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
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.
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.- Emma Goldman
Ooooh, why haven't I noticed this thread earlier?!
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...
"Where mind meets matter, both should woo!"Currently reading:
* Paradise Lost by John Milton
3, 6, 7, 8, 9
Think thats the best i've ever done!
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Did you take my quiz Niamh? It's a page or two back. The one on blood.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Did you take my quiz Niamh? It's a page or two back. The one on blood.
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
1,6,8 and 10 on the previous quiz (Virgil's) and only 2 and 12 on Auntshecky's.
Exit, pursued by a bear.
Only #5 on Aunties.
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
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...
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
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.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
3, 11, 12... I do so poorly on these things...
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
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.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
2, 5, 9 and 11
Exit, pursued by a bear.
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