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PART A: MULTIPLE CHOICE 23 multiple-choice questions Value: 25% Suggested Time: 20 minutes

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Literary Selections 1. In Beowulf, why does Grendel attack Herot? A. He hates God. B. He is envious of the Danes’ celebrations. C. He desires the riches that the thanes have received from their king. D. He is intent on defeating Hrothgar who has previously defeated Grendel. 2. In his descriptions of the other pilgrims in “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, what character

traits can be inferred about the narrator himself? A. He is jovial and gullible. B. He is angry and satirical. C. He is shrewd and insightful. D. He is judgmental and remote. 3. Which literary term best describes “Bonny Barbara Allan”? A. lyric B. satire C. elegy D. narrative

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4. In Sonnet 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”), what relieves the speaker’s depressed state of mind?

A. the beauty of the lark’s song B. the recollection that he is loved C. the hymns sung at Heaven’s gate D. the opportunities that friends possess 5. In “Death, Be Not Proud,” which word best describes the speaker’s attitude towards death? A. anger B. sorrow C. defiance D. acceptance 6. In Paradise Lost, what is Satan’s response to his defeat? A. to sue for peace B. to find ways to corrupt goodness C. to acknowledge God to be almighty D. to mount a direct assault on Heaven 7. “So home with a sad heart, and there find everybody discoursing and lamenting the fire;

and poor Tom Hater come with some few of his goods saved out of his house, which is burned upon Fish Street Hill. I invited him to lie at my house, and did receive his goods, but was deceived in his lying there, the news coming every moment of the growth of the fire; so as we were forced to begin to pack up our own goods and prepare for their removal”

What can be understood from this passage from Pepys’s Diary? A. Pepys resents having to house Mr. Hater. B. Mr. Hater has lost all his possessions in the fire. C. Both Pepys and Mr. Hater will soon need to flee. D. Mr. Hater has deceived Pepys with his story of loss. 8. In The Rape of the Lock, from whom does the baron obtain the “fatal engine”? A. Ariel B. Clarissa C. Belinda D. Dapperwit


9. In the companion poems “The Lamb” and “The Tiger,” what does the speaker intend to contrast? A. Art B. God C. Nature D. Society 10. In “The World Is Too Much with Us,” what problem does the speaker suggest confronts society? A. We lack faith in commerce. B. We lack political conviction. C. We have lost Christian belief. D. We have lost emotional connectedness. 11. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” to whom does the phrase “A sadder and a wiser man, / He

rose the morrow morn” refer? A. the Pilot B. the Hermit C. the Wedding Guest D. the Ancient Mariner 12. In “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be,” what does the speaker suggest is one of his fears? A. He will have no heir. B. His disease may not be curable. C. He will never travel to foreign lands. D. He will never fulfill his literary potential. 13. In “Dover Beach,” what does the speaker believe he and his beloved should do? A. seek another world B. face death with courage C. remain faithful to each other D. anticipate their reunion in the afterlife


14. Which could be the rhyme scheme of an Italian sonnet? A. a b b a a b b a c d c d c d

B. a b a b b c b c c d c d e e

C . a b a b c b c d c d e d e e

D. a b a b c d c d e f e f g g

15. The speaker in “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” passes a series of scenes. Which word best

describes these scenes? A. sad B. literal C. joyful D. symbolic 16. In “The Second Coming,” what does the speaker suggest the Second Coming will be like? A. joyful B. peaceful C. monstrous D. meaningless


Recognition of Authors and Titles

INSTRUCTIONS: Select the author of the quotation or the title of the selection from which the quotation is taken.

17. “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle’s compass come.” A. Gray B. Herrick C. Marlowe D. Shakespeare 18. “O for a beaker full of the warm South…

That I might drink, and leave the world unseen, And with thee fade away into the forest dim”

A. Keats B. Byron C. Hardy D. Shelley 19. “The moving water will not show me

my reflection.” A. Eliot B. Smith C. Byron D. Atwood 20. “[W]hat in me is dark

Illumine, what is low raise and support” A. Paradise Lost B. “Ode to a Nightingale” C. “Death, Be Not Proud” D. “Ode to the West Wind”


21. “So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old”

A. Hardy B. Herrick C. Tennyson D. Wordsworth 22. “We paused before a House that seemed

A swelling of the Ground” A. Gray B. Brontë C. Coleridge D. Dickinson 23. “Then but to look, to laugh, or speak,

Will the nuptial contract break.” A. Pope B. Raleigh C. Chudleigh D. Browning


PART B: SIGHT PASSAGE

7 multiple-choice questions 1 written-response question Value: 25% Suggested Time: 35 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the following selection by Shakespeare. For questions 24 to 30, choose the best answer and record your choice on the Answer Sheet provided.

from As You Like It

140 145 150 155 160 165

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,1 Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon2 lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws3 and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,4 With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Shakespeare (II. vii. 139–166)

1 pard: leopard 2 capon: fattened chicken 3 saws: maxims, sayings 4 pantaloon: ridiculous old man (a figure in Italian comedy)


24. In what form is this passage written? A. prose B. free verse C. blank verse D. iambic tetrameter 25. What does the phrase “shining morning face” (line 146) suggest? A. The boy is happy. B. The boy is a hypocrite. C. The boy’s face has been washed. D. The boy’s face is illuminated by the sun. 26. In the exaggerated expression of love, which character does the “lover” (lines 147–148)

most resemble? A. the Squire in “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales B. the Wife of Bath in “The Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales C. the speaker in Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”) D. the speaker in Sonnet 43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) 27. In lines 152–153, what does “Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon’s mouth”

suggest about the soldier? A. He is wise in seeking reputation. B. He understands that reputation is fleeting. C. He feels reputation is more important than his life. D. He knows that reputation cannot be found in the cannon’s mouth. 28. Which literary device is used in the last line of the passage? A. pun B. refrain C. chorus D. parallelism


29. To which social group does the man described in the passage most likely belong? A. clergy B. royalty C. middle class D. working class 30. Which word best describes the tone of the passage? A. bitter B. cynical C. nostalgic D. sentimental You have Examination Booklet Form B. In the box above #1 on your Answer Sheet,

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from As You Like It (page 7 in the Examination Booklet)

INSTRUCTIONS: With specific reference to the passage, respond to the following question in approximately 200 words in paragraph form. Write your answer in ink in the Response Booklet.

1. What is the speaker’s view of the human condition?

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PART C: SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA 1 written-response question Value: 20% Suggested Time: 25 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose one of the three passages on pages 14 to 17 in the Examination Booklet. With specific reference to the drama, respond to one of the following questions in approximately 200 words in paragraph form. Write your answer in ink in the Response Booklet.

Place a checkmark in Instruction 4 on the front cover of the Response Booklet. Hamlet (See passage on page 14.)

2. Summarize Hamlet’s argument in this passage, and show that it reflects ideas found elsewhere in the play.

OR

The Tempest (See passage on page 15.)

3. Show how the responses of Gonzalo and Alonso in this passage are in keeping with what we know of them from elsewhere in the play.

OR

King Lear (See passage on page 17.)

4. Lear’s character is reflected in his changing attitudes towards Cordelia. Support this statement with reference to the passage and to the rest of the play.


2. Hamlet (1600 –1601)

Hamlet: To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep— No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to! ’Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep— To sleep—perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub,1 For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,2 Must give us pause. There’s the respect3 That makes calamity of so long life: For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th’ oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,4 The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of th’ unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus5 make With a bare bodkin?6 Who would fardels7 bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn8 No traveler returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience9 does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast10 of thought, And enterprises of great pitch11 and moment, With this regard12 their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.

1 rub: impediment or obstruction 2 mortal coil: mortal body 3 respect: consideration 4 contumely: insult 5 quietus: a release from a debt or duty 6 bodkin: dagger 7 fardels: burdens 8 bourn: region 9 conscience: (1) introspection (2) inner moral voice 10 cast: colour 11 pitch: height 12 regard: consideration

60 65 70 75 80 85 (III. i. 56–88)


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3. The Tempest (1611)

Ariel and the strange spirit Shapes have just removed the magical banquet table.

Gonzalo: I’ th’ name of something holy, sir, why stand you

In this strange stare?

Alonso: O, it is monstrous, monstrous! Methought the billows spoke and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass.1 Therefore my son i’ th’ ooze is bedded; and I’ll seek him deeper than e’er plummet sounded And with him there lie mudded. Exit

Sebastian: But one fiend at a time, I’ll fight their legions o’er!2

Antonio: I’ll be thy second Exeunt [Sebastian and Antonio] Gonzalo: All three of them are desperate; their great guilt,

Like poison given to work a great time after, Now ’gins to bite the spirits. I do beseech you, That are of suppler joints, follow them swiftly And hinder them from what this ecstasy3

May now provoke them to.

1 did bass my trespass: i.e., made me understand my trespass by turning it into music for which the

thunder provided the bass part 2 o’er: one after another to the last 3 ecstasy: madness

95 100 105 (III. iii. 93–109)


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4. King Lear (1603)

Lear: what can you say to draw A third more opulent than your sisters? Speak.

Cordelia: Nothing, my lord. Lear: Nothing? Cordelia: Nothing. Lear: Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again. Cordelia: Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave

My heart into my mouth. I love your Majesty According to my bond,1 no more nor less.

Lear: How, how, Cordelia? Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

Cordelia: Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I Return those duties back as are right fit,2 Obey you, love you, and most honor you. Why have my sisters husbands, if they say They love you all? Haply,3 when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight4 shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty. Sure I shall never marry like my sisters, To love my father all.

Lear: But goes thy heart with this? Cordelia Ay, my good lord. Lear: So young, and so untender? Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true. Lear: Let it be so, thy truth then be thy dower!

For, by the sacred radiance of the sun, The mysteries of Hecate5 and the night, By all the operation of the orbs6 From whom we do exist and cease to be, Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood,7 And as a stranger to my heart and me Hold thee from this for ever.

1 bond: i.e., family obligation 2 Return…fit: i.e., am correspondingly dutiful 3 Haply: perhaps 4 plight: pledge of faithfulness in marriage 5 mysteries of Hecate: secret rites of Hecate (goddess of the infernal world, and of witchcraft) 6 operation of the orbs: astrological influence 7 Propinquity and property of blood: relationship and common blood

90 95 100 105 110 115 (I. i. 87–118)






PART D: GENERAL ESSAY 1 written-response question Value: 30% Suggested Time: 40 minutes

INSTRUCTIONS: Choose one of the following topics. Write a multi-paragraph essay (at least three paragraphs) of approximately 400 words. Develop a concise, focused answer to show your knowledge and understanding of the topic. Include specific references to the works you discuss. You may not need all the space provided for your answer. You must refer to at least one work from the Specified Readings List (see page 20 in the Examination Booklet). The only translated works you may use are those from Anglo-Saxon and Medieval English. Write your answer in ink in the Response Booklet.

Place a checkmark in Instruction 4 on the front cover of the Response Booklet. Topic 5 A narrator or speaker may contribute to the effectiveness of a work of literature.

Support this statement by discussing at least three literary works.

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Topic 6 Difficult situations often provide insight into human behaviour. Support this statement by discussing at least three literary works.

OR

Topic 7 A literary work may criticize the values of the time in which it was written. Support this statement by discussing at least three literary works.

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Specified Readings List

Anglo-Saxon and Medieval • from Beowulf • Geoffrey Chaucer, from

The Canterbury Tales, “The Prologue” • “Bonny Barbara Allan” • from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Renaissance and 17th Century • Sir Thomas Wyatt, “Whoso List to Hunt” • Christopher Marlowe,

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” • Sir Walter Raleigh,

“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” • William Shakespeare,

Sonnet 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”) Sonnet 116 (“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”) Sonnet 130 (“My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”) Hamlet, King Lear or The Tempest

• John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”; “Death, Be Not Proud”

• Robert Herrick, “To the Virgins” • John Milton, “On His Blindness”;

from Paradise Lost • from The Diary of Samuel Pepys

18th Century and Romantic • Lady Mary Chudleigh, “To the Ladies” • Alexander Pope, from The Rape of the Lock • Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal” • Robert Burns, “To a Mouse” • William Blake, “The Tiger”;

“The Lamb”

• Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

• William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps Up”; “The World Is Too Much with Us”

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

• George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Apostrophe to the Ocean”

• Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”

• John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”; “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be”

Victorian and 20th Century • Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses” • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43

(“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”)

• Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” • Emily Brontë, “Song” • Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” • Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush” • Emily Dickinson,

“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” • Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est ” • William Butler Yeats,

“The Second Coming” • T.S. Eliot, “The Hollow Men” • Dylan Thomas,

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” • Stevie Smith, “Pretty” • Margaret Atwood,

“Disembarking at Quebec”

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English Literature 12 - Wikispaces · Page 2 English Literature 12 – 1001 Form B 4. In Sonnet 29 (“When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”), what relieves the speaker’s