Final

Question 1

How does Marlowe present Tamburlaine’s character?

Answer 1

Prideful
Merciless
Arrogant
Power hungry

Question 2

How does Tamburlaine treat Bajazeth? How does he treat the innocents?

Answer 2

Imprisons Bajazeth and his wife in a cage, feeding them scraps until they eventually brain themselves.

He slaughters the innocents and displays their remains across the city.

Question 3

How does Tamburlaine Part I end?

Answer 3

Tamburlaine conquers Africa and Damascus, marrying Zenocrate

Question 4

What is a Spenserian Stanza?

Answer 4

8 lines of iambic pentameter (ten syllables) followed by by 1 line of Alexandrine (12 syllables) in a very specific rhyme scheme

Question 5

How many virtues/books did Spenser plan on covering in Faery Queene?

Answer 5

He wanted 12, but only got to 5. The themes are holiness, temperance, chastity, justice, and courtesy

Question 6

Who is the main character of The Faery Queene?

Answer 6

Redcrosse

Question 7

What does Una represent?

Answer 7

Truth

Question 8

Who deceived Redcrosse?

Answer 8

Archimago

Question 9

Who rescues Redcrosse from Duessa and the giant?

Answer 9

King Arthur

Question 10

Who does Redcrosse encounter in the House of Holiness?

Answer 10

Fidelia, Sperenza, and Charissa (Faith, Hope, and Love)

Question 11

What happens in Redcrosse’s fight with the dragon?

Answer 11

He gets burned, falls into a well of healing, trips and falls under the tree of life, and stabs the dragon through the mouth, killing it

Question 12

What happens at the end of the Faery Queene?

Answer 12

Rejoicing. Redcrosse is now a worthy husband for Una, but he must first serve the Faery Queene for 6 years. Archimago attempts to deceive them, saying that Una is already betrothed to another, but his lies have no effect.

Question 13

What is the general plot of the Faery Queene?

Answer 13

Allegorical story or a rookie knight failing time and again, yet being led by Truth to do noble deeds. This is the Christian life

Question 14

What is Metaphysical Poetry?

Answer 14

Poetry from the 16th and 17th centuries that possess certain qualities

Metaphysical in 2 senses:

Philosophically based
Goes beyond the physical (emphasis on spirit, almost gnostic)

Question 15

Who wrote On His Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia?

Answer 15

Sir Henry Wotton

Question 16

The Flea?

Answer 16

John Donne

Question 17

The Canonization?

Answer 17

Donne

Question 18

Death Be Not Proud

Answer 18

Donne

Death is not the end, believers have hope

Question 19

Hymn to God the Father

Answer 19

Donne

Wondering if God can really blot out all our sin because there’s so much of it and we continue in it

Question 20

The Thought?

Answer 20

Edward, Lord Herbert

Question 21

The Altar?

Answer 21

George Herbert

His heart is an altar to the Lord (shaped like an altar)

Question 22

Easter Wings?

Answer 22

George Herbert

God grants us redemption from sorrow and decay

Question 23

The Pearl, Matthew 13?

Answer 23

George Herbert

Autobiographical

Question 24

Affliction (IV)?

Answer 24

George Herbert

Pain and sorrow over sin

God grants us relief, builds is up, and lifts us so that we may reach Him

Question 25

What meter does Milton employ in Paradise Lost?

Answer 25

Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

Question 26

What is Milton’s purpose in Paradise Lost?

Answer 26

Asserting eternal providence Justifying the ways of God before men

Question 27

How does PL begin?

Answer 27

Satan and his demons lament what they have become, but soon make plans

Question 28

Pactum Salutis in PL?

Answer 28

Book III Almost a hymn to Christ Milton praises Him for saving mankind in (400-415)

Question 29

What angel resists Satan in book V of PL?

Answer 29

Raphael

Question 30

What happens in the angelic war in PL book VI?

Answer 30

Demons use long ranges weapons (cowardly) The Son drives the demons out of heaven in His chariot Goodness is strength

Question 31

Why does Adam fall in PL?

Answer 31

Adam chooses to fall so that Eve will not be alone; this paints him in an almost noble light

Question 32

What does Adam do at the end of PL?

Answer 32

After seeing that the Messiah will come as a result of his sin, he is more than comforted. Him and Eve leave Eden sorrowfully, but with hope

Question 33

Central argument of Oration?

Answer 33

Man can either feed the angel or the beast within, flesh or spirit (indeterminate image) Man can control his own destiny Aims to join Plato and Aristotle together (though he can’t)

Question 34

In Praise of Folly

Answer 34

Satirical work designed to show how much folly we engage in Targets the papacy Faith is joined with folly (believing the invisible)

Question 35

Love or Fear?

Answer 35

Feared because people are less likely to betray someone they fear than someone they love (?). But respect is even better than that

Question 36

Should a ruler keep his word?

Answer 36

Yes, but only in appearance, not in actuality

Question 37

Great or Appear Great?

Answer 37

Appear great, for then you can continue being evil while appearing good