Senior Final Exam Review Sheet Spring 2015
+10 points on your final exam if you complete and turn in the day of your final exam!!!!
17th and 18th Century:
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Who is considered the father of metaphysical poetry?
What are 3 characteristics of Metaphysical Poetry?
What does Metaphysical mean?
What are the 3 conceits evident in John Donne’s “Meditation 17”?
What did John Donne hear that inspired “Meditation 17”?
What are 4 characteristics of epigrams?
In Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” what literary technique des he utilize to convey his purpose in writing
this political essay?
8. Who is “A Modest Proposal” directed towards AND why?
9. What is Jonathan Swift’s proposal in “A Modest Proposal”?
10. List 3 benefits of Swift’s proposal.
Paradise Lost, Faust, Inferno:
Paradise Lost:
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What is the purpose of the Argument?
What does the line “Of Man’s First Disobedience” refer to in the argument?
How is Satan described (physically and emotionally) in Book 1 of Paradise Lost?
What does the line, “We may with more successful hope resolve to wage…eternal war irreconcilable to our Grand
foe” mean?
What is the significance of the line “Better to reign in Hell than serve In Heaven”?
What does Satan call God in Book I? What does Eve call him in Book IX? What does this suggest about the
relationship between Satan and mankind?
In book IX, how does Satan re-enter the Garden of Eden and what are his intentions?
Who warns Eve, and how many times, that Satan will try to manipulate her?
What is Eve’s immediate reaction to the talking serpent (Satan)?
What 3 arguments does Satan use to convince Even that eating from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge?
Why does Eve decide to tell Adam about the fruit? Why didn’t she want to?
Faust:
1. What are the archetypes evident in a Faustian archetype?
Goethe’s Faust:
Describe the relationship between God and the Devil in the Prologue of Goethe’s Faust.
What is the bet that God and the Devil make in the Prologue of Faust?
What is the Devil’s name in Goethe’s Faust?
What is the deal the devil makes with Faust?
Describe Faust’s character at the beginning of Goethe’s Faust.
What does the line “Only look down on knowledge and reason, the highest gifts that men can prize…And then
have you body and soul” (Mephistopheles to Faust) mean?
8. How is the contract signed in Goethe’s Faust?
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Marlow’s Faust:
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Who is Mephistopheles in Marlow’s Faust?
Why does Mephistopheles agree to talk to Faust (what did Faust do to ‘prove’ himself)?
Describe Faust’s character and how it is different in Marlow’s version verse Goethe’s version.
What did Faust desire in Marlow’s version?
Inferno:
Know the Following:
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The 9 circles of Hell in order (and their punishments)
The 3 rings in Circle 7
The 4 sections in Cocytus, Circle 9
Know the following Allusions:
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Cerberus
Muses
Pilate
Beatrice
Charon
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Explain the allegory as it relates to each of the following:
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Dark forest
Light upon the Hill
Three animals blocking Dante’s path
The greyhound
The repetition of the number 3 in the Inferno
Cantos III and VI, know the following:
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The sign that Dante reads as they enter the gates of Hell
The significance of Cerberus having 3 heads
Cantos XI and XII, and XIII know the following:
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What Virgil and Dante discuss outside Circle 7
Who guards Circle 7
The 3 centaurs that talk to Dante and Virgil beside the boiling river of blood
Who the Profligates are and why they are in Circle 7
Cantos XXXII and XXXIV, know the following:
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Who the 3 images he first sees when he enters Cocytus (shades in the ice)
The traitors Satan is chewing on in Circle 9
Frankenstein and Romanticism:
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What are the 5 Is of Romanticism?
Who is the father of Romanticism?
In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” what does the seaman kill that curses his crew?
List 3 things that happen after the seaman kills the creature.
Compare the structure of “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” to the structure of Frankenstein.
What else do “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Frankenstein have in common?
What inspired Mary Shelley to write Frankenstein?
Robert Walton’s purpose in his mission to the arctic is which of the following?
What is Robert Walton’s primary complaint to his sister in his opening letters? (one letter specifically)
What does the arctic setting symbolize in Frankenstein?
Who is Caroline Beaufort?
Describe Elizabeth Lavenza’s life before becoming the ward of Mr. and Mrs. Frankenstein.
What events inspire Victor to pursue a life of science (and to create the monster) when he was a child/young
adult?
14. Who are Waldman and Krempe? How are they different?
15. Where did Victor obtain the raw materials for his creation?
16. Know the following allusions in Frankenstein:
 There is an allusion to Percy Byshee Shelley’s “Mutability”
 There is an allusion to William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”
 There is an allusion to Dante’s Inferno
 There is an allusion to Milton’s Paradise Lost and the fall of Lucifer
 There is an allusion to Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
17. What evidence was provided to convict Justine Moritz of William’s death?
18. Why did Justine Moritz confess to the murder of young William Frankenstein?
19. How does the monster say he is treated by humanity after his creation? (provide an example)?
20. List the members of the De Lacey family.
21. What story does the monster learn about why the De Lacey’s are living in poverty?
22. How does the monster attempt to help the De Lacey’s?
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What are the 3 books the monster learns from when he is staying in the De Lacey’s barn?
Why does the Monster attempt to talk to De Lacey despite previous bad experiences with mankind?
What does the creature demand of Victor after his narrative?
Who is Victor accused of murdering?
What reasons does Victor contemplate for why he should NOT create the monster a mate?
What promise does the Monster make to Victor after he witnesses his mate being destroyed by Victor?
What happens to Victor and the monster at the end of the novel?
List all the characters that die in the novel.
Know the significance of the following quotes from Frankenstein:
31. “And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose? My life might have been passed
in ease and luxury, but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path.” (letters)
32. “I am going to the ‘land of mist and snow,’ but I shall kill no albatross…” (letters)
33. “The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid
advantage of mankind.” (chapter 3)
34. “The immense mountains and precipices that overhung me on every side, the sound of the river raging among the
rocks, and the dashing of the waterfalls around spoke of a power mighty as Omnipotence – and I ceased to fear or
to bend before anything less almighty that that which had created and ruled the elements.” (chapter 9)
35. “But I am a blasted tree” (chapter 19)
36. “Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest
from joy for no misdeed” (chapter 10)
37. “[The remote village in Scotland] was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock whose high
sides were continually beaten upon by the waves. The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few
miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs
gave tokens of their miserable fare. Vegetables and bread…was to be procured from the mainland, which was
about five miles distant” (chapter 19)
38. “There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness
towards my enemies? No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all,
against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this unsupportable misery”
39. “What a glorious creature must he have been in the days of his prosperity, when he is thus noble and godlike in
ruin! He seems to feel his own worth and the greatness of his fall…and like the archangel who aspired to
omnipotence, [he is] chained in eternal hell” (chapter 10)
40. “I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery. Learn from
me, if not by my precepts, as least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how
much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater
that his nature will allow”
***There will be 1 or 2 passages on the final exam with questions. 1 of them will be from Inferno and the other will be
from Frankenstein. 
+10 points on your final exam if you complete and turn in the day of your final exam!!!!