English 12A Final Exam 2025/2026
Complete Questions And Correct Answers
From which of these excerpts from Beowulf can a pagan influence best be inferred?
...And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,/Made heathen vows...
Which of these excerpts from Beowulf most directly describes the outcome of the conflict
between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother?
... the battle's only survivor/Swam up and away from those silent corpses...
which of these excerpts from Beowulf best describes what Beowulf expects the outcome of his
battle with the dragon to be ?
...soon/Would leave this brief life, but would take the dragon/ With him...
...hardship groaned/Around my hear. Hunger tore/At my sea-weary soul...
Which of these best describes the tone evoked by these words?
despondence
which of these lines from the canterbury tales' prologue best describes the chivalry of the
knight?
, ...truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy...
how does Chaucer’s choice to set the canterbury tales' prologue in spring contribute to the
narrative?
it casts the idea of religious pilgrimage as a new beginning
which line from the pardoner's tale best explains the reason the pardoner preaches to the
masses?
out come the pence, and specially for myself
in the wife of bath's tale, with which of these statements does the knight decry his fate?
you're old, and so abominably plain,/So poor... so low-bred...
such is the power of love in gentle mind,/That it can alter all the course of kind.
which of these best restates these closing line form spencer's sonnet 30?
love ultimately makes no sense
moving of th' earth brings arms and fears,/Men reckon what it did and meant,/But trepidation
of the spheres,/Though greater far, is innocent.
which statement best paraphrases the lines above?
the power of nature cannot compare of the power of love
Complete Questions And Correct Answers
From which of these excerpts from Beowulf can a pagan influence best be inferred?
...And sometimes they sacrificed to the old stone gods,/Made heathen vows...
Which of these excerpts from Beowulf most directly describes the outcome of the conflict
between Beowulf and Grendel’s mother?
... the battle's only survivor/Swam up and away from those silent corpses...
which of these excerpts from Beowulf best describes what Beowulf expects the outcome of his
battle with the dragon to be ?
...soon/Would leave this brief life, but would take the dragon/ With him...
...hardship groaned/Around my hear. Hunger tore/At my sea-weary soul...
Which of these best describes the tone evoked by these words?
despondence
which of these lines from the canterbury tales' prologue best describes the chivalry of the
knight?
, ...truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy...
how does Chaucer’s choice to set the canterbury tales' prologue in spring contribute to the
narrative?
it casts the idea of religious pilgrimage as a new beginning
which line from the pardoner's tale best explains the reason the pardoner preaches to the
masses?
out come the pence, and specially for myself
in the wife of bath's tale, with which of these statements does the knight decry his fate?
you're old, and so abominably plain,/So poor... so low-bred...
such is the power of love in gentle mind,/That it can alter all the course of kind.
which of these best restates these closing line form spencer's sonnet 30?
love ultimately makes no sense
moving of th' earth brings arms and fears,/Men reckon what it did and meant,/But trepidation
of the spheres,/Though greater far, is innocent.
which statement best paraphrases the lines above?
the power of nature cannot compare of the power of love
