English 152: Exam II

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Instructor: Bob Erickson
Course: English 152a
Term: Summer Session A 2007

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[edit] Exam II

The exam is in two parts: please read the directions carefully.

[edit] Part I

[edit] A. In your bluebook, please define five of the following words or terms (20 pts)

solas the verray paradys
indulgence pacience
charity/cupidity wit
luxurie drede

[edit] B. Please identify and explain the significance of five of the following, one of which must be a quotation (translate and explain context) (30 pts)

  1. the book of wikked wyves
  2. Breton lai
  3. “A man may do no synne with his wyf, / Ne hurte himselven with his owene knyf”
  4. “But as for me, I seye that yvele it sit / To assaye a wyf whan that it is no nede”
  5. the yongeste riotour
  6. “Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote / That I have had my world as in my tyme"

[edit] Part II

Please write a brief essay on one of the following major themes in The Canterbury Tales; please do not duplicate material from your paper (50 pts)

  1. “Corage” and “malady of corage” (focus on one example)
  2. “Confession” (focus on one example)
  3. Illusion and delusion (focus on one example)
  4. Trouthe (focus on one example)
  5. Experience vs. Authority (focus on one example)
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