E6                                                                                                                            Spring 2003
Ms. Wu                                                                                                                    AP Ms. Reisin

Final Exam

Part I: Answer the following questions:

  1. How does this quote reflect one of the major themes of the play?

  2. How do these line reveal Rolando's character?

    "O Rosalind! These trees shall be my books,/And in their barks my thoughts I'll character,/That every eye which in this forest looks/Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere." (III, ii, 5-8)




  3. Use the four couples' love affair to explain the following statements:

"Love is merely a madness, and...deserves as well a dark
house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are
not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary
that the whippers are in love too." (III, ii, 391-395)






     4. What does the following metaphor about eyes mean?

"Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eye:
'Tis pretty, sure, and very probable
That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers." (III, v, 10-14)




     5. What event is described in these lines? Who said the lines in the play?

"Twice did he turn his back and purposed so;
But kindness, nobler ever than revenge,
Made him give battle to the lioness,
Who quickly fell before him." (IV, iii, 128-132)



    6. Who said the following lines? Who and what is the speaking referring to?

"...for your brother and my sister no sooner met but they
looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but
they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the
reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy:
and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to
and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to
marriage...." (V, ii, 31-37)




    7. How does the quote illustrate the love theme in the play?

"What is love? "It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion, and all made of wishes,
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience, and impatience,
All purity, all trial, all observance" (V, ii, 93-97)



    8. Who are the eight people "joining hands" in the end of the play?

"Here's eight that must take hands
To join in Hymen's bands,
If truth holds true contents." (V, iv, 128-130)



    9. Interpret the following lines-

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids
are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they
are wives." (IV, i, 140-142)




    10. Interpret the lines and identify the theme that is indicated.

"Are not these woods
More free from peril than the envious court?" (II, i, 4-5)




E6                                                             Final Exam                                           Spring 2003
Ms. Wu                                                                                                                    AP Ms. Reisin

Part II: Composition

Read the poem "The Broken Heart" by John Donne  and compose an essay about-

Compare or contrast the attitudes toward love expressed in  Shakespeare's play "As You Like It" and John Donne's poem "The Broken Heart".

"The Broken Heart" by John Donne

He is stark mad, whoever says,
That he hath been in love an hour,
Yet not that love so soon decays,
But that it can ten in less space devour ;
Who will believe me, if I swear
That I have had the plague a year?
Who would not laugh at me, if I should say
I saw a flash of powder burn a day?

Ah, what a trifle is a heart,
If once into love's hands it come !
All other griefs allow a part
To other griefs, and ask themselves but some ;
They come to us, but us love draws ;
He swallows us and never chaws ;
By him, as by chain'd shot, whole ranks do die ;
He is the tyrant pike, our hearts the fry.

If 'twere not so, what did become
Of my heart when I first saw thee?
I brought a heart into the room,
But from the room I carried none with me.
If it had gone to thee, I know
Mine would have taught thine heart to show
More pity unto me ; but Love, alas !
At one first blow did shiver it as glass.

Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite ;
Therefore I think my breast hath all
Those pieces still, though they be not unite ;
And now, as broken glasses show
A hundred lesser faces, so
My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore,
But after one such love, can love no more.