ENGL 102 Test 3 Liberty University

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Reading Comprehension Question from the play Everyman (lines 22-79).

GOD:  I perceive here in my majesty, 

How that all the creatures be to me unkind, 

Living without dread in worldly prosperity: 

Of ghostly sight the people be so blind, 

Drowned in sin, they know me not for their God; 

In worldly riches is all their mind. 

 They fear not my righteousness, the sharp rod.

 My law that I showed, when I for them died,

 They forget clean, and shedding of my blood red;

 I hanged between two, it cannot be denied;

 To get them life I suffered to be dead;

 I healed their feet, with thorns hurt was my head.

 I could do no more than I did, truly;

And now I see the people do clean forsake me.  

They use the seven deadly sins damnable,

As pride, covetise, wrath, and lechery

Now in the world be made commendable;

And thus they leave of angels the heavenly company.

Every man liveth so after his own pleasure,

And yet of their life they be nothing sure:

I see the more that I them forbear

The worse they be from year to year.

…

I hoped well that every man

In my glory should make his mansion,

And thereto I had them all elect;

But now I see, like traitors deject,

They thank me not for the pleasure that I to them meant,

Nor yet for their being that I them have lent;

I proffered the people great multitude of mercy,

And few there be that asketh it heartily;

They be so cumbered with worldly riches

That needs on them I must do justice,

On every man living without fear.

Where art thou, Death, thou mighty messenger?

[Enter Death]

DEATH: Almighty God, I am here at your will,

    Your commandment to fulfill.

GOD:  Go thou to Everyman,

 And show him, in my name,

 A pilgrimage he must … take

…

And that he bring with him a sure reckoning

DEATH: Lord, I will in the world go run overall,

And cruelly outsearch both great and small;

Everyman will I beset that liveth beastly

Out of God’s laws, and dreadeth not folly.

He that loveth riches I will strike with my dart,

His sight to blind, and from heaven to depart--

Except that alms be his good friend--

In hell for to dwell, world without end.

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• Question 1

  1.6 out of 1.6 points

  Choose one word that best describes how the speaker feels about those of whom he speaks.

  Selected Answer:

  Disappointed

• Question 2

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  Death’s vow to search for “both great and small,” never to relax at any point, means that

  Selected Answer:

  Death is universal and inescapable.

• Question 3

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  Which of the following best summarizes God’s admonition?

  Selected Answer:

  Focus not on materialism.

• Question 4

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  In context, the excerpt depicts Everyman as __________.

  Selected Answer:

  an epicurean.

• Question 5

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  The speaker characterizes the “creatures” about whom he speaks as __________.

  Selected Answer:

  spiritually poor and lost

• Question 6

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  In the play Oedipus the Chorus make this remark about Oedipus: “Your splendor is all fallen / O naked brow of wrath and tears,/ O change of Oedipus!”  In context, what has happened to Oedipus?

  Selected Answer:

  He has fallen.

• Question 7

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  Euripides is known for his realistic characterization and dialogue.

  Selected Answer:

  False

• Question 8

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  "Quem Quoeritis" means "Whom Do You Seek."

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 9

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  The play Oedipus opens with the following speech by Oedipus: “… Children, / I would not have you speak trough messengers, / And therefore I have come myself to hear you- / I, Oedipus, who bear the famous name.” What is Oedipus’ perception of himself in this speech?

  Selected Answer:

  Important

• Question 10

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  The use of the Greek chorus to divide content is unlike modern theater where the divisions occur via the use of separate acts.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 11

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  Merope is the wife of Polybos.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 12

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  In 534 B.C., Pisistratus instituted an annual March festival at which tragedies were produced in competition for prizes.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 13

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  A contrived "miracle" of intervention used to solve problems is the deus ex machina.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 14

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  Everyman scourges himself to avoid purgatory.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 15

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  The comedic mask can indicate a sneering cynicism or the lightness of humor.
   

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 16

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  The Greeks were a war-like culture and enjoyed seeing bloodshed on the stage.

  Selected Answer:

  False

• Question 17

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  Everyman is an extant English medieval morality play.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 18

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  In the play Oedipus the Chorus say: “Alas the seed of men./…/ That breathe on void and are void / And exist and do not exist?”  In context, what does the second line—“That breathe on void and are void”—literally mean?

  Selected Answer:

  Humans breathe air and are nothing.

• Question 19

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  The play Everyman opens with a statement by Messenger that the “intent” of the play is “gracious / And sweet to bear away.”  This means the purpose of the play is

  Selected Answer:

  To save and redeem.

• Question 20

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  The character, Othello, only fits two of Aristotle's three criteria for a tragic hero.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 21

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  In Greek theater, dramatic passages of intense grief or joy were always sung.
   

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 22

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  Everyman states in the play Everyman: “ O gracious God, in the high seat celestial, / Have mercy on me in this most need; / Shall I have no company from this vale terrestrial / Of mine acquaintance that way to me lead?”
  In this excerpt, Everyman pleads to God to allow help from ________.

  Selected Answer:

  Earth

• Question 23

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  Othello becomes suspicious of Desdemona, because he is manipulated by Iago and the circumstances Iago creates for him.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 24

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  According to the "Three Unities," action was restricted to one main action with few or no subplots.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 25

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  Greek tragedy encouraged the use of comedy and tragedy in the same play to show the duality of human nature.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 26

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  Ancient Greek drama used the deus ex machina.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 27

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  According to Everyman, _____ is a common medieval metaphor to express the idea of the soul's union with God.

  Selected Answer:

  Redemption through Christ

• Question 28

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  The chorus in Greek drama always remains on stage.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 29

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  In the play Oedipus the Chorus say: “Majestic Oedipus! / No prince in Thebes had ever such renown, / No prince won such grace of power. / And now of all men ever known / Most pitiful is this man’s story: / His fortunes are most changed, his state / Fallen to a low slave’s / Ground under bitter fate.”  The speaker uses opposites in this excerpt.  This is an example of the use of ________________.

  Selected Answer:

  Contrast.

• Question 30

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  A "tragic flaw" always results in a complete loss.
   

  Selected Answer:

  False

• Question 31

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  Messenger speaks in Everyman saying: “Ye think sin in the beginning full sweet, / Which in the end causeth thy soul to weep, / When the body lieth in clay.”
  In context, sin is deceptive because

  Selected Answer:

  It appears enjoyable in the beginning but is destructive in the end.

• Question 32

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  The prologue of Oedipus Rex does not

  Selected Answer:

  suggest how a problem can be solved

• Question 33

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  The doctor (teacher) in Everyman says that _____ will forsake you.

  Selected Answer:

  pride

• Question 34

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  According to Greek theater, it is not any extrinsic problem or challenge that determines outcome.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 35

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  A plot complication can be the interaction of different people.
   

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 36

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  As Shakespeare matured, he learned to develop character and outward circumstance.
   

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 37

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  Thespis is the first poet known to insert choral works between verses.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 38

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  "Quem Quoeritis" refers to Jesus as a brave lamb.

  Selected Answer:

  False

• Question 39

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  Everyman states in the play Everyman: “O that is a simple advice indeed! / Gentle fellow, help me in my necessity; / We have loved long, and now I need, / And now, gentle Fellowship, remember me.”
  This excerpt suggests that Everyman and Fellowship have been friends for a long time.  They have “loved long.” Fellowship’s unwillingness to help or tarry with Everyman in his time of need (“necessity”) is unexpected and disappointing.  This is an example of ___________.

  Selected Answer:

  Irony of situation

• Question 40

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  Phoibus/Apollo is the god of _____.

  Selected Answer:

  Light or sun

• Question 41

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  Match the following:

  • QuestionSelected Match

    place, time, action

    A. 

    Three unities

    melodrama

    B. 

    Over-sentimental or overemotional tragedy

    tragic hero

    C. 

    The noble protagonist and focus of interest in classical Greek drama

    rood

    D. 

    The cross of Christ

    soliloquy

    E. 

    A monologue or character speaking to himself

    dues ex machine

    F. 

    Lowering a "god" over the wall of the changing house in a Greek drama

    farce

    G. 

    Crude comedy

    in medias res

    H. 

    Phrase describing works like Sophocles' Oedipus Rex that begin in the middle of the action

    eccyclema

    I. 

    A device for rolling out on the stage the evidence of actions that could not be depicted on stage

    climax

    J. 

    Another name for crisis or the point of greatest tension

    Oedipus

    K. 

    Swollen-foot

    miracle play

    L. 

    Bible story

    parados

    M. 

    Synonym for the Greek chorus; songs of the chorus

    Pisistratus

    N. 

    Instituted an annual March festival at which tragedies were produced in competition for prizes

    Pope Urban IV

    O. 

    Instituted a corpus Christi fesitval

• Question 42

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  "Quem Quoeritis" is the second oldest extant liturgical drama from England.
   

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 43

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  Greek theater embraced a tradition in which a character was to be "a proud bearer of his fate."

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 44

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  The choral division known as strophe functions as echo.

  Selected Answer:

  False

• Question 45

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  Goods speaks in the play Everyman saying:  “Who calleth me? Everyman? What hast thou hast! / I lie here in corners, trussed and piled so high, / And in chest I am locked so fast, / Also sacked in bags, thou mayst see with thine eye, / I cannot stir; in packs low I lie. / What would ye have, lightly me say.”
  An inanimate object, Goods, speaks in this excerpt.  This technique is called ____________.

  Selected Answer:

  Personification

• Question 46

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  Oedipus tells Kreon to give Jokasta (a)

  Selected Answer:

  funeral.

• Question 47

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  One of Sophocles' contributions was the inclusion of female actors.

  Selected Answer:

  False

• Question 48

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  Jokasta is Teiresias' sister.

  Selected Answer:

  False

• Question 49

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  Principal characters can be static, i.e., unchanged by the plot's events.

  Selected Answer:

  True

• Question 50

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  Which convention is a device for rolling out onto the stage evidence of actions which cannot be depicted on stage?

  Selected Answer:

  antigone