Brit Lit Exam
Honors British Literature II
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Vocabulary and Grammar
____ 1. In “To An Athlete Dying Young,” Housman refers to “the rout / of lads that wore their honors out.” A rout is a
a.|failed plan.|c.|traveled path.|
b.|loud clamor.|d.|disorderly mob.|
____ 2. Which phrase is the closest in meaning to sinews?
a.|ropes and pulleys|c.|muscular power|
b.|mechanical power|d.|chemical power|
____ 3. Ague, a fever accompanied by chills and sweating, was one of the early symptoms of the plague. When Pepys writes that he has “apprehensions of an ague,” he means that
a.|he feels angry because he may get sick with the plague.|
b.|he thinks that he is already sick with the plague.|
c.|he feels hopeful that he will not get sick with the plague.|
d.|he is afraid that he will get sick, infect his family, and die.|
____ 4. Things that are waning are ____.
a.|growing|c.|drenched|
b.|diminishing|d.|enduring|
____ 5. Which word best characterizes a situation in which a woman claims a neighbor’s dog destroyed her garden and sues the neighbor?
a.|profanation|c.|contention|
b.|breach|d.|covetousness|
____ 6. Which italicized phrase is not an example of a present participial phrase?
a.|“Frenchmen . . . losing sight of all / Which they had struggled for . . .”|
b.|“When most intent on making of herself / A prime enchantress . . .”|
c.|“till, demanding formal proof, / . . . I lost / All feeling of conviction . . .”|
d.|“These waters, rolling from their mountain springs . . .”|
____ 7. Which of the following words means the opposite of wan?
a.|exhausted|c.|shy|
b.|sickly|d.|strong|
____ 8. Which words referring to compass points should be capitalized?
a.|all|c.|those referring to a direction of travel|
b.|those referring to specific regions|d.|those referring to longitudes only|
____ 9. Which phrase is most nearly the same
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
Vocabulary and Grammar
____ 1. In “To An Athlete Dying Young,” Housman refers to “the rout / of lads that wore their honors out.” A rout is a
a.|failed plan.|c.|traveled path.|
b.|loud clamor.|d.|disorderly mob.|
____ 2. Which phrase is the closest in meaning to sinews?
a.|ropes and pulleys|c.|muscular power|
b.|mechanical power|d.|chemical power|
____ 3. Ague, a fever accompanied by chills and sweating, was one of the early symptoms of the plague. When Pepys writes that he has “apprehensions of an ague,” he means that
a.|he feels angry because he may get sick with the plague.|
b.|he thinks that he is already sick with the plague.|
c.|he feels hopeful that he will not get sick with the plague.|
d.|he is afraid that he will get sick, infect his family, and die.|
____ 4. Things that are waning are ____.
a.|growing|c.|drenched|
b.|diminishing|d.|enduring|
____ 5. Which word best characterizes a situation in which a woman claims a neighbor’s dog destroyed her garden and sues the neighbor?
a.|profanation|c.|contention|
b.|breach|d.|covetousness|
____ 6. Which italicized phrase is not an example of a present participial phrase?
a.|“Frenchmen . . . losing sight of all / Which they had struggled for . . .”|
b.|“When most intent on making of herself / A prime enchantress . . .”|
c.|“till, demanding formal proof, / . . . I lost / All feeling of conviction . . .”|
d.|“These waters, rolling from their mountain springs . . .”|
____ 7. Which of the following words means the opposite of wan?
a.|exhausted|c.|shy|
b.|sickly|d.|strong|
____ 8. Which words referring to compass points should be capitalized?
a.|all|c.|those referring to a direction of travel|
b.|those referring to specific regions|d.|those referring to longitudes only|
____ 9. Which phrase is most nearly the same