Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”

1. The poem's mood can be best described as.

a. Elegiac

b. Angry

c. Caustic

d. Mournful

2. The allusion to Sophocles in lines 15—20 serves to

a. Illustrate how the Greeks and Romans were similar and faced the same challenges

b. Indicate the timelessness of human suffering and universalize the speakers experience

c. To compare the ancient world of Greece with the ancient world of Rome

d. Illustrate the enigmatic prescience of Sophocles

Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night”

3. In the first stanza, we learn all of these facts about the speaker EXCEPT that he

a. Spends a good deal of time alone

b. Likes to be out after dark

c. Likes walking long distances

d. Walks without any sense of direction

4. Which of these phrases best conveys the mood of this poem?

a. “One luminary clock”

b. “the saddest city lane”

c. “neither wrong nor right”

d. “the watchman on his beat”

5. The last two lines of the poem are an example of

a. An epigram

b. A volta

c. A quatrain

d. A (heroic) couplet

W.H. Auden, “Funeral Blues”

6. This poem was recited in one of the most important scenes of what movie?

The Quiet Man

a. Darkness Visible

b. Four Weddings and a Funeral

c. Local Hero

d. William Shakespeare, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”—Sonnet 116

7. In Sonnet 116, “Admit impediments” could be paraphrased as

a. These two people should not get married

b. Obstacles cannot change true love

c. Love of the mind is more important than love of the body

d. Marriage is the necessary fulfillment of true love

8. The lines 9-12, beginning “Love’s not Time’s fool,” suggests that love

a. Is not deceived by material wealth

b. Cannot last forever

c. Outlives the end of youth

Id. s strongest when people are young

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