Identify which questions you choose to answer

Mundos Anglófonos en Perspectiva Histórica y Cultural — First Semester — MOCK EXAM

INSTRUCCIONES: Este examen se valora sobre 8 puntos totales. Numere sus respuestas y redáctelas en
inglés, cuidando aspectos como vocabulario, gramática y presentación. No olvide incluir sus datos en cada hoja
que entregue. Ningún material permitido. 2 horas
There’s no word limit for any of the exam parts, but If we cannot read it well, we cannot mark it
manage your time adequately well!

PART 1: Provide an overview of TWO out of the three topics proposed below (2.5 marks each).
This part asks you to choose two topics. Note the word “overview”:
1. The British Monarchy. you are expected to provide an outline of the most important ideas,
2. The Church of England. and to give focused, pertinent and accurate information. As you can
3. The British Commonwealth. see, the topics proposed coincide with Oakland’s book’s subsections.
However, you can prepare this exam with the material of your choice.
PART 2: Choose ONE out of these two texts proposed below and write a critical comment on its
significance (3 marks):
This part asks you to write a critical comment on one of the given texts. You are to follow the guidelines provided by
the course regarding historical identification (who? when? why? etc). Also, you are expected to give your own critical
reading of the text, analyzing and processing its information from a cultural perspective. In other words: what was the
text’s relevance, bearing in mind the socio-cultural context that produced it? What were its consequences in terms of
economy, religion, politics, etc? We’ll assess how you relate its significance to the cultural aspects surveyed in the
course.
This initial “…,” though unorthodox in academic writing, lets you see that the excerpt does not belong at
Text 1 the beginning of the original text.

… I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that
Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which
rather than any dishonour shall grow by me, I myself will take up arms, I myself will be your
general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. I know already, for your
forwardness you have deserved rewards and crowns; and We do assure you in the word of a prince,
they shall be duly paid you. In the mean time, my lieutenant general2 shall be in my stead, than
whom never prince commanded a more noble or worthy subject; not doubting but by your
obedience to my general, by your concord in the camp, and your valour in the field, we shall shortly
have a famous victory over those enemies of my God, of my kingdom, and of my people.

From “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury.”Queen Elizabeth I. 1588

This information will help you to begin your comment
Text 2
…I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain - it seems
strange it should have to be explained - what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women. I
am not only here as a soldier temporarily absent from the field at battle; I am here - and that, I
think, is the strangest part of my coming - I am here as a person who, according to the law courts of
my country, it has been decided, is of no value to the community at all; and I am adjudged because
of my life to be a dangerous person, under sentence of penal servitude in a convict prison...
…I come in the intervals of prison appearance. I come after having been four times imprisoned
under the "Cat and Mouse Act", probably going back to be rearrested as soon as I set my foot on
British soil. I come to ask you to help to win this fight. If we win it, this hardest of all fights, then,
to be sure, in the future it is going to be made easier for women all over the world to win their fight
when their time comes.

From “Freedom or Death.” Emmeline Pankhurst. 1913.