Classes @ Hopkins
In which English class this semester would you be introduced to literary study?
Introduction to Literary Study
Which work is the following quote from?
"The mind is its own place and, in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven."
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Which famous literary cat is known for his smile?
Which writer said, on arriving at New York customs, "I have nothing to declare but my genius"?
Oscar Wilde
Which Jane Austen novel has a zombie film adaptation?
Pride & Prejudice
In which English class this semester would you study the following text?
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer: Ribaldry, Romance and Radical Religion
Which work is the following quote from?
"Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening is spread out against the sky"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot
Which famous cat "Knows a Lot About That!"?
The Cat in the Hat
Which poet reportedly kept a bear during their stay at Trinity College and wrote the following in a letter?
"I have got a new friend, the finest in the world, a tame bear. When I brought him here, they asked me what to do with him, and my reply was, ‘he should sit for a fellowship.'"
Lord Byron
Edgar Allan Poe
In which English class this semester would you study the following text?
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Zombies
Which work is the following quote from?
"These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder"
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Which famous poet fist-fought a butcher in defense of a cat that the butcher's son was tormenting?
John Keats
Which writer clashed with Langston Hughes over the co-writing of their play Mule Bone, leading to the ending of their friendship?
Zora Neale Hurston
Fittingly, considering its definition, what literary term has roots in the Greek words for both "sharp" and "dull?"
Oxymoron
In which English class this semester would you study the following text?
"The Land of Cockaygne"
Poetry and Perfect Worlds
Which work is the following quote from?
"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant."
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Which author once tried to sell a perfume made from the secretions of cats’ bottoms? (sorry)
Daniel Defoe
Which famous writer attended the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (and dropped out before finishing their degree)?
Gertrude Stein
What does 451 in Fahrenheit 451 represent?
The temperature at which paper burns
In which English class would you study the following poets?
Tongo Eisen-Martin, Cathy Park Hong, Sandra Simonds, Stephanie Young, and Wendy Trevino
Poetry and Politics Today
Which work is the following quote from?
"THE HORSE: Hohohohohohoh! Hohohohome!"
Ulysses by James Joyce
Which of the following cat names is NOT present in T. S. Eliot's "The Naming of Cats"?
Alonzo, Coricopat, Plato, Rumplemunkus, Bombalurina, Jellylorum
Rumplemunkus
Which famous writer wrote Film (1965), a short film about film?
Samuel Beckett
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