It's saint George's day yet again so we're going to put on our clogs (wooden shoes) and have a go at the traditional Morris dance! George is the patron saint of England, despite never actually having visited the place.
April the 23rd is also international book day due to the fact that both Shakespere and Cervantes died on this date (however not on the same day as Spain and England were using different calendars) Let's see what you know about world literature... Answers will be posted by the end of the week.
English Literature.
"Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven" are the famous words from which poet?
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
What is the premise of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman?
Hell is where the good people go
Heaven is impossible to attain
There is an open door between Heaven and Hell
April the 23rd is also international book day due to the fact that both Shakespere and Cervantes died on this date (however not on the same day as Spain and England were using different calendars) Let's see what you know about world literature... Answers will be posted by the end of the week.
Saint George’s day Literature quiz.
Ancient Literature.
The story of the famous Trojan horse appears in which epic poem?
The Iliad, Homer
The works & Days, Hesiod
The Aeneid, Virgil
Which of the following was not a writer?
Aristotle
Socrates
Plato
Which text was written to guide the human soul through the afterlife?
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Egpytian Book of the Dead
The Dead Sea Scrolls
Which Gospel starts "In the beginning was the word..."
Matthew
Luke
John
Which is the earliest version of the Flood?
Dekelion
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Genesis
The Upanishads are the sacred literature of
Tibet
India
Arabia
"Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven" are the famous words from which poet?
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
What is the premise of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman?
Hell is where the good people go
Heaven is impossible to attain
There is an open door between Heaven and Hell
Which of the Bronte sisters wrote Jane Eyre?
Charlotte
Emily
Anne
Which book was written by D.H Lawrence?
Bleak House
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Sense and Sensibility
In which of Shakespeare’s works do we find the famous speech, “All the world is a stage”?
As You Like It
Othello
Hamlet
What do we learn from Oscar Wilde's novel “The Portrait of Dorian Gray”?
That power corrupts
That death comes to us all
That works of art cannot moralize
French Literature.
Who said that “Hell is other people”?
Emile Zola
Charles Baudelaire
Jean Paul Sartre
The protagonist in Albert Camus’ novel L’etranger is condemned to death because...
He has commited murder
He doesn’t follow the conventions of society
He doesn’t believe in god
Russian Literature.
Which of the following was written by IvanTurgenev?
War & Peace
Fathers & Sons
Crime & Punishment
Which novel by Dostoyevsky contains the famous dictum “If god doesn’t exist then everything is permitted”?
The Brothers Karamazov
Notes from underground
Crime & Punishment
Italian Literature.
What does Machiavelli proclaim in “The Prince”?
That professional soldiers are the most loyal
That a leader should lie if necessary
That Kings are better leaders than Popes
Which Renaissance painter also wrote the lives of his fellow artists?
Giorgio Vasari
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Benvenuto Cellini
German Literature.
Which German composer influenced the early writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche?
Richard Strauss
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Who wrote a ficticious account of the life of the Buddha?
Thomas Mann
Herman Hesse
Gunter Grass
In Franz Kafka’s short story The Metamorphosis, what creature does Gregoryfind himself transformed into?
A beetle
A fly
We don’t know
In Wolfgang Von Goethe’s Faust, to whom does Doctor Faust sell his soul?
Mephisto
Satan
Lucifer
Spanish Literature.
In Jorge Luis Borges short story, what is special about the book of sand?
It contains everything ever written
It is infinite
It represents the readers dreams
There are many different versions of architypical character Don Juan. Whose version has a happy ending?
Tirso de Molina’s
Jose Zorilla’s
Lord Byron’s
Who wrote La Vida del Buscon/ Paul the Swindler?
Francisco de Quevedo
Luis de Gongora
Lope de Vega
What is the oldest known literary work in the Spanish language?
El Conde Lucanor
El Libro de Buen Amor
Poema del Mio Cid
Catalan Literature
Who is the survivor of the sea battle at the beginning of L'Atlantida?
Hernando Cortes
Christopher Columbus
Miguel Cervantes
What was Ramon Llull's position towards Islam?
Destroy the infidel
Peaceful co-existance
Understand your enemy
Catalan Literature
Who is the survivor of the sea battle at the beginning of L'Atlantida?
Hernando Cortes
Christopher Columbus
Miguel Cervantes
What was Ramon Llull's position towards Islam?
Destroy the infidel
Peaceful co-existance
Understand your enemy
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