AP Lit Midterm Study Guide

Quote identification- - Wuthering Heights who is being described: " Rough as a saw- edge, and hard as whinstone. The less you meddle with him the better... but you must e'en take it as a gift of God."

• Edgar

• Frances Earnshaw

• Heathcliff

• Catherine Earnshaw

• Joseph

• Isabella

Quote identification- - Wuthering Heights who is being described: " Rough as a saw- edge, and hard as whinstone. The less you meddle with him the better... but you must e'en take it as a gift of God."

• Edgar

• Frances Earnshaw

• Heathcliff

• Catherine Earnshaw

• Joseph

• Isabella

Heathcliff

Quote identification- - Wuthering Heights who is being described: "He was and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promise to himself and fling the curses on his neighbors."

• Edgar

• Frances Earnshaw

• Heathcliff

• Catherine Earnshaw

• Joseph

• Isabella

Joseph

Quote identification- - Wuthering Heights who is being described: "A bold, wicked slip she was - but she mad the bonniest eye, and the sweetest smile and lightest foor in the world."

• Edgar

• Frances Earnshaw

• Heathcliff

• Catherine Earnshaw

• Joseph

• Isabella

Catherine Earnshaw

Quote identification- - Wuthering Heights who is being described: "Till within a week of her death, that gay heart never failed her, and her husband persisted... in affirming her health improved every day."

• Edgar

• Frances Earnshaw

• Heathcliff

• Catherine Earnshaw

• Joseph

• Isabella

Frances Earnshaw

Quote identification- - Wuthering Heights who is being described: "He is handsome, and young, and cheerful, and rich, and loves you."

• Edgar

• Frances Earnshaw

• Heathcliff

• Catherine Earnshaw

• Joseph

• Isabella

Edgar

True/False- Wuthering Heights The Earnshaw house is Wuthering Heights and the Lintons' estate is Thrushcross Grange.

True

True/False- Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is a tale of revenge.

True

True/False- Wuthering Heights Wuthering is an adjective describing stormy weather.

True

True/False- Wuthering Heights Mrs. Dean is housekeeper at Wuthering Heights when the story opens.

False

True/False- Wuthering Heights Mr. Lockwood is a tenant of Thrushcross Grange.

True

True/False- Wuthering Heights Joseph is a good-natured servant.

False

True/False- Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is fair and handsome.

False

True/False- Wuthering Heights The dogs attack Lockwood on the servants' orders.

False

True/False- Wuthering Heights A fight between Heathcliff and Edgar produces such turmoil in Cathrine that she become seriously ill.

True

True/False- Wuthering Heights Mr. Lockwood spends a horrifying night in the home of Heathcliff.

True

True/False- Wuthering Heights Heathcliff becomes a wealthy man in the story.

True

True/False- Canterbury Tales All of the pilgrims have a chance to tell their tales.

True

True/False- Canterbury Tales The Oxford clerk loves to learn and to teach.

True

True/False- Canterbury Tales In the Knights Tale, Saturn helps Venus grant Palamon his wish.

True

True/False- Canterbury Tales To escape capture, Arcite disguises himself as a scholar

False

True/False- Canterbury Tales Palamon is in prison fifteen years.

False

True/False- Canterbury Tales In the Knight's Tale, Emily wants to marry.

False

True/False- Canterbury Tales In the Wife of Bath's tale, the squire discovers that what women most want is a gentle and honest lover.

False

True/False- Canterbury Tales The pilgrims never arrive at the shrine.

True

True/False- Canterbury Tales Palamon's cousin is let out of the tower first.

True

True/False- Canterbury Tales Palamon prays to Mars for help.

False

True/False- Canterbury Tales Theseus favors Arcita.

True

True/False - Canterbury Tales Venus vows revenge.

False

M/C- Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is a collection of tales in

• verse

• verse and prose -prose

• verse and prose

M/C- Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales was written in

• 13th century -14th century -16th century

-14th century

M/C- Canterbury Tales The pilgrims begin their journey in

• April -June

• September

• April

M/C- Canterbury Tales The pilgrims assemble at the

• bath house -church -Tabard Inn

-Tabard Inn

M/C- Canterbury Tales The number of pilgrims traveling to the shrine (excluding the narrator and the host) is

• 29

• 31

• 35

• 29

M/C- Canterbury Tales The purpose of the pilgrimage is to worship at the shrine of

• Sir Thomas More

• Sir Thomas Becket

• John Wycliffe

• Sir Thomas Becket

M/C- Canterbury Tales Telling tales to entertain themselves is suggested by

• Robin

• Hubert

• Harry

• Harry

M/C- Canterbury Tales The prize for telling the best tale is a

• free dinner at the Inn

• free supper in Canterbury

• free lodging at the Inn

• free dinner at the Inn

M/C- Canterbury Tales The pilgrims set forth upon their journey to the tune of the

• bassoon

• flute

• bagpipes

• bagpipes

M/C- Canterbury Tales The judge of the storytelling is

• a Knight

• the Pardoner

• Harry

• Harry

M/C- Canterbury Tales To choose the first storyteller, the Pilgrims

• draw lots

• demand that she or he be chosen according to rank

• ask for volunteers

• draw lots

M/C- Canterbury Tales The first tale is told by the

• Knight

• Friar

• Shipman

• Knight

M/C- Canterbury Tales The number of Tales told is

• 16

• 24

• 29

• 24

M/C- Wife of Bath's Tale From The Wife of Bath's Tale, the knight's quest is

• a task given to him y the queen

• a test of courage set by the king

• an ambitious mission he sets for himself

• a duty imposed on him by the Church

• a task given to him y the queen

M/C- Wife of Bath's Tale According to this tale, what women really want is

• money, jewels, treasure and Heath Ledger

• to be flattered and attended to

• mastery over their husbands

• entertainment, freedom, and pleasure

• mastery over their husbands

M/C- Wife of Bath's Tale The Wife of Bath tells her tale to do all of the following except

• entertain her companions

• persuade other travelers to agree with her

• keep her part of the deal with the Host

• explain her views on marriage, men and women

• persuade other travelers to agree with her

M/C- Wife of Bath's Tale The knight shows that he has learned what women want most when he

• keeps his promise to marry the old women

• returns to the court, as he had vowed to

• giver up on his quest

• asks his wife to decide which form she will take

• asks his wife to decide which form she will take

M/C- Wife of Bath's Tale The old woman speaks eloquently about

• living a life of self-denial

• true and falso gentility and virtue

• the difference between men and women

• the magical qualities of nature

• true and falso gentility and virtue

True/False- Turn of the Screw The prologue is not helpful

False

True/False- Turn of the Screw The children get along.

True

True/False- The Sun also Rises Robert is the narrator.

False

True/False- The Sun also Rises Brett and Jake love each other.

True

True/False- Frankenstein Robert Walton sets out to the polar regions to discover the secret of the magnet.

True

True/False- Frankenstein Victor belongs to a distinguished family from Geneva.

True

True/False- Frankenstein As a youth, Victor loves to investigate the causes of things in nature.

True

True/False- Frankenstein Victor learns the secret of life but not how to bestow life on lifeless matter.

False

True/False- Frankenstein Initially, Victor is pleased with his creation.

False

True/False- Frankenstein The monster comes to Victor's bedchamber, reacher out to him and tries to speak.

True

True/False- Frankenstein When Victor and Henry meet the creature in Henry's apartment, Victor collapses.

False

True/False- Frankenstein Elizabeth feels guilty about William's death because she let him wear the miniature portrait.

True

True/False- Frankenstein Before he arrives in Geneva for William's funeral, Victor goes to Mont Blanc to find the monster.

False

True/False- Frankenstein The monster helps the cottagers by supplying them with wood for their fire.

True

True/False- Frankenstein Felix gladly teaches the creature world history.

False

True/False- Frankenstein On the Orkney Islands, Victor completes the female monster.

False

True/False- Frankenstein Victor is accused of the murder of Henry Clerval.

True

True/False- Frankenstein Victor fears the monster will murder him on his wedding night.

True

True/False- Frankenstein The magistrate in Geneva is sure that he will be able to find the monster.

False

M/C- Frankenstein When Walton first meets Victor, Victor is

• arguing with the monster

• stranded on floating ice.

• traveling by horse.

• stranded on floating ice.

M/C- Frankenstein When Elizabeth enters the Frankenstein family,

• she is immediately loved by all

• the mother cannot accept her

• Victor is jealous

• she is immediately loved by all

M/C- Frankenstein Just before she dies, Victor's mother entrusts the care of her younger children to

• Elizabeth

• her husband

• victor

• Elizabeth

M/C- Frankenstein Victor's research materials do NOT come from

• the graveyard

• Henry's collection

• the slaughterhouse

• Henry's collection

M/C- Frankenstein Elizabeth describes Justine as

• perpetually fretting

• mean and selfish

• clever, gentle and extremely pretty

• clever, gentle and extremely pretty

M/C- Frankenstein The Main evidence against Justine in her trial is

• blood stains on her dress

• her letter to victor

• the miniature portrait of Caroline

• the miniature portrait of Caroline

M/C- Frankenstein Victor agrees to listen to the monster's tale because

• he's afraid of him

• he is curious

• he plans to kill him

• he is curious

M/C- Frankenstein When the monster sees his reflection in the pond, he becomes

• saddened

• frightened

• sick

• saddened

M/C- Frankenstein The monster discovers that learning language is

• beyond his power

• easy for him

• not important

• easy for him

M/C- Frankenstein The monster does NOT read

• the Bible -Plutarch's Lives

• Milton's Paradise Lost

• the Bible

M/C- Frankenstein The cottagers reject the monster because he

• frightens them

• strikes the old man

• tries to kill them

• frightens them

M/C- Frankenstein After he is attacked by Feliz, the monster

• beats Safie

• burns the cottage

• strangles Agatha

• burns the cottage

M/C- Frankenstein Victor destroys the female monster because he

• has run out of bones and skin

• fears she and the monster will create a race of monsters

• thinks she won't like him or his creature

• fears she and the monster will create a race of monsters

M/C- Frankenstein Frankenstein disposes of the remains of the female creature by

• burning them in his lab

• burying them in Scotland

• throwing them into the sea

• throwing them into the sea

M/C- Frankenstein Victor returns to Geneva after

• he is cleared in Henry's death

• he tells his father about the monster

• his father dies

• he is cleared in Henry's death

M/C- Frankenstein Immediately after Elizabeth's murder Victor returns to Geneva because he is afraid the monster will

• kill him

• kill his father and Ernest

• tell the magistrate that Victor created him

• kill his father and Ernest

M/C- Frankenstein The monster leaves messages and food for victor because he

• wants victor to live and suffer

• feels sorry for victor

• hopes that victor will give up the chase

• wants victor to live and suffer

M/C- Frankenstein when the monster learns that victor has died he

• is happy

• runs away

• reproaches himself.

• reproaches himself.

M/C- Frankenstein With Frankenstein dead, the monster plans to

• rest happily

• destroy himself

• join Walton's crew

• destroy himself

M/C- Frankenstein Victor goes to England to

• avoid marrying Elizabeth

• get away from the monster

• confer with other scientists

• confer with other scientists

M/C- Anglo-Saxon During the Anglo- Saxon Period, England was invaded by all of the following except the

• Celts

• Vikings

• Jutes

• Saxons

• Celts

M/C- Anglo-Saxon One of the principle functions of the Anglo-Saxon poet was to

• provide dance music

• lead religious exercises

• translate Latin psalms into English

• recite songs and tales

• recite songs and tales

M/C- Anglo-Saxon Who is largely responsible for the Anglo-Saxon literature still preserved today?

• Lords of the mead hall took meticulous records of their people

• Christian monks and scribes copied and recopied the works they thought were the best

• Roman legions who never left England and love to write about it

• A lot of scripts were thrown into a bog and miraculously well preserved

• Christian monks and scribes copied and recopied the works they thought were the best

M/C- Anglo-Saxon _________ was one of the major kingdoms of Britain.

• Kent

• Northumbria

• Wessex

• all of the above

• all of the above

M/C- Anglo-Saxon The heroic body of verse embodied all of the following except

• creativity

• awareness of the brevity of life

• loyalty

• outstanding courage

• creativity

M/C- Beowulf The narrator of this story is

• Beowulf

• Caedmon

• unknown

• unknown

M/C- Beowulf In its original form, Beowulf is an epic

• poem

• fable

• novel

• poem

M/C- Beowulf The work was composed in approximately

• 410 AD

• 740 AD

• 1250 AD

• 740 AD

M/C- Beowulf The people in the story that beowulf comes to help are

• Danish

• English

• Scottish

• Danish

M/C- Beowulf On the night of Beowulf's arrival, Grendel

• devours one of Beowulf's warriors

• burns Heorot down with his flames -leaves Heorot to challenge Beowulf

• devours one of Beowulf's warriors

M/C- Beowulf The king of the Danes is

• Hrothgar

• Hyglac

• Wealhtheow

• Hrothgar

M/C- Beowulf Aeschere, Hrothgar's chief counselor is killed by

• Beowulf

• Siegmund

• Grendel's mother

• Grendel's mother

M/C- Beowulf In his first encounter with Grendel, Beowulf

• cuts off his head

• tears out his arm

• blinds him

• tears out his arm

M/C- Beowulf Beowulf dates from the period of English literature called

• Prosaic

• Old English

• Epic

• Old English

M/C- Beowulf The world's brightest candle is

• the moon

• the sun

• Beowulf

• the sun