ENGH043060 University of Nebraska Paradise Lost Excerpt Questions This evaluation will cover the lessons in this unit. It is open book, meaning you can use

ENGH043060 University of Nebraska Paradise Lost Excerpt Questions This evaluation will cover the lessons in this unit. It is open book, meaning you can use your textbook, syllabus, and other course materials. You will need to understand, analyze, and apply the information you have learned in order to answer the questions correctly. To submit the evaluation, follow the directions in your online course. Course Name: Twelfth Grade English 1: Early British
Literature
Student: Cheng Zhou
Course ID:
ENGH043060
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Progress Test 3
This Progress Test covers the course materials that were assigned in Units 5 and 6. Although the progress test is
similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test. You may not have access to
notes or any of the course materials while you are taking the test. It is important that you do your own work. Select
the response that best completes the statement or answers the question.
____ 1.
Help refers to “the steps” in The Pilgrim’s Progress as
a.
b.
c.
____ 2.
In Gulliver’s Travels, war breaks out when the Lilliputians quarrel. What is the quarrel about?
a.
b.
c.
____ 3.
The speaker recalls the joys of life.
The speaker mourns the death of his son.
The speaker celebrates his son’s birth.
A person reading both Pepys’s Diary and Charles II’s “Declaration to London, 1666” would understand
a.
b.
c.
____ 7.
deceive Adam and Eve
create evil out of all good
to forget about God forever
What is the main idea of “On My First Son”?
a.
b.
c.
____ 6.
a publisher.
a bell.
an island.
Satan wants to __________ as he sits in Hell, according to the Paradise Lost excerpt.
a.
b.
c.
____ 5.
which end of an egg to break open
what to do with Gulliver
how to elect political leaders
In “Meditation 17” God is compared to
a.
b.
c.
____ 4.
flat rocks forming a pathway near the slough.
stairs cut into the ground beneath the slough.
pathways to salvation and grace.
they were not intended to be read by the public.
they were written for publication.
the conditions in London in 1666 by seeing firsthand what happened.
What is the following quote from “Meditation 17” saying about death? “When one man dies, one chapter is
not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
a.
b.
c.
Through our deaths, others learn how to live better lives.
The church records both the lives and deaths of its members.
When we die, we do not cease to exist but instead achieve eternal life.
____ 8.
Which term best describes these lines from “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”? “Our two souls therefore,
which are one, / Though I must go, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion . . .”
a.
b.
c.
____ 9.
conceit
paradox
conclusion
Samuel Johnson selected every word in his Dictionary of the English Language.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 10. “Lady, it is to be presumed, / Though art’s hid causes are not found / All is not sweet, all is not sound” from
“Still Be Neat” means
a.
b.
c.
the woman has spent hours making herself beautiful.
perfect makeup and grooming cover flaws.
most women only take such care for special occasions.
____ 11. Night is described as a time __________ in “A Nocturnal Reverie.”
a.
b.
c.
for recovery and celebration
filled with dread over what the next day will bring
when all living things sleep in peace
____ 12. “But at my back I always hear / Time’s winged chariot hurrying near . . . ” from “To His Coy Mistress” means
a.
b.
c.
death is approaching quickly.
the speaker is rushing to meet another woman.
rivals may soon win his mistress’s heart.
____ 13. Robert Burns used both the Irish and Scottish dialect in his poems.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 14. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” contains the main idea that
a.
b.
c.
ordinary people live and die, and no one notices.
all lives, no matter how great or unknown, end in death.
once powerful kings lie buried in country churchyards.
____ 15. The reader can see what Pepys’s position in his community was by the excerpt in his Diary: “Church being
done, my Lord Bruncher, Sir J. Minnes, and I up to the vestry at the desire of the Justice of the Peace, Sir
Theo, Biddulph, and Sir W. Boreman and Alderman Hooker, in order to the doing something for the keeping
of the plague from growing . . . ” What was his position in the community?
a.
b.
c.
He is a doctor whose opinion is valued.
He is one of decision makers and leaders of the community.
He takes orders from the justices of the peace.
____ 16. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, the Slough of Despond is ordered to be repaired.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 17. What would be a good purpose for reading Johnson’s “The Preface” to his dictionary?
a.
b.
c.
to learn how people reacted to it
to learn about his life
to learn why he wrote the dictionary
____ 18. The following is taken from “The Aims of The Spectator” “I have brought philosophy out of closets and
libraries, schools and colleges, to dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea tables and in coffeehouses.” What
does this mean?
a.
b.
c.
He has made philosophy popular with ordinary people.
He has begun teaching philosophy in schools and colleges.
He thinks philosophy is a waste of time for most people.
____ 19. In Suckling’s “Song,” what is the speaker’s attitude toward his subject?
a.
b.
c.
humorous
scolding
sorrowful
____ 20. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” ends when
a.
b.
c.
the speaker becomes famous and moves away.
the speaker dies and is buried in the graveyard.
someone tells the speaker to stop visiting the graveyard.
____ 21. The Rape of the Lock uses a mock epic characteristic of
a.
b.
c.
a historic event.
a high-level style.
an accusatory tone.
____ 22. The main idea of __________ is found in the excerpt of An Essay on Man.
a.
b.
c.
people are emotional when they should be logical
people are more like beasts than angels
people have many strengths and weaknesses
____ 23. To say “unkindly kind” as found in Donne’s “Song” is paradoxical because
a.
b.
c.
it repeats itself.
it implies that the lover is being kind and cruel at the same time.
it is an exaggerated way of speaking.
____ 24. What is the speaker’s attitude in these final lines from Sir John Suckling’s “Song”? “If of herself she will not
love, / Nothing can make her: / The devil take her!”
a.
b.
c.
confidence
frustration
sadness
____ 25. How does the father react to the child’s birth in “Infant Sorrow”?
a.
b.
c.
He cries.
He leaves.
He leaps for joy.
____ 26. King Charles II did not take measures to prevent a fire before the Great Fire of London.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 27. In Paradise Lost, Satan wants to sabotage God’s plans by spreading evil.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 28. Charles II states in “Declaration to London, 1666” that he wants houses to built out of
a.
b.
c.
brick or stone.
brick only.
brick or wood.
____ 29. The main philosophical idea of __________ is found in “The Lamb. ”
a.
b.
c.
the earth is beautiful
life is a mystery
God is kind
____ 30. The “Little-enders/Big-enders” controversy in Gulliver’s Travels symbolized the controversy between
Catholics and Protestants.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 31. At the end of The Rape of the Lock, Belinda becomes famous due to undergoing humiliation.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 32. What is the speaker saying about himself in the lines from Sonnet VII (“How soon hath Time”)? “Perhaps my
semblance might deceive the truth, / That I to manhood am arrived so near, / And inward ripeness doth
much less appear . . . ”
a.
b.
c.
I may appear to be a man, but I am not yet mentally mature.
I do mean to lie to you, but I am almost a man.
I have a great talent that you have not seen yet.
____ 33. How did Satan come to rule in Hell, according to the excerpt from Paradise Lost?
a.
b.
c.
He betrayed Beelzebub.
He led a rebellion against God.
He wanted his own realm.
____ 34. What is the target of Swift’s satire when he has Gulliver offer the king of Brobdingnag the technology to
make gunpowder and the king refuses?
a.
b.
c.
the inhumanity of modern warfare
the inability of rulers to accept change
the wisdom of European rulers
____ 35. “Song: To Celia” was perhaps written by Jonson to
a.
b.
c.
describe the courtship of lovers.
remember his lost love.
show how silly lovers can be.
____ 36. While Johnson has many admirable qualities, the one that Boswell praises the most in his Life of Samuel
Johnson is
a.
b.
c.
strength of character.
thinking abilities.
sense of humor.
____ 37. The main theme of “Meditation 17″ can be found in the line
a.
b.
c.
” . . . he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill as that he knows not it tolls for him . . . ”
“Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind . . . ”
” . . . some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war . . . ”
____ 38. A theme found in Johnson’s “The Preface” is
a.
b.
c.
it is a first try; his next dictionary will be better.
it might not be perfect, but no one else has even completed one.
not everyone has a chance to write the first dictionary for a language.
____ 39. What is the best translation of this line of dialect from “To a Mouse”? “Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!”
a.
b.
c.
Your small house is also destroyed!
You should run from your house!
You ruin your own house, too!
____ 40. The speaker states, “My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy.” This line, taken from “On My First Son”
means
a.
b.
c.
the speaker’s sin was in wanting too much for his son.
the speaker regrets how he treated his son.
the speaker is sorry for disappointing his son.
____ 41. The speaker in “To His Coy Mistress” is trying to urge his love to accept his proposal of marriage.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 42. Happiness and a sense of achievement are human emotions represented by the Slough of Despond in The
Pilgrim’s Progress.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 43. The Slough of Despond’s allegorical significance in The Pilgrim’s Progress is
a.
b.
c.
a representation of any difficulty in life.
a representation of the obstacles in the path to Christian salvation.
a representation of financial setbacks.
____ 44. A reoccurring symbol in “Meditation 17” is a church bell.
a.
b.
True
False
____ 45. The reader sees the speaker in the opening lines of “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.”
a.
b.
c.
wandering in the countryside after dark
visiting with friends in the country
attending the funeral of an older relative
____ 46. In Sonnet XIX (“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent”) the problem the speaker examines is how to
a.
b.
c.
do his work as a blind person.
overcome his blindness.
bear the burden of his blindness.
____ 47. “The Aims of The Spectator” has a purpose to
a.
b.
c.
ask Addison’s audience to submit ideas for topics.
describe Addison’s philosophies about working.
explain Addison’s goal for the paper.
____ 48. What is the main idea of the excerpt from A Journal of the Plague Year?
a.
b.
c.
The plague brought sorrow to everyone.
The plague caused a breakdown in orderly behavior.
The plague did not affect many people.
____ 49. What is the speaker saying in the following quote from “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”? “Dull sublunary
lovers’ love / (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit / Absence, because it doth remove / Those things which
elemented it.”
a.
b.
c.
People should appreciate earthly love because it is all they can know.
Unlike physical love, spiritual love can withstand absence.
Love does not need divine approval.
____ 50. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, how would you describe Pliable’s attitude toward salvation?
a.
b.
c.
He is willing to do anything to achieve it.
If it requires too much effort, he is not interested.
He would work hard for it if he were sure he could get it.
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