English Unit 4 Lesson 11 Unit Test

Choose the word or phrase that best matches the word in italics The class discussed factors that create IMPEDIMENTS to a good education.

"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, /Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year!/My hasting days fly on will full career, /But my late spring no bud or blossom show' th." Which of these is nearest in meaning to the word HASTING, as it is used in the passage above?

"There the companions of his fall o'erwhelmed/With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire,/He soon discerns, and, weltering by his side,/One next himself in power, and next in crime..." Which of these is nearest in meaning to the word TEMPESTUOUS, as it is used in the passage above?

Heath

Surmise

Voluptuousness

Defray

Myriad

What sort of life is the shepherd offering the nymph?

What emotion is Shakespeare describing in these lines from Sonnet 29?

What point does Shakespeare underscore with these concluding lines from his Sonnet 29?

In which excerpt from John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" does the speaker most directly describe the relationship between him and his wife?

Which of these is the best interpretation of this passage?

Which line best states the theme of John Donne's Holy Sonnet 10?

Which of these is the best interpretation of this phrase from John Donne's Meditation 17?

Which of these is the most accurate paraphrase of these words from Ben Jonson's "On My First Son"?

Which of these excerpts from Ben Jonson's "Song: To Celia" compares love to intoxication?

Which of these beliefs is expressed in this excerpt from John Milton's "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"?

These lines illustrate a belief in what concept?