In Terms Of Literature
Which literary device is being used in the following quote?
“Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper”
a. personification
b. simile
c. alliteration
d. juxtaposition
b. simile
Which novel written in 1818 by Mary Shelly features a scientist who creates a living being whose appearance he is then repulsed by.
a. Lord of the Flies
b. Pride and Prejudice
c. Frankenstein
d. Jane Eyre
c. Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein creates a living being simply referred to as "the monster". He then rejects this being repeatedly as he seeks affection and acceptance.
How did Claudius murder King Hamlet?
a. He stabbed him in a sword fight
b. He poisoned his food
c. He put a snake in his bed
d. He put poison in his ear
d. He put poison in his ear
How is Polonius killed?
a. He is strangled by Hamlet
d. He is poisoned by Claudius
c. He is stabbed by Hamlet
d. He is poisoned by Ophelia
c. He is stabbed by Hamlet
True or False
Turkey was not served at the first Thanksgiving
True
The menu included venison, duck, goose, oysters, lobster, eel, and fish, alongside pumpkins and cranberries.
Which literary device is being used in the following quote?
To be, or not to be; that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them.
a. Simile
b. Personification
c. Metaphor
d. Allusion
C. Metaphor
In this absurd story written by Franz Kafka a man wakes up and finds he has been transformed into a giant insect.
a. Lord of the Flies
b. The Metamorphosis
c. To Kill a Mockingbird
d. Dracula
b. The Metamorphosis
How does Ophelia die?
a. Hamlet stabs her
b. Laertes strangles her
c. She poisons herself
d. She drowns in a river
d. She drowns in a river
Why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius after the traveling players’ play?
a. He is praying
b. He is sleeping
c. He begs for forgiveness
d. He fights back
a. He is praying
In what year was Thanksgiving officially proclaimed as a national holiday?
a. 1492
b. 1865
c. 1965
d. 1863
d. 1863
Sarah Josepha Hale, the woman who wrote “Mary Had A Little Lamb,” convinced the president to make Thanksgiving a national holiday after writing letters for 17 years.
Which literary device is being used in the following quote?
'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely. (I.ii.135–137)
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Juxtaposition
d. Analogy
b. Metaphor
Which group of sisters is famous for writing novels in the 19th century?
a. The Bronte Sisters
b. The Austen Sisters
c. The Stoker Sisters
d. The Hawthorne Sisters
a. The Bronte Sisters
Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte wrote Jane Eyre
Anne Bronte wrote The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Why does Polonius think Hamlet has gone mad?
a. He is grieving his father
b. He hates Claudius for marrying Gertrude
c. He is in love with Ophelia
d. He is jealous of Laertes
c. He is in love with Ophelia
Whom does Polonius send to France to spy on Laertes?
a. Horatio
b. Ophelia
c. Reynaldo
d. Marcellus
c. Reynaldo
Which president declared Thanksgiving a national holiday?
a. George Washington
b. Harry S Trueman
c. Richard Nixon
d. Abraham Lincoln
d. Abraham Lincoln
Which literary device is used in the following quote?
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as
snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. (III.i.137–138)
Simile
Ophelia is compared to ice and snow
Mark Twain (1835-1910) is known for writing the "Great American Novel". Which novel did he write?
a. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
b. Crime and Punishment
c. Beloved
d. Their Eyes Were Watching God
a. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The book is noted for "changing the course of children's literature" in the United States for the "deeply felt portrayal of boyhood". Throughout the 20th century, and despite arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist, criticism of the book continued due to both its perceived use of racial stereotypes and its frequent use of the racial slur "n***er".
Where is the university at which Horatio and Hamlet studied?
a. Paris
b. England
c. Berlin
d. Wittenburg
d. Wittenburg
Who returns Hamlet back to Denmark after his attempted exile?
a. Horatio
b. A group of pirates
c. Marcellus
d. A group of monks
b. A group of pirates
The tradition of football on Thanksgiving began with a game between which two universities.
a. Yale and Princeton
b. Yale and Harvard
c. Dartmouth and Harvard
d. LSU and Dartmouth
a. Yale and Princeton
This tradition began in in 1876.
Which two literary devices are present in the following quote?
The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown. (I.v.39-40)
1. Metaphor - Claudius is compared to a snake
2. Allusion - Snake in a garden is alludes to the Bible story of Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden
Which Nobel Prize-winning author is known for writing the novels The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, and many more?
a. Zora Neal Hurston
b. Khalid Husseini
c. Marjane Satrapi
d. Toni Morrison
d. Toni Morrison
Living from 1931–2019, Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987); she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on May 29, 2012.
Who killed Fortinbras' father?
a. Prince Hamlet
b. King Hamlet
c. King Claudius
d. Queen Gertrude
b. King Hamlet
Fortinbras is a Norwegian prince who wants to invade Denmark to avenge his own father who was killed by King Hamlet.
Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia’s funeral?
a. In the woods
b. In Ophelia's grave
c. In the great hall
d. In the church
b. In Ophelia's grave
How many people are estimated to be traveling for Thanksgiving this year?
a. 4 million
b. 54 million
c. 16 million
d. 25 million
b. 54 million
That’s up 4.8% from last year.