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Suppose a vodka martini contains 30% alcohol with the remaining portion of the drink composed of water. What is the solute in this type of martini?

You have fifty-five minutes for this portion of the final.   Identify the quotations or concepts as fully as possible with author, speaker (if appropriate), context (within the work), and/or relevance to the wider themes of that author’s work or the issues we have discussed in the class (such as, for example, economic, social, historical, or philosophical issues).  Mentioning connections with other works we have read or discussed (other than the actual work being identified) is appropriate.  Choose ten out of the twelve options.  Do not do extra responses.  You will be graded on the first ten you do, regardless of whether or not they are the best ten.  If you change your mind about a response, be sure to communicate that clearly by deleting the entire response. 

“I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—“ (for, you see, _______ had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) “—yes, that’s about the right distance, but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?” ( _____ had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)

Identify: Farce

“Because, ________,” said his sister, after silently watching the sparks awhile, “as I get older, and nearer growing up, I often sit wondering here, and think how unfortunate it is for me that I can’t reconcile you to home better than I am able to do. I don’t know what other girls know. I can’t play to you or sing to you. I can’t talk to you so as to lighten your mind, for I never see any amusing sights or read any amusing books that it would be a pleasure or a relief to you to talk about, when you are tired.”

Identify: Farce

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells; Crying What I do is me: for that I came . I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace; that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is— Christ—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

What poem is this passage from? Who wrote it and what is it about? Who speaks these lines, when, and why? What do they show about the poem? “Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me: For your sake I have braved the glen And had to do with _________________.” 

Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought?  Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start:  

Identify title and author of this work. Who is “he” that is mentioned, what is the “thought,” and what does the passage show about that thought?  Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose,Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot: then doth he proposeA stratagem, that makes the beldame start: