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Name _________________________________ I.D. Number _______________________ Unit 3 Evaluation Evaluation 03 Twelfth Grade English 2 ENGH 044 060 This evaluation will cover the lessons in this unit. It is open book, meaning you can use your textbook, syllabus, and other course materials. You will need to understand, analyze, and apply the information you have learned in order to answer the questions correctly. To submit the evaluation, follow the directions in your online course. Multiple-Choice Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question. _____ 1. To whom is “Recessional” addressed? a. b. c. d. _____ to Queen Victoria to the British Empire to the poet to God 2. In “Recessional,” what does the phrase “we hold / Dominion over palm and pine—” (lines 3 and 4) refer to? a. b. c. d. _____ human control over nature the variety of God’s creation the extent of the British Empire the speaker’s view as he addresses the poem’s subject 3. Determine the speaker’s attitude in lines 15 and 16 from “Recessional”: “Lo, all our pomp of yesterday / Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!” a. The speaker feels Britain’s greatness is similar to that of ancient cities. b. The speaker believes the greatness of Britain could disappear, just as did that of Nineveh and Tyre. c. The speaker feels that the greatness of Britain will be everlasting, like that of Nineveh and Tyre. d. The speaker believes that great cities or nations all hold the same attitudes toward power and success, which contribute to their greatness. Unit 3 Evaluation 1 ENGH 044 _____ 4. To whom does the title of “The Widow at Windsor” refer? a. b. c. d. _____ the speaker’s mother the poet’s mother an old woman in an old house Queen Victoria 5. In “The Window at Winsor,” determine what the speaker is saying in lines 16–19: “Walk wide o’ the Widow at Windsor, / For ‘alf o’ Creation she owns: We ‘ave bought ‘er / the same with the sword an’ the flame, / An’ we’ve salted it down with our bones.” a. b. c. d. _____ 6. What does the speaker remember in “Remembrance”? a. b. c. d. _____ The speaker is afraid of the Widow and wishes to avoid her. The speaker uses sword and flame to get what he wants. The speaker is saying he is a soldier who serves in the Widow’s army. The speaker views the Widow as a ruthless materialist who owns everything she can get her hands on. her home her sister her love her country 7. Determine the meaning of the third stanza from “Remembrance”: “Cold in the earth, and fifteen wild Decembers / From these brown hills have melted into spring— / Faithful indeed is the spirit that remembers / After such years of change and suffering!” a. b. c. d. _____ 8. What does the speaker in “Remembrance” plan to do? a. b. c. d. _____ It takes a special person to stay faithful to one who has been dead fifteen years. Fifteen cold years have passed and I still think of my beloved as if he were alive. It was cold when my beloved died, and it feels colder now when I remember him. I’ll never forget the joys we had, which remind me of spring and the melting snow. Forget her beloved. Live in mourning forever. Find a new love. Go on with her life. 9. Determine the meaning of the final stanza from “Remembrance”: “Sweet Love of youth, forgive if I forget thee / While the World’s tide is bearing me along: / Other desires and other hopes beset me, / Hopes which obscure but cannot do thee wrong.” a. b. c. d. Unit 3 Evaluation The living must find a way to survive after a loss. After the death of a loved one, all hope is gone. We become disillusioned with age. Our hopes do injustice to the memory of the dead. 2 ENGH 044 _____ 10. What is ironic about the speaker’s words by the end of “Remembrance”? a. b. c. d. The speaker feels joyful. The speaker has found a way to cherish life. The speaker is bitter and resentful. The speaker is also dead. _____ 11. Which words best describe the speaker of “Remembrance”? a. b. c. d. young and carefree angry and frightened resigned and reflective disillusioned and confused _____ 12. What is ironic about the song of the thrush in “The Darkling Thrush”? a. b. c. d. It is ironic that the speaker bothers to notice the thrush singing outside. It is ironic that only the thrush is singing when so many other birds are about. It is a winter day and nothing seems alive, but the thrush sings a cheerful song. The thrush is old and frail, and it is ironic that it can sing at all. _____ 13. How does the mood change from the beginning to the end of “The Darkling Thrush”? a. b. c. d. hopeless to hopeful hopeful to sad joyful to hopeless thoughtful to sad _____ 14. What is significant about the setting of “The Darkling Thrush”? a. b. c. d. It is the last night of the century. The speaker is lost. The speaker describes a bird sanctuary. It is almost dawn. _____ 15. Determine the speaker’s tone in lines 15 and 16 from “The Darkling Thrush:” “. . . And every spirit upon earth / Seemed fervorless as I.” a. b. c. d. resentful discouraged passionate skeptical _____ 16. Who is digging on the speaker’s grave in “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” a. b. c. d. Unit 3 Evaluation the speaker’s beloved the speaker’s family the speaker’s dog the speaker’s enemy 3 ENGH 044 _____ 17. What is the main idea of “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” a. b. c. d. We are forgotten after we die. People who loved us will remember us always. No one escapes death, not even poets. Only pets remember us after death. _____ 18. What is the main irony of “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” a. b. c. d. The speaker asks many questions. Pets usually remember their owners. Her beloved has forgotten her after her death. The speaker expects someone to grieve for her. _____ 19. By connecting the main ideas in the stanzas of “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” the reader a. b. c. d. discovers how the speaker died. realizes the poem’s dark humor. discovers the poem’s mood is sentimental. eliminates the poem’s irony. _____ 20. Gerard Manley Hopkins was a Catholic priest. Which line from “God’s Grandeur” most strongly suggests the depth of his faith? a. b. c. d. “Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; / And all is seared with trade . . . “ “Because the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast . . .” “And for all this, nature is never spent; / There lives the dearest freshness . . . “ “. . . the soil / Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.” _____ 21. In “God’s Grandeur,” what does Hopkins mean when he refers to the “grandeur of God” in line 1? a. b. c. d. people education poetry nature _____ 22. Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “God’s Grandeur” contrasts a. b. c. d. Unit 3 Evaluation the flame of poetry with the oil of commerce. the splendor of creation with the dullness of mankind. western darkness with eastern light. the sad wisdom of age with the fresh inexperience of youth. 4 ENGH 044 _____ 23. What is the child grieving over in “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”? a. b. c. d. _____ 24. becoming ill the death of a friend nature’s changes the death of parents What is the main idea of “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”? a. b. c. d. People are only young once. All things die at some point. Nature has cycles of birth and death. Spring is a time of hope. _____ 25. What event occasions Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child”? a. b. c. d. the destruction of a forest the death of a child of a family friend a child’s sadness at fallen leaves the death of a child’s parents _____ 26. In “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child,” the image of “wanwood leafmeal” suggests the a. b. c. d. bounty of harvest. process of decay. mystery of the forest. innocence of childhood. _____ 27. Hopkins’s profession as a priest may suggest an interpretation of “Spring and Fall: To a Young Child” that includes a. b. c. d. death as an inevitable, but not an evil, force. considering the child’s feelings to be mistaken. assuming the Earth is all we can know. regarding nature as a lesser power than God. _____ 28. What is the theme of “To an Athlete Dying Young”? a. b. c. d. the lasting peace of death the reasons for athletic competition the tragedy of an early death the glory of athletic achievement _____ 29. Which lines from “To an Athlete Dying Young” suggest that glory does not last? a. b. c. d. Unit 3 Evaluation “The time you won your town the race / We chaired you through the market place;” “And early though the laurel grows / It withers quicker than the rose.” “And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After earth has stopped the ears.” “Eyes the shady night has shut / Cannot see the record cut.” 5 ENGH 044 _____ 30. What advice is the speaker given in “When I Was One-and-Twenty”? a. b. c. d. Do not fall madly in love. Speak well of others. Do not tell people your true thoughts. Find someone to be your friend. _____ 31. The tone of “When I Was One-and-Twenty” is __________. a. b. c. d. regretful. sarcastic. respectful. angry. _____ 32. In “When You Are Old,” what is the book that the poet wants the woman to read when she is older? a. b. c. d. a photo album with pictures of friends a diary that belongs to a friend a book that describes his love for her a book of stories about women _____ 33. What is the mood created by “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”? a. b. c. d. danger and suspense anxiety and dread sadness and disappointment peace and longing _____ 34. Where is the speaker when he remembers the sound of water in “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”? a. b. c. d. in a boat on a lake lying awake on the Isle of Innisfree standing on roadways and pavement alone on the shore of the lake _____ 35. What is the speaker’s concern in “The Wild Swans at Coole”? a. b. c. d. Other humans will disturb the swans. He will not see the swans anymore if they fly away. The swans will become old and eventually die. The lake will become too crowded with swans. _____ 36. What do the swans symbolize in “The Wild Swans at Coole”? a. b. c. d. Unit 3 Evaluation freedom and timelessness sorrow and despair religious faith stars and the moon 6 ENGH 044 _____ 37. What image does Yeats use to illustrate the beginning of a new age in “The Second Coming”? a. b. c. d. two stone legs sticking out of the sand the Sphinx coming to life a scorpion caught in a spider’s web the moon turning a bright, electric blue color _____ 38. In the final line of “Preludes,” Eliot compares the planets to ancient women who are “Gathering fuel in vacant [empty] lots.” What conclusion can you draw about the mood he creates with this line? a. b. c. d. The mood is fearful. The mood is innocent. The mood is hopeless. The mood is happy. _____ 39. What setting does Eliot use in the first stanza of “Preludes”? a. b. c. d. _____ 40. winter evening in a city summer morning in the country summer evening in the country winter morning in his home In “Sailing to Byzantium,” why does the speaker want to go to Byzantium? a. b. c. d. to find love to pray to find hope in art to become young again _____ 41. The speaker in “Journey of the Magi” says in lines 19 and 20 that the Magi (wise men) traveled all night, even though there were “voices singing in our ears, saying / That this was all folly.” What does the speaker mean? a. b. c. d. _____ 42. They sang to take their minds off the folly of their journey. Their journey was filled with singing and hopeful companionship. They were so tired that they sang to keep themselves awake. Even when they were tired and had doubts, they remained faithful. What is one of the main ideas of “The Hollow Men”? a. b. c. d. Unit 3 Evaluation Religion is out of place in modern life. People need to be saved to gain hope. Most of us cannot control how we act. Everyone today has strong faith. 7 ENGH 044 _____ 43. In line 1 of “The Hollow Men” (“We are the hollow men”), why does the speaker use the word “we”? a. b. c. d. to show that he is part of an important community to show that people should all believe as he does to show that he is a member of a large family to show that he is referring to all modern people _____ 44. Which is the best analysis of the meaning of line 11 from “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”: “The death of the poet was kept from his poems”? a. b. c. d. People didn’t want to read Yeats’s poems after he died. The poetry of Yeats is never autobiographical. Yeats’s poetry exists separately from his physical being. The themes of Yeats’s poetry never concern death. _____ 45. What is the focus of the moral lesson in the third section of “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”? a. b. c. d. the healing power of poetry the misdeeds of various poets the irrelevance of poetry the alienation of contemporary life _____ 46. In what way does the third section of “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” reflect the tension of the decade in which it was written? a. b. c. d. The section describes the era in which a famous poet died. The section describes the hatred growing among nations. The section describes how contemporary people differ from their ancestors. The poem describes writers with strong political beliefs. _____ 47. What is the theme of “Musée des Beaux Arts”? a. b. c. d. Society should do more to help the unfortunate. There are as many interpretations of a painting as there are viewers. Tragedy means nothing to those who are unaffected by it. The Old Masters were obsessed with human suffering. _____ 48. What does Auden imply about art in “Musée des Beaux Arts”? a. b. c. d. Unit 3 Evaluation People should venerate the work of great artists. Art can be relevant to everyday life. Art speaks only to its own generation. Only the well educated fully appreciate art. 8 ENGH 044 _____ 49. What is the theme of “Carrick Revisited”? a. b. c. d. People shape their own destinies. Childhood experiences are quickly forgotten as people grow older. People want to know how their past influences their lives. People can mold themselves through force of will. _____ 50. Which words from “Carrick Revisited” do NOT signal that the poem is a pastoral? a. b. c. d. “green banks” “sizzling grid” “church bell” “red Antrim clay” Carefully check your answers on this evaluation and make any corrections you feel are necessary. When you are satisfied that you have answered the questions to the best of your ability, transfer your answers to an answer sheet. Please refer to the information sheet that came with your course materials. Unit 3 Evaluation 9 ENGH 044 Unit 3 Evaluation 10 ENGH 044
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Unit 3 Evaluation
Evaluation 03
Twelfth Grade English 2 ENGH 044 060
This evaluation will cover the lessons in this unit. It is open book, meaning you
can use your textbook, syllabus, and other course materials. You will need to
understand, analyze, and apply the information you have learned in order to answer the questions
correctly. To submit the evaluation, follow the directions in your online course.

Multiple-Choice
Select the response that best completes the statement or answers the question.
_____ 1. To whom is “Recessional” addressed?
a.
b.
c.
d.

to Queen Victoria
to the British Empire
to the poet
to God

_____ 2. In “Recessional,” what does the phrase “we hold / Dominion over palm and pine—” (lines
3 and 4) refer to?
a.
b.
c.
d.

human control over nature
the variety of God’s creation
the extent of the British Empire
the speaker’s view as he addresses the poem’s subject

_____ 3. Determine the speaker’s attitude in lines 15 and 16 from “Recessional”: “Lo, all our pomp
of yesterday / Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!”
a. The speaker feels Britain’s greatness is similar to that of ancient cities.
b. The speaker believes the greatness of Britain could disappear, just as did that of
Nineveh and Tyre.
c. The speaker feels that the greatness of Britain will be everlasting, like that of
Nineveh and Tyre.
d. The speaker believes that great cities or nations all hold the same attitudes toward
power and success, which contribute to their greatness.

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4. To whom does the title of “The Widow at Windsor” refer?
a. the speaker’s mother
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b. the poet’s mother
c. an old woman in an old house
d. Queen Victoria
5. In “The Window at Winsor,” determine what the speaker is saying in lines 16–19:
“Walk wide o’ the Widow at Windsor, / For ‘alf o’ Creation she owns: We ‘ave bought
‘er / the same with the sword an’ the flame, / An’ we’ve salted it down with our bones.”
a.
b.
c.
d.

The speaker is afraid of the Widow and wishes to avoid her.
The speaker uses sword and flame to get what he wants.
The speaker is saying he is a soldier who serves in the Widow’s army.
The speaker views the Widow as a ruthless materialist who owns everything she
can get her hands on.

_____ 6. What does the speaker remember in “Remembrance”?
a.
b.
c.
d.

her home
her sister
her love
her country

_____ 7. Determine the meaning of the third stanza from “Remembrance”: “Cold in the earth, and
fifteen wild Decembers / From these brown hills have melted into spring— /
Faithful indeed is the spirit that remembers / After such years of change and suffering!”
a.
b.
c.
d.

It takes a special person to stay faithful to one who has been dead fifteen years.
Fifteen cold years have passed and I still think of my beloved as if he were alive.
It was cold when my beloved died, an...


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