Final

Question 1

Here now in his triumph where all things falter,
Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar,
Death lies dead.

Answer 1

A Forsaken Garden

BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Question 2

Though these that were Gods are dead, and thou being dead art a God,
Though before thee the throned Cytherean be fallen, and hidden her head,
Yet thy kingdom shall pass, Galilean, the dead shall go down to thee dead.

Answer 2

Hymn to Proserpine (After the Proclamation in Rome of the Christian Faith)
BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Question 3

It may be that she hath in sight
Some better knowledge; still there clings
The old question. Will not God do right?

Answer 3

The Leper, BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Question 4

God knows I speak the truth, saying that you lie.
Being such a lady could I weep these tears
If this were true?

Answer 4

William Morris’s “The Defence of Guenevere”

Question 5

What has man done here? How atone,
Great God, for this which man has done?
And for the body and soul which by
Man’s pitiless doom must now comply
With lifelong hell…

Answer 5

Jenny

BY DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI

Question 6

...But soon their path
Was vague in distant spheres:
And then she cast her arms along
The golden barriers,
And laid her face between her hands,
And wept. (I heard her tears.)

Answer 6

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI’S The Blessed Damozel

Question 7

Let us strike hands as hearty friends;
No more, no less: and friendship’s good:
Only don’t keep in view ulterior ends,
And points not understood.

Answer 7

No, Thank You, John

BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI

Question 8

Not untwist – slack they may be – these last strands of man
In me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;
Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

Answer 8

Carrion Comfort

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Question 9

Now no matter, child, the name:
	Sorrows springs are the same.
	Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
	What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
	It is the blight man was born for,
	It is Margaret you mourn for.

Answer 9

Spring and Fall

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 10

And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell:

Answer 10

God’s Grandeur

BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Question 11

AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion

Times lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier!

Answer 11

The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 12

We ‘ave bought ‘er the same with the sword an’ the flame,

An’ we’ve salted it down with our bones

Answer 12

The Widow At Windsor by Rudyard Kipling

Question 13

If drunk with sight of power, we loose
	  Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
	Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
	  Or lesser breeds without the Law –
	Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, 
Lest we forget – lest we forget!

Answer 13

Recessional

BY RUDYARD KIPLING

Question 14

Go bind your sons to exile
	  To serve your captive’s need;
	To wait in heavy harness
	  On fluttered folk and wild – 
	Your new caught, sullen peoples,
	  Half-devil and half-child.

Answer 14

The white man’s burden

Rudyard Kipling

Question 15

After all, I reflected I was like my neighbors, and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.

Answer 15

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 16

I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight. . . .[The doctor ] was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him. . . . I never saw a circle of such hateful faces.

Answer 16

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 17

He had an approved tolerance for others; sometime wondering, almost with envy, at the high pressure of spirits involved in their misdeeds: an in any extremity inclined to help rather than to reprove. “I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly…”

Answer 17

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Question 18

The line is immaterial, Mr. Worthing.

Answer 18

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being earnest

Question 19

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.

Answer 19

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being earnest

Question 20

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Answer 20

Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being earnest

Question 21

Not to be over-selfish with what we may gain,

Or the best of our pleasures may turn into pain.

Answer 21

The mouse and the cake

By ELIZA COOK

Question 22

When Nurse informed his parents, they
	Were more concerned than I can say –
	His Mother, as she dried her eyes,
	Said, “Well – it gives me no surprise,
	He would not do as he was told.”

Answer 22

Jim

by Hilaire Belloc