British Literature Final

Question 1

“In this terrible agitation of mind, I could not forbear thinking of Lilliput, whose inhabitants looked upon me as the greatest prodigy that ever appeared in the world…” (1103)

Answer 1

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels

Question 2

“…kissed his hand, which my master took, and made him stroke me gently with it” (1105)

Answer 2

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels

Question 3

“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account I gave him of our affairs during the last century, protesting it was only an heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worse effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, or ambition could produce” (1130).

Answer 3

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels

Question 4

“For in the course of many ages they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject: the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the King for absolute dominion” (1135)

Answer 4

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels

Question 5

“a woman of my own size, by whom I might propagate the breed…” (1135).

Answer 5

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver’s Travels

Question 6

“a little black thing”

Answer 6

William Blake - “The Chimney Sweeper”

Question 7

“Harlot’s curse”

Answer 7

William Blake - “London”

Question 8

“My mother groaned! My father wept.”

Answer 8

William Blake - “Infant Sorrow”

Question 9

“The little Maid would have her will, / And said, “Nay, we are seven!” (126)

Answer 9

William Wordsworth - “We Are Seven”

Question 10

“What man has made of man.” (126,127)

Answer 10

William Wordsworth - “Lines Written in Early Spring”

Question 11

“Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” (174)

Answer 11

William Wordsworth - “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

Question 12

“When I have fears that I may cease to be / Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain…”

Answer 12

John Keats - “When I Have Fears that I May Cease To Be”

Question 13

“Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art –”

Answer 13

John Keats - “Bright Star”

Question 14

“Away! Away! For I will flee to thee, / Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, / But on the viewless wings of Poesy” (493).

Answer 14

John Keats - “Ode to a Nightingale”

Question 15

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird” (494)!

Answer 15

John Keats - “Ode to a Nightingale”

Question 16

“I was their plaything and their idol, and something better—their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed upon them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me. With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord, that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me” (41).

Answer 16

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 17

“So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein,–more, far more, will I achieve: treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore, unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation” (52-53).

Answer 17

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 18

“To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death” (55).

Answer 18

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 19

“No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve theirs” (57).

Answer 19

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 20

“William is dead” (71)!

Answer 20

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 21

“Two years had now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life: and was this his first crime (75)?

Answer 21

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 22

“All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet, you, my creator, detest and spurn me, they creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us” (93).

Answer 22

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 23

“no Eve soothed my sorrows” (117)

Answer 23

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 24

“… I was now about to form another being, of whose dispositions I was alike ignorant; she might become ten thousand times more malignant than her mate, and delight for its own sake, in murder and wretchedness. He has sworn to quit the neighborhood of man, and hide himself in the deserts; but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation. They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity…” (144)

Answer 24

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 25

“race of devils” (144)

Answer 25

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 26

“…remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night” (146)

Answer 26

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 27

“A frightful selfishness hurried me on, while my heart was poisoned with remorse …” (186)

Answer 27

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Question 28

“Evil became my good . .. “ (186)

Answer 28

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)

Answer 29

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein(Italicized)