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QUESTION 1

Agree or disagree with the statement below. Support your agreement or disagreement with evidence and development.

(8 points per question; 4 points for EVIDENCE, 4 points for DEVELOPMENT).

The poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight meets the expectations of the romance genre.

QUESTION 2

Agree or disagree with the statement below.. Support your agreement or disagreement with evidence and development.

(8 points per question; 4 points for EVIDENCE, 4 points for DEVELOPMENT).

The Black Death is not an important context for understanding the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale.

QUESTION 3

Answer the given prompt, incorporating a claim, direct quotations from the passage, and development into your answer.

(8 points per question; 4 points for the CLAIM sentence, 4 points for DEVELOPMENT).

Why is the following passage a typologically important one for interpreting Beowulf?

And they set a gold standard up

high above his head and let him drift

to wind and tide, bewailing him

and mourning their loss. No man can tell,

no wise man in hall or weathered veteran

knows for certain who salvaged that load. (47-52)

QUESTION 4

Answer the given prompt, incorporating a claim, direct quotations from the passage, and development into your answer.

(8 points per question; 4 points for the CLAIM sentence, 4 points for DEVELOPMENT).

How does the following passage show Arthur’s conflicted character?

His blood was busy and he buzzed with thoughts,

and the matter which played on his mind at that moment

was his pledge to take no portion from his plate

on such a special day until a story was told:

some far-fetched yarn or outrageous fable,

like the action-packed epics of men-at-arms.

Or till some chancer had challenged his chosen knight,

dared him, with a lance, to lay life on the line,

to stare death face-to-face and accept defeat

should fortune or fate smile more favorably on his foe. (89-98)

QUESTION 5

Respond to the prompt below with a sentence bundle (a claim, evidence, and development).

(18 points per passage; 6 points for CLAIM, 6 points for EVIDENCE, 6 points for DEVELOPMENT)

Women in Beowulf vs. Women in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight