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Characters
#1

Who is the young man who helped an escaped convict?

Pip

#2

Name the monster Beowulf killed

Grendel

#3

Name the two couples who married in Much Ado about Nothing.

Hero and Claudio

Beatrice and Benedict

#4

Name the lawyer who helped Pip and managed his expectations.

Mr. Jaggers

#5

Name the housekeeper for Professor Higgins.

Mrs. Pearce.

Plots
#1

Name the three battles that Beowulf encountered in his tale.

He fought Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon.

#2

What does Don John do to disrupt Claudio's and Hero's plans?

 He informs Don Pedro and Claudio that Hero is unfaithful, and arranges for them to see John's associate Borachio enter her bedchamber where he has an amorous liaison (actually with Margaret, Hero's chambermaid). Claudio and Don Pedro are taken in, and Claudio vows to humiliate Hero publicly.

#3

On what day does Pip first encounter the convict?

Christmas Eve

#4

Where does Beowulf find Grendel's mother?

Under water

#5

Richard Hanny had come back from what country when he came to London.

Rhodesia

Authors
#1

This author took his inspiration from stories of lovers deceived into believing falsehoods about each other.

 

William Shakespeare

#2

This author's writing reflects the Victorian themes of social standing and personal develpment.

 

 

 

Charles Dickens

#3

This literary piece was rediscovered and studied not only as history but as literature due to the influences of this well-known writer of fantasy.

J. R. R. Tolkien

#4

After a brief legal career, this novelist was a private secretary in Africa before writing political propoganda for World War I.

John Buchan

#5

An ardent socialist who addressed current social problems, this Irish writer penned novels, literary criticism, essays, short stories, and plays.

George Bernard Shaw

Poetry
#1

A deeply religious man, William Blake wrote two series of poems with similar titles.  Name them.

Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

#2

Where did these lines come from:

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"

#3

From what legend did "The Lady of Shalott" come?

 

Arthurian legends

#4

From what poem does this line come:

" ...Frà Pandolf’s hands    

Worked busily a day, and there she stands."

"My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning

#5

From what poem did these lines come:

"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe."

"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll

Themes
#1

Which piece of literature had these themes:

Courage, family, loyaly, reputaion

Beowulf

#2

In which piece of literature were these themes:

Deception, love, identity, gossip

Much Ado about Nothing

#3

In what piece of literature do you find these themes:

mistaken identity, trust betrayal, patriotism

The Thirty-Nine Steps

#4

The following themes were found in what piece of literature:

gentility, gender roles, morality, language

Pygmalion

#5

In what piece of literature were these themes:

poverty, wealth, love, rejection, social standings

Great Expectations

Final Question

What piece of literature is set in a in a rural area in Greece?

"Ode on a Grecian Urn"