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Category: Cultural Literacy
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Published: Saturday, 24 January 2015 16:49
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Written by Brian Jaeger
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Here's a quiz for Cultural Literacy English Lit h-k, complete with Quizstar code
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1. Answer the questions below by clicking the button next to the best answer choice or typing your correct answer. Each question's answers are in grey. |
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1. 1 pt(s). |
Who wrote the stories in which the main character supposedly says, "Elementary, my dear Watson" ? |
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Sir Lawrence Olivier |
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Sir Elton John |
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Sir Francis Drake |
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Sir Arthur C. Clark |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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2. 1 pt(s). |
According to Langston Hughes, what may happen to a dream deferred? |
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Dry up like a dead toad on a sun-baked street |
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Dry up like a raisin in the sun |
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Dry up like a portrait of a lady |
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D. |
Explode like a weapon of mass destruction |
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E. |
Explode like a pimple |
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3. 1 pt(s). |
Who are the "speakers" in the poem "In Flanders Fields" ? |
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John McCrae |
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B. |
the dead soldiers |
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C. |
the injured soldiers |
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the butterflies and squirrels |
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E. |
poets from the Harlem Renaissance |
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4. 1 pt(s). |
John McCrae was a(n) ________________ writing about _____________________. |
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French guy ; the French Revolution |
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American ; World War II |
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Russian ; the Russian Revolution |
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Canadian ; World War I |
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Jesuit ; Choctaws |
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5. 1 pt(s). |
Ulysses, a novel by James Joyce, is revolutionary because it is almost entirely concerned with the actions and thoughts of three characters during: |
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a week |
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a month |
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a year |
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D. |
a minute |
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E. |
a day |
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6. 1 pt(s). |
This Irish author wrote Finnegan's Wake |
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A. |
Austin O'Malley |
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B. |
Oscar Wilde |
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C. |
John Boyle O'Reilly |
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D. |
James Joyce |
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E. |
Michael Collins |
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7. 1 pt(s). |
John Keats would have said that a thing of beauty is: |
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a real hassle to maintain |
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a joy forever |
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rarely seen anymore |
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a thing to remember |
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a stately pleasure dome |
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In this John Keats ode, he writes about how art stands still even as life passes us by: |
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a city slicker |
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a brave soldier |
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a boat bound for Bermuda |
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a Grecian urn |
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his back hair |
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9. 1 pt(s). |
Most (especially older) biblical quotations in English literature come from: |
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The NIV Bible |
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The Living Bible |
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The Koran |
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The King James Bible |
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The Vulgate Bible |
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10. 1 pt(s). |
In King Lear, the king is betrayed by whom? |
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a Lord named Macbeth |
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someone named Othello |
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Brutus |
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D. |
his daughters |
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E. |
his sons |
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11. 1 pt(s). |
Kipling might say that the female of the species is more _______________ than the male |
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weak |
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complaining |
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beautiful |
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better |
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deadly |
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12. 1 pt(s). |
This author wrote The Jungle Book and "The Road to Mandalay" |
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John McCrae |
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B. |
John Keats |
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C. |
Rudyard Kipling |
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D. |
William Shakespeare |
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E. |
James Jpyce |
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13. 1 pt(s). |
Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were part of the Lost Generation of Americans living where during the 1920s? |
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Paris |
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Moscow |
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Cape Town |
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Mexico City |
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E. |
Tokyo |
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14. 1 pt(s). |
Who wrote about dreams deferred and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” ? |
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Langston Hughes |
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B. |
Jean Toomer |
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C. |
William Cosby |
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D. |
William Shakespeare |
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E. |
Jim Brown |
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15. 1 pt(s). |
A famous speech from this play begins, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…” |
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Julius Caesar |
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B. |
Caesar Romero |
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C. |
King Lear |
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D. |
Romeo and Juliet |
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E. |
The Rivals |
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What happens to the main character in the story “Rip Van Winkle” ? |
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He falls asleep for twenty years after partying with dwarves and everything has changed when he wakes up |
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He rests in peace |
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He is shipwrecked |
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D. |
He fears the Headless Horseman |
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17. 1 pt(s). |
Washington Irving wrote this story that dealt with the Headless Horseman |
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
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"I am Legend" |
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"Scooby Do and the Headless Horseman" |
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"Dude, Where's my Head?" |
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E. |
"The Legend of the Headless Horseman and Other Tales of Horror" |
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