1. “Laughing With” What do you see? List the images. What do you hear? What does she say about God? Suffering? Humanity? What do you think the images mean? How do they relate to the lyrics? What is the point of an optical allusion? What do they teach us? What does “Not laughing at someone, but laughing with someone” mean?

2. “Cultivate your Garden” How is this expression a solution to the problem? What does it mean? Has Candide really gained anything from the journey or is it a failure? Give evidence.

3. Quest What are the steps to a quest? Is Candide a quest hero? Does the book follow the quest format? Link each section to the book as best you can and tell whether it succeeds or fails.

4. To a Mouse Paraphrase the last stanza of “To a Mouse”

5. Rime of the Ancient Mariner Pages 812-834 Identify as many characteristics of Romanticism as you can in this poem. Give examples for each. On the same paper, answer 1-11 and “Guilt” on page 835.

6. Wordsworth Read pages 800-808 carefully. Make a list of Romantic characteristics you see. Be specific with page and line numbers. Compare and contrast “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” with these poems. How do both demonstrate Romanticism? How do they do it differently? Answer questions 4, 5, 7, 8, and 10 on page 810.

7. Monsters Revisited We look at some things that could be monsters back at the beginning of the year with Beowulf, the embodiments of our fears. But what makes us monsters? What causes someone to be a monster? What are the problems a “monster” faces in society today? What might makes us sympathize with monster characters? (Consider the “good vampire” novels and other such things.)