4. Beowulf and the Monomyth

5. The Canterbury Tales

6. Shakespeare

7. The Importance of Being Earnest

8. Animal Farm

9. Lord of the Flies

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11. 1 - 100 Written in verse and featuring a larger-than-life hero, Beowulf is an example of this type of poem.

12. 1 - 100 What is an epic poem?

13. Since Beowulf was passed along by word-of-mouth, it is an example of this type of tradition.

14. 1 - 100 What is an oral tradition?

15. The monster Grendel is a descendant of this Biblical villain – the first murderer, according to Christianity.

16. 1 - 100 Who is Cain?

17. This is Joseph Campbell’s term for an object that saves the day and has healing properties.

18. 1 - 100 What is the elixir?

19. This is Joseph Campbell’s term for the “doorway” to adventure in his model of the monomyth.

20. 1 - 100 What is “the threshold”?

21. 1 - 100 This author of The Canterbury Tales includes himself in the story, as the narrator and one of the 30 pilgrims.

22. 1 - 100 Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?

23. This noble and chivalrous character looks like he is fresh from fighting in the Crusades, and his tale is a quintessential Medieval romance.

24. 1 - 100 Who is the knight?

25. The typical chivalric romance usually included the recurrent motif of this number.

26. 1 - 100 What is three?

27. This wrestler tells a ribald story that is the opposite of a quintessential Medieval romance.

28. 1 - 100 Who is the miller?

29. This tale features an ironic moral – “Greed is the root of all evil” – ironic as its teller is quite greedy.

30. 1 - 100 What is the Pardoner’s Tale?

31. 1 - 100 A Shakespearean sonnet is also known as this type of sonnet.

32. 1 - 100 What is an Elizabethan sonnet?

33. Othello’s ethnicity is this, which means he is a dark-skinned man of Arabic or African descent.

34. 1 - 100 What is a Moor?

35. Iago tells Othello to beware of jealousy, for it is this.

36. 1 - 100 What is the green-eyed monster?

37. This was usually the function of the rhyming couplet at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet.

38. 1 - 100 What is an ironic twist or a summary?

39. When Iago says “it is thought abroad that ’twixt the sheets he [Othello] has done my office,” he means this.

40. 1 - 100 What is slept with Iago’s wife (Emilia)?

41. 1 - 100 The Importance of Being Earnest offers commentary on this time period, named for the queen of England at the time.

42. 1 - 100 What is the Victorian Age?

43. This is Algernon’s nickname for leading a double life; it is derived from the name of his contrived ailing uncle.

44. 1 - 100 What is bunburrying?

45. Oscar Wilde was born and raised in this country.

46. 1 - 100 What is Ireland?

47. This type of character – such as Lady Bracknell – obstructs the relationship of another character.

48. 1 - 100 What is a blocking figure?

49. The play includes a lot of this type of humor, which revolves around the physical movements of the actors.

50. 1 - 100 What is burlesque humor?

51. 1 - 100 The novel is an example of this type of story, as it can be read on both the literal and the symbolic level.

52. 1 - 100 What is an allegory?

53. Old Major represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he provides the impetus for the revolution, but dies before it begins.

54. 1 - 100 Who is Karl Marx?

55. Snowball represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he is a well-educated leader that is eventually led into exile.

56. 1 - 100 Who is Leon Trotsky?

57. Napoleon represents this figure from the Russian Revolution, as he becomes a tyrant and changes laws to meet his own needs.

58. 1 - 100 Who is Joseph Stalin?

59. This character who meets his end at the glue factory is named in reference to a famous rebellion in China.

60. 1 - 100 Who is Boxer?

61. 1 - 100 He is the author of The Lord of the Flies.

62. 1 - 100 Who is William Golding?

63. The Lord of the Flies is narrated from this perspective.

64. 1 - 100 What is third person?

65. The phrase “Lord of the Flies” is actually a reference to this Biblical villain.

66. 1 - 100 Who is the devil?

67. This is the part of the island where the plane crashes – its name evokes something that can never be erased.

68. 1 - 100 What is the scar?

69. This is probably the reason the boys were on the island in the first place.

70. 1 - 100 What is the threat of a third world war?

72. This Irish satirist wrote “A Modest Proposal” in response to his nation’s problem of hunger.

73. Who is Jonathan Swift?