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We All Gotta Go Sometime. Death. The Finale.

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We All Gotta Go Sometime  Death  The Finale game quiz
"Rage against it. Mock it. Accept it. Long for it. However you feel about it, it happens. You pay your taxes and die. The following quiz involves how various literary figures felt about death - being here one minute and gone the next."

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1. Who is responsible for this quote: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated"?
    Mark Twain
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Ronald Reagan
    Rasputin


2. In one of Emily Dickinson's poems, which ends with the narrator dying, she mentions hearing a certain animal noise. Which animal noise was it?
    her cat mewing
    a crow cawing
    a fly buzzing
    a sheep bleating


3. Humorist Kin Hubbard said: "My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who's _______________." Can you complete this quote?
    lost three husbands
    accustomed to going to town with a machete and an eyepatch
    a paranoid schizophrenic
    very VERY into cats.


4. According to poet Nancy Byrd Turner, death is not to be feared. What did she compare death to?
    the crowing of a rooster
    a stage set to the beyond
    an old door
    a dance card wanting to be filled


5. On the contrary, there are others who ain't gonna take it lying down (No pun intended). Who was the poet who said "Do not go gentle into that good night/ ...Rage, rage against the dying of the light"?

    Edgar Allan Poe
    Rudyard Kipling
    Dylan Thomas
    Robert Browning


6. "And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful ___________________."

Can you complete the last line of this poem by Edgar Allan Poe? What is the name of Poe's (dead) beloved? (It's also the title of the poem.)
    Woman who yearns to be free
    Isabel Lee
    Annabel Lee
    Marjory Tree


7. "Old and young, we are all on our last cruise." Which famous novelist said this?

    George Orwell
    James Fenimore Cooper
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    William Golding


8. "While I thought I was learning how to live, I was learning how to die." Which famous Renaissance painter made that statement?
    Botticelli
    Di Caprio
    Titian
    Da Vinci


9. French author La Bruyere said "If some persons died, and others did not die, death would indeed be ______________________." Can you complete this quote?
    a wonderful thing
    a piece of cake
    horrible for those it left behind
    a terrible affliction


10. A quick-witted man once said, "I have never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices that I have read with pleasure." Who made this comment?
    H. L. Mencken
    Winston Churchill
    Mark Twain
    Clarence Darrow


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Compiled May 19 13