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Category 1 questions follow

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From “The Seafarer” – “…Alone in a world blown clear of love,/Hung with icicles. The hailstorms flew.” What is the tone evoked by these words?

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erDespondence/sorrow/loneliness

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Sonnet 30 – “My love is like to ice, and I to fire;/How comes it then that this her cold so great/Is not dissolved by my so hot desire…” What is the speaking lamenting?

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erUnreciprocated love

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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 – “Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments…” How does Shakespeare describe true love

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erInvulnerable/unbreakable

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Sonnet 29 – “…I all alone beweep my outcast state…” In this line, Shakespeare portrays which emotion?

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erForlornness/loneliness/bleakness

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What is the best paraphrase for the excerpt from Donne’s A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?

:If they be two, they are two so/As stiff, twin compasses are two,/Thy soul the fixed foot makes no show/To move, but doth, if th’ other do.”

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erOur hearts are united by nature itself.

Category 2 questions follow

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In the Prologue, the Prioress and the Monk show that Chaucer feels the Church has what flaw?

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erDisregard of the needy

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Who agrees to travel with the pilgrims and to be judge of the contest?

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erInnkeeper

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What does the Pardoner’s Tale preach against?

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erGreed, gluttony

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What does the old lady demand in return for supplying the Knight with the correct answer to the Queen’s question?

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erFor the Knight to marry her.

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What does The Green Knight want the challenger to agree to do?

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erTo cut off The Green Knight’s head and then appear one year later to have his own head cut off.

Category 3 questions follow

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Who is the first person we see Beowulf fight?

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erGrendel

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Who is Beowulf’s last opponent?

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erDragon

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Who returns the dragon’s treasure?

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erWexstan’s son - Wiglaf

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The following excerpt from Beowulf’s “The Battle With the Dragon” plainly casts Beowulf as the tale’s _________? “… The Geats/Deserved revenge; Beowulf, their… lord, began to plan it…”

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erprotagonist

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What makes Beowulf an epic hero?

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erTragic ending, larger than life, supernatural

Category 4 questions follow

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What term best describes the italicized word?

They watched the flock of birds fly south, in what looked like perfect formation.

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erCollective noun

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What term best describes the italicized word?The suspect looked as though he knew more than he was letting on.

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erLinking verb

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What term best describes the italicized word?

Keith wondered what the qualifications were for the lifeguard job.

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erInterrogative adjective

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What term best describes the italicized word?Helping the poor became her life’s mission.

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erGerund phrase

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What sentence structure is used in this sentence?

Although he was drafted in the Vietnam War, Muhammad Ali refused to fight.

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ercomplex

Category 5 questions follow

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If the speaker in The Wife’s Lament were to return home, it would make her blithe, or?

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erhappy

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A person who dies for his religious beliefs

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ermartyr

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A form of literature with an underlying moral or lesson

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erallegory

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In Sonnet 29, Shakespeare describes the earth as sullen, or?

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ergloomy

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In Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan views his fall from heaven as an ignominy, or?

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erPublic disgrace