Question 1

Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?

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A)  welsh
B)  gaelic
C)  erse
D)  cornishE) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 2

What does gyre mean?

Accepted Answer

A)  spirit
B)  spiral
C)  sphinx
D)  stone imageE) A) and B)
F) A) and C) B

Question 3

Hopkins read classics at which of these universities?

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A)  oxford
B)  cambridge
C)  dublin
D)  leedsE) C) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 4

Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?

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A)  inscape
B)  instress
C)  signifier
D)  sprung rhythmE) A) and D)
F) C) and D)

Question 5

Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join?

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A)  carmelite
B)  jesuit
C)  franciscan
D)  benedictineE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

"Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon" Identify the figure of speech used.

Accepted Answer

A)  simile
B)  metaphor
C)  assonance
D)  alliterationE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 7

The narrator is told that he should fear death by:

Accepted Answer

A)  fire
B)  water
C)  starvation
D)  diseaseE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 8

What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?

Accepted Answer

A)  jesus christ cannot save us
B)  summer cannot last forever
C)  the world's core values and meanings are falling apart
D)  the heart cannot sustain the mindE) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 9

Who rapes Philomela?

Accepted Answer

A)  tereus
B)  odysseus
C)  the typist
D)  zeusE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 10

The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?

Accepted Answer

A)  the return of jesus christ
B)  world war i
C)  world war ii
D)  the modernism eraE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 11

To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'?

Accepted Answer

A)  mary
B)  peter
C)  moses
D)  christE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 12

Where is Byzantium located?

Accepted Answer

A)  ireland
B)  scotland
C)  turkey
D)  italyE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 13

Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?

Accepted Answer

A)  minion,
B)  dauphin
C)  falcon
D)  beastE) B) and C)
F) A) and D) D

Question 14

Magnus Martyr is a:

Accepted Answer

A)  ocean
B)  church
C)  epic poem
D)  football stadiumE) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 15

Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems in 1918?

Accepted Answer

A)  robert bridges
B)  stephen spender
C)  richard dixon
D)  coventry patmoreE) A) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 16

Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?

Accepted Answer

A)  timbuktu
B)  marseilles
C)  novgorod
D)  viennaE) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 17

"By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."

Accepted Answer

A)  the seine
B)  the nile
C)  the thames
D)  lemanE) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 18

What shine "blue beak"?

Accepted Answer

A)  sky
B)  feathers
C)  embers
D)  eyesE) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

Question 19

"When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:

Accepted Answer

A)  spanish tragedy
B)  ovid's metamorphoses
C)  hamlet
D)  oliver goldsmith's the vicar of wakefieldE) A) and D)
F) B) and D) D

Question 20

In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?

Accepted Answer

A)  collective meaning of broken images
B)  collective unconscious that all human beings share
C)  collective myths that society believe
D)  collective memory of traumaE) C) and D)
F) A) and D)

Exam 1: Twentieth Century British Literature up to 1940: Hopkins, Yeats, and Eliot

Which language that Hopkins learned at St Beuno's seminary greatly influenced his poetry?

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What does gyre mean?

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Hopkins read classics at which of these universities?

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Hopkins coined which of these terms to describe the individual uniqueness of each creation?

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Which order did Gerard Manley Hopkins join?

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"Kingdom of day lights dauphin dapple dawn drawn falcon" Identify the figure of speech used.

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The narrator is told that he should fear death by:

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What does "the centre cannot hold" mean?

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Who rapes Philomela?

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The title of Yeats' 'The Second Coming' is a reference to what event?

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To whom did Hopkins dedicate 'The Windhover'?

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Where is Byzantium located?

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Identify the term that is not used by Hopkins to describe the Windhover?

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Magnus Martyr is a:

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Who published the first collected edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins' poems in 1918?

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Which of the following cities is mentioned in "The Waste Land"?

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"By the waters of ____ I sat down and wept..."

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What shine "blue beak"?

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"When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:

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In what sense does Yeats use the term 'Spiritus Mundi'?

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