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World Lit Final
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
04/29/2009

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Who tried to stop the possible war with Norway?
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Claudius
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Who once played in a production of JULIUS CAESAR
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Polonius
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Who loved Rhenish?
Definition
Hamlet
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Who ordered a proper burial for Hamlet?
Definition
The new ruler of Denmark, Cladius
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Who didn’t seem to be worried about dying?
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Hamlet
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Who said, “A willow grows aslant a brook?”
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Hamlet
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A valuable pearl was offered to whom?
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Hamlet
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Who said, “Alas poor Yorick, I knew him well?”
Definition
Hamlet
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To whom was line 8 spoken?
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Queen
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Who said “Good night ladies, good night.”?
Definition
Hamlet
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Who said, “I shall obey you, madam.”?
Definition
Lorenzo, Hamlet
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Who said, “We’ll teach you to drink ere you depart”?
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Hamlet
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What character was puzzled over Danish customs?
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Hamlet
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Who was spied on by Reynaldo?
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Laertes
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Who described man as the “paragon” of animals?
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Hamlet
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Who bought an unction of a mountebank?
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Hamlet
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Who did not believe in ghosts?
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Claudius
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Who said, “You are as good as a chorus”?
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Ophelia
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Who said, “Thou art fat and scant of breath?”
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Queen Gertrude
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Who said, “The rest is silence?”
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Hamlet
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Whose skull did Hamlet hold?
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Yorick
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Who was judge at the swordfight?
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Osric
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Which country might attack Denmark?
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Norway
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Who had gathered a group to support him as the new Danish king?
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Lartes
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Insanity is a theme of this play. Whose insanity is real?
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Hamlet’s girlfriend, Ophelia
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In the famous eavesdropping scene, Ophelia is instructed to read what?
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Read a book of devotions
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Who plots to hide behind an arras?
Definition
Polonius
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Who calls Polonius a fish monger?
Definition
Hamlet
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Who reports that Hamlet’s stockings are down to his knees?
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Ophelia
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Define DRABBING.
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To go whoring, you may go far
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Who uses Polonius for his own good?
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Hamlet
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What do beating of drums and blasting cannons mean?
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King is drinking
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Who speaks the play’s first soliloquy?
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Hamlet
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Who is sent to Norway with a letter?
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Voltimond and Cornelius
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Which character asks to leave Denmark?
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Polonius son, Laertes
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The king has received several threatening letters from whom?
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Horatio
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By the end of act 1, the king decides to call in which 2 characters?
Definition
Rost and Guild
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What is a partisan?
Definition
Spear
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Horatio can speak which archaic language?
Definition
Latin
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In Scene one, which character is not a regular guard?
Definition
Horatio
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“The rest is silence.”
Definition
Hamlet
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“Strengthen your patience in our last night’s speech.”
Definition
Claudius
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“Alas, I know him, Horatio.”
Definition
Hamlet
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“Swear!”
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The Ghost
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“There’s rosemary; that’s for remembrance.”
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Qween
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“I’ll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce.”
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King Claudius
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“So you shall; and where the offense is let the great ax fall.”
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King Claudius
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“He is dead and gone lady, he is dead and gone.”
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Ophelias
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“Follow her close; give her good watch, I pray you.”
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King Claudius
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“O from this time my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth.”
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Hamlet
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“Go to your rest; at night we’ll feast together.”
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Claudius
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“Good gentlemen, he hath much talked of you.”
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Gertrude
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“I pray stay with us; go not to Wittenberg.”
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Hamlet
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“Never make known what you have seen tonight.”
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Hamlet
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“What if it tempt you to the flood my lord.”
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Horatio
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“The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.”
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Hamlet
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“My lord I came to see thy father’s funeral.”
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Horatio
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“A little more than kin and less than kind.”
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Hamlet
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“Cast thy knighted color off.”
Definition
Gertrude
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“My dread lord, your leave and favor to return to France.”
Definition
Lertes
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Which character was a good horseman?
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The squire
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Where did the pilgrims first meet?
Definition
Tabbard Inn in Southwark
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Who had a wart on his nose?
Definition
The Miller
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Who was father of the squire?
Definition
The Knight
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The language of Chaucer is called what?
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Middle English
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The wife of Bath claimed to be an authority on what subject?
Definition
Love (marrage and marital life)
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Whom did Nicholas trick?
Definition
John, the carpender
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Who sang to Alison?
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ABSALOM
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What subject did Nicholas love?
Definition
astrology
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Who was branded with a hot iron?
Definition
Nicholas
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When the knight kisses the old woman, what happens?
Definition
She became beautiful and faithful to him
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What was the major complaint of the wife of Bath?
Definition
Story too long
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Who was Jankin?
Definition
The Wife of Bath's 5th husband, an Oxford Scholar, he deafened her
Term
Which tale is the most moralistic?
Definition
The Pardoner's Tale
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When this man got drunk, he spoke in Latin
Definition
Summoner
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Which character was going on the trip to make money?
Definition
Pardoner
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What is the meaning of AVARICE?
Definition
Insatiable greed for riches
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Who was instructed to go to town to buy alcohol?
Definition
The youngest man
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Who proposed telling the stories?
Definition
the Host, Haffy Bailly
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Which character is the most corrupt?
Definition
The Pardoner
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Who is the ferryman?
Definition
Charon
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What is especially large about Satan?
Definition
Wings
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Satan has 6 of these.
Definition
eyes
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Which canto begins with a formal address to Florence?
Definition
canto 26
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What happens to Dante as the end of Canto 3?
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He faints
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Whom does Dante meet in Canto 4?
Definition
Minos, Virgil
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Describe Minos.
Definition
Mythical King of Orete
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“The Tale of Lancelot” caused trouble for whom?
Definition
Francesca and Palo
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Where does Dante find Calvacanti?
Definition
A tomb of heretics
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How many books comprise THE DIVINE COMEDY?
Definition
3
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What is the best classification for THE DIVING COMEDY?
Definition
Christian Epic
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In this work, Dante is on the road to what?
Definition
Salvation
Term
Where are the trimmers housed?
Definition
Vestibule
Term
What is Lethe?
Definition
The river of forgiveness
Term
Describe the city of Dis.
Definition
Horrifying
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What is Cocytus?
Definition
A great frozen lake, river of walling
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What is located above the entrance of Inferno?
Definition
An inscription
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Dante was from which country?
Definition
Italy
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Does Dante meet Epicurus in canto 10?
Definition
yes
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Of the three main books wdritten by Dante, which is the third in the series?
Definition
Paradise
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