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End of Semester Test: English 12A (PLATO) Exam Questions With Correct Answers Which sentence best explains why modern English reflects the influence of several languages? - answerB. Between AD 500 and 1200, invaders from several countries conquered parts of Britain. Match the words that have t...

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End of Semester Test: English 12A (PLATO)
Exam Questions With Correct Answers


Which sentence best explains why modern English reflects the influence of several languages? -

answer✔B. Between AD 500 and 1200, invaders from several countries conquered parts of

Britain.


Match the words that have the same denotations. - answer✔favored → lucky


drenched → soaked

grinned → smiled

scoffed → mocked

elated → happy


What is the reason for the tragic end of the hero Beowulf? - answer✔B. hubris


Which three parts of this excerpt from Beowulf relate to a warrior code?




Beowulf answered, Ecgtheow's son:

"Grieve not, O wise one! for each it is better,

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[His friend to avenge than with vehemence wail him;]

[Each of us must the end-day abide of]

His earthly existence; who is able accomplish




[Glory ere death!] [To battle-thane noble

Lifeless lying, 'tis at last most fitting.]

Arise, O king, [quick let us hasten

To look at the footprint of the kinsman of Grendel!]


I promise thee this now: to his place he'll escape not, . . ." - answer✔His friend to avenge than

with vehemence wail him;




Glory ere death!




& To battle-thane noble

Lifeless lying, 'tis at last most fitting.

What do these lines from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight reveal about the character of Sir

Gawain?

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That no host under heaven is hardier of will,

Nor better brothers-in-arms where battle is joined;


I am the weakest, well I know, and of wit feeblest; - answer✔B. He is modest.


Medieval romances abounded in archetypes. Most characters in romances fit into a certain

archetypal mold. Match the characters from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to the archetypes

they represent. - answer✔the trickster → Morgan Le Faye


the temptress → Bertilak's wife

the hero on a quest → Sir Gawain

the hospitable host → Bertilak of Hautdesert

Read this excerpt from "The Nun's Priest's Tale" in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.




O new Iscariot, O new Ganelon!

O false dissimulator, Greek Sinon

That brought down Troy all utterly to sorrow!

O Chanticleer, accursed be that morrow

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