humanities 6

Question 1

England’s first official poet laureate

wrote Absalom and Achitophel

Answer 1

John Dryden

Question 2

type of poetry included:

about nature vs city, celebration of nature, innocence and idea of childhood, writing for and about people

Answer 2

Romantic poetry

Question 3

Type of poets: 
William Blake
John Keats
Percy Shelley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth

Answer 3

Romantic

Question 4

Types of odes

Answer 4

Pindric
Horatian
irregular or Cowleyan

Question 5

Great odes of 1819 included Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightengale, Ode on Insolence and most famous Ode to a Grecian urn

Answer 5

John Keats

Question 6

Considered the greatest ode ever written

contains the famous line “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, that is all”

Answer 6

John Keats

Ode to a Grecian Urn

Question 7

Chief architect of romantic poetry movement

Collab with Coleridge on Lyrical Ballads

Answer 7

William Wordsworth

Question 8

who wrote
Lyrical Ballads- Lucy Poems
Tintern Abbey
The Solitary Reaper
London 1802
I wandered lonely as a cloud
The Prelude - never finished, published by wife after death

Answer 8

William Wordsworth

Question 9

Poet who was also an illustrator and engraver, invented illuminated printing
mystic, free love advocate

Answer 9

William Blake

Question 10

Who wrote:
Songs of Innocence and Experience
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Milton: A Poem
Jerusalem

Answer 10

William Blake

Question 11

What poet wanted to create a utopian society with Robert Southey, collab with Wordsworth on Lyrical Ballads and was addicted to opium?

Answer 11

Samual Taylor Coleridge

Question 12

Who wrote: 
Ancient Mariner
Lyrical Ballads collab
Kubla Khan
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode
Christabel

Answer 12

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 13

What poet was considered Romantic poetry’s most acclaimed figure, hung out with Lord Byron, was a revolutionary, opposed to religion and died at 29?

Answer 13

Percy Shelley

Question 14

Who wrote:
0 Zymandia (Horace Smith)
Ode to the West Wind
Prometheus Unbound

Answer 14

Percy Shelley

Question 15

who was the first play wright?

Answer 15

Thespis - thespian

Question 16

Which ancient greek playwright standardized the format, added a 2nd character, and allowed for conflict?

Answer 16

Aeschylus

Question 17

Which ancient greek playwright added a 3rd character and scenery and did away with the trilogy format?

Answer 17

Sophocles

Question 18

Which ancient Greek playwright was the first to add female character leads and added the concept of deux ex machina?

Answer 18

Euripides

Question 19

what was the greek tragedy format?

Answer 19

prologue, scene 1, chorus, scene 2, chorus, scene 3

Question 20

Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Agamemnon
The Libation Bearers
Eumenidies

Answer 20

Aeschylus

Question 21

Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Antigone
Oedipus the King

Answer 21

Sophocles

Question 22

Which ancient greek playwright wrote:
Medea
Women of Troy
Iphigenia in Tauris

Answer 22

Euripides

Question 23

Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy Tartuffe in 1664?

Answer 23

Moliere

Question 24

Who wrote the dramatic farce Comedy of Errors in 1594?

Answer 24

Shakespeare

Question 25

Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy Charley's Aunt | in 1892?

Answer 25

Brandon Thomas

Question 26

Who wrote the dramatic farce comedy The Importance of Being Earnest?

Answer 26

Oscar Wilde

Question 27

Which playwright was married to Marilyn Monroe and was a political activist?

Answer 27

Arthur Miller

Question 28

``` Who wrote: Death of a Salesman All My Sons An Enemy of the People The Crucible The Misfits ```

Answer 28

Arthur Miller All My Sons was first success Wrote The Misfits for Marilyn Monroe Death of a Salesman is most famous

Question 29

Which American playwright is known for Southern Gothic, personal hardships inspired plays, and was known for symbolism and metaphor?

Answer 29

Tennessee Williams

Question 30

Which American playwright wrote: A Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Name Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Answer 30

Tennessee Williams

Question 31

Which American playwright used expressionism, racism, class, was controversial, contracted malaria, TB, was an alcoholic as well as won 4 Pulitzers and a Nobel in Literature?

Answer 31

Eugene O'Neill

Question 32

``` Which American playwright wrote: The Emperor Jones Anna Christie The Iceman Cometh Long Days Journey into Night ```

Answer 32

Eugene O'Neill

Question 33

Which playwright wrote: The Threepenny Opera Mother Courage and Her Children

Answer 33

Bertolt Brecht

Question 34

James Joyce Virginia Wolfe Samuel Beckett William Blake

Answer 34

British Literature 20th century

Question 35

Which British writer worked for James Joyce as a secretary, was born in Ireland, wrote in French after joining the French resistance in WWI, plays are considered a part of the "Theater of the Absurd"

Answer 35

Samuel Beckett

Question 36

``` Which British writer wrote: Waiting for Godot Endgame Happy Days Which all premiered from 1950-1970 ```

Answer 36

Samuel Beckett

Question 37

Which British writer describes a visit to Hell as to correct common misconceptions about good and evil. The book is described as a book of writings and illustrations?

Answer 37

William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Question 38

Which British writer employed Samuel Beckett, known for literary technique created for developing purposeful use of stream of consciousness?

Answer 38

James Joyce

Question 39

``` Which British writer wrote: Finnegans Wake (a circular novel) A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (semi-autobio) Ulysses Dubliners ```

Answer 39

James Joyce

Question 40

Which author compares Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus to Odysseus and Telemachus?

Answer 40

James Joyce

Question 41

Which British author's work can be described as experimental, was a member of the bohemian group called the Bloomsbury Group, and specifically targeted inequality in women's access to education?

Answer 41

Virginia Wolfe

Question 42

``` Which British writer wrote: Jacob's Room Orlando (wakes up a woman) A Room of One's Own (feminist essay) Mrs. Dalloway (takes place in one day) ```

Answer 42

Virginia Wolfe

Question 43

Lord Byron Jane Austen Mary Shelley Characteristics: escapism and spirituality

Answer 43

British and American Romanticism

Question 44

Which writer had an affair with Lady Caroline Lamb and died fighting in Greece?

Answer 44

Lord Byron

Question 45

Who wrote: Don Juan (Byronic hero - wanderer) Beppo (poem -satire about adultery) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Answer 45

Lord Byron

Question 46

Which write pioneered the science fiction genre, used frame narrative - a story within a story-, remain popular to this day.

Answer 46

Mary Shelley

Question 47

Who wrote | Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus

Answer 47

Mary Shelley Like Prometheus, there are consequences when mankind attempts to play god. Story remains popular today because of the creatures existential crisis resonates w/ many people.

Question 48

Which writer believed marriage was a business proposition, wrote about theme of women obligated to marry to gain independence, never married because she didn't have to, and characters often hate each other and then eventually fall in love?

Answer 48

Jane Austen

Question 49

``` Who wrote: Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park Persuasion and Northanger Abbey ```

Answer 49

Jane Austen

Question 50

Natty Bumppo's was a character in what series?

Answer 50

The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper

Question 51

Which 5 books were included in James Fenimore Cooper's The Leatherstocking Tales?

Answer 51

``` The Pioneers The Last of the Mohicans - take place in upstate NY The Prairie The Pathfinder The Deerslayer ```