English 12 Unit 6: Semester Exam

Which of these excerpts from Beowulf evidences both pagan and Christian influences?

Which of these excerpts from Beowulf best describes Beowulf's reason for attacking Grendel's mother?

Which of these excerpts from Beowulf's The Battle With the Dragon most plainly casts Beowulf as the tale's protagonist?

Which of these best describes the tone evoked by these words?

Which of these lines from The Canterbury Tales Prologue best describes the chivalry of the Knight?

Which of these best explains Chaucer's choice to include a Prologue in The Canterbury Tales?

Which line from The Pardoner's Tale best displays the Pardoner's true attitude toward his religion?

In The Wife of Bath's Tale, Which of these statements discloses the fate of the Knight?

In these opening line from Wyatt's Whoso List to Hunt, What has the speaker given up on capturing?

Our two souls therefore, which are one,/Though I must go, endure not yet/A breach, but an expansion,/Like gold to airy thinness beat. With statement best paraphrases the lines above?

Which of these lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 portrays the emotion of envy?

Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds... In these lines from Sonnet 116, how does Shakespeare describe true love?

Which of these excerpts from Pepys's The Fire of London most clearly indicates that the work is a first-person account?

Which of these excerpts from Pope's The Rape of the Lock most clearly depicts the upper-class as petty and shallow?

Why does Swift include these sorts of facts and statistics in his essay?

Which line from Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard most plainly asserts the worth of the poor and unknown?

If the speaker in the Wife's Lament were to return home, it would make her blithe, or....

The speaker in The Wanderer believes that wisdom comes to those who are not covetous, or....

According to The Canterbury Tales, Canterbury contains the grave of a person who died for his religious beliefs---in other words, a....

When the speaker in The Wife of Bath's Tale uses the word tribulation in this excerpt, she is referring to great

The opening stanza of a Valediction: Forbidding Mourning describes the deaths of men who are virtuous, or....

As used in the title of John Donne's a Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, the word valediction is the antonym of the word

In How Soon Hath Time, Milton speculates that people may consider him a full-grown adult, due to his semblance, or....

In A Modest Proposal, Swift suggests the poor Irish children might be an overlooked commodity, or....

Each in his cell forever laid,/The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. In this excerpt from Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard the word rude means

Although the woman was attacked by a swarm of bees, she managed to escape with little injury

He could not help blaming himself for the accident, although nobody else did so

Nobody was really surprised when the votes were counted and Frank became class president

Keith wondered what the qualifications were for the lifeguard job

Neither whales nor dolphins are fish, although many believe that they are

We called the neighbors' cat Sham-wow, although we know that was most likely not its name

He worked for decades to become a successful polititcian and humanitarian

Most of the passengers recieved their refunds within a week

Transporting pollen is the function of worker bees

Developed by government scientists, the internet is now part of everyday life.

Her childhood friend, who she seldom thought about, turned up at her door

He walked slowly up the stairs, hoping nobody would hear him

My mother reported that she had found an apartment for us

Although he was drafted into the Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali refused to fight

He steeled his nerve, and he walked into the police station to confess

Choose the correct verb _____that you cannot go to college without a high school diploma

Choose the correct verb Many colleges admit adults who______high school

Choose the correct verb At one time colleges would not admit those without high school diplomas, but these days that________no longer always the case

Choose the correct verb She______what he was saying to her, but she did not grasp its significance

Choose the correct verb Many students who attend community college________for and find good jobs