Abeka World Literature Test 12 (FINAL EXAM)
Caesar
"Et tu, Brute!"
Apollyon
"I am an enemy to this Prince; I hate His person, His laws, and people"
Ron Descartes
"I think, therefore, I am?"
Penelope
"I used to keep working at my great web all day long, but at night I would unpick the stitches. ...I fooled them in this way for three years"
Dante
"The Entrance to Hell"
Katherine Mansfield
"The Garden-Party"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Great Stone Face"
Robert Browning
"The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
Robert Frost
"The Road Not Taken"
Edgar Allen Poe
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
Leo Tolstoy
"What Men Live By"
Eppie Marner
"a blonde dimpled girl of eighteen who has vainly tried to chastise her curly auburn hair"
Icarus
"and the boy...left his father, soared higher,...and the wax that held the wings melted"
Nancy Lammeter
"as for her own person, it gave the same idea of perfect unvarying neatness as the body of a little bird"
Captain Ahab
"aye, aye! it was that accursed white whale that razed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!"
Alexander
"boys, my father will get everything before we can and leave nothing big and brilliant for me, to show what we can do!"
Mark Antony
"he is given/to sports, to wildness, and much company"
Gilgamesh
"how can I rest, how can I be at peace? despair is in my heart. what my brother is now, then shall I be when I am dead"
Godfrey Cass
"the eldest, a fine open-faced good-natured young man who was to come into the land some day"
Brutus
"the noblest Roman of them all"
Cassius
"you yourself/are much condemned to have an itching palm"
Aristotle
Alexander the Great's teacher
Oedipus
Antigene's father
Sahara Desert
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was lost where?
Portia
Brutus's wife
~Moby Dick~
Captain Ahab is a character in which novel?
Spanish
Cervantes was a(n) _____ author
chivalry
Don Quixote definitely believed in ____
Aaron Winthrop
Eppie Marner's husband
parallelism
Hebrew poetry relies non on rhyme but on ____
Priam
Hector's father
~Odyssey~
Homer wrote the ~Iliad~ and ____
English
John Wycliffe translated the Bible into what language?
Russian
Leo Tolstoy is of what nationality?
pagan religion
Paul condemned the Greeks because of their _____
China
Pearl's Buck's parents were missionaries to what country country?
Thisbe
Pyramus loved a girl named ___
Carthage
Queen Dido was queen of ____
England
Robert Browning was from where?
the Globe
Shakespeare's theater
"Lochinvar"
Sir Walter Scott wrote this
John and Charles Wesley
William Law greatly influenced what famous brothers?
blank verse
another name for unrhymed iambic pentameter
Greeks
built the wooden horse
theme
central idea
the Roman Church
dominated all areas of life in Europe during the Middle Ages
Sherlock Holmes
famous detective in "The Red-headed League"
twenty years
how long was Odysseus away from home?
7
how many metrical feet are in a heptameter?
personification
human qualities given to inanimate objects
1564
in what year was William Shakespeare?
Thebes
in which city does ~Antigone~ take place?
Athens
in which city was Mars' Hill?
alliteration
initial consonant or vowel sounds are the same
comedy
light, humorous play that ends happily?
Cassius
persuaded Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar
climax
point of highest intensity
Antony
ran in a footrace during the festival of the Lupercal
rhythm
regular recurrence of sound
satire
ridicule of human folly or vice
euphony
soft, smooth, pleasant sounds
Noah
story of Utnapishtim is similar to the real story of _____
Beatrice
symbolized divine revelation in ~Divine Comedy~
Pacific
the ~Kon-Tiki~ traveled on which ocean?
paradox
truth expressed in the form of an apparent contradiction
couplet
two rhyming lines
dog
what kind of animal was Argos?
March 15
when was Julius Caesar assassinated?
tower
which of the following are NOT used in ~The Republic~?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
wrote "Excelsior"
Robert Frost
wrote "The Death of the Hired Man"
Goethe
wrote "The Erl-king"
Sophocles
wrote ~Antigone~
René Descartes
wrote ~Discourse on Method~
Miguel de Cervantes
wrote ~Don Quixote~
John Bunyan
wrote ~Pilgrim's Progress~
Plato
wrote ~The Republic~
Jack London
~Call of the Wild~
John Milton
~Paradise Lost~
John Bunyan
~Pilgrim's Progess~
George Eliot
~Silas Marner~
John Fixe
~The Book of Martyrs~