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100
The Holy Scripture of Islam
What is the Koran (Quran)?
100
Playwright who wrote Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
100
The character who said, "Beware the Ides of March!"
Who is the Soothsayer?
100
Literary period during which Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
What is the Classical (Greek and Roman) period?
100
He wrote the Metamorphosis, a collection of mythological tales.
Who is Ovid?
200
The first book of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament).
What is Genesis?
200
Uncle and future father-in-law of Antigone
Who is Creon?
200
Name of character who said, "Brutus is an honorable man."
Who is Marc Antony?
200
Literary period/genre of Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits.
What is Postmodernism/Magical Realism?
200
He is almost as well known for his poems as for his plays.
Who is William Shakespeare?
300
Dante's guide through the Inferno, he is stuck in Purgatory because he was born BC.
Who is Virgil?
300
Play about Antigone's dad.
What is Oedipus Rex?
300
The place that has a sign which reads, "Abandon all hope ye who enter here."
What is Hell, or Dante's Inferno?
300
Literary period during which several major revolutions, including the American Revolution occurred.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
He wrote "The Allegory of the Cave."
Who is Plato?
400
The version of the Bible published in 1611.
What is the King James version?
400
Queen Elizabeth's favorite playwright.
Who is Shakespeare?
400
Titular character who said, "Optimism... is the mania of maintaining that everything is well when we are wretched."
Who is Candide?
400
The Sufi poet Rumi lived at the same time that the Muslim Turks established a presence in this country, part of which later became Pakistan?
What is India?
400
Swedish author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909.
Who is Selma Lagerlof?
500
This ancient Hindu epic describes the adventures of Rama, an incarnation of the god Vishnu, and his wife Sita.
What is the Ramayana?
500
Famous Shakespearean line borrowed by John Green for his YA novel that is currently being made into a movie.
What is "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
500
He said, "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways-- I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."
Who is Socrates?
500
Literary period that is recognized as having begun with Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House?
What is Realism?
500
This pacifist Russian nobleman wrote what many critics consider the greatest novel of all time, Anna Karenina.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
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