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Quiz about From Ancient Greece to the Modern Era

From Ancient Greece to the Modern Era Quiz

This quiz covers many different time periods. This may be tough for people who have not studied literature.

A multiple-choice quiz by scottm. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
scottm

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
4,401

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
20

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
10 / 20

Plays
1566

Last 3 plays: Guest 24 (16/20), Guest 62 (9/20), Guest 199 (11/20).

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Question 1 of 20

1. Which Karamazov brother lived in a monastary? Hint

Alyosha

Fyodor

Ivan

Mitya

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Question 2 of 20

2. Who wrote 'Metamorphoses'? Hint

Virgil

Aristotle

Plato

Ovid

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Question 3 of 20

3. In what country did John Keats die? Hint

England

Italy

Scotland

Greece

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Question 4 of 20

4. Who wrote 'closet dramas' in Ancient Rome? Hint

Plautus

Virgil

Terence

Seneca

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Question 5 of 20

5. Who wrote 'The Emperor of Ice Cream'? Hint

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Robert Frost

Wallace Stevens

Henry David Thoreau

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Question 6 of 20

6. What two poets published 'Lyrical Ballads'? Hint

Wordsworth and Blake

Blake and Byron

Byron and Coleridge

Wordsworth and Coleridge

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Question 7 of 20

7. Who saves Quasimodo as a baby in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'? Hint

Jean Valjean

Jehan Frollo

Claude Frollo

Esmeralda

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Question 8 of 20

8. Who wrote the only surviving trilogy (three plays performed in the same year) of Greek tragedies? Hint

Sophocles

Aeschylus

Euripides

Aristophanes

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Question 9 of 20

9. Who wrote 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 10 of 20

10. In what year was the final complete version of Wordsworth's 'The Prelude' published? Hint

1850

1830

1820

1865

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Question 11 of 20

11. Who is the Knight of Temperance in 'The Faerie Queene'? Hint

Britomart

Guyon

Artegall

there is no such knight

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Question 12 of 20

12. What was the last play that Shakespeare wrote? Hint

The Tempest

Much Ado About Nothing

Twelfth Night

The Comedy of Errors

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Question 13 of 20

13. What two 'contrary states of the human soul' did William Blake write about? Hint

Consciousness and Sleep

Valor and Cowardice

Life and Death

Innocence and Experience

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Question 14 of 20

14. Oscar Wilde's play is titled 'The Importance of Being ...' what? Hint

Intelligent

Earnest

Beautiful

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Question 15 of 20

15. The collection of short stories called 'The Celestial Railroad' was written by whom? Hint

Herman Melville

Sherwood Anderson

Washington Irving

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Question 16 of 20

16. Who is the only survivor in 'Moby Dick'?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 17 of 20

17. Who is the guide in Dante's 'Divine Comedy'? Hint

Pontius Pilate

Satan

Virgil

Dante

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Question 18 of 20

18. Who wrote about Hercule Poirot?

Answer: (Two Words)

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Question 19 of 20

19. What is the name of the Last of the Mohicans? Hint

Hawkeye

Magua

Uncas

Natty Bumppo

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Question 20 of 20

20. Finally, what was the last of the 'Bachman Books' (actually written by Stephen King)? Hint

The Running Man

The Regulators

Rage

Thinner

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which Karamazov brother lived in a monastary?

Answer: Alyosha

Fyodor is the name of the author - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2. Who wrote 'Metamorphoses'?

Answer: Ovid

3. In what country did John Keats die?

Answer: Italy

It was commonly thought that warm weather could help someone recover from tuberculosis. It didn't help Keats.

4. Who wrote 'closet dramas' in Ancient Rome?

Answer: Seneca

Closet dramas are plays intended to be read. Since tragedies were not performed in Rome, Seneca's tragedies were not performed until centuries later.

5. Who wrote 'The Emperor of Ice Cream'?

Answer: Wallace Stevens

6. What two poets published 'Lyrical Ballads'?

Answer: Wordsworth and Coleridge

7. Who saves Quasimodo as a baby in 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?

Answer: Claude Frollo

Valjean is from Les Miserables. Jehan and Esmeralda do not become acquainted with Quasimodo until Claude begins to raise him.

8. Who wrote the only surviving trilogy (three plays performed in the same year) of Greek tragedies?

Answer: Aeschylus

They are called Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides

9. Who wrote 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'?

Answer: Robert Frost

10. In what year was the final complete version of Wordsworth's 'The Prelude' published?

Answer: 1850

He completed a version in 1805, made revisions for years afterward, and stated it shouldn't be published until after his death.

11. Who is the Knight of Temperance in 'The Faerie Queene'?

Answer: Guyon

Britomart is the Knight of Chastity and Artegall is the Knight of Justice.

12. What was the last play that Shakespeare wrote?

Answer: The Tempest

13. What two 'contrary states of the human soul' did William Blake write about?

Answer: Innocence and Experience

14. Oscar Wilde's play is titled 'The Importance of Being ...' what?

Answer: Earnest

15. The collection of short stories called 'The Celestial Railroad' was written by whom?

Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne

16. Who is the only survivor in 'Moby Dick'?

Answer: Ismael

17. Who is the guide in Dante's 'Divine Comedy'?

Answer: Virgil

18. Who wrote about Hercule Poirot?

Answer: Agatha Christie

He was a detective in many of her stories.

19. What is the name of the Last of the Mohicans?

Answer: Uncas

Hawkeye is Natty Bumppo's nickname. Magua is the bad guy.

20. Finally, what was the last of the 'Bachman Books' (actually written by Stephen King)?

Answer: The Regulators

It was published in 1996, long after all of the others.

Source: Author scottm

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