Unit 5: The Restoration And The Enlightenment: 1660-1798, Lesson 5: Elegy: Gray

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Choose the best answer. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is mostly
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lyrical, because it focuses on feelings.
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Choose the best answer. What is the meaning of line 36 in "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "The paths of glory leads but to the grave"?
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death makes everyone equal.
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Choose the best answer. Which of the following best describes the mood of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?
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gloomy.
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Choose the best answer. Which would best describe Gray's feeling about death?
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death is not concerned with a mans wealth.
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Choose the best answer. Which of the following sentences contains a verb in the subjunctive mood?
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i wish you had more confidence in yourself.
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Choose the best answer. Which of the following sentences has a verb in the imperative mood?
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try answering the question; it's easy.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. Everybody endeavoring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off... ( The Diary of Samuel Pepys)
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trying.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. At last met my Lord Mayor in Canning Street, like a man spent, with a handkerchief about his neck.
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exhausted.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. So home with a sad heart, and there find everybody discoursing and lamenting the fire; and poor Tom Hater come with some of his few goods saved out of his house, which is burned upon Fish Street Hill.
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talking.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, / With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. (The Rape of the Lock)
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glancing amorously.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, / The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray; (The Rape of the Lock)
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indirectly.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. There heroes' wits are kept in ponderous vases, / And beaux' in snuffboxes and tweezer cases, (The Rap of the Lock)
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unwieldy.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling, to beg sustenance for their helpless infants... ("A Modest Proposal")
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nourishment.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. Many other advantages might be enumerated. ("A Modest Proposal")
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explained one by one.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, / If Mem'ry o'er their tomb no trophies rise, / Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, / The pealing anthem swells the note of praise, ("Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard")
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blame.
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Choose the meaning of the bold words for the following question. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, / Their sober wishes never learned to stray; ("Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard")
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immoral.
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Choose the word that best fits in the blanks for the following question. Flammable is another word for _____.
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combustible.
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Choose the word that best fits in the blanks for the following question. The _____ smell of fire pervaded the city of London.
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pungent.
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Choose the word that best fits in the blanks for the following question. The _____ treatment of working class people in Ireland was a focus of Swift's "A Modest Proposal."
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malicious.
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Choose the word that best fits in the blanks for the following question. In many diaries, people may discuss personal details, such as _____ with a secret lover.
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assignations.