Study Questions

Study Questions for Fall 2007

Material assigned for your reading in the textbooks, electronic reserve, handouts, or on a webpage, or any material we discuss in lecture--these will all be fair game for the mid-term and final examinations. However, as and if time permits, I will hastily post more specific study questions. This material will help you review for examinations, and they allow you to double-check that you actually understand what you are reading. In English 201, I will often draw material for pop quizzes from these study questions and from the weekly vocabulary lists. Remember that each week's vocabulary listed in the syllabus is available in alphabetical order on the class website. NB: because of the haste with which these materials are posted after lectures, typos might persist. Don't let any such mistakes confuse you. You can find materials for English 201, some English 301 materials, English 328 materials, English 362 materials, and English 451 materials below.

English 201: Writing and Literary Studies II

Sample 201 Midterm Examination from last year
Sample 201 Final from previous years
Final Examination Essay Prompts

ANCIENT:
Homer's The Odyssey
Sappho's poetry and fragments
Genesis Excerpts
Job Excerpts
Psalms Excerpts (not covered this term)
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Sophocles' Antigonê (not covered this term)
Virgil's Aeneid
Saint Augustine's Confessions

MEDIEVAL:
Beowulf
Anglo-Saxon Riddles
The Wife's Lament (not covered this term)
Excerpts from Dante's Inferno
Chaucer's The General Prologue (first half)
Chaucer's The General Prologue (second half)
Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue
Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale
Excerpts from Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love
Excerpts from Margery Kempe's The Book of Margery Kempe
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Part I)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Part II)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Part III)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Part IV)

RENAISSANCE:
Petrarch's Sonnet #3
Shakespeare's Sonnet Selections
Excerpts from Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Deus, Rex Judaeorum.
Queen Elizabeth's Selections
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Shakespeare's King Lear
John Donne's "The Flea," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," and Meditation 17.
Milton, Areopagitica and Paradise Lost

English 301: Writing and Literary Studies III (incomplete)

Sample 301 Midterm Examination (spring 2007)
Sample 301 Final from previous year
Study Guide (spring 2008)

RESTORATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT
Pope, An Essay on Man
Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part III
Swift, "A Modest Proposal"
Voltaire, Candide(TBA)

ROMANTIC PERIOD / TRANSCENDENTALISM
John Keats, various poems
Samuel Coleridge, "Kubla Khan"
Thoreau, "Walden"

LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Crane, "The Open Boat."
Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Yeats, various poems
Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"

MODERNISM AND POSTMODERNISM:

Hemingway, "A Clean Well-Lighted Place"
T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Joyce, "The Dead"
Hurston, "Sweat"
Louise Erdrich, "The Red Convertible"

English 328: Advanced Grammar, Composition, and History of the English Language (History Component).

328 Midterm Study Guide

Dates Every Student in English 328 Should Know
Baugh, Chapter One
Baugh, Chapter Two
Baugh, Chapter Three
Baugh, Chapter Four
Baugh, Chapter Five
Baugh, Chapter Six
Baugh, Chapter Seven
Baugh, Chapter Eight
Baugh, Chapter Nine
Baugh, Chapter Ten
Baugh, Chapter Eleven

English 328: Advanced Grammar, Composition, and History of the English Language (Grammar Component)
Diagramming Sentences in Kolln and Funk
Kolln, Chapter One
Kolln, Chapter Two
Kolln, Chapter Three
Kolln, Chapter Four
Kolln, Chapter Five
Kolln, Chapter Six
Kolln, Chapter Seven (under construction)
Kolln, Chapter Eight (TBA)
Lord of the Rings Diagramming Quiz (PDF file)

English 451: Chaucer and his Circle

Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde (excerpts fr. Book I, lines 1-431)
Troilus and Criseyde (excerpts fr. Book II, lines 1-49, lines 918-1209)
Troilus and Criseyde (excerpts fr. Book III)
Troilus and Criseyde (Book IV)
Troilus and Criseyde (excerpts fr. Book V)
The General Prologue (first part)
The General Prologue (second part)
Boethius's Consolatio--(not covered in depth this term)
The Knight's Prologue and Tale
The Miller's Prologue Tale
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale
The Cook's Prologue and Tale
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
The Shipman's Tale
The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale
The Prioress's Prologue and Tale
Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas
Melibee (skim through it--not covered in depth this term)
The Monk's Tale (skim through it--not covered in depth this term)
The Friar's Tale
The Summoner's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Parson's Prologue
Parson's Tale (skim through it--not covered in depth this term)
Chaucer's Retraction

English 362: Survey of Early British Literature

Dates Every Brit Lit Student Should Know
Bede, "Caedmon's Hymn"
Anonymous, "The Wanderer"
Anonymous, "The Wife's Lament"
Anonymous, "The Dream of the Rood"
Anonymous, Beowulf: Part I
Anonymous, Beowulf: Part II
Anonymous, Beowulf: Part III
Anonymous, "The Battle of Maldon"
Marie de France, "Lanval"
Marie de France, "Fables"
Marie de France, "Bisclavret"
Marie de France, "Equitan"
Chaucer's General Prologue, First Half
Chaucer's General Prologue, Second Half
Chaucer's Miller's Prologue and Tale
Langland, Piers Plowman
Anonymous, Middle English Lyrics
Anonymous, "Exile of the Sons of Uisliu" from The Táin.
"Lludd and Lleuelys" from The Mabinogion
Excerpts from "The Ancrene Riwle"
Julian of Norwich, A Book of Showings
Margey Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe
The Wakefield Master's Second Shepherd's Play
Everyman
Spenser's The Fairy Queene
Castiglione's The Courtier
Marlowe's The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Shakespeare Sonnets
Shakespeare, King Lear
John Donne Readings #2: "The Flea," and
"Valediction Forbidding Mourning," and Meditation 17
Robert Herrick, Readings
George Herbert, Readings
Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress"
Milton, Various Longer Readings (Areopagitica, Paradise Lost)
Milton, "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
Aphra Behn, "The Disappointment" and Oronooko
Pepys' Diary (TBA)
Kant, "What is Enlightenment"? (text available as a PDF handout or in course packet)
Pope: Rape of the Lock
Swift, "A Modest Proposal" (TBA)
Swift, "Abolishing Christianity" (TBA)
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part 3
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part 4
Steel, excerpts from The Tatler (TBA)
Addison excerpts from The Spectator (TBA)
Johnson, excerpts from The Rambler (TBA)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary excerpts (TBA)
Thompson's "Ode: Rule Brittania" (TBA)
Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"