Deck 4: Literature

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ "Nobody kilt him."

Answer 1

11

Question 2

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ a transition poet

Answer 2

14

Question 3

____ 3. A literary work can be a masterpiece without being a classic.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ William Blake

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ country in which the sonnet originated

Question 6

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ poet attempting to talk his way out of dying

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ "Juliet is the sun."

Question 8

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ an epic

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ Don Quixote

Question 10

____ 2. Fitzgerald and Hemingway had vastly different styles of writing.

Question 11

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ conceit

Question 12

____ 4. "Ars Poetica" says that the best way to understand a poem is to see whether it can be restated as prose.

Question 13

____ 1. A single line of a lyric poem is called a lyre.

Question 14

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ the downfall of a character in the Iliad

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ The Great Gatsby

Question 16

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ five, seven, five

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ founded on oneness with the natural world

Question 18

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ identity

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed at bottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.1. epiphany
2. tragic flaw
3. Iraq
4. Shakespeare
5. Gilgamesh
6. basic literary impulse
7. haiku
8. The Lamb
9. rhyme
10. metaphor
11. Tom Joad
12. satirical novel
13. Italy
14. Emily Dickinson
15. sonnet
16. F. Scott Fitzgerald
17. France
18. epic
19. John Donne
20. Billy Collins
21. Gerard Manley Hopkins
___ poetic form requiring fourteen lines

Question 20

____ 5. Gilgamesh features a wrestling match between two superheroes.

Question 21

____ 12. The Harlem Renaissance brought the work of Japanese poets to public attention.

Question 22

____ 13. John Ciardi believed that poetry should always be read silently and meditatively to oneself, not aloud.

Question 23

____ 9. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was an ordained Catholic priest.

Question 24

Georgia Douglas Johnson's poem begins "Don't knock at my door, little child, / I cannot let you in..." and describes

A) the narrator's unwillingness to give birth.
B) a woman who trusts no one because of the crime in her neighborhood.
C) a paranoid fear of the supernatural.
D) random acts of cruelty caused by poverty.
E) the tragedy of uninvolvement in today's society.

Question 25

Which of the following early works features a swaggering superhero?

A) Catcher in the Rye
B) The Iliad
C) Ode to Aphrodite
D) Gilgamesh
E) The Great Gatsby

Question 26

____ 7. In English, many words have the same endings, making rhyming easier than in Spanish or Italian.

Question 27

____ 14. The Iliad is the first known literary work in history.

Question 28

____ 8. The haiku has its parallel in visual art that uses minimal detail to create a scene or express a thought.

Question 29

____ 11. The 2001 Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins, was influenced by Welsh poetry.

Question 30

In the Emily Dickinson poem included in this chapter, "great pain" is followed by:

A) an outpouring of great joy.
B) a period of restlessness and depression.
C) desperate prayer.
D) a formal feeling.
E) reluctant resignation.

Question 31

The tragic character flaw that dooms Hector is

A) pride.
B) villainy.
C) treachery.
D) sexual lust.
E) superstition.

Question 32

An epic is best defined as a

A) dramatic episode
B) time period
C) sudden revelation
D) long narrative poem
E) climax

Question 33

The first prose fiction novel, according to many historians:

A) Gilgamesh
B) The Iliad
C) Don Quixote
D) For Whom the Bell Tolls
E) The Tale of Genji

Question 34

Credited by many as having written the first Western novel:

A) Cervantes
B) Homer
C) Hemingway
D) Petrarch
E) Sappho

Question 35

A favorite subject of Roman lyric poetry:

A) domination of female outsiders
B) women's cruelty toward lovesick suitors
C) need for greater equality of the sexes
D) excitement of an all-night orgy
E) masculine failure to commit to relationships

Question 36

The genius of Shakespeare's sonnets is that they

A) exaggerate the meter
B) make larks arise
C) merge form and content into a unified whole
D) express the mystic experiences of the devout
E) make virtuosic use of sprung rhythm

Question 37

In his sonnet "Batter My Heart," John Donne is speaking to

A) God.
B) Satan.
C) the angel Gabriel.
D) his estranged wife.
E) a woman who had turned down his proposal.

Question 38

____ 6. J. D. Salinger's favorite topic in his fiction was the joy of romantic love.

Question 39

____ 10. Blake's lamb represents experience; his tiger, innocence.

Question 40

____ 15. Emily Dickinson sometimes used traditional iambic meter or rhyme.

Question 41

Holden Caulfield felt alienated from a society filled with:

A) phonies
B) nerds
C) prostitutes
D) poets
E) foodies

Question 42

The prize in Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is:

A) everlasting life
B) death
C) a scrap of paper
D) a new sportscar
E) a trip to Las Vegas

Question 43

Which of the following is a line from one of modernist Edna St. Vincent Millay's sonnets?

A) I fear and hope, I burn and freeze likewise.
B) Lesbia! I must love you still.
C) Detestable crow!
D) I say, "There is no memory of him here!"
E) Little Lamb, God bless thee!

Question 44

Prolific fiction writer who wrote a short story about 9/11 discussed in the chapter:

A) John Updike
B) John Donne
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Carson McCullers
E) J. D. Salinger

Question 45

The central character in The Member of the Wedding is a(n)

A) usher
B) student at a private school
C) flower girl
D) child who wants to belong
E) man who doesn't want to get married