10. Read this excerpt from Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning:
“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? (1 point)
Our love can endure our physical absence from each other.
Our love becomes thinner the farther we are apart.
Our souls are as precious as gold.
Our souls can endure any breach that arises between them.
11. Which of these lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 portrays the emotion of joy? (1 point)
“… And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries…”
“… With what I most enjoy contented least…”
“… Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope…”
“… For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings…”
12. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments…”
In these lines from Sonnet 116, how does Shakespeare describe true love? (1 point)
as fleeting
as unpredictable
as invulnerable
as indefinable
13. Which of these excerpts from Pepys’s The Fire of London most clearly indicates that the work is a first-person account? (1 point)
“So I rose and slipped on my night-gown, and went to her window…”
“Everybody endeavoring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river…”
“Poor Mitchell’s house, as far as the Old Swan, already burned that way…”
“Extraordinary good goods carried in carts…”
14. From which of these excerpts can it be most clearly inferred that Pope’s The Rape of the Lock is
intended as a mock epic? (1 point)
“Hither the heroes and nymphs resort…”
“But this bold lord with manly strength endued…”
“All that I dread is leaving you behind!”
“In various talk th’ instructive hours they passed…”
15. Read this excerpt from Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, in which he explains how poor parents could benefit by selling their infants for use as food.
“Secondly, the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to distress, and help pay their landlord’s rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.”
What point is Swift really making? (1 point)
The wealthy take enormous advantage of the poor.
The poor would be eager to sell their infants for food.
The poor would take advantage of the wealthy if they could.
The wealthy are not able to financially maintain their properties.
16. Which line from Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard most plainly asserts the
worth of the poor and unknown? (1 point)
“… And all the air a solemn stillness holds…”
“… The little tyrant of his fields withstood…”
“… No children run to lisp their sire’s return…”
“…Full many a flow’r is born to blush unseen…”