Question

9. Read these lines, from The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.

Answer 1

9. Read these lines, from The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd.

“But could youth last and love still breed,/Had joys no date, nor age no need,/Then these delights my mind might move/To live with thee and be thy love.”

According to her words here, under what conditions would the nymph accept the shepherd’s love? (1 point)
if love lasted forever
if she truly loved him in return
if a shepherd’s life were not so simple
if a nymph’s life were not so filled with sorrow
10. “…And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,/And look upon myself and curse my fate…”

What mood does Shakespeare evoke with these lines from Sonnet 29? (1 point)
determination
resignation
optimism
hopelessness
11. “For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,/that then I scorn to change my state with kings.”

What point does Shakespeare underscore with these concluding lines from his Sonnet 29? (1 point)
that love makes all of life worthy of scorn
that love compensates for life’s troubles
that earthly power compensates for the loss of love
that love is a type of earthly power
12. Which excerpt from John Donne’s "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" indicates what the speaker does not want his wife to mourn? (1 point)
“While some of their sad friends do say,/The breath goes now…”
“Our two souls therefore, which are one,/Though I must go, endure not yet…”
“Moving of th’ earth brings harms and fears,/Men reckon what it did…”
“Thy firmness makes my circle just,/And makes me end…”
13. Read this excerpt from John Donne’s "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

“Our two souls therefore, which are one,/Though I must go, endure not yet/A breach, but an expansion,/Like gold to airy thinness beat.”

Which of these is the best interpretation of this passage? (1 point)
Donne is using irony to trivialize the love between him and his wife.
Donne is using a conceit to describe the love between him and his wife.
Donne is using an understatement to stress the strength of his love for his wife.
Donne is using sarcasm to dismiss the love his wife has for him.
14. Which line best states the theme of John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 10? (1 point)
“… And soonest our best men with thee do go…”
“Death be not proud, though some have callèd thee…”
“…And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
“… And doest with poison, war, and sickness dwell…”
15. “… so this bell calls all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness.”

Which of these is the best interpretation of this phrase from John Donne’s Meditation 17? (1 point)
The tolling bell is a metaphor for Heaven.
The tolling bell is a metaphor for humankind.
The tolling bell is a metaphor for Hell.
The tolling bell is a metaphor for death.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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