I am subscribing to this thread so that I can view it when I have more time. Just letting you all know that I shall return. ;) lol
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I am subscribing to this thread so that I can view it when I have more time. Just letting you all know that I shall return. ;) lol
Ooooh, why haven't I noticed this thread earlier?! :D
I just took your quiz, Uncle Virgie, and got 8 right: # 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.
I'll try Aunt Shecky's once I'm fully awake...
3, 6, 7, 8, 9
Think thats the best i've ever done!
Did you take my quiz Niamh? It's a page or two back. The one on blood. :D
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Originally Posted by Niamh
Oops! well i followed your link and thats the one i got the answers right to. didnt realise it till now that there has been another one since!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
1,6,8 and 10 on the previous quiz (Virgil's) and only 2 and 12 on Auntshecky's.:blush:
Only #5 on Aunties. :blush::blush::blush:
The World, The Flesh, and The Devil
The troublesome trio gets the testy treatment – - serves all three of ‘em right after leaving me off their Christmas card list:
1. In 1700, The Way of the World garnered such a poor reception that its author gave up writing plays completely, yet it turned out to be his masterpiece. Who is the playwright?
2. Which Shakespearean character wished that “this too, too solid flesh would melt”?
3. Who wrote the 1937 short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster” in which the revered statesman argues for the soul of a New England farmer in front of a demonic jury?
4. Which British poet began an 1807 sonnet with the line: “The world is too much with us; late and soon”?
5. Whose 1903 posthumous novel, The Way of All Flesh, satirized the English middle class, the clergy and the prevalent child-rearing practices of the day?
6. Name the Elizabethan dramatist who wrote such tragedies as The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil.
7. Upon whose tombstone, located in Bennington, Vermont, are carved the words: “I had a lover’s quarrel with the world”?
8. Derived from the medieval Latin and old Italian languages and associated with Mardi Gras festivals, what is the word that means “the putting away of flesh”?
9. In The Devil’s Disciple, an unprincipled man surprises himself by allowing himself to be arrested in the place of a pious parson during the American Revolution. Who is the author of this funny yet emotionally affecting melodrama?
10. Who wrote the 1978 novel The World According to Garp?
11. In which book of the New Testament would one find this passage: “And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us”?
12. And finally, hope you guess the name of the rock group which in 1968 released a monster hit with the song, “Sympathy for the Devil.”
Answers
1. William Congreve
2. Hamlet
3. Stephen Vincent Benet
4. Wordsworth
5. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
6. John Webster
7. Robert Frost
8. carnival
9. George Bernard Shaw
10. John Irving
11. The Gospel of St. John
12. The Rolling Stones
2, 10, 12...
1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12. Eight!!! I think that's the best I've ever done. :) Of course number 12 was handed to me. :D I think Auntie knows I'm a big Stones fan. :)
3, 11, 12... I do so poorly on these things... :blush:
I only got three right - numbers 2, 3, and 5. Either these quizzes are getting harder or I'm getting dumber.
Hey, Guys -- nobody's keeping track of your scores. Sorry if
the questions are a tad obscure. I had to look 'em up meself.
On the other hand, it's a "literature" site, correct?
Auntie, we would still be complaining if it were too easy. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AuntShecky
2, 5, 9 and 11 :)