Exam One English Name: 4 February 2013

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1 Name: 4 February 2013 Score: fill-in-the-blank + multiple choice + essay questions = TOTAL / 150 = % Fill-in-the-blank (5 points each = total 50) Use the term that best fits. 1. _Qunicey Morris (character name) This is the name of the character credited with killing Dracula when he stabs him in the heart with a bowie knife. 2. _polis (place) This is the term for the Greek city-state that developed in the eighth century BCE as Greece emerged from the Dark Ages. These city-states became a locus for international trade and cultural development. 3. Homer (author) This is the name of the blind poet who to whom The Odyssey is attributed (date) This is the year that the Bram Stoker s novel Dracula was published. 5. _Lucy Westenra (character name) This woman is attacked by Dracula and transformed into a vampire after her death; The Westminster Gazette callers her the Bloofer Lady when she begins taking children around Hampstead Heath and drinking their blood. 6. _short hand (writing style) This is the style of writing that Jonathan Harker used in his journal entries in Dracula. 7. _Jonathan Harker (character name) What is the name of the character who lay on the couch in a languorous ecstasy and waited-waited with beating heart to be kissed by the fair-haired vampire woman? Fill in the missing word in these quotes from The Odyssey and Dracula. 8. Odysseus describes a race of monsters he encountered in Book Nine stating: Now the cyclopes (mythic creature) neither plant nor plough, but trust in providence, and live on such wheat, barley, and grapes as grow wild without any kind of tillage, and their wild grapes yield them wine as the sun and the rain may grow them. They have no laws nor assemblies of the people, but live in caves on the tops of high mountains; each is lord and master in his family, and they take no account of their neighbors. 9. Dr. Van Helsing states: Ah, that wonderful _Mina (Harker) (character name)! She has man's brain a brain that a man should have were he much gifted and a woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination. 10. Dr. Jack Seward describes his patient Renfield s mental condition in the following journal entry: My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a _zoophageous (medical term) (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. (71) Multiple Choice (5 points each = total 50) Choose the answer that best fits the question. 11. _D A long work of prose fiction defined by a complex plot with causation, conflict, response, opposition, and interaction. a. Short story b. Drama c. Epic d. Novel 1

2 12. _C A genre of fiction; a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. a. Short story b. Drama c. Epic d. Novel 13. _C_ What is the name that Odysseus calls himself by during his interactions with the one-eyed monster in the cave (in Book Nine of The Odyssey)? a. No One is Home b. Nobody c. Noman d. The Wily Odysseus 14. _A_ Who is Seward describing: He looked like the figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it. a. Lord Arthur Godalming b. Dr. Van Helsing c. Quincey Morris d. Jonathan Harker 15. _E_ Why does Dr. Van Helsing claim that the Un-Dead Lucy must be made to rest as true dead? a. So that she can take her place with the other Angels. b. So that the children she has bitten will recover. c. So that Arthur can marry again. d. All of the above. e. A & B 16. _C Where does Jonathan Harker travel to meet Dracula? a. Pennsylvania b. Turkey c. Transylvania d. Istambul 17. _B_ What is Dracula forcing Mina Harker to drink in her bedroom when they are discovered there? a. Jonathan Harker s blood b. Dracula s blood c. Dracula s milk d. Her own blood 18. _B_ Which of the following are listed among Vladimir Propp s thirty-one functions of the hero s quest? a. All of the below. b. i, ii, iii, iv. c. ii, iii, iv, v. d. i, ii, iv, v, vi. i. Absention (family member absents self from home) ii. Violation (interdiction/command is violated) iii. Struggle (hero and villain join in direct combat) iv. Branding/Marking (the hero is branded) v. Marriage (the hero and his wife work out a married life together) vi. Procreation (the hero and his wife have a child) 19. _B_ Where is Mina marked after her encounter with Dracula? a. Her thigh b. Her forehead c. Her cheek d. Her lips 2

3 20. _G What different types of genres are included in the text of the novel Dracula? a. Ship s log b. Diary Entries c. Newspaper clippings d. Letters e. Telegraphs f. C&D g. All of the above Essay Questions (25 points each = total 50) Answer two of the three essay questions below (identify which question you are answering in your response). Answer these short essay questions in four or five paragraphs using the space below (or your own paper). Remember, an essay should have a thesis and topic sentences that tie it together into a unified response to the question. To receive full credit you must correctly identify and analyze the material (give specific examples from the text and offer cultural context when significant explain your answers). NB feel free to cross out the essay question you are NOT answering and use that space to continue writing out your response. 21. Monsters are juxtaposed with human rivals in both The Odyssey and Dracula. This pairing of men and monsters has become a staple of Western literature. Name three things that define Polyphemus as "monstrous" in Book 9 of The Odyssey and explain why these things are significant (consider cultural and historical significance of Polyphemus monstrosity in your analysis). How is the monster Polyphemus different from the monster Dracula (and what is significant about this difference)? Example answers for essay questions will be posted separately. 3

4 22. In a lecture on Cybernetics and Ghosts (1967) in Turin, Italy, Italo Calvino claimed that myth is some sort of insight buried or submerged within stories. Bram Stoker s Dracula was written at the close of the Victorian era and it has a wealth of cultural taboos and tensions lurking just beneath the surface of the text. Stoker frequently uses the fantastic to either deal with or mask his message about topics and ideas that could not be addressed openly. Identify one taboo or tension that runs throughout Dracula. Give two example of how this tension (or taboo) is addressed through the fantastic. Analyze the example you offer (i.e. what is the significance of the fantastic symbol in expressing ideas about the taboo)? 4

5 23. In Vladimir Propp s Thirty-One Functions of the hero s quest female characters function as objects; women are typically the object of the hero s desire and his reward for a successful quest. How does Dracula modify this standard trope? How are women incorporated into the quest? Give an example and analyze it. How are women objectified (i.e. do women also function as objects in the novel, such as the hero s reward for his quest)? Give an example and analyze it. 5