Final

Question 1

The story of Beowulf is best described as

Answer 1

A very early English epic poem

Question 2

Chaucer’s young partying characters in the Pardoner’s tale

Answer 2

are greedy rascals who get what they deserve according to the Pardoner

Question 3

The language of Chaucer’s tale is called

Answer 3

Middle English

Question 4

Grendel is

Answer 4

a monster that cannot be harmed by swords or spears

Question 5

At the time Beowulf was first being told, a great leader was

Answer 5

A heroic warrior who could command the loyalty of his followers through his strength and valour.

Question 6

If we retold the story of Beowulf from the point of view of the monster, who would the villain be?

Answer 6

Beowulf

Question 7

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s greatest

Answer 7

tragedy

Question 8

Hamlet berates himself throughout the play because

Answer 8

he is unable to do what he knows he should do

Question 9

If one character in Hamlet could be called ‘evil’ it would be

Answer 9

Claudius

Question 10

In Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s tale” the title character is

Answer 10

A corrupt priest who sells phony religious relics and indulgences to make money

Question 11

Which animal hides during the Battle of the Cowshed

Answer 11

Mollie

Question 12

To whom does Napoleon express his contempt for Snowball’s windmill plans?

Answer 12

By urinating on them

Question 13

Who reduces the ideals of Animalism to the phrase “Four legs good, two legs bad”?

Answer 13

Snowball

Question 14

Who teaches the sheep to chant “Four legs good, two legs better”?

Answer 14

Squealer

Question 15

What is sugar candy mountain?

Answer 15

The idea of animal heaven preached by Moses the raven

Question 16

How many letters is Boxer able to learn?

Answer 16

Four - A through D

Question 17

Which of the pigs proves the best writer?

Answer 17

Snowball

Question 18

Which pig writes the poem lauding Napoleon?

Answer 18

Minimus

Question 19

What does Napoleon rename Animal Farm in his toast at the end of the novel?

Answer 19

The Manor Farm

Question 20

Why does Napoleon believe that he is dying the morning after he drinks the whisky?

Answer 20

Because he has a miserable hangover

Question 21

With whom do Napoleon and his pigs play cards at the end of the novel?

Answer 21

Mr. Pilkington and some other farmers

Question 22

What is the name of the quasi-Marxist socialist philosophy advocated by Napoleon and Snowball?

Answer 22

Animalism

Question 23

What are Boxer’s maxims?

Answer 23

“Napoleon is right” and “I will work harder”

Question 24

Which animal voluntarily leaves the farm?

Answer 24

Mollie

Question 25

What is Boxer's ultimate fate?

Answer 25

Napoleon sells him to a glue factory

Question 26

What was Mr. Jone's main vice?

Answer 26

Alcohol

Question 27

Which of the following pigs composes the song that replaces "Beasts of England"?

Answer 27

Minimus

Question 28

What title does Napoleon eventually assume for himself

Answer 28

President of the Republic

Question 29

Which animal refuses to become excited about the windmill?

Answer 29

Old Benjamin

Question 30

What is the reason for the windmill's initial collapse?

Answer 30

It falls in a storm

Question 31

Which animal discovers the truth about Boxer's destination when the pigs load him into a cart claiming that he is being taken to a doctor?

Answer 31

Benjamin

Question 32

Which Russian leader does Snowball most resemble?

Answer 32

Trotsky

Question 33

Which Russian leader does Napoleon most resemble?

Answer 33

Stalin

Question 34

What Russian institution does the raven Moses evoke?

Answer 34

The Russian Orthodox Church

Question 35

What is an Elizabethan Sonnet

Answer 35

A poem with 14 lines broken into 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet

Question 36

In Beowulf's time, a hero was someone who

Answer 36

Rescued damsels in distress, defended the crown, was a good war chief who could lead his followers to wealth and Success n battle.

Question 37

A kenning is..

Answer 37

A two word substitute for a noun that works as a metaphor.

Question 38

"...He was, by gad, an old comrade of yours; And he was slain, all suddenly, last night, When drunk, as he sat on his bench upright; An unseen thief, called Death, came stalking by, Who hereabouts makes all the people die, And with his spear he clove his heart in two And went his way and made no more ado....." The figure of speech used in the lines above is..

Answer 38

Personification

Question 39

The main theme of Pardoner's Tale

Answer 39

Greed is the root of all evil

Question 40

An "allusion" is

Answer 40

A reference to a commonly known person place or thing.

Question 41

Where are the pilgrims going in the Canterbury Tales?

Answer 41

To visit the relics of Saint Thomas A Beckett at Canterbury.

Question 42

What is a simile

Answer 42

A figure of speech using a comparison to one thing to another, using like or as.

Question 43

What is a metaphor?

Answer 43

A figure of speech when an action or object is compared to something else.

Question 44

Allegory

Answer 44

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Question 45

Structure of a sonnet

Answer 45

1. All sonnets are 14 lines long. 2. Sonnets in English are written in iambic pentameter, which means that each line has 10 syllables, alternating in an unstressed/stressed pattern. 3. Sonnets follow a predetermined rhyme scheme; the rhyme pattern determines if the sonnet is Petrarchan (italian), Shakespearean, or Spenserian. 4. All sonnets are characterized by a "turn" located at a designated point in the sonnet. ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Question 46

Alliteration

Answer 46

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Question 47

Iambic pentameter

Answer 47

a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long

Question 48

Theme of Beowulf

Answer 48

Leadership, good vs. evil

Question 49

Didactic

Answer 49

intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

Question 50

How is Inherit the wind didactic?

Answer 50

It's bad to repress thought, freedom of thought.

Question 51

Didactic

Answer 51

intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

Question 52

What style of english is hamlet

Answer 52

Modern English

Question 53

Who's Jeremiah Brown

Answer 53

The figure of religious authority in Hillsboro. Reverend Brown preaches a creed based on the fear of God and the punishment of sinners.

Question 54

The theme of Inherent in the wind?

Answer 54

Freedom of thought, right to think.

Question 55

Bertram Cates (movie)

Answer 55

A twenty-four-year-old science teacher and the defendant in the trial. Gets arrested.

Question 56

Henry Drummond (movie)

Answer 56

A famous lawyer from Chicago whom the Baltimore Herald sendsto defend Cates.

Question 57

Rachel Brown

Answer 57

Cates girlfriend

Question 58

Who drowns in the river

Answer 58

Tommy Stebbins

Question 59

Tom Davenport

Answer 59

The local district attorney.

Question 60

Who always comments on what's going on?

Answer 60

The greek chorus. Harry Esterbrook cuts of Brady in the middle of his victory speech.