English 333 -- Fall 2006
Washington State University

I. IDENTIFICATIONS. [Total 26 points.]

Maybe match Column A with Column B; or identify "the children of the night"; or explain the meaning of the name Beowulf: that kind of question. These "Griefs and avenging Cares" will be inflicted individually and intracerebrally during the scheduled class period, Tuesday, October 10th. Put on your thinking caps and press the "fry" button.

II. QUOTATIONS. [Total 50 points; answer 10 for 5 points each.]

A combination of identification and, more importantly, significance questions will follow quotations from the works or film clips selected for their representativeness of our discussions on key points during these first weeks. This is not Trivial Pursuit, and I derive no glee from stumping you; but you do need to recognize key ideas and moments from the works and from our class interactions. If you have read and paid attention in class, only a close review of notes is necessary for preparation. Otherwise, as Lurch the butler would say, "Rrrrrrrrrr."

III. TAKE-HOME ESSAY. [Total 24 points.]

Answer the following question thoroughly and precisely, to about two (2) pages, double-spaced. Answers should be virtuoso pieces of brilliance manifested in impressive eloquence, with facile reference to specifics from the works, properly documented (though no Works list is necessary). The essay is due at in class on exam day to accompany the other in-class components of the test.

"Repression turns hunger into horror."
So claims monster scholar James Twitchell. Is he right? Discuss this principle as it relates to monsters in literature and film, and be sure to include some pre-Gothic examples (monsters from classical mythology and/or the medieval period) as well as our main three: the Frankenstein monster, vampires in Dracula, and Jekyll/Hyde.

I. Explain the word-play, significance, or irony implicit the following names.

Beowulf --

Frankenstein (the monster) --

Victor Frankenstein --

Jonathan Harker --

Lucy Westerna --

Count de Ville --

Mr. Hyde --

Dr. Jekyll --

Gabriel John Utterson --

I. Short Answer. Identify the person or thing underlined in each of the following. [Total 26 points.]

"I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion. He must have been a noble creature in his better days, being even now in wreck so attractive and amiable."

"He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance, something displeasing, something down-right detestable."

"'Compose yourself,' said Clerval."

"Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? But this is heresy, and I must not say it."

"I shall be with you on your wedding-night."

II. Quotations. Answer fully but concisely ten (10) of the following. [Total 50 points.]

1) "She stated that the devil came into her body and she became an animal. ... 'I am a wolf of the night: I am a wolf woman of the day ... powerless is my cause."

What is the term for this brand of delusion and from what ancient literary chef does the term derive?
How might feminist criticism offer an explanation here where the chemically-obsessed psychoanalysts fail?

2) "He was austere with himself; drank gin when he was alone, to mortify a taste for vintages; and though he enjoyed the theatre, had not crossed the doors of one for twenty years."

Identify this character and the author.
How is this minor description relevant to the work thematically?

3) "His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose...."

"[His] face grew set as marble, and his eyebrows converged till they almost touched over his nose."

"his iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting."

What two characters are referred to in these quotations?
How else do they function as doppelgangers?