Honors World Literature Final Examination: points possible 1.5 Hours

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1 Honors World Literature Final Examination: points possible 1.5 Hours This final exam consists of three sections: matching/identifications, short answers, and scansion/close reading. Read the directions carefully and keep an eye on the clock so that you can pace yourself throughout the exam and have enough time for each section. I. Matching/Identifications: Fill in the blank with the name that best matches the description. Not all names will be used and no name will be used more than once. (20 points) Apollo Brabantio Cassio Daphne Desdemona Echo Emilia Eurydice Franz Kafka Galatea Gregor Samsa Grete Samsa Haroun Khalifa Hera Iago Iff the Water Genie Khattum-Shud Mr. and Mrs. Samsa Narcissus Orpheus Othello Ovid Pygmalion Rashid Khalifa Roderigo Shakespeare Salman Rushdie Soraya Khalifa Zeus 1. Wrote The Metamorphosis: 2. Wears a wedding gown in the underworld: 3. Feeds her brother when no one else will go near him: 4. Is the Moor of Venice: 5. Transforms into a hideous insect: 6. Charms the underworld to rescue his wife: 7. The titular character in Rushdie s novel and Rashid s only son: 8. Sculpts the perfect woman out of marble: 9. Haroun s mom who runs off with the upstairs neighbor: 10. Is turned into a flower: 11. Wrote Othello: 12. Is turned into a disembodied voice: 13. Is stabbed to death by her husband: 14. Wrote The Metamorphoses: 15. Is accused of adultery by her husband s honest friend: 16. Is transformed into living flesh: 17. A fictitious storyteller by profession: 18. He plots, lies, steals, connives and murders: 19. She transforms into a laurel tree: 20. The Arch Enemy of Stories and Language: 1

2 Use the previous list of names to identify the speaker and audience of the following quotations (1 point each); look for context clues! Then choose one quotation and do a complete SOAPSTone analysis (4 points) O fairest of maidens, you are lost to me, he mourned. But at least you shall be my tree. With your leaves my visitors shall wreathe their brows. You shall have your part in all my triumphs. 3. I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, / Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. Anybody can tell stories. Liars, and cheats and crooks, for example. But for stories with that Extra Ingredient, ah, for those, even the best storytellers need the Story Waters Storytelling needs fuel, just like a car; and if you don t have the Water, you just run out of Steam. 4. Because we come to / do you service and you think we we are ruffians, you ll / have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse, / you ll have your nephews neigh to you, you ll have coursers for cousins and jennets for germans. 5. We must try to get rid of it It will be the death of you two, I can see it coming. People who already have to work as hard as we do can t put up with this constant torture at home, too. I can t stand it anymore, either. : O : P S T

3 II. Short Answers (32 points) Using your best scholarly style, organization and word choice, answer the following questions with multiple, complete sentences. Make sure to incorporate specific details from each text to support your claims as well as one SAT word from the list below in each response. adversary insuperable ambivalent advocate pitfall delusion charlatan misanthrope imprudent pariah spurious indignant raconteur ambiguous ponderable 1. Determine a theme that is central to two of the texts we read this year. How is this theme developed over the course of each text? 2. What do Iago and Gregor Samsa have in common? 3

4 adversary insuperable ambivalent advocate pitfall delusion charlatan misanthrope imprudent pariah spurious indignant raconteur ambiguous ponderable 3. Determine an archetype that is central to two of the texts we read this year. How is this archetype developed over the course of each text? 4. How does Iago s survival change the outcome and impact of the tragic play? 4

5 III. Scansion and Close Reading (32 points) Scan the first four lines of the following passage, marking feet (/), meter, enjambment ( ), caesuras ( ), and extra beats ( ) (8 points). Then close read the rest of the passage, identifying characters, setting, style, plot, archetypes, and themes (24 points). Label your observations level 1, level 2, or level 3 and create a key for these levels. Note: After turning in pages 1-3, you may use a dictionary on this section to look up unknown words. IT IS THE CAUSE. YET I LL NOT SHED HER BLOOD, NOR SCAR THAT WHITER SKIN OF HERS THAN SNOW, AND SMOOTH AS MONUMENTAL ALABASTER. YET SHE MUST DIE, ELSE SHE LL BETRAY MORE MEN. PUT OUT THE LIGHT, AND THEN PUT OUT THE LIGHT. IF I QUENCH THEE, THOU FLAMING MINISTER, I CAN AGAIN THY FORMER LIGHT RESTORE SHOULD I REPENT ME; BUT ONCE PUT OUT THY LIGHT, THOU CUNNING ST PATTERN OF EXCELLING NATURE, I KNOW NOT WHERE THAT PROMETHEAN HEAT THAT CAN THY LIGHT RELUME. WHEN I HAVE PLUCKED THY ROSE I CANNOT GIVE IT VITAL GROWTH AGAIN; IT NEEDS MUST WITHER. I LL SMELL THEE ON THE TREE. OH, BALMY BREATH, THAT DOST ALMOST PERSUADE JUSTICE TO BREAK HER SWORD! ONE MORE, ONE MORE. BE THUS WHEN THOU ART DEAD, AND I WILL KILL THEE, AND LOVE THEE AFTER. ONE MORE AND THAT S THE LAST. 5

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH. The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH. The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions Total No. of Printed Pages 8 X/13/Ae 2 0 1 3 ADDITIONAL ENGLISH Full Marks : 100 Time : 3 hours The figures in the margin indicate full marks for the questions 1. Answer any two of the following : 7 2=14