This is a take-home exam, to be written in a 70 minute period and submitted on Wednesday February 21. Choose one of these three questions to answer in an essay of about 500 words.

1. Compare and contrast the relationship between rulers (including God)

and subjects in one book of the Bible, in writings by Queen Elizabeth

and in The Tempest

2. Discuss the theme of lying vs. truth-tellling in three of the

following works: Genesis, Utopia, Ralegh’s "The Lie," Othello

3. Discuss similarities and differences between love and lust as

depicted in Genesis, Othello or The Tempest, and a poem by Sidney or

Ralegh.