How did Lycidas die in John Milton’s eponymous poem “Lycidas?”

Question 1 (Mandatory) (2 points)

How did Lycidas die in John Milton’s eponymous poem “Lycidas?”

Question 1 options:

a) He died in his sleep

b) He drowned in the sea

c) He died by suicide

d) He was killed by the Muse

Question 2 (Mandatory) (2 points)

In John Milton’s poem, “Lycidas,” what occasion forces the speaker of the poem to state the following words:

          I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,

          And with forc’d fingers rude

          Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

          Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear

         Compels me to disturb your season due:(3-7)

Question 2 options:

a) the news of a coronation

b) the news of the arrival of a beloved

c) the news of someone’s death

d) none of the above

Question 3 (Mandatory) (4 points)

Donne used striking images and the metaphysical conceit, which is an extravagant metaphor which points out an unusual parallel between what are usually highly dissimilar elements. From the poem you read in this class, “Holy Sonnet 10,” identify a metaphysical conceit and provide the lines as textual evidence.

Question 3 options:

Question 4 (Mandatory) (4 points)

The Seventeenth century or the Age of revolution was characterized by conflict between which two factions?

Question 4 options:

Question 5 (Mandatory) (3 points)

What was the Plot Plot of 1605? The importance and power of Parliament. The plot was to assassinate James I,

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Question 6 (Mandatory) (4 points)

In Shakespeare’s play, King Lear, who said the following lines:

“Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave/

My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.”

Question 6 options:

Question 7 (Mandatory) (2 points)

A pastoral elegy, is a poem of mourning, which represents both the poet and the one he mourns—who is usually also a poet—as shepherds (the Latin word for shepherd is “pastor”).

Question 7 options:

True

False

Question 8 (Mandatory) (2 points)

Thomas More’s Utopia takes Plato’s The Republic for a model

Question 8 options:

True

False