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The three volumes of which medieval work depict a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise? |
a. The Book of Kells b. Pilgrims Progress c. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight d. The Divine Comedy e. Beowulf Dante's The Divine Comedy is in three parts: "The Inferno", "Purgatory", and "Paradise". |
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How would you characterize Hamlet's frame of mind at the beginning of the play? |
a. Sad b. Tired c. Amused d. Barely repressing his anger e. Ranting Hamlet's wit and puns contain his anger at his mother and uncle. |
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Which pair of Shakespearean characters does NOT belong together? |
a. Pyramis and Thisbe b. Cordelia and the King of France c. Benedict and Beatrice d. Viola and Oliver e. Theseus and Hippolyte Viola is a character from Twelfth Night; Oliver is from As You Like It. |
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Which of the following depicts a violent canoe trip down a Georgia river? |
a. Across the Wide Missouri b. The Yearling c. Deliverance d. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter e. Life on the Mississippi Deliverance was written by James Dickey. |
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Which one of the following novels is NOT set in Hollywood? |
a. The Day of the Locust b. The Loved One c. The Betsy d. Daniel Martin e. The Killer Angels The book is about the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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Virginia Woolf was |
a. an English actress. b. a sister of Thomas Wolfe. c. an experimental novelist. d. a follower of Isadora Duncan. e. the first woman to attend Cambridge Univ. She wrote To the Lighthouse and The Waves, among others. |
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Which play is NOT by Shakespeare? |
a. Love's Labor's Lost b. Romeo and Juliet c. The Winter's Tale d. Tamburlaine e. Cymbeline Tamburlaine was written by Christopher Marlowe. |
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The first scientific history was written in the late fifth century B.C.E. by Thucydides about the |
a. Persian Wars. b. invasion of Egypt. c. Peloponnesian War. d. Punic War. e. Trojan War. |
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In which Greek tragedy does a mother kill her own son? |
a. Electra b. Oedipus the King c. Antigone d. The Bacchae e. Iphigenia at Aulis Possessed by the spirit of Dionysus, Agave and other Bacchanals kill her son, Pentheus, who has been caught spying on them. |
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Which occurred first? |
a. Charles Dickens wrote Sketches by Boz. b. Johann Goethe wrote Faust, Part I. c. Daniel Defoe wrote The TrueBorn Englishman. d. Lope de Vega wrote an epic poem. e. Walt Whitman wrote Leaves of Grass. Lope de Vega Carpio was one of the great figures of Spain's Golden Age. |
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1. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, 2. Though I must go, endure not yet 3. A breach, but an expansion 4. Like gold to airy thinness beat. 5. If they be two, they are two so 6. As stiff twin compasses are two; 7. Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show 8. To move, but doth, if the other do. |
From what period is the poem containing these two verses? a. Medieval b. Elizabethan c. Metaphysical d. Romantic e. Victorian |
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Line 1 implies that the two people are 1. Our two souls, therefore, which are one, |
a. married. b. religious fanatics. c. dissenters. d. brother and sister. e. psychic. |
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Lines 3 and 4 include what figure of speech? 3. A breach, but an expansion 4. Like gold to airy thinness beat. |
a. Simile b. Metaphor c. Symbol d. Apostrophe e. Metonymy |
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Match the detective and spy story with the author. Agatha Christie |
a. In the Heat of the Night b. Charlie Chan c. The Thirty-Nine Steps d. Saving the Queen e. Murder on the Orient Express First published in 1934, Murder on the Orient Express, is one of a series of books by Christie featuring protagonist Hercule Poirot. |
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Match the detective and spy story with the author. William F. Buckley, Jr. |
a. In the Heat of the Night b. Charlie Chan c. The Thirty-Nine Steps d. Saving the Queen e. Murder on the Orient Express Published in 1976, Saving the Queen is the first of eleven novels by Buckley featuring CIA agent Blackford Oakes as the protagonist. |
