Senior Final Exam: Spring Semester



Senior Final Exam: Spring Semester 2012

I. Match the word/name on the left with the definition/description on the right. (1 point each)

____ 1. Kenning a. means hart or heart; the mead hall

____ 2. Epithet b. Beowulf’s homeland

____ 3. Alliteration c. an adjective or a brief phrase used to characterize a person, place, or thing. For example, in Beowulf God is variously described as “the Lord of all Life,”

____4. Herot d. means bear’s son

____5. Hrothgar e. insults Beowulf; does not believe Beowulf is as heroic as Beowulf says

____ 6. Beowulf ab. a trait of a hero

____ 7. Unferth ac. a descriptive device common in Anglo-Saxon poetry. a new compound word or phrase to describe an object or activity (bone-house)

____ 8. Fate ad. king of the Danes.

____ 9. loyalty ae. The repetition of sounds at the beginning of words (usually consonants)

____10. Geatland bc. A belief in destiny

Multiple Choice: For each question, circle the BEST answer. (1 point each)

11. How were stories passed down during the Anglo-Saxon period?

a. Internet b. written books c. oral tradition d. video

12. Who helped Beowulf fight the dragon?

b. God b. Unferth c. Wiglaf d. Hrothgar

13. Beowulf is important because

a. It’s a good story b. First story written in English

c . Shares story of good and evil d. C and B

14. Who was Grendel a descendant of?

d. A snake b. Cain c. Abel d. A king

15. Where was Beowulf from?

e. America b. Daneland c. Germany d. Geatland

16. Which of the following does NOT describe Grendel?

a. sinister b. cowardly c. destructive d. evil

17. What is Beowulf’s tragic flaw?

a. Greed b. Pride c. Lust d. Gluttony

18. Where do the Geats place Beowulf’s Tower?

a. In Grendel’s swamp b. In the dragon’s lair

c.In the palace temple d.On a cliff overlooking the sea

19.Where do Grendel and his mother live?

a. In a palace b. In a mead-hall c. In a barrow d. In a lake

20. The central issue of Beowulf is the

a. conflict between humans and animals

b. struggle between good and evil

c. friendship between Sweden and Denmark

d. competition between Christians and pagans

21. Which Anglo-Saxon belief is revealed in the line “’Fate will unwind as it must!’”?

a. human life is shaped by destiny

b. danger is present everywhere

c. people determine their own path

d. justice will prevail

22. In the years between his victory over Grendel’s mother and his battle with the dragon, Beowulf loses some of his:

a. courage b. loyalty c. strength d. honor

Chaucer: “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”:

23. A couplet is two consecutive lines of poetry that . . .

A. rhyme b. go together c. date d. tell a story

24. According to “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” what women really want is . . .

a. a good massage

b. youth

c. riches and money

d. the control of choice

25. In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” the knight’s quest is [what, assigned by whom] . . .

a. to find what women want; [the queen]

b. to find what women want; [the king]

c. to find what women want; [his wife]

d. to have a most excellent adventure; [Bill and Ted]

26. The knight shows that he has learned what women want most when he . . .

a. gives his wife choice

b. submits to the queen’s will and judgment e. both b and c

c. gets married to the old lady ab. both a and b

d. meets the young fairies

Items specifically about Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:

27. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the lady of the castle attempts to seduce Sir Gawain because she . . .

a. wants to date him b. is testing him for her husband

c. wants to kill him d. is a promiscuous woman for pay

28. Sir Gawain takes the green sash because he . . .

a. hopes it will help him survive b. doesn’t wish to be rude

c. likes wearing green d. couldn’t keep the kisses

29. The Green Knight taunts Sir Gawain because Sir Gawain . . .

a. flinches b. wears a green sash c. is short d. has a terrible horse

30. Which of the following statements is not true? [about what Sir Gawain agrees to do and for whom] . . .

a. Sir Gawain agrees to exchange blows with the stranger

b. Sir Gawain agrees to share his daily winnings with the lord

c. Sir Gawain travels to the Green Chapel one year later

d. Sir Gawain confesses to accepting the Green Knight’s wife’s gifts

e. Sir Gawain steals the Green Knight’s wife

31. Why does Sir Gawain feel ashamed after his final confrontation with the Green Knight?

a. He doesn’t, rather is happy he lives

b. He is physically weak in comparison to the knight

c. He is cowardly and covetous

d. He doesn’t because he wins the battle

Poems/ sonnets

Match each of the terms to the noted sections.

a. Shakespearian Rhyme Scheme ab. Sestet

b. Spenserian Rhyme Scheme ac. Octet/ Octave

c. Petrarchan Rhyme Scheme ad. Alliteration

d. Couplet ae. Iamb

e. Quatrain bc. Iambic Pentameter

cd. Renaissance ce. Pastoral

de. Sonnet

32. A period of rebirth and interest in the arts, knowledge, and learning.

33. A fourteen line poem written in iambic pentameter.

34. A poem dealing with nature and the idealized vision of it.

“When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,” 35. Rhyme Scheme Pattern

When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,

And dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,

Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,

Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:

Then being ask'd where all thy beauty lies,

Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,

To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,

Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.

How much more praise deserved thy beauty's use,

If thou couldst answer 'This fair child of mine

Shall sum my count and make my old excuse,'

Proving his beauty by succession thine!

This were to be new made when thou art old,

And see thy blood warm when thou feel'st it cold.

"London, 1802"

Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: 36. Rhyme Scheme Pattern

England hath need of thee: she is a fen 37. 1st eight line section of

Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, this poem

Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, 38. Last six line section

Have forfeited their ancient English dower

Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;

Oh! raise us up, return to us again;

And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.

Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;

Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:

Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,

So didst thou travel on life's common way,

In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart

The lowliest duties on herself did lay.

"Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands"

Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands, 39. Rhyme Scheme Pattern

Which hold my life in their dead doing might, 40. Four line sections in this

Shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands, poem

Like captives trembling at the victor's sight.

And happy lines! on which, with starry light,

Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,

And read the sorrows of my dying sprite,

Written with tears in heart's close bleeding book. ................
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