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Progress Test 2 Although the progress test is similar in style to the unit evaluations, the progress test is a closed-book, proctored test . It will cover Unit 3 and 4. It is important that you do your own work. Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. What is Thomas Gradgrind's teaching style? A. Teach boys and girls to respect their elders. B. Teach boys and girls nothing but facts. C. Teach boys and girls gently but firmly. ____ 2. Charles Dickens uses Hard Times to criticize which of the following? A. schools that focus too much on discussion B. the lack of respect that young people have for education C. schools that smother imagination and treat children like machines ____ 3. Didacticism is the concept Victorian writers used to teach their readers about the outside world. A. True B. False ____ 4. Gerard Manley Hopkins saw the importance of ____ in all things, which he called inscape. A. life B. individuality C. love ____ 5. Thomas Hardy and Rudyard Kipling brought what new themes to Victorian literature? A. happiness and hope B. vengeance and scorn C. cynicism and doubt ____ 6. Which statement best interprets the following line from In Memoriam, A.H.H. ? "Far off thou art, but ever nigh"? A. The speaker regrets that A.H.H. ever left the country. B. Although A.H.H. is dead, the speaker holds his memory close. C. Death and life are closer than it may seem. ____ 7. Tennyson summarizes the theme of "Ulysses" in which of the following lines? A. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield" B. "Much have I seen and known"

C. "Free hearts, free foreheads – you and I are old" ____ 8. In "Porphyria's Lover" there is a contrast between A. the stormy weather and the peaceful love. B. the way each of the lovers demonstrates love. C. what Porphyria says and what she does. ____ 9. The speaker in "Sonnet 43" answers which of the following questions? A. What is the meaning of love? B. In what ways do I love you? C. Does love survive death? ____ 10. How is the Lady in "The Lady of Shalott" similar to an artist? A. She lives on a silent isle. B. She weaves a magic web. C. She is robed in snowy white. ____ 11. Charles Dickens uses didacticism in Hard Times to bring attention to unsafe conditions in factories. A. True B. False ____ 12. What does Dickens think happens to students who are exposed to only factual learning? A. They lose their creativity and individuality. B. They become well educated. C. They become great teachers. ____ 13. What is the child grieving over in the beginning of "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child"? A. the loss of a friend B. becoming ill C. nature changing ____ 14. What do the last two lines of the following stanza from "Recessional" do to the mood of the poem? "God of our fathers, known of old-- / Lord of our far-flung battle-line-- / Beneath whose awful Hand we hold / Dominion over palm and pine-- / Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet / Lest we forget-- lest we forget!" A. They create a sense of sincere desperation. B. They create an old-fashioned experience. C. They create a feeling of anger and abandonment.

____ 15. As "Porphyria's Lover" progresses, what do you learn about the speaker? A. He is mentally unstable. B. He loves someone else. C. He wants what is best for Porphyria. ____ 16. Weaving is the way that the Lady of Shalott spends her time. A. True B. False ____ 17. Rudyard Kipling believed the British needed to colonize the world to A. bring "civilized" ways to the world. B. accumulate more power. C. find more natural resources. ____ 18. In Housman's poem "To an Athlete Dying Young," which lines suggest that glory does not last long? A. "And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose." B. "The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the marketplace;" C. "Eyes the shady night has shut / Cannot see the record cut." ____ 19. In "When I was One-and-Twenty," the speaker's tone is ____. A. angry B. regretful C. sarcastic ____ 20. Determine the meaning of the following quote from The Subjection of Women : “The social subordination of women thus stands out an isolated fact in modern social institutions … a single relic of an old world of thought and practice exploded in everything else.” A. For women, it is important for them to understand their inferiority to men. B. Denying women’s rights goes against the country’s efforts to modernize. C. There is historical precedent for the subordination of women. ____ 21. One example of fin de siècle literature is “To an Athlete Dying Young” because of melancholy and despair. A. True B. False

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____ 22. What is Kipling trying remind the people of the British Empire in "Recessional"? A. The British Empire has made the world a safer place. B. The British Empire cannot be stopped. C. The British Empire will not last forever. ____ 23. Women in England achieved suffrage before John Stuart Mill’s death in 1873. A. True B. False ____ 24. In the poem "The Darkling Thrush," what mood change happens from the beginning to the end? A. joyous to hopeless B. hopeful to sad C. hopeless to hopeful ____ 25. In “God’s Grandeur,” “the grandeur of God” refers to nature. A. True B. False ____ 26. Robert Browning incorporated realism into his poems through the use of dramatic monologues. A. True B. False ____ 27. Fin de siècle literature marked a revival of the Romantic style of writing. A. True B. False ____ 28. What is the central idea of "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child"? A. Enjoy your youth while you can. B. All living things come to an end. C. Spring is a time filled with hope. ____ 29. What is Dickens' purpose in having Gradgrind refer to Sissy Jupe as "girl number twenty"? A. to show the readers the school's emphasis on teaching mathematics B. to emphasize Gradgrind's inability to remember names and faces C. to criticize that students in the overpopulated school are treated as numbers, not individuals ____ 30. How could Mr. Gradgrind's opinion of horse riders be described? A.

He is fascinated with them. B. He believes they have a dangerous job. C. He does not approve of them. ____ 31. The poem "God's Grandeur" contrasts A. the splendor of creation with the dullness of mankind. B. the flame of poetry with the oil of commerce. C. the wisdom of age with the inexperience of youth. ____ 32. According to this line from "Dover Beach," what is the one piece of hope the world has? "Ah, love, let us be true / to one another . . ." A. faith B. love C. nature ____ 33. Why does the poet describe the past as "Death in Life" in the poem "Tears, Idle Tears"? A. The speaker's life no longer has meaning to him. B. We experience the "death" of the past while we are still living. C. Our lives have more meaning after death. ____ 34. What central idea is Kipling presenting in "The Widow at Windsor"? A. Britain owes its greatness to the wisdom and power of the queen. B. Great British rulers achieve power through courage and self-sacrifice. C. The queen's greatness was paid for with the lives of English soldiers. ____ 35. In "My Last Duchess," what is the subject of the speaker's monologue? A. the father of the woman he wants to marry B. a portrait of his dead wife C. someone who is in love with his wife ____ 36. What is "Tears, Idle Tears" mostly about? A. the pain of remembrance B. the futility of crying C. the horror of death ____ 37. Towards the end of “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?,” the reader discovers that the digger is her dog. A. True B. False

____ 38. In the poem "The Lady of Shalott," why can't the Lady leave the island? A. A curse is on her that forbids her doing so. B. She is too overburdened with her weaving to do so. C. She has no means of transport at the beginning of the poem. ____ 39. The theme of Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” is the future of England. A. True B. False ____ 40. Thomas Hardy had a ____ outlook on life. A. optimistic B. pessimistic C. exaggerated ____ 41. According to "Dover Beach," what was happening to the Victorian attitude toward faith? A. Religious faith had become more powerful, like the tides. B. People were looking for religious faith in the wrong place. C. Traditional religious faith was coming into question. ____ 42. The wise man in "When I was One-and-Twenty" gives this advice to the poem's speaker. A. Spend all your money. B. Friends last forever. C. Do not fall in love. ____ 43. In Memoriam, A.H.H. was written by Tennyson to commemorate A. a dead close friend. B. the end of a love affair. C. the lives of common people. ____ 44. What do the speakers have in common when comparing the following two lines? "I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together" (from "My Last Duchess") and “That moment she was mine, mine, fair” (from “Porphyria’s Lover,” lines 36). A. playfulness B. generosity

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C. dominance ____ 45. Which words best describe the speaker of "Remembrance"? A. young and carefree B. angry and frightened C. resigned and reflective ____ 46. What is the speaker in "Ulysses" planning to do at the end of the poem? A. He plans to teach his son to be a good ruler. B. He plans to board his ship and sail away. C. He plans to retire and quietly await his death. ____ 47. According to John Stuart Mill, what was the only way for women to express themselves publicly? A. to run for political office. B. to tell their husbands. C. to write and publish. ____ 48. Matthew Arnold compares _____________ in the poem "Dover Beach"? A. the ocean and the land B. the sea and war C. the tides and human life ____ 49. What is the "grandeur of God" Hopkins is referring to in "God's Grandeur"? A. education B. nature C. people ____ 50. What attitude toward the world does the speaker in "Dover Beach" have? A. The world is a place of sadness, misery, and violence. B. The world is a calm, forgiving, and beautiful home. C. The world is a place of peace and calm for those who seek it.

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