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Quiz about Mixed Quotes
Quiz about Mixed Quotes

Mixed Quotes Trivia Quiz


These are quotes from widely known plays and poems. The quotes are intended to represent particularly dramatic, amusing or poignant language.

A multiple-choice quiz by john62450. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
john62450
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
365,502
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
467
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which Shakespearean character/creature lamented:

"...when I waked, I cried to dream again."?
Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In what 20th century poem are these lines:

"They have brought whores for Eleusis
Corpses are set to banquet
at behest of usura."?
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Which Tennessee Williams' character observed:

"In memory everything seems to happen to music."?
Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Which Tennyson poem contains the insight:

"I am a part of all that I have met"?
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Question 5 of 10
5. "The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves", was scripted by what playwright? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What American poet wrote:

"I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, and in me sings no more."?
Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. What playwright penned this quip:

"The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous."?
Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Which poet defined "home" as:

"...the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in"?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Who made this comparison:

"the poet like an acrobat
climbs on rime
to a high wire of his own making"?
Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. According to Christopher Marlowe in "Doctor Faustus", who was graced with:

"...the face that launched a thousand ships
and burnt the topless towers of Illium"?
Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which Shakespearean character/creature lamented: "...when I waked, I cried to dream again."?

Answer: Caliban in "The Tempest"

Caliban was controlled by Prospero through magic, after Caliban attempted to rape Miranda, Prospero's daughter. This quote comes from Act 3, Scene 2. In this scene Caliban complains that Prospero is a tyrant and has stolen the island from him.
2. In what 20th century poem are these lines: "They have brought whores for Eleusis Corpses are set to banquet at behest of usura."?

Answer: Ezra Pound's "Canto XLV (With Usura)"

Ezra Pound lived with William Butler Yeats at Stone Cottage in Sussex during the winters of 1913 through 1916.

Usury can be a criminal offense and is defined as charging a greater rate of interest than allowed by law. In the United States the lawful interest rate is established by each state.
3. Which Tennessee Williams' character observed: "In memory everything seems to happen to music."?

Answer: Tom in "The Glass Menagerie"

Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911 in Mississippi. His father was a traveling salesman. During his teenage years, Williams' family moved to St. Louis during the Depression.

Tennessee Williams won Pulitzer Prizes for both "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".
4. Which Tennyson poem contains the insight: "I am a part of all that I have met"?

Answer: Ulysses

Tennyson wrote "Ulysses" a few weeks after the death of a close friend, Arthur Henry Hallam. Hallam was engaged to marry Tennyson's sister, but died when he was twenty three years old. Tennyson dedicated one of his most loved poems, "In Memoriam", to Hallam.

Ulysses is the Latin equivalent of the Greek Odysseus, the hero of Homer's "Odyssey".
5. "The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves", was scripted by what playwright?

Answer: Sophocles in "Oedipus Rex"

Other classical Athenian playwrights included Euripides and Aeschylus. In 468 B.C. Sophocles won a theater competition, which had Aeschylus among the competitors.

Sophocles' Thebean plays were the three plays: "Oedipus Rex", "Oedipus at Colonus", and "Antigone".
6. What American poet wrote: "I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, and in me sings no more."?

Answer: Edna St. Vincent Millay

From "Sonnet XLIII". Edna St. Vincent Millay won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Marianne Moore won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Amy Lowell won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Elizabeth Bishop won the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
7. What playwright penned this quip: "The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous."?

Answer: Oscar Wilde in "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Apparently failing to consider that truth is a defense, Wilde filed a libel lawsuit against the Marquis of Queensberry for sending him a note labeling Wilde a sodomite. Not only did Wilde lose his civil litigation, but criminal charges were filed against him for "gross indecency". He was convicted and sentenced to two years imprisonment.
8. Which poet defined "home" as: "...the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in"?

Answer: Robert Frost in "The Death of the Hired Man"

Although associated with New England, Frost was born in California and did not move to Massachusetts until he was eleven. In addition to writing poetry, Frost taught at several colleges, including Amherst. Frost won the Pulitzer prize in 1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943.
9. Who made this comparison: "the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making"?

Answer: Lawrence Ferlinghetti in "Constantly Risking Absurdity"

"A Coney Island of the Mind" is Ferlinghetti's most widely known poetry volume. In 1953 Ferlinghetti and Paul D. Martin opened City Lights book store in San Francisco. Later in 1955 Ferlinghetti started City Lights Publishers, which published the poems of Allen Ginsberg and others.
10. According to Christopher Marlowe in "Doctor Faustus", who was graced with: "...the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Illium"?

Answer: Helen

In 1593 Marlowe died in a lodging house. He was killed during a fight over a bill.
Source: Author john62450

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