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Here's a quiz for Cultural Literacy English Lit h-k, complete with Quizstar code
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Student's Name appears here | | | Course Name appears here | | | QuizStar | | | | | Directions: | | | 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. | 2. At the end of every page click the next button to move forward to the next page. DO NOT HIT THE BROWSER'S BACK BUTTON! | 3. On the last page of the Quiz you will be able to see which questions are unanswered, are answered and have been flagged. | | | |
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 | | 1. 1 pt(s). | Who wrote the stories in which the main character supposedly says, "Elementary, my dear Watson" ? |  | A. | Sir Lawrence Olivier |  | B. | Sir Elton John |  | C. | Sir Francis Drake |  | D. | Sir Arthur C. Clark |  | E. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
 | | 2. 1 pt(s). | According to Langston Hughes, what may happen to a dream deferred? |  | A. | Dry up like a dead toad on a sun-baked street |  | B. | Dry up like a raisin in the sun |  | C. | Dry up like a portrait of a lady |  | D. | Explode like a weapon of mass destruction |  | E. | Explode like a pimple |
 | | 3. 1 pt(s). | Who are the "speakers" in the poem "In Flanders Fields" ? |  | A. | John McCrae |  | B. | the dead soldiers |  | C. | the injured soldiers |  | D. | the butterflies and squirrels |  | E. | poets from the Harlem Renaissance |
 | | 4. 1 pt(s). | John McCrae was a(n) ________________ writing about _____________________. |  | A. | French guy ; the French Revolution |  | B. | American ; World War II |  | C. | Russian ; the Russian Revolution |  | D. | Canadian ; World War I |  | E. | Jesuit ; Choctaws |
 | | 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: |  | A. | a week |  | B. | a month |  | C. | a year |  | D. | a minute |  | E. | a day |
 | | 6. 1 pt(s). | This Irish author wrote Finnegan's Wake |  | A. | Austin O'Malley |  | B. | Oscar Wilde |  | C. | John Boyle O'Reilly |  | D. | James Joyce |  | E. | Michael Collins |
 | | 7. 1 pt(s). | John Keats would have said that a thing of beauty is: |  | A. | a real hassle to maintain |  | B. | a joy forever |  | C. | rarely seen anymore |  | D. | a thing to remember |  | E. | a stately pleasure dome |
 | | 8. 1 pt(s). | In this John Keats ode, he writes about how art stands still even as life passes us by: |  | A. | a city slicker |  | B. | a brave soldier |  | C. | a boat bound for Bermuda |  | D. | a Grecian urn |  | E. | his back hair |
 | | 9. 1 pt(s). | Most (especially older) biblical quotations in English literature come from: |  | A. | The NIV Bible |  | B. | The Living Bible |  | C. | The Koran |  | D. | The King James Bible |  | E. | The Vulgate Bible |
 | | 10. 1 pt(s). | In King Lear, the king is betrayed by whom? |  | A. | a Lord named Macbeth |  | B. | someone named Othello |  | C. | Brutus |  | D. | his daughters |  | E. | his sons |
 | | 11. 1 pt(s). | Kipling might say that the female of the species is more _______________ than the male |  | A. | weak |  | B. | complaining |  | C. | beautiful |  | D. | better |  | E. | deadly |
 | | 12. 1 pt(s). | This author wrote The Jungle Book and "The Road to Mandalay" |  | A. | John McCrae |  | B. | John Keats |  | C. | Rudyard Kipling |  | D. | William Shakespeare |  | E. | James Jpyce |
 | | 13. 1 pt(s). | Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald were part of the Lost Generation of Americans living where during the 1920s? |  | A. | Paris |  | B. | Moscow |  | C. | Cape Town |  | D. | Mexico City |  | E. | Tokyo |
 | | 14. 1 pt(s). | Who wrote about dreams deferred and “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” ? |  | A. | Langston Hughes |  | B. | Jean Toomer |  | C. | William Cosby |  | D. | William Shakespeare |  | E. | Jim Brown |
 | | 15. 1 pt(s). | A famous speech from this play begins, “Friends, Romans, Countrymen…” |  | A. | Julius Caesar |  | B. | Caesar Romero |  | C. | King Lear |  | D. | Romeo and Juliet |  | E. | The Rivals |
 | | 16. 1 pt(s). | What happens to the main character in the story “Rip Van Winkle” ? |  | A. | He falls asleep for twenty years after partying with dwarves and everything has changed when he wakes up |  | B. | He rests in peace |  | C. | He is shipwrecked |  | D. | He fears the Headless Horseman |
 | | 17. 1 pt(s). | Washington Irving wrote this story that dealt with the Headless Horseman |  | A. | "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |  | B. | "I am Legend" |  | C. | "Scooby Do and the Headless Horseman" |  | D. | "Dude, Where's my Head?" |  | E. | "The Legend of the Headless Horseman and Other Tales of Horror" | |
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