End of Semester Test: English 12B Test with Verified
Answers Graded A+
1. What is the overall message of this B.
poem? Every creature on earth is at the
mercy of some higher being.
2. "In which the burthen of the mystery, / In 1. meaning, weight, or signifi-
which the heavy and the weary weight Of cance
all this unintelligible world, / Is lightened:"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William 2. reward
Wordsworth)
3. a silly or foolish person
"Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other
gifts / Have followed; for such loss, I 4. a small stream
would believe, / Abundant recompence"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William 5. the rhythm of a piece of poetry
Wordsworth) or music
"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 Church-
yard" by Thomas Gray)
"Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves."
(from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Co-
leridge)
3. What theme is emphasized in this excerpt B.
from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Unfulfilled desires and dreams
Keats? seem sweeter.
4. Which line of this excerpt from "Ozyman- Which yet survive, stamped on
dias" by Percy Shelley reflects the theme these lifeless things
that art alone can last forever?
5.
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, Which quote from Frankenstein brings B.
out the theme of revenge in the novel? "I may die, but first you, my
tyrant and tormentor, shall curse
the sun that gazes on your mis-
ery. Beware, for I am fearless
and therefore powerful."
6. Which three parts of this excerpt from and it was, indeed, a long time
Frankenstein show that the creature is in- before I learned to distinguish
nocent and helpless like a newborn child between the operations of my
when it first appears in the novel? 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 B.
in the opening lines of Jane Austen's irony
Pride and Prejudice?
8. Which two parts in these excerpts from "One cannot wonder that so
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice illus- very fine a young man, with
trate the theme of pride? 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 Eliza-
beth, "and I could easily forgive
his pride, if he had not mortified
mine."
9. Four gray walls, and four gray
towers
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Answers Graded A+
1. What is the overall message of this B.
poem? Every creature on earth is at the
mercy of some higher being.
2. "In which the burthen of the mystery, / In 1. meaning, weight, or signifi-
which the heavy and the weary weight Of cance
all this unintelligible world, / Is lightened:"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William 2. reward
Wordsworth)
3. a silly or foolish person
"Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other
gifts / Have followed; for such loss, I 4. a small stream
would believe, / Abundant recompence"
(from "Tintern Abbey" by William 5. the rhythm of a piece of poetry
Wordsworth) or music
"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 Church-
yard" by Thomas Gray)
"Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves."
(from "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Co-
leridge)
3. What theme is emphasized in this excerpt B.
from "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Unfulfilled desires and dreams
Keats? seem sweeter.
4. Which line of this excerpt from "Ozyman- Which yet survive, stamped on
dias" by Percy Shelley reflects the theme these lifeless things
that art alone can last forever?
5.
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, Which quote from Frankenstein brings B.
out the theme of revenge in the novel? "I may die, but first you, my
tyrant and tormentor, shall curse
the sun that gazes on your mis-
ery. Beware, for I am fearless
and therefore powerful."
6. Which three parts of this excerpt from and it was, indeed, a long time
Frankenstein show that the creature is in- before I learned to distinguish
nocent and helpless like a newborn child between the operations of my
when it first appears in the novel? 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 B.
in the opening lines of Jane Austen's irony
Pride and Prejudice?
8. Which two parts in these excerpts from "One cannot wonder that so
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice illus- very fine a young man, with
trate the theme of pride? 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 Eliza-
beth, "and I could easily forgive
his pride, if he had not mortified
mine."
9. Four gray walls, and four gray
towers
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