Senior Exam Study Guide
Students,
This is your semester exam study guide. You are responsible for the answers to the questions. I will not provide you with the correct answers. All of the test questions are taken from stories we read in class this semester.
What does carpe diem mean?
A. live for tomorrow
B. prepare for death
C. seize the day
D. life is long
Carpe diem is a main theme of “To His Coy Mistress.” Which of these lines best expresses this theme?
A. “. . . though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.” B. “My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow. . . .”
C. “The grave’s a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace.”
D. “. . . I would / Love you ten years before the Flood. . . .”
What does this line from “To His Coy Mistress” mean?
But at my back I always hear / Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near:
A. Rivals may soon win his mistress’s heart.
B. He is rushing to meet another woman.
C. Death is approaching quickly.
D. His mistress will soon accept his love.
What attitude is expressed in this line from “To His Coy Mistress”?
The grave’s a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace.
A. eagerness to enjoy in life’s pleasures and confidence in life after death
B. acceptance of death but disappointment that it ends love’s pleasures
C. desire for death and an end to earthly passions and pains
D. belief that life and the pleasures of love will continue after death
What is the speaker’s message to his mistress in “To His Coy Mistress”?
A. Love is the most important part of life.
B. Life cannot be enjoyed without his beloved’s love.
C. Life is short, so let us love while we can.
D. Life is ending, so let us prepare for death.
Carpe diem is the theme of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” Which of these lines best expresses that theme?
A. “That age is best which is the first. . . .”
B. “For, having lost but once your prime, / You may
This is your semester exam study guide. You are responsible for the answers to the questions. I will not provide you with the correct answers. All of the test questions are taken from stories we read in class this semester.
What does carpe diem mean?
A. live for tomorrow
B. prepare for death
C. seize the day
D. life is long
Carpe diem is a main theme of “To His Coy Mistress.” Which of these lines best expresses this theme?
A. “. . . though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, yet we will make him run.” B. “My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow. . . .”
C. “The grave’s a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace.”
D. “. . . I would / Love you ten years before the Flood. . . .”
What does this line from “To His Coy Mistress” mean?
But at my back I always hear / Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near:
A. Rivals may soon win his mistress’s heart.
B. He is rushing to meet another woman.
C. Death is approaching quickly.
D. His mistress will soon accept his love.
What attitude is expressed in this line from “To His Coy Mistress”?
The grave’s a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace.
A. eagerness to enjoy in life’s pleasures and confidence in life after death
B. acceptance of death but disappointment that it ends love’s pleasures
C. desire for death and an end to earthly passions and pains
D. belief that life and the pleasures of love will continue after death
What is the speaker’s message to his mistress in “To His Coy Mistress”?
A. Love is the most important part of life.
B. Life cannot be enjoyed without his beloved’s love.
C. Life is short, so let us love while we can.
D. Life is ending, so let us prepare for death.
Carpe diem is the theme of “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.” Which of these lines best expresses that theme?
A. “That age is best which is the first. . . .”
B. “For, having lost but once your prime, / You may