with which of these statements does the knight decry his fate? - CORRECT
ANSWER you're old, and so abominably plain,/So poor... so low-bred...
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 line form spencer's sonnet 30? - CORRECT
ANSWER love ultimately makes no sense
, 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.
which statement best paraphrases the lines above? - CORRECT ANSWER the power of nature
cannot compare of the power of love
which of these lines from shakespeare's sonnet 29 portrays the emotion of joy? - CORRECT
ANSWER ...for thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings...
let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments...
in these lines from sonnet 116, how does shakespeare describe true love? - CORRECT
ANSWER as invulnerable
which of these excerpts from pepys's the fire of london most clearly indicates that the work is a first-
person account? - CORRECT ANSWER so i rose and slipped on my night-gown, and went to
her window...
which of these excerpts from pope's the rape of the lock most clearly depicts the upper-class as petty
and shallow? - CORRECT ANSWER ...at every word a reputation dies.
thirdly, whereas the maintenance of an hundred thousand children, from two years old, and upwards,
cannot be computed at less than ten shillings...
why does swift include these sorts of facts and statistics in his essay? - CORRECT ANSWER 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
the day with loneliness? - CORRECT ANSWER ...and leaves the world to darkness, and to me.
when wexton's son conquered the dragon in the death of beowulf, it left him flushed, or - CORRECT
ANSWER reddened with exhilaration.
when the speaker in the wanderer describes a wall as serpentine, he or she means that the wall is -
CORRECT ANSWER winding
