Optional Comprehensive Final Name: Score: : /60 + (bonus) = /60 All of your answers should be located in the lectures given out this term as well as the literary texts themselves (including introductions and explanatory notes), other supplementary handouts like the Glossary and the “Mastering the . . .” lectures. Since the questions all require that you turn first to the materials provided, read and studied in the class, I advise you not to turn to the Internet first, as you may not get the answer you need. Any errors in title form, quotation or parenthetical reference in your answers will cost you ½ point each. You do not have to cite (quote and provide a parenthetical reference) for any answer unless I specifically direct you to do so. It is in your best interest to give a brief and clear answer. If you provide irrelevant information, I cannot determine if you understand the point on which I’m examining you, and you may get little or no credit. Two Points Each 1. Name two works read for the course that feature allegory and give the name of an allegorical figure in both. 2. Place these works in order from earliest to most recent: “Sonnet 29,” Lysistrata, Psalm 23, Beowulf, Catullus’s lyrics, Villon’s “Ballade.” 3. Who in your reading is Lesbia? Who is a lesbian? 4. Name two authors on the syllabus and read for the class this term who came from what’s modern-day Italy. 5. Name the two earliest works read for this class from England. 6. Identify two of the following: Anaktoria, Voltemand, Myrrhine. 7. Does Sophocles’ Oedipus the King follow the Unity of Time (yes or no) and Unity of Place (yes or no)? 8. Explain briefly the significance of the Black Death to the economy of the Middle Ages. 9. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “If now, in this church, there is a being / Who’s done a sin so horrible that he / Dares not, for shame, absolved of it to be, / Or any woman, whether young or old, / Who has made her husband be a cuckold, / Such folks will have no power and no grace / To offer for my relics in this place.” 10. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “Reversal (Peripety) is, as aforesaid, a change from one state of affairs to its exact opposite, and this, too, as I say, should be in conformance with probability or necessity. For example, in Oedipus, the messenger comes to cheer Oedipus by relieving him of fear with regard to his mother, but by revealing his true identity, does the opposite of this.” 11. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “the Gaulish Rhine, those rude back-of-beyonders / the woad-dyed Britons.” 12. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “No, by Our Lady! I have the cramp in my toe: / Trust not to me. For, so God me speed, / I will deceive you in your most need.” 13. Translate “Radix malorum est cupiditas” and identify the character in one of your readings who says it. 14. In what work do you find “Ite maledicti in ignem eternam” (“go cursed ones into eternal fire”)? 15. Define and explain fully the English sonnet form and cite an example from your readings. 16. Name one work read for this class that was originally written in Medieval French. 17. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “A pot of wine among the flowers. / I drink alone, no friend with me. / I raise my cup to invite the moon. / He and my shadow and I make three. 18. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “I wish I were the laundryman / of my beloved’s clothes, / for even just a month! / I would be strengthened / by grasping the garments / that touch her body. / For I would be washing out the moringa oils / that are in her kerchief. / Then I’d rub my body / with her castoff garments, / and she . . . / O how I would be in joy and delight, / my body vigorous!” 19. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “But pray God that he absolve us all.” 20. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “Pity the abject plight where I am found; / Return my straying thoughts to a nobler place; / Show them this day you were on Calvary.” 21. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “There were bright city plots linked by bathhouses, / a wealth of high, towering gables, / much clamor of the multitude, / many mead halls filled with revelry, / until a mighty Lot changed that. / Far and wide people fell dead: / days of pestilence ran rampant / and death clobbered the ranks of the infamous swordsmen.” 22. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “for when I look at you, even a moment, no speaking is left in me / no: tongue breaks and thin / fire is racing under skin / and in eyes no sight and drumming fills ears.” 23. Identify the author and title of the work containing the following passage: “Or at a leather workshop someone asks / A strapping, really well-equipped young man, / ‘Oh, Mister Shoemaker, you know my wife’s / Little toe, and how tender it can get, / Rubbed by her sandal strap? Drop by at noon / And give her hole a jimmy and a stretch.’” 24. Quote and provide a parenthetical reference for the first epic simile found in Book XVI of the Iliad. 25. Name one work from the syllabus that you read for this class and that was written entirely in prose in the original. 26. Name the play in which Priam appears. 27. Cite (quote with a parenthetical reference) one line in “Sonnet 130” that contains effictio. 28. Explain one of the following two terms and indicate one work where you would find an example: blank verse, dithyramb. 29. Describe briefly one instance of dramatic irony in Hamlet and one in Oedipus the King. 30. Name two works read this term that were set in Scandinavia. One Point Each Bonus 1. Where in your reading did you encounter the Mousetrap? Bonus 2. Provide the parenthetical reference for a passage featuring the “beasts of battle.” Bonus 3. Where in your readings did you encounter the phallos? Bonus 4. Name two works read this term that feature the memento mori motif. Bonus 5. Is Everyman more like a quem quaeritis trope or an exemplum? Bonus 6. What are the Three Estates? Bonus 7. Which did the science of the Renaissance promote: the heliocentric or geocentric cosmology? Bonus 8. Explain the relevance of and connect to a work read this term of one of the following: “Goat Hill” or “Scamander” or “Aquae Sulis.”