Allusions Quiz 4 Review

Question 1

Stealing Someone’s Thunder

Answer 1

John Dennis/ Take credit for the idea of another or to lessen the effect of another’s idea

Question 2

Witch Hunt

Answer 2

Salem, Massachusetts/ Campaign against a particular group of people with unorthodox opinions

Question 3

Throw down the Gauntlet

Answer 3

Knights and heavy gloves/ issue a challenge in a dramatic manner

Question 4

The Muses

Answer 4

Greek Mythology nine goddesses over the arts/ A muse is someone’s source of inspiration

Question 5

Kafkaesque

Answer 5

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis/ An Experience that is bizarre, surreal, or anxiety-producing

Question 6

Tower of Babel

Answer 6

Book of Genesis/ Babel can refer to any noisy confusion.

Question 7

Pollyana

Answer 7

Eleanor H. Porter, glad game/ Someone who is unusually optimistic and always looking at the bright side.

Question 8

Pavlov’s Dogs

Answer 8

Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist/ Someone who automatically or instinctively responds to or obeys a signal.

Question 9

Bedlam

Answer 9

St. Mary of Bethlehem, mental hospital/ Bedlam means wildly chaotic, or extremely raucous and noisy

Question 10

The handwriting on the Wall

Answer 10

Book of Daniel, Belshazzar/ Handwriting on the wall refers to an indication that doom or misfortune is coming

Question 11

Albatross Around One’s Neck

Answer 11

The rime of the ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge/ A burdensome, ongoing problem.

Question 12

Prometheus/ Promethean

Answer 12

Zeus, fire/ Valiant resistance to authority or rebellion against the established order of the universe

Question 13

Juggernaut

Answer 13

Hindu deity/ A juggernaut is any force, especially a destructive force, that defies opposition

Question 14

Red Herring

Answer 14

British fugitives/ Diverting someone onto a false trail or distracting a person from the true issue

Question 15

Pharisees/ Pharisaical

Answer 15

Jewish law, Jesus/ A hypocrite who upholds the letter of the law, but not its spirit.