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1
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first emperor of China instituted the unified system of writing, legal system, ideological and
defense system

Ch’ in Dynasty contributed the greatest structure made by man – the
Great Wall of China.

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Shih Huang-Ti

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Great Wall of China was built to keep away the invading Hsiung-nu from the north or the:

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Huns

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China experienced its golden age during the:

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Tang Dynasty

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national language of the Chinese, the Standard Mandarin, is based on the dialect of:

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Peking

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common Chinese literary idiom unites the different dialects in the country.

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wenyen

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6
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Chinese create words by combining characters

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100,000

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Book of History, Book of Songs, Book of Ritual, Book of Changes, and the Spring and Autumn
Annals

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5 Classics

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The Analects, Book of Mencius, and the two chapters from the Book of Ritual (Doctrine of the Mean &
Great Learning)

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4 Books

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shortest form of Chinese poetry, the chueh chu (“ cut short” ), is composed of:

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4 lines

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lu shih which is composed of contrasted intonation in each pair of lines.

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8 lines

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Chinese likewise have a free-verse type of poetry.

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san ch’ u

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Japanese writing is an adaptation of

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Chinese

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How old is Japanese literature?

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1200 years old

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Japanese drama is the most austere and ceremonial. It uses slow-motion dancing and
creates a hypnotic effect

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No

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flashier and more popular type of Japanese drama where all the characters are played by
men.

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Kabuki

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oldest surviving Japanese book is the Record of Ancient Matters

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Kojiki

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poetry is composed of 31 syllables grouped in 5-7-5-7-7 lines.

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tanka

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masterpiece of all Japanese literature tells the story of a prince with irresistible appeal.

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Tales of Genji

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Author of the Tale of Genji

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Lady Murasaki Shikibu

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Considered to be the world’s first true novel

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The Tale of Genji

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Japanese poetry, the “ linked verse” has alternating verses of 17 and 14 syllables (5-7-5 and 7-7).

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renga

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most popular type of Japanese poetry has 17 syllables 5-7-5

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haiku

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most famous haiku poet

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Matsuo Bashō

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31-syllable “ mad poems”

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tongka

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17 syllable senryu is pungent, satirical and still popular in Japan

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secret lives

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frivolous, illustrated books used in school are the kibyoshi

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blue covers

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more serious and intellectual books in school are the yomihon

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reading books

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27
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forms the bedrock of all Jewish literature.

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Hebrew bible

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28
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giving of the 10 Commandments to the Jews

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Exodus

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29
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Jewish religious leader taught the law and applied it to current situations.

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rabbi

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30
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greatest flowering of Jewish literature took place during

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Dark Ages

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31
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main tradition of Hebrew literature

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liturgical

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32
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Sacred Jewish poetry

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piyyut

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33
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encouraged the dispersed Jews from all over the world to go back to the “ promised land” after World War II.

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Zionism

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34
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national language of the Hindu

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Hindi

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Bhagavad Gita, the Hindu’ s universal scripture, is a part of

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Mahabharata

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sruti or the divine scriptures, and the smriti or the human
works. The former is written wholly in:

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Sanskrit

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major sruti work is divided into:

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4 books

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Veda, which is the major sruti work, is composed of hymns for the gods, rituals, incantations and
spells. Veda means:

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Wisdom

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book details the sacrificial rites made for the Hindu gods

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Brahmanas

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book explains the meanings of Hindu concepts and ideas.

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Upanishads

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smriti literature, most common are the short and easy-to-memorize sutras

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aphorisms

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shastras are another smriti form of literature which is more lofty and intellectual. They are;

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treatises

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Veda is composed of many parts. The first part is the:

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Rig Veda

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44
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most famous collection of Arabian stories is the Alf layla wa-layla otherwise known as the One
Thousand and One Nights

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Arabian Nights

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One of the simplest and oldest tales in The Thousand and one Nights is

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“The Fisherman and the Jinnee.”

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46
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1001 Nights stories:

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  • Alibaba
  • Aladdin
  • Sinbad
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Sinbad’ s profession

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sailor

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48
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magic words in the story of Ali Baba

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Open Sesame

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49
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book represents the most perfect literary achievement in Arabic history

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Koran

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50
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most famous writer of quatrains in the Arab world

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Omar Khayyam

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51
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mystic poems of the Arabs

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sufi

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52
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four-stanza love poem with a refrain

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ghazal

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53
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“ Marco Polo of the Arabs” because of his travel exploits and writings

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Ibn Batuta

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54
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1001 Nights was written by:

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many authors

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55
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wrote the famous biography of Muhammed

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Ibn Ishaq

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56
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author of “ The Prophet” :

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Gibran

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57
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three Hindu gods (Brahma, Vishnu, Siva) collectively

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Trimurti

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58
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earliest firsthand account of the English settlement of America was “ A Description of New
England.”

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John Smith

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59
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led the Jamestown colony and wrote the famous story of the Indian maiden, Pocahontas.

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Captain John Smith

60
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American folktales, who planted all the apple trees in the US?

A

Johnny Appleseed

61
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first book printed in America also contained some of the worst Puritan poetry.

Whole Book of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Metre

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Bay Psalm Book

62
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perfect embodiment of the Enlightenment in America was

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Benjamin Franklin

63
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America’s “first great man of letters,”

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Benjamin Franklin

64
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pseudonym Poor Richard or Richard Saunders in Poor Richard’s Almanack

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Benjamin Franklin

65
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Benjamin Franklin’ s most famous literary work

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Poor Richard’ s Almanack

66
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first comedy written in America was the “ Contrast” in 1787 by:

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Royall Tyler

67
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first American to make a living out of writing alone was:

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Charles Brown

68
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group of literary amateurs collaborated to produce political satires in the final decades of the
18th century?

A

Hartford Wits

69
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pseudonym was Dietrich Knickerbocker, the inspiration of the Knickerbockers

A

Washington Irving

70
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two best-remembered stories of Washington Irving

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Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

71
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“ Rip van Winkle” and “ Legend of Sleepy Hollow” were of which book?

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The Sketch Book

72
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character created by James Fenimore Cooper appeared in many of his works like “ Deerslayer” and “ The Last of the Mohicans” ?

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Natty Bumppo

73
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earliest of the American Romantics

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Edgar Allan Poe

74
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master of the macabre short story was:

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Edgar Allan Poe

75
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first detective story in the US was “ The Murders in the Rue Morgue” by:

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Edgar Allan Poe

76
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The Scarlet Letter by:

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

77
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“ Sage of Concord” and the spokesman for the New England Romantics was:

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

78
Q

Mahatma Gandhi’ s ideas on pacific resistance were influenced by whose work?

A

Henry David Thoreau

79
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Thoreau’ s most influential essay was:

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Civil Disobedience

80
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He said that “ government is best which governs not at all”

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Henry David Thoreau

81
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’ s works reflected his puritanical obsession with sin and redemption.

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The Scarlet Letter

82
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In “ The Scarlet Letter” , Hester, who had an affair with the reverend, wears which letter emblazoned on her clothes?

A

A

83
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Herman Melville wrote mostly about stories of the sea because:

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he was once a sailor

84
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Melville’ s “ Moby Dick” is acknowledged as the:

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greatest book of the sea ever written

85
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end of Moby Dick?

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everybody drowns except the narrator, Ishmael

86
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most influential book about slavery was “ Uncle Tom’ s Cabin” by:

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

87
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book indirectly caused the civil war?

A

Uncle Tom’ s Cabin

88
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greatest poet of the 19th century was:

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Walt Whitman

89
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Known for his poem “ O Captain! My Captain!” , he was called the “ Seer of Democracy” and the “ Good Gray Poet” , and sometimes “ The Poet of America” .

A

Walt Whitman

90
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recognized as an elegy on Abraham Lincoln’ s death.

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O Captain! My Captain!

91
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most natural lyricist America has ever produced was:

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Dickinson

92
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Mark Twain was a pseudonym for:

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Samuel Langhorne Clemens

93
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a master of colloquial American Speech, a shrewd observer of life, and a skilled raconteur

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Mark Twain

94
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America’ s greatest humorist and spokesman of the Wild West.

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Samuel Clemens

95
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Author of Tom Sawyer and Life on the Mississippi

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Mark Twain

96
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Tom Sawyer’ s best friend?

A

Huck Finn

97
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story of two boys who looked alike and who decided to exchange lives is:

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The Prince and the Pauper

98
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Fables in Slang” is the most acute literary example of the language of the common American.

A

George Ade

99
Q

Josh Billings, Petroleum Nasby, John Phoenix, Squibob and George Ade were humorists who
employed ridiculous spellings, deformed grammar, monstrous logic, puns and incongruous juxtaposition
of ideas in the 19th century. Among them was:

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  • David Ross
  • Chales Farra
    -Artemus Ward
100
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the greatest American novel:

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The Adventures of Huck Finn

101
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“the only reason for the existence of the novel is that it does attempt to represent life” ?

A

Henry James

102
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greatest horror story ever penned in America:

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Turn of the Screw

103
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Henry’ s brother who wrote “ Pragmatism” and “ Meaning of Truth” became an important
psychologist and philosopher.

A

William James

104
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came out with the dictionary

A

Noah Webster

105
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shocked readers with his detailed depictions of the brutal side of American life but was
considered as the most influential American novelist of the early 20th century:

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Theodore Dreiser

106
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first American poet to be widely read since Longfellow and Whitman

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Robert Frost

107
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Mending Wall & Birches author

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Robert Frost

108
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movement in the 20th century was founded by T.E. Hulme and believed in the idea that “poetry is no more nor less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one”?

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Imagist movement

109
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poet supported fascism, was tried as a traitor, and adjudged as mentally insane

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Ezra Pound

110
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T.S. Eliot wrote the most important poem in modern literature

A

The Waste Land

111
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most thorough pessimist and nihilist in modern American literature:

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Robinson Jeffers

112
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novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald bout a bootlegger’ s attempts to be accepted in Long Island society:

A

Great Gatsby

113
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wrote about “ tough” people who were disillusioned, cynical and hopeless in “ For Whom the
Bell Tolls” , “ Old Man and the Sea” and “ The Sun Also Rises” .

A

Ernest Hemingway

114
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'’The poet’ s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars, to help him endure and prevail.’’

A

William Faulkner

115
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novel by Faulkner, which is his masterpiece, centers on a 33 year old retardate:

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The Sound and the Fury

116
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The book that summed up the despair of the 1930’ s was:

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

117
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“ Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell has for its background

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Civil War

118
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The protagonists in “ Gone With the Wind” are:

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Scarlet and Rhett

119
Q

JD Salinger novel is about a citified Huck Finn?

A

Catcher in the Rye

120
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first known black writer in the US was:

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Lucy Terry

121
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He was a high school English teacher when he sold his first novel “ Carrie”

A

King

122
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author of “ Jurassic Park” and “ ER” is a licensed doctor:

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Michael Crichton

123
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all-time best selling young children’ s book is:

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Charlotte’ s Web

124
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best novel of the 20th century is by James Joyce. It is:

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Ulysses

125
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Lucy, Linus and Charlie Brown are characters created by:

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Charles Shultz

126
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“ Green Eggs and Ham” , “ The Cat in the Hat” and “ Are You My Mother?” are books by:

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Dr. Seuss

127
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principal source of early English history

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

128
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The earliest English poet known by name was a monk named:

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Caedmon

129
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greatest English epic

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Beowulf

130
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King Hrothgar of Denmark invites which hero to slay the monster Grendel?

A

Beowulf

131
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Who killed Beowulf?

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A dragon

132
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Who commissioned the translation of Latin texts to English during the Middle Ages?

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King Alfred

133
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Most Arthurian legends centered on the knights’ quest for the:

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Holy grail

134
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The greatest Middle English Arthurian romance is which 14th century poem?

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

135
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The best example of the romance of the Middle Ages attributed to the Pearl Poet (14th century)

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

136
Q

Avalon and Camelot

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King Arthur

137
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Who killed Arthur?

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Mordred

138
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Why were the people telling tales in Chaucer’ s story?

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to pass the time

139
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The first English printer was:

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Caxton

140
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anonymous narrative songs, orally transmitted, which make use of repetition and refrain.

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ballads

141
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rebirth of interest in classical learning and languages.

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renaissance

142
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In Platonic fashion, Thomas More wrote about his concept of the ideal society in:

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Utopia

143
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During the Elizabethan Age, the major long poem was Edmund Spenser’ s:

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Fairie Queene

144
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greatest patron of literature during the Elizabethan Period?

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Queen Elizabeth

145
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The father of the essay was:

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Francis Bacon

146
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The best diarist in England’ s history was:

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Samuel Pepys

147
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148
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Who wrote the novel War and Peace?

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Leo Tolstoy

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