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English Literature Final
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Undergraduate 2
12/09/2012

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Wergild
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Literally means "man price"
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Sir Reynard
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The fox
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Who was the mastermind behind Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
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Morgan LaFaye
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What was found on the third hunt in Sir Gawain?
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The fox
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What was found on the second hunt in Sir Gawain?
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The boar
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What was found on the first hunt in Sir Gawain?
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The deer
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Who did the Geats fear after Beowulf was killed?
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The Swedes
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Who is the devil that is located beside Satan in Paradise Lost?
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Beelzebub
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Who does Viola engage in swordfight?
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Sir Andrew Aguecheek
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What does Sir Tody do at the end of "12th Night"?
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Marries Maria
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What does "12th Night" mean?
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The Feast of Epiphany
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What is the name of the mead hall in Beowulf?
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Heorot
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Who fights alongside Beowulf against the dragon?
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Wiglaf
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Who is the man who is jealous of Beowulf?
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Unferth
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"ignoble ease and peaceful sloth/not peace..."
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Belial
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What was Satan disguised as when he first saw Adam and Eve?
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A cormorant/sea bird
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"Therfore he was a prikasour aright/Greyhands he hadde as swift as fowel in flight/ of prikyng and huntyng for the hare..."
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Monk
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"halfe like a serpent horribly displaide"
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Errour
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Mephastophiles returns to Faustus as a ____
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Franciscan Friar
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Mephastophiles serves Faustus for ___________
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24 years
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What inscription appears on Faustus' arm?
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Homo Fuge; "O Man Flee"
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What does Duessa tell Redcrosse that her name is?
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Fidessa
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"The more fool is Madonna to mourn..."
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Feste
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"Just so I rule Ring-Danes country..."
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Hrothgar
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"What is this Arthur's house/whose fame...."
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The Green Knight
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"Go hang yourselves all! You are idle shallow things..."
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Malvolio
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Who is Chaunticleer's favorite hen?
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Pertelote
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What is the name of the fox that attacks Chaunticleer?
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Russell
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What is the Anglo-Saxon word for poet?
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Scop
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Who had the first manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight?
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Sir Robert Cotton
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Who does Dr. Faustus conjure up in the 2nd to last scene of the play?
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Helen of Troy
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Why does Faustus reject studying medicine?
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It won't allow him to raise the dead
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"My sentence is for open war, armed with hell-flames and fury..."
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Moloch
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Whose idea is it to tell stories in the General Prologue?
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the innkeeper
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"His nosethirles blake were and wyde/A sword and bokeler bor he by his side..."
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The Miller
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What animal does envy ride?
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a ravenous wolf
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What is the name of the matron of the House of Holinesse?
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Caelia
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What animal does Lechery ride?
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a goat
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Where did Faustus study?
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The University of Krakow, Poland
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What cathedral did John Donne become a dean of?
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St. Paul's Cathedral
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Who is Astrophil and Stella dedicated to?
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Penelope Devereaux
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Who was the Amoretti dedicated to?
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Elizabeth Boyle
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"This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf/the first he wroughte and afterward he taughte..."
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The Parson
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"When it comes to fighting, I count myself as dangerous any day as Grendel"
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Beowulf
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"As God is my witness/I would rather body were robed in the same/burning base as my gold giver's..."
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Wiglaf
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Trust friend of Hrothgar who is murdered by Grendel
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Aeschere
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What do the five gems signify in the "Dream of the Rood"?
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the stig mata; the five wounds of Christ
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'Accursed be a cowardly and covetous heart!/In you is villany and vice, and virtue laid low!"
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The Green Knight
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What is the symbolic meaning of Sir Gawain's cloak after the 2nd hunt?
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He had a fur lined coat
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When does "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" begin?
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Christmastide
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What does Sir Gawain do with his green girdle?
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He keeps it as a reminder of his pride
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Why does the Green Knight come to Camelot?
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to test the pride of Camelot and Arthur's court
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What are the Five Joys of Mary?
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The Annunciation, The Nativity, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and the Crowning of Mary
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What month does the pilgrimage to Canterbury take place?
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April
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Not only was Chaucer a poet, but he was also a ________
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Courtier
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Chaucer's father gained favor by serving who?
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Edward III
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What was Chaucer's father's occupation?
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Vintner
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What was the first notable work of Chaucer?
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The Book of the Duchess
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What is the sobering message at the end of Feste's song?
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"Youth's the stuff t'will not endure"
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How does Orsino react after Olivia rejects him in Act V?
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He assumes that Viola has betrayed him
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Sidney compare Redcrosse and Sans Foy's battle to the battle between what?
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two rams
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What animal does Una ride in Canto 1?
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a donkey
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What animal accompanies Una for a bit in Canto 1?
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a lamb
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What Biblical city is represented by the House of Pride?
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Babel
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"Yet her bright blazing beauty did assay/to dim the brightnesse of her glorious throne/As envying her selfe, that too exceeding shone"
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About Pride herself
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Who lies dead beside Despaire in Canto 9?
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Sir Terwin
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How many stings are on the tail of Errour in Canto 1?
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two stings
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What animal does Pride ride?
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Peacock
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What animal does Envy ride?
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Ravenous Wolf
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What animal does Idlenesse ride?
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Donkey
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What animal does Gluttony ride?
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Swine
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What animal does Lechery ride?
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Goat
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What animal does Avarice ride?
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Camel
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What animal does Wrath ride?
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Lion
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What did Ben Jonson say about Shakespeare's mastery of language?
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Shakespeare knew a Little latin and even less Greek
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