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M. Torri – Literature Trivia Bonus Quiz ONE POINT FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER Name : _____Andrea Maxan ______________________ 1. Who wrote the children’s poem “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”—Shakespeare, Robert Browning, Maurice Sendak? Robert Browning 2. What is the origin of the phrase “United we stand, divided we fall”— Aesop’s Fables, The Gettysburg Address, The Fall of the House of Usher ? Aesop’s Fables 3. Who is the author of the Harry Potter series? J.K. Rowling 4. What are the last names of the two feuding families in Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”? The Montague and The Capulet 5. What are the names of the two feuding gangs in West Side Story ? The Jets and The Sharks 6. Dorothy and her pet were swept away to an unknown land in what L. Frank Baum book? The Wonderful Wizard of OZ 7. Who asked, “What happens to a dream deferred” – Maya Angelou, Gwendolyn Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes? Langston Hughes 8. What boy is Huckleberry Finn’s best friend? Tom Sawyer 9. Which of the following was NOT written by Toni Morrison— Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Waiting to Exhale ? Waiting to Exhale 10. Who wrote The Divine Comedy —Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, Dante Alighieri?
, Dante Alighieri Fill in the blanks : 11. “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse _______.” 12. “To be or not to be, that is the question ____________.” 13. “A rose is a rose is a _rose ________.” 14. “How do I __love ____ thee? Let me count the ways.” 15. “I do not like green eggs and __ham ______. I do not like them Sam I am.” Complete the Titles of these literary works : 16. Moby ___ Dick ______ 17. “Paradise __ Lost ______” 18. Little ___House _______ on the Prairie 19. Harry Potter and the __Goblet ________ of Fire 20. “A Streetcar Named ___ desire ________” 21. “A Raisin in the _ sun _______” 22. “The Merchant of __ Venice ______” 23. The _lliad ________ & the Odyssey 24. One Hundred Years of __solitude _______ 25. All Quiet on the Western _front _______ Choose the correct answer from the choices provided : 26. During what century did Geoffrey Chaucer live? a. 1200s b. 1300s c. 1400s d. 1500s e. 1600s
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