1. As indicated in the NAEL7 introduction to Marvell, his poetry is aligned with the school or schools of:  (a) Donne (b) Jonson (c) Donne and Jonson (d) Herbert and Crashaw (e) Milton

2. As indicated in the NAEL introduction to Marvell, he aligned himself with:  (a) the Puritans (b) the Royalists (c) the Puritans and the Royalists (d) the Irish and Scots (e) the French

3. As indicated in the NAEL introduction to Marvell, his poems have the distinctive feature of embodying:  (a) dichotomies (b) generalities (c) agglutinations (d) jeremiads

4. As indicated in the NAEL introduction to Marvell, his dramatic monologues often have a persona who is all the following except which one:  (a) distanced from the author (b) named (c) debonair (d) naive

5. According to T.S. Eliot's famous essay on the Metaphysicals, Marvell's poetry exemplifies an emphasis on:  (a) thought (b) feeling (c) combined thought and feeling (d) dissociation of sensibility

6. The pioneering book on Andrew Marvell by Harold Toliver, one of your instructor's mentors at University of California at Irvine graduate school, is:  (a) The Art of Marvell's Poetry (b) Destiny His Choice: The Loyalism of Andrew Marvell (c) Marvell and the Civic Crown (d) Marvell's Ironic Vision (e) 'My Ecchoing Song': Andrew Marvell's Poetry of Criticism

7. Many of Marvell's poems, as indicated by the NAEL selections, fall in the literary genre of:  (a) sonnet (b) pastoral (c) epic (d) romance (e) allegory

8. The structure of Marvell's poem "The Coronet" has what geometrical shape:  (a) circle (b) square (c) triangle (d) sine curve

9. The subjects of Marvell's poem "The Coronet" could be classified as all the following except which one:  (a) Christianity (b) sin (c) metapoetics (d) politics

10. The subject of Marvell's forty-line poem "Bermudas" is:  (a) romantic love (b) pre-Romantic veneration of Nature (c) praise of British commerce (d) defense of Puritanism

11. Rhythm, meter, and rhyme scheme co-operate in "Bermudas" to suggest:  (a) spinning (b) rowing (c) plowing (d) lugging

12. In "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body," Marvell ultimately comes down more on the side of the:  (a) Soul (b) Body (c) harmony of Soul and Body (d) rejection of Soul and Body

13. "The Coronet," "Bermudas," and "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body" all allude to:  (a) Garden of Eden (b) Noah's Ark (c) Tower of Babel (d) Jacob's Ladder

14. Rhythm, meter, and rhyme scheme co-operate in "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn" to convey the nymph's:  (a) anger (b) beauty (c) determination (d) naiveté

15. Marvell's poem "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn" explores all the following subjects except which one: (a) politics (b) religion (c) cruelty to animals (d) romantic infidelity (e) advocacy of vegetatarianism

16. Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" reaches the acme of a poetic genre famously handled in poems (two especially celebrated ones) devoted to the genre by what other seventeenth-century English poet:  (a) Donne (b) Herbert (c) Jonson (d) Herrick (e) Crashaw

17. Barbara K. Lewalski in her NAEL intro to Marvell interprets "To His Coy Mistress" as all the following except which one: (a) clever seduction poem (b) probing of existential angst (c) endorsement of the speaker's view of passion and sex (d) critique of the speaker's view of passion and sex (e) suspicious of the New Science

18. The opening line or lines of each of the three verse paragraphs of "To His Coy Mistress" emphasize which attribute of structure:  (a) logic (b) circularity (c) association (d) amorphousness

19. Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" in its speaker's catalogue of the addressee's anatomical charms (not that men are like that really) uses the literary device of:  (a) stichomythia (b) litotes (c) blason (or sometimes spelled "blazon") (d) asyndeton

20. Marvell's "The Definition of Love" has the most affinity with the poetry (and specific poems in NAEL) of:  (a) Donne (b) Jonson (c) Herbert (d) Herrick (e) Suckling

21. The floral imagery in Marvell's "The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers" has the most affinity with the poetry (and specific poems in NAEL) of:  (a) Donne (b) Jonson (c) Herrick (d) Vaughan (e) Carew

22. Marvell's "The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers" explores all the following subjects except which one:  (a) ageing (b) nature (c) secular love (d) beauty (e) Christianity

23. In "The Mower Against Gardens," the titular speaker criticizes gardens for all the following reasons except which one:  (a) restricted space or limits (b) begetting visually ugly products (c) floral hybridization for smell and color (d) obscuring derivation through grafting (e) statues of woodland spirits

24. In "Damon the Mower," Marvell satirizes pastoral love poetry for all the following except which one:  (a) the unrealistic erudition of shepherds (b) conventional imagery (b) hyperbole (c) the lover's gift- giving (d) the lover's injury from unrequited love

25. The poetry genre of "The Mower to the Glowworms," besides lyric, might be said to be:  (a) didactic (b) ode (c) aubade (d) encomium

26. The appropriateness of the Alexandrine in the refrain of "The Mower's Song" is its suggestion of the:  (a) influence of the Pleiade on Marvell (b) narrowness of the speaker's domain (c) wide sweep of a woman's stroke (d) the Cavaliers' infatuation with wine

27. As pointed out by Lewalski in her NAEL7 introduction, "The Garden" explores or suggests meanings of the word and concept:  (a) green (b) heat (c) mind (d) vine

28. Conflicts explored by "The Garden" are all the following except which one:  (a) nature and art (b) the active versus contemplative life (c) Prelapsarian and Postlapsarian humanity (d) secular poetry and sacred poetry (e) flora and fauna

29. The first two lines of stanza 12 of "An Horatian Ode" not only convey the positive aspect of Cromwell's bravery evidenced in suffering wounds and scars but also the negative aspect, through pun, of Cromwell's:  (a) timid planning of large battles (b) scarring the land through fighting (c) capricious changing of political allegiance (d) amassing personal wealth while leaving the common soldiers poor

30. The extended theatrical metaphor in stanzas 14-15 of "An Horatian Ode" suggest all the following except which one:  (a) the nobility conveyed by Charles I (positive) (b) the illegitimacy in Charles I's descent (negative) (c) the somewhat self-conscious role-playing of Charles I (negative) (d) the commonwealth soldiers' rowdy quality of the lower sort of theater audience (negative)

31. "Upon Appleton House" represents the poetry genre of:  (a) meditative lyric (b) satire (c) pastoral elegy (d) country house poem

32. Other examples of the poetry genre referred to in the immediately preceding question (and covered in PDLT and NAEL but not in HTL) include all the following except which one:  (a) Thomas Traherne's "Wonder" (b) Amelia Lanyer's "The Description of Cooke-ham" (c) Ben Jonson's "To Penshurst" (d) Thomas Carew's "To Saxham"

33. A suggestion of the appropriateness of Marvell's verse form relative to the subject of "Upon Appleton House" is nearly explicit in which one of the following stanzas:  (a) stanza 6 (b) stanza 9 (c) stanza 12 (d) stanza 15