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1. Homer's "Iliad" describes the siege of a city that people thought was imaginary until Heinrich Schliemann discovered its ruins in 1868. Name the city.
2. Which novel's setting includes a moor with the following dangers: an escaped convict, the Grimpen Mire, and a legendary supernatural beast?
3. Virginia Woolf wrote a novel set at the Ramsay family's summer house. In the first part, an excursion is canceled because of weather. At the end of the book, the now-grown children complete the trip. What was their destination?
4. Sir Thomas More described an ideal civilization featuring religious tolerance, communal property, and an absence of lawyers. What was its name?
5. In which play do Rosalind, Celia, and Touchstone flee from a corrupt court to find safety and love in the Forest of Arden?
6. In a Dr. Seuss classic, the main character tries escaping his troubles by traveling to a place "on the banks of the beautiful River Wah-Hoo, Where they never have troubles. At least very few." Name the city.
7. William Faulkner set most of his novels (including "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound and the Fury", and "Light in August") in what fictional Mississippi location?
8. What American classic's setting includes a mansion in West Egg, Long Island, a billboard, and a dock with a green light at the end?
9. In "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings", what is the name of the land where the hobbits live?
10. According to Coleridge, where did Kubla Khan "a stately pleasure-dome decree: where Alph, the sacred river, ran through caverns measureless to man"?
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