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Chaucer/ Green Knight
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Beowulf
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Category 1 questions follow
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From “The Seafarer” – “…Alone in a world blown clear of love,/Hung with icicles. The hailstorms flew.” What is the tone evoked by these words?
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erDespondence/sorrow/loneliness
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Sonnet 30 – “My love is like to ice, and I to fire;/How comes it then that this her cold so great/Is not dissolved by my so hot desire…” What is the speaking lamenting?
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erUnreciprocated love
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 – “Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments…” How does Shakespeare describe true love
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erInvulnerable/unbreakable
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Sonnet 29 – “…I all alone beweep my outcast state…” In this line, Shakespeare portrays which emotion?
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erForlornness/loneliness/bleakness
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What is the best paraphrase for the excerpt from Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?
:If they be two, they are two so/As stiff, twin compasses are two,/Thy soul the fixed foot makes no show/To move, but doth, if th’ other do.”
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erOur hearts are united by nature itself.
Category 2 questions follow
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In the Prologue, the Prioress and the Monk show that Chaucer feels the Church has what flaw?
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erDisregard of the needy
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Who agrees to travel with the pilgrims and to be judge of the contest?
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erInnkeeper
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What does the Pardoner’s Tale preach against?
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erGreed, gluttony
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What does the old lady demand in return for supplying the Knight with the correct answer to the Queen’s question?
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erFor the Knight to marry her.
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What does The Green Knight want the challenger to agree to do?
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erTo cut off The Green Knight’s head and then appear one year later to have his own head cut off.
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Who is the first person we see Beowulf fight?
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erGrendel
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Who is Beowulf’s last opponent?
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erDragon
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Who returns the dragon’s treasure?
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erWexstan’s son - Wiglaf
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The following excerpt from Beowulf’s “The Battle With the Dragon” plainly casts Beowulf as the tale’s _________? “… The Geats/Deserved revenge; Beowulf, their… lord, began to plan it…”
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erprotagonist
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What makes Beowulf an epic hero?
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erTragic ending, larger than life, supernatural
Category 4 questions follow
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What term best describes the italicized word?
They watched the flock of birds fly south, in what looked like perfect formation.
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erCollective noun
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What term best describes the italicized word?The suspect looked as though he knew more than he was letting on.
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erLinking verb
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What term best describes the italicized word?
Keith wondered what the qualifications were for the lifeguard job.
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erInterrogative adjective
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What term best describes the italicized word?Helping the poor became her life’s mission.
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erGerund phrase
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What sentence structure is used in this sentence?
Although he was drafted in the Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali refused to fight.
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ercomplex
Category 5 questions follow
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If the speaker in The Wife’s Lament were to return home, it would make her blithe, or?
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erhappy
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A person who dies for his religious beliefs
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ermartyr
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A form of literature with an underlying moral or lesson
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erallegory
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In Sonnet 29, Shakespeare describes the earth as sullen, or?
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ergloomy
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In Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan views his fall from heaven as an ignominy, or?
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erPublic disgrace
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