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ENGL 216 EXAM 4 • Question 1 2 out of 2 points "The Darkling Thrush" takes place at the end of a day, at the end of the year, at the end of a century. Selected Answer: Tru e • Questio... n 2 2 out of 2 points A Room of One’s Own suggests that women writers need forerunners, for masterpieces are not solitary in nature. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 3 2 out of 2 points “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” can only be interpreted as a work about fighting death. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 4 "Dulce Et Decorum Est" means which of the following: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Sweet and fitting it is to die for your fatherland • Question 5 In Modern literature, writers embrace absolutes. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 6 This work stresses the importance of money and a private room for women: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: A Room of One’s Own • Question 7 This poem argues that men should fight death. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” “Church Going” “Sailing to Byzantium” • Question 8 Heart of Darkness is structure as a frame narrative (a story within a story): 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 9 This poem by Yeats presents vividly the misery of old age. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: “Sailing to Byzantium” • Question 10 Conrad pulls from personal experience in his writings. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 11 2 out of 2 points “Journey of the Magi” does not embellish the biblical account of the Magi’s journey to find Christ. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 12 2 out of 2 points This poem by Yeats contains an image of a gyre, symbolic of paradoxes of time and eternity, change and continuity, spirit and the body, life and art: Selected Answer: “The Second Coming” • Question 13 2 out of 2 points In “Church Going,” Larkin seems to suggest that belief in the unbelievable is preferable to no belief at all. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 14 2 out of 2 points “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” could be interpreted as a poem celebrating carpe diem. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 15 2 out of 2 points This work hypothesizes about Shakespeare’s genius sister who, because a woman, was unsuccessful and committed suicide. Selected Answer: A Room of One’s Own • Question 16 2 out of 2 points This poem is a reactionary poem in which the speaker reacts to a horrible war and the lie being told about it: Selected Answer: “Dulce Et Decorum Est” • Question 17 2 out of 2 points In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock believes himself to be like Hamlet. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 18 2 out of 2 points In “Journey of the Magi,” the Magi return home and are comfortable with their old ways of life. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 19 In Heart of Darkness at the Outer Station, Marlowe sees chained natives. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 20 2 out of 2 points The early twentieth century brought countless advances in technology, including: Selected Answer: All of the above • Question 21 2 out of 2 points Virginia Wolff describes this novel as “deformed and twisted” in comparison to Jane Austen: Selected Answer: Jane Eyre • Question 22 The end of the nineteenth century is also known as: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: The Age of Decadence • Question 23 2 out of 2 points Layers of narration in Heart of Darkness can be viewed as a reflection of the Modern lack of absolutes. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 24 “Dulce Et Decorum Est” means: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: It is sweet and fitting to die for your country • Question 25 2 out of 2 points When reading Heart of Darkness, white/light always refers to ‘good’ and black/dark always refers to evil. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 26 2 out of 2 points In “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave” there is a conviction that upon death one goes to a happier place. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 27 2 out of 2 points In “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” there is a perception that no one cares if one lives or dies. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 28 2 out of 2 points In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock has measured out his life with coffee spoons. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 29 2 out of 2 points Hardy’s point in “The Convergence of the Twain” is that it is human arrogance to think humans can subdue nature. Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 30 In “Journey of the Magi,” the Magi have a hard and cold time finding Christ. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 31 A Room of One's Own imagines that Shakespeare's equally talented sister: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Died without writing and was buried at a crossroads • Question 32 2 out of 2 points This poem is full of stumbling, fumbling, tired, hopeless, dying men depicting a ghastly scene of war and of a man drowning in poisonous gas. Selected Answer: “Dulce Et Decorum Est” • Question 33 2 out of 2 points By the beginning of World War I, nearly half of the earth’s surface was under British domination. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 34 This poem is the keystone poem of Modern Period. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: “The Second Coming” • Question 35 This work focuses on the relationship between women and fiction. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: A Room of One's Own • Question 36 In Heart of Darkness, his last words are “The Horror! The Horror!”: Selected Kurt 2 out of 2 points Answer: z • Question 37 2 out of 2 points "Call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please – it is not a matter of any importance" is from which work? Selected Answer: A Room of One's Own • Question 38 "Dulce Et Decorum Est" describes a man's death from inhaling gas. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Tru e • Question 39 2 out of 2 points The links "In a solitude of the sea / Deep from human vanity, / And the Pride of Life that panned her, stilly couches she" are from what work? Selected Answer: "The Convergence of the Twain" • Question 40 In Heart of Darkness, what does Kurtz place around his home in the Congo? 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Heads on posts • Question 41 2 out of 2 points In Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush," the bird is depicted as strong, healthy, and large. Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 42 2 out of 2 points This work states, “[F]or great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh”: Selected Answer: Virginia Woolf • Question 43 A Room of One's Own imagines that Shakespeare had a gifted sister named: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Judit h • Question 44 In Heart of Darkness at the Central Station, a man tries to extinguish a fire with: 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: A bucket with a hole in it • Question 45 In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Prufrock is confident and self-assured. 2 out of 2 points Selected Answer: Fals e • Question 46 2 out of 2 points This author posits “It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare”: Selected Answer: Virginia Woolf • Question 47 Heart of Darkness contains psychological [Show More]

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