Final Exam

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

The rebirth of classical learning

Question 2

English Reformation

Answer 2

The English Church’s break away from Roman Catholicism

Question 3

In the address to the troops at Tilbury about to fight the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth says, “I know I have the body of a weak ad feeble woman, but I have the stomach of..

Answer 3

A King

Question 4

What does the word “this” refer to in this shakespearean sonnet? “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,/ So long lives this, and gives this to thee,”

Answer 4

The sonnet itself

Question 5

The moral virtue represented in book one of the Faerie Queen is

Answer 5

Holiness

Question 6

In the prefatory letter to the Faerie Queen, Spenser explains that the title character allegorizes glory in general but in particular, what historical figure?

Answer 6

Queen Elizabeth

Question 7

Rhyme Scheme for Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 7

abab abab cdcd ee

Question 8

Why doesn’t the lion eat Una?

Answer 8

Because she is beautiful and innocent and he wants to protect her.

Question 9

At the beginning of the Tempest, why are the passengers at sea when their ship encounters a tempest?

Answer 9

They’re returning from a wedding in Tunis, North Africa

Question 10

Why was Prospero’s brother Antonio able to usurp his dukedom?

Answer 10

Prospero was too busy seeking knowledge in books

Question 11

Who says, “This island’s mine, by Sycorax my mother”

Answer 11

Caliban

Question 12

What does Ariel want most of all?

Answer 12

freedom

Question 13

Besides Ferdinand, which one of the visitors to the island does prosper praise for his goodness?

Answer 13

gonzalo

Question 14

Who says “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world/ that has such people in’t!”

Answer 14

Miranda

Question 15

Having read The Tempest, do you agree with the world view “How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world/ that has such people in’t!”

Answer 15

I do not agree with this statement because once on the island, most of the passengers from the ship have bad intentions and are power hungry

Question 16

Which Character do you find the most interesting in the Tempest?

Answer 16

Ariel because he wants freedom more than anything but enjoys his job and is eager to get more “assignments” from Prospero

Question 17

In his epilogue, what does prospero ask his audience to do?

Answer 17

Applaud

Question 18

In writing paradise lost in blank verse, Milton was using the standard verse-form of what earlier poet that we have read?

Answer 18

Shakespeare

Question 19

Blank Verse

Answer 19

unrhymed iambic pentameter, used by Shakespeare

Question 20

When the poet in paradise lost says, “I may assert Eternal Providence,/ and justify the ways of God to men,” he means that his task is to to explain:

Answer 20

Why God allows evil and sorrow into the world

Question 21

What was the sin that caused Satan’s fall from Heaven?

Answer 21

Pride

Question 22

Satan is described as “Vaunting aloud but rack’d with deep___”

Answer 22

despair

Question 23

What does the council of fallen angels at Pandemonium decide is the best strategy to be revenged on God?

Answer 23

Hurt God through setting God against his favored race of mankind

Question 24

According to this poem, of what tree are Adam and Eve forbidden to eat?

Answer 24

The tree of knowledge of good and evil

Question 25

From your reading of paradise lost, how do you think Milton felt about women?

Answer 25

It seems that milton did not like women. The scene with Adam and Eve demonstrates this because Eve tries to tempt Adam to eat the apple, eventually causing the fall of man

Question 26

Identify two ways in which Paradise Lost has characteristics of an epic poem

Answer 26

It begins in media reis and it features a descent to the underworld

Question 27

When in book nine do Adam and Eve have sex?

Answer 27

After they've eaten from the tree

Question 28

What reason is given for war between lilliput and blefuscu?

Answer 28

They can't agree on which end people should break their eggs

Question 29

How does Gulliver break the law in Lilliput so that he has to run away?

Answer 29

He pees on the palace

Question 30

Of all the strange types of creatures he meets, which does Gulliver admire the most?

Answer 30

The Houyhnhnms

Question 31

Satire

Answer 31

A work that makes fun of something else by calling people's attention and forcing them to question the original idea that is being satirized. It is used in Gulliver's Travels

Question 32

Yahoos

Answer 32

The human-like creatures who live on the island with the Houhnhnms. Gulliver is considered a Yahoo

Question 33

Master Bates

Answer 33

Crude Humor and puns such as this were used in Gulliver's travels and popular among the scribelus club.

Question 34

Pope's Essay on Criticism says that the critic's first guide should be able to follow what?

Answer 34

nature

Question 35

The verse-form of Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes is:

Answer 35

Heroic Couplets

Question 36

Heroic Couplet

Answer 36

a pair of rhyming iambic pentameters, much used by Chaucer and the poets of the 17th and 18th centuries such as Alexander Pope.

Question 37

In act one of The Beggar's Opera, what has Polly Peachum done to make her parents upset?

Answer 37

Married Macheath

Question 38

How does Lucy plan to get revenge on Polly in The Beggar's Opera?

Answer 38

Poison her

Question 39

Is Macheath a hero? Compare him to another hero

Answer 39

I don't believe he is a hero because he does things like rob people. It's interesting to compare him with Satan in Paradise Lost. Both Characters could be framed as heroes but they are still doing very unheroic things when you look at their actions in context

Question 40

Newgate

Answer 40

The prison in The Beggar's Opera where Machete is sent. You get sent there before execution

Question 41

Peachum

Answer 41

Mr. Peachum in The Beggar's Opera. he gets money for selling out criminals and selling their stolen goods

Question 42

The South Sea Bubble

Answer 42

an investment scandal in the 1700s that caused everyone to lose their money. The Beggar's opera is relevant to the South Sea Bubble because it took place during this time and many people were poor

Question 43

The Ancients

Answer 43

classic poets like Homer. We should look at them as auctoritee

Question 44

Ballads

Answer 44

Songs for poor people- topics included current events and romances

Question 45

Cardinal Wolsey

Answer 45

an example of someone who went down hill in Pope's Essay on criticism

Question 46

Where does fantomina first get the idea of pretending to be a prostitute?

Answer 46

At a playhouse (theatre)

Question 47

Fantomina calls her final disguise incognita because

Answer 47

she doesn't let Beaplausir see her properly

Question 48

The verse-form of Goldsmith's "Deserted Village" is

Answer 48

heroic couplets

Question 49

Which adjectives could be used to describe "The Deserted Village" and "Elegy in a Churchyard"?

Answer 49

Melancholic, nostalgic, reflective

Question 50

In your opinion, does Fantomina get what she deserves? Compare her with another figure who gets poetic justice.

Answer 50

Yes. She made the decision to have the affairs all by herself and it seems fair that she should have to deal with the consequences alone too. She can be compared to Eve in paradise lost because she also made a mistake and had to deal with consequences however she also brought down others with her.

Question 51

Widow Bloomer

Answer 51

the second to last disguise assumed by fantomina. The widow has an elaborate story about trying to get her husband's money back

Question 52

Beaplausir

Answer 52

the object of fantomina's desire throughout the novella. He has affairs with each of her characters and is the father of her child

Question 53

Novella

Answer 53

short novel

Question 54

A village called Auburn

Answer 54

The deserted Village

Question 55

omniscent narrator

Answer 55

knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story. Fantomina has an omniscient narrator