End of Semester Test English 12B with Verified Answers
1. What is the overall message of this poem?: B.
Every creature on earth is at the mercy of some higher being.
2. "In which the burthen of the mystery, / In which the heavy and the weary
weight Of all this unintelligible world, / Is lightened:"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth)
"Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other gifts / Have followed; for such loss, I
would believe, / Abundant recompence"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth)
"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!"
(from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
"nor yet beside the rill,
Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he;"
(from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray)
"Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves."
(from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge): meaning, weight, or signifi-
cance
reward
a silly or foolish person
a small stream
the rhythm of a piece of poetry or music
3. What theme is emphasized in this excerpt from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by
John Keats?: B.
Unfulfilled desires and dreams seem sweeter.
4. Which line of this excerpt from "Ozymandias" by Percy Shelley reflects the
theme that art alone can last forever?: Which yet survive, stamped on these
lifeless things
5. Which quote from Frankenstein brings out the theme of revenge in the
novel?: B.
"I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on
your misery. Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful."
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6. Which three parts of this excerpt from Frankenstein show that the creature
is innocent and helpless like a newborn child when it first appears in the
novel?: and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the
operations of my various senses
I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but, feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat
down and wept.
Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and
inarticulate sounds
7. Which of these rhetorical devices is used in the opening lines of Jane
Austen's Pride and Prejudice?: B.
irony
8. Which two parts in these excerpts from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
illustrate the theme of pride?: that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune,
everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has
a right to be proud."
"That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had
not mortified mine."
9. In this excerpt from "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which
synecdoche denotes confinement?: Four gray walls, and four gray towers
10. In this excerpt from "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, which of the
following is a recurring concept?: E.
the thirst for knowledge and new experiences
11. Based on this excerpt from "Porphyria's Lover" by Robert Browning, what
does the setting contribute to this poem?: A.
The storm enhances the mysterious quality of Porphyria and her appearance.
12. In this excerpt from "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, which two lines or
sets of lines suggest that the speaker has undergone a loss of faith?: But now
I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
13. Which part of this excerpt from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens hints that
Oliver was not expected to live very long?: It had had plenty of room to expand,
thanks to the spare diet of the establishment; and perhaps to this circumstance may
be attributed his having any ninth birth-day at all.
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