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Who wrote Look Homeward Angel, a novel that was later adapted as a Pulitzer Prize winning play?: Thomas Wolfe
What is a work that fortells distruction because of the evil of a group?: Jeremiad
Where does the reader first meet Candide and Pangloss in the story?: Westphalia
Who wrote The Jungle Book?: Rudyard Kipling
What is doubt of the generally accepted standards or of the innate qualities of human action?: Cynicism
What is suggested as the cause of the poet's death?: alcoholism
When did Abraham Lincoln write the "Gettysburg Address"?: 1863
Who wrote Common Sense?: Thomas Paine
What kind of person is presented in the sestet?: an ordinary person
What ends a Petrarchan or Italian sonnet?: Sestet
When was the prologue to The Canterbury Tales written?: 1387
How does the young man feel determinism has affected his life?: It has limited his behaivor.
The poem emphasizes what difference between a tram and a taxi or a bus?: A tram follows a set route.
What was the English literary period between the execution of Charles I and the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II?: Commonwealth Interregnum
Who is credited with establishing the first printing press in England in 1476?: William Caxton
Which American has not received the Noble Prize for literature?: Tennessee Williams
How is Hamlet best classified?: revenge tragedy
Which character keeps insisting, "We live in the best of all possible worlds"?: Pangloss
Where was the Bloomsbury group of writers located?: London
Which poet laureate of England wrote In Memoriam?: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Rubaiyat is the plural of english quatrain in which language?: Arabic
Who was associated with the Knickerbocker group of writers?: Washington Irving
What does the word predestinate contribute to the poem?: It echoes the meaning of dterminism.
What does the speaker view as the human life span?: 80 years
The first line leads the reader to expect what traditional pattern?: limerick
What event actually occurred in Lisbon that Voltaire incorporated into Candide?: An Earthquake
What evidence is providied that the man's love was not returned?: His letters were never kept.
What does Hamlet use as a "mousetrap"to capture the conscience of the king?: Performance of a play mirroring the king's crime
What was Chapman's achievement that prompted Keats to write this poem?: Translator of Poetry
What is the traditional form of John Keats' poem On First Looking into Chapman's Homer?: Italian Sonnet
Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities and Hard Times?: Charles Dickens
Who is Laertes?: All of the above
This poem, which expresses the idea that life is short and that one should therefore enjoy it, falls into category?: carpe diem
Which word best depicts the speaker's appraisal of the suburb's response to the poet's death?: complacency
WHen is the speaker viewing the cherry trees?: in spring
What is the primary setting of Hamlet by William Shakespeare?: Denmark
What is a word or phrase used to point out a characteristic of a person or thing, as in "noisy mansions" for school houses?: Epithet
Where on a map would a person find a peak in Darien?: Panama
In which category has Candide been generally classified?: Satire
What is noted in the poet's obituary among the other reports of death?: small type and brevity
Who is Hamlet's best friends in the play?: Horatio
What is a term for the moment in the work in which the main action begins?: point of attack
What was the nationality of the author of Candide?: French
With which movement is the poetry of John Keats associated?: Romantic
Which idea best captures the main theme of the poem?: The Thrill of Discovery
Arther Miller, Philip Roth and Allen Ginsburg are identified with which group of writers?: Jewish-American writers
What human characteristics are presented in the octave?: those of superhero
In Chapters 2 and 3, what are the episodes involving Candide and the Bulgarians exemplifying?: Anti-War Sentiment
Which term is used for writing that deals with rural life in a manner rather formal and fanciful?: Bucolic
What stands for certain definte ideas and attitiudes mainly drawn from critical utterances of the Greeks and Romans?: Classicism
What is an expression which is appropriate in informal conversation but not accepted universally in formal speech or writing?: Colloquialism
Who wrote Essay on Man?: Alexander Pope
What is the meaning of "ken" in line 10 of On First Looking into Chapman's Homer ?: Scope of Knowledge
What is a play, usually inverse, designed to be read rather than acted?: Closet Drama
How old is the speaker in the poem?: 20 years old
What role does Polonius play in the royal court?: Adviser to the king
What is a harsh, unpleasent combination of sounds?: Cacophony
How is the reference in the poem to Apollo best classified?: As a classical allusion
Which period of American literature followed the Romantic Period (1830-1865)?: Realistic Period
Although Cortez is appropriate for the meter and "realms of gold" theme, who was actually the European credited with discovering the Pacific?: Balboa
Which term suggests squeamishness?: Victorian
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?: abab
Which scene in a novel would create an anachronism?: Jane Austen arguing with Ernest Hemingway
Which of the following was not one the conventions of epic formula?: Unity of Place
Who recieved the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 for To Kill a Mockingbird?: Harper Lee

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