How does Queen Gertrude die?
Answer: Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet’s cup.
Who says, “Good night, sweet prince,/And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”?
Answer: Horatio
How are Polonius and Laertes related?
Answer: Father/son
Who is Voltimand?
Answer: Ambassador to the King of Norway from the King of Denmark
How many soliloquies does Hamlet deliver?
Answer: 7
Who does Polonius send to spy on Laertes in Paris?
Answer: Reynaldo
What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?
Answer: The Murder of Gonzago
Where was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?
Answer: Wittenberg
Complete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of_____________?
Answer: Denmark
Geoffrey Chaucer is also known as_______________?
Answer: The father of English literature
“Why I Am Not a Christian” is an essay by:
Answer: Bertrand Russell
In Pygmalion, who was enchanted by ELIZA upon first social meeting?
Answer: Freddy
“Objective Correlative” is a term coined by:
Answer: Washington Allston
“Imagism” flourished in England partly under the influence of the poetic theory of:
Answer: T. E. Hulme
“I will show you fear in a handful of dust” is a famous line that comes in Eliot’s:
Answer: 1st part of The Waste Land
It was during the months of __________that John Keats wrote his major ‘Odes’.
Answer: Spring 1819
‘Stream of Consciousness is a term first used by:
Answer: William James
All of the Keats’ Odes are written in:
Answer: 10 line regular stanzas
What item in the governor’s mansion shows Hester a distorted reflection of herself?
Answer: A suit of armor
The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was firstly published in its:
Answer: 2nd edition
Who has described D. H. Lawrence as “the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation”?
Answer: E. M. Forster
In Far From Madding Crowd, who helps Gabriel Oak to protect the ricks during the storm?
Answer: Bathsheba Everdene
Waiting for Godot is a ______________by Samuel Beckett.
Answer: Tragicomedy
Yeats was most interested in which school of thought?
Answer: Occultism
What perspective is the poem The Second Coming written from?
Answer: First person
The epigraph of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock shifts the reader’s mind to Dante’s:
Answer: 8th Circle of Hell
Ulysses is a poem written in:
Answer: Both (A) & (B) (Blank verse and Dramatic monologue)
Wallace Stevens won the ___________for his Collected Poems in 1955.
Answer: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Who describes William Shakespeare as “…the only Shake-scene in a country”?
Answer: Robert Greene
With which novel does Stephen Dedalus fall in love in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
Answer: The Count of Monte Cristo