World Lit II Passage Test 1

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ENG 2112 – Test: Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, Faust Name _______________________________________________

ENG 2112 Test #1 Fall 2020

Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, Faust

Choose from the topics below:

For the passages below, identify (a) source- one point; (b) author- one point; (c) situation- three points; (d) significance of the passage – Five points. DO NOT RETELL THE STORY AND/OR EXPLAIN THE LINES . ANALYZE!! Choose 10. You should have no more than 3-4 sentences for #3 and #4 on each.

1. With gentry like yourself, it’s common

To find the name declares what you are

Very plainly; for example

Lord of the Flies, Destroyer, Liar

So who are you, I’d like to know

I am the spirit that says no, no always!

And how right I am!

For what does everything that comes into existence

Here on earth deserve, if not

To be wiped out completely?

…So all that you call sin,

Catastrophe and ruin - i.e. evil----

For me’s the water I swim in.

2. They went some paces off, as if it were to confer together, walking side by side, backward and forward, like persons deliberating upon some affair of weight,; but often turning their eyes toward me as it were to watch that I might not escape.

3. Secondly, the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to distress, and help pay their landlord’s rent; their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.

4. The way we’re going is by air,

Upon my cloak- you’ll enjoy the voyage.

But take care, on so bold a tour,

You’re sparing in the matter of luggage.

I’ll heat some gas, that way we’ll lift

Quickly off the face of the earth;

If we’re light enough, we’ll rise right up-

Congratulations, sir, on your new life!

5. Hey forced me into the longboat, letting me put on my best suit of clothes, which were as good as new, and a small bundle of linen, but no arms except my hanger; and they were so civil as to not search my pockets, into which I conveyed what money I had, with some other little necessities.

6. Oh, all right. If that’s what makes you happy,

I’ll go along with the buffoonery.

Blood’s a very special ink, you know.

Are you afraid that I won’t keep our bargain?

Till doomsday I will strive, I’ll never slacken!

So I’ve promised, that’s what I will do.

7. Many other advantages might be enumerated. For instance, the addition of some thousand carcasses in our exportation of barreled beef…a fat yearling child, which, roasted whole, will make considerable figure at the Lord Mayor’s feast, or any other public entertainment.

8. You don’t say! Well, he serves you, I think, very queerly,

Finds meat and drink, the fool, in nothing earthly,

Drives madly on, there’s in him such a torment,

He himself is half aware he’s crazy;

Heaven’s brightest stars he imperiously requires,

And from the earth its most exciting pleasures,

And all that’s near at hand of far and wide

Leaves your good servant quite unsatisfied.

9. When the beast felt the smart, he drew back, and roared so loud, that a herd of at least forty came flocking about me from the next field, howling and making odious faces; but I ran to the body of the tree, and leaning my back against it, kept them off, by waving my hanger. Several of this cursed brood getting hold of the branches behind, leaped up into the tree, from which they began to discharge their excrements on my head; however, I escaped pretty well, by sticking close to the stem of the tree, but was almost stifled with the filth, which fell about me on every side.

10. Look again. What kind of creature is it?

Kind? A poodle-

Worried where his master is, and always

Sniffing about to find his scent.

Look, he’s

Circling around us, coming near and nearer

Unless I’m much mistaken, a wake of fire

Is streaming after him.

11. I had not been a year in this country before I contracted such a love and veneration for the inhabitants, that I entered into a firm resolution never to return to humankind….

12. …if what I have heard some learned men maintain, be true, that all souls are equal, and alike, and that consequently there is no such distinction, as male and female souls; that there are no innate ideas, but that all the notions we have, are derived from our external senses….

13. Our brain is perfectly like theirs, we receive the impressions of sense as they do, we martial and preserve ideas for imagination and memory as they do, and we have all the organs they have, and apply them to the same purposes as they do.

14. He was convinced that I must be a Yahoo, but my teachableness, civility, and cleanliness astonished him….

15. She is the soul of innocence

And has no reason, none at all,

To visit the confessional,

Her kind is too much for me.

…Let me tell you it straight out

If I don’t hold that darling creature

Tight in my very arms this night,

We’re through, we two, at the stroke of midnight.

16. I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work , having no other motive than the public good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. I have no children by which I can propose to get a single penny, the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing.

17. I dwell the longer upon this subject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to appear in my sight.