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London Literary Allusions

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London Literary Allusions game quiz
"You will need to know some literary history to do well in this quiz."

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1. Which Renaissance poet wrote the line,
"London, thou art the Flower of Cities all!"
    Ben Jonson
    Sir Thomas Wyatt
    Christopher Marlowe
    William Dunbar


2. What is London called in William Shakespeare's play "Cymbeline"?
    Londinium
    Lud's Town
    London
    Londres


3. Who in the eighteenth century wrote a poem called "Farewell to London" which begins,
"Dear, damn'd, distracting Town, Farewell!"
    Alexander Pope
    John Gay
    William Cowper
    Oliver Goldsmith


4. Which one of these quotations does *not* come from the mouth of the great Samuel Johnson?
    When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.
    By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
    It is the folly of many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
    There is in London all that life can afford.


5. Who described London as "a great wen growing upon the fair face of England"?
    Queen Charlotte
    John Wilkes
    Erasmus Darwin
    William Cobbett


6. Which one of these phrases occurs in William Blake's poem "London"?
    marriage-hearse
    harlot's tear
    bridal tomb
    infant's curse


7. Which Romantic poet wrote that:
"Hell is a city much like London,
A populous and a smoky city"?
    Thomas Chatterton
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    John Keats
    William Wordsworth


8. Which Victorian novelist claimed that "London is a modern Babylon" and that "London is a roost for every bird"?
    Benjamin Disraeli
    Charles Dickens
    Wilkie Collins
    William Makepeace Thackeray


9. The Irish poet W.B.Yeats referred to "this melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually". In which London street did Yeats live for many years?
    Baker Street
    Woburn Walk
    Shaftesbury Aveue
    The Strand


10. Which twentieth-century poet wrote,
"I thought of London spread out in the sun,
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat"?
    W.H. Auden
    John Heath-Stubbs
    Geoffrey Grigson
    Philip Larkin


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