|
Forums21
Topics42,382
Posts1,059,700
Members10,349
| |
Most Online796
Jan 21st, 2020
|
|
|
(Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#149987
02/27/06 03:51 PM
02/27/06 03:51 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
JustMe
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
|
OK. As the winner of previous quiz I got Fame's kiss  , 5 oranges, that I can't get still (damn international shipping ) and obligation to write the next quiz. Fame boldly suggested any theme I like, but I refrained from history, it would be really difficult...  So, if anyone has guts to try , !!! DON'T REPLY HERE !!! !!! REPLY ONLY BY PM !!! ____The Ultimate____ __English Literature__ _______Quiz________ By JustMe. 25 questions. 1 William Shakespeare never wrote: a) King Henry the Eighth b) King Henry the Fifth c) The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth d) The Third Part of King Henry the Fourth 2 How many “Kings Richards” he wrote? a) Three: the First, the Second and the Third b) Two: the First and the Third c) Two: the Second and the Third d) One: the Third. 3 Which character was created by Samuel Richardson: a) Tristram Shandy b) Tom Jones c) Henry Esmond d) Sir Charles Grandison 4 Which of these plays depicts the biggest number of deaths among its characters? (armies aside, only those who have name) a) Romeo and Juliet b) Macbeth c) Hamlet, prince of Denmark d) King Lear 5 Which of these works by Sir Walter Scott isn’t a novel? a) Waverley b) Marmion c) The Bride of Lammermoor d) Rob Roy 6 Sir Willoughby Pattern was a: a) Coxcomb b) Snob c) Egoist d) Womanizer 7 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: a) Ivanhoe b) King John c) Lord Arthur Savile’s crime. d) Sir Nigel 8 In which of these works a wealthy family or person does not adopt the heroine? a) Agnes Grey b) Jane Eyre c) Mansfield Park d) Bleak House 9 In which of these works a wealthy family or person does not adopt the hero? a) Tom Jones b) Nicolas Nickleby c) Wuthering Heights d) Oliver Twist 10 In which of these there’s no important letter for heroine to read in the critical moment of the novel? a) Pride and Prejudice b) Bleak House c) Persuasion d) The Picture of Dorian Gray 11 In which of these heroine becomes considerably wealthier in the end of the novel? a) Little Dorrit b) Dombey and Son c) The Vicar of Wakefield d) Middlemarch 12 Becky Sharp never ventured to: a) Throw books out of the window b) Sing on the operatic stage c) Steal d) Divorce 13 Jane Austen’s favorite writer was a) Maria Edgeworth b) Fanny Burney c) Ann Radcliffe d) Virginia Woolf 14 These statements apply to all Jane Austen’s novels. Which is false? a) All heroines have sisters. b) At least one ball is described c) All heroines marry d) All heroines are poor compared to men they marry 15 Besides her 6 published novels, Jane Austen left us tons of juvenilia and sketches. Which of these is finished? a) The Watsons b) Love and Friendship c) Lesley Castle d) Sanditon 16 One of Austen’s heroines never dances anymore. Who is it? a) Jane Bennet b) Emma Woodhouse c) Anne Elliot d) Eleanor Dashwood 17 Elizabeth Gaskell wrote: a) The White Company b) Women in Love c) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall d) North and South 18 Geoffrey Chaucer wrote: a) Chronicles b) Wessex tales c) A Tale of Two Cities d) The Canterbury Tales 19 Dinny Charwell married: a) a member of Parliament b) a poet c) a Marine d) an archeologist 20 Which of these works by John Galsworthy is not a Trilogy? a) The Forsyte Saga b) A Modern Comedy c) The Country House d) End of the Chapter 21 In which of these novels heroine is not kidnapped? a) Clarissa b) The Collector c) Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded d) Northanger Abbey And to end it all, several Quotes. 22 “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a…” a) Lawyer b) House c) Wife d) Quiz 23 “I like talking about nothing. It is the only thing…” a) that can never be explained b) I know anything about c) I don’t find boring d) that offends nobody 24 “What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of…” a) Money b) Words c) Pleasure d) Nothing 25 If you know by chance, who is the author of the last two?
keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open.
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#149990
02/28/06 05:07 AM
02/28/06 05:07 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058
The Slippery Slope
plawrence
RIP StatMan
|
RIP StatMan
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058
The Slippery Slope
|
I knew the answers to #18 and #24.  But I always hated English Lit, even though I love to read and write.
"Difficult....not impossible"
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#149992
02/28/06 05:42 AM
02/28/06 05:42 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058
The Slippery Slope
plawrence
RIP StatMan
|
RIP StatMan
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058
The Slippery Slope
|
Originally posted by svsg: Great, I don't know the answer for any of them. What is the odds of winning this quiz by choosing (a) for all questions? If by "winning" you mean getting them all right, the odds are more than 1,000,000,000,000,000:1
"Difficult....not impossible"
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#149995
02/28/06 06:16 AM
02/28/06 06:16 AM
|
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058
The Slippery Slope
plawrence
RIP StatMan
|
RIP StatMan
Joined: Aug 2002
Posts: 15,058
The Slippery Slope
|
Originally posted by afsaneh77: It is actually 0.000000000000003553. Chance of getting each right is 1/4 or 0.25. So it is 0.25^24. Leaving the last one out of course. You're expressing it as a decimal, I'm putting it in the form of "odds". I did a lot of rounding off in doing the multiplication to get my number - I started rounding at the 1 billion, 72 million mark (making it just 1 billion instead) and left at least 24 trillion off at the end - but I'd guess they're roughly the same.
"Difficult....not impossible"
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#149997
02/28/06 07:06 AM
02/28/06 07:06 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,086
The Bright Side Of The Road
Senza Mama
Underboss
|
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 1,086
The Bright Side Of The Road
|
Think I've got 1,2,9,14,17,18,22,23,24,25. Pretty tough all the same.
Tom: "They shot Sonny on the causeway...he's dead."
Michael: "Turnbull is a good man"
Shane MacGowan: "It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank"
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#150001
02/28/06 09:12 AM
02/28/06 09:12 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
JustMe
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
|
Originally posted by Senza Mama:
Think I've got 1,2,9,14,17,18,22,23,24,25. Pretty tough all the same. What's interesting, if you got one right, and nobody else answers, you win anyway.
keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open.
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#150003
02/28/06 10:35 AM
02/28/06 10:35 AM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
JustMe
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
|
Originally posted by Turi Giuliano:
Thankgod that I'm not the only one that didn't know any of the answers. I get violent when people make me feel stupid and JM doesn't need me throwing hedgehogs at her. You see, Turi, the idea to make me write a quiz belongs to Fame. I don't pretend that it was my idea. If someone is to be punished, it's him. And btw, if there's no winner, he is to write the next quiz! (And if I win again, I'll gratify myself and write one about Hundred Years war....)
keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open.
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#150009
03/01/06 10:20 AM
03/01/06 10:20 AM
|
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 2,735
Lavinia from Italy
Underboss
|
Underboss
Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 2,735
|
Originally posted by JustMe:
I'm still waiting for your answer btw. JM, I really can't answer. I wish I could, but I can't. If only you had made it a little....I could I say.... EASIER???????? Originally posted by JustMe: I think I'll give everyone a day more. I think you should give everyone a YEAR more. Just the time to attend an advanced English literature class..... :p
I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth (Blanche/A streetcar named desire)
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#150015
03/04/06 03:29 PM
03/04/06 03:29 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
JustMe
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
|
I got your answers Part. You have a brave heart, my boy, quite a brave heart! And you are not bad at guessing BTW! Since tomorrow is sunday, I'll give this quiz two more days to live, and then post the answers.
keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open.
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#150016
03/06/06 12:55 PM
03/06/06 12:55 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
JustMe
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
|
Here are the answers!
1
William Shakespeare never wrote:
a) King Henry the Eighth
b) King Henry the Fifth
c) The Third Part of King Henry the Sixth
d) The Third Part of King Henry the Fourth
2
How many “Kings Richards” he wrote?
a) Three: the First, the Second and the Third
b) Two: the First and the Third
c) Two: the Second and the Third
d) One: the Third.
3
Which character was created by Samuel Richardson:
a) Tristram Shandy
b) Tom Jones
c) Henry Esmond
d) Sir Charles Grandison
4
Which of these plays depicts the biggest number of deaths among its characters? (armies aside, only those who have name)
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) Macbeth
c) Hamlet, prince of Denmark
d) King Lear
5
Which of these works by Sir Walter Scott isn’t a novel?
a) Waverley
b) Marmion
c) The Bride of Lammermoor
d) Rob Roy
6
Sir Willoughby Pattern was a:
a) Coxcomb
b) Snob
c) Egoist
d) Womanizer
7
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote:
a) Ivanhoe
b) King John
c) Lord Arthur Savile’s crime.
d) Sir Nigel
8
In which of these works a wealthy family or person does not adopt the heroine?
a) Agnes Grey
b) Jane Eyre
c) Mansfield Park
d) Bleak House
9
In which of these works a wealthy family or person does not adopt the hero?
a) Tom Jones
b) Nicolas Nickleby
c) Wuthering Heights
d) Oliver Twist
10
In which of these there’s no important letter for heroine to read in the critical moment of the novel?
a) Pride and Prejudice
b) Bleak House
c) Persuasion
d) The Picture of Dorian Gray
11
In which of these heroine becomes considerably wealthier in the end of the novel?
a) Little Dorrit
b) Dombey and Son
c) The Vicar of Wakefield
d) Middlemarch
12
Becky Sharp never ventured to:
a) Throw books out of the window
b) Sing on the operatic stage
c) Steal
d) Divorce
13
Jane Austen’s favorite writer was
a) Maria Edgeworth
b) Fanny Burney
c) Ann Radcliffe
d) Virginia Woolf
14
These statements apply to all Jane Austen’s novels. Which is false?
a) All heroines have sisters.
b) At least one ball is described
c) All heroines marry
d) All heroines are poor compared to men they marry
15
Besides her 6 published novels, Jane Austen left us tons of juvenilia and sketches. Which of these is finished?
a) The Watsons
b) Love and Friendship
c) Lesley Castle
d) Sanditon
16
One of Austen’s heroines never dances anymore. Who is it?
a) Jane Bennet
b) Emma Woodhouse
c) Anne Elliot
d) Eleanor Dashwood
17
Elizabeth Gaskell wrote:
a) The White Company
b) Women in Love
c) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
d) North and South
18
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote:
a) Chronicles
b) Wessex tales
c) A Tale of Two Cities
d) The Canterbury Tales
19
Dinny Charwell married:
a) a member of Parliament
b) a poet
c) a Marine
d) an archeologist
20
Which of these works by John Galsworthy is not a Trilogy?
a) The Forsyte Saga
b) A Modern Comedy
c) The Country House
d) End of the Chapter
21
In which of these novels heroine is not kidnapped?
a) Clarissa
b) The Collector
c) Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded
d) Northanger Abbey
And to end it all, several Quotes.
22
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a…”
a) Lawyer
b) House
c) Wife
d) Quiz
23
“I like talking about nothing. It is the only thing…”
a) that can never be explained
b) I know anything about
c) I don’t find boring
d) that offends nobody
24
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of…”
a) Money
b) Words
c) Pleasure
d) Nothing
25
If you know by chance, who is the author of the last two?
Oscar Wilde.
keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open.
|
|
|
Re: (Results!) English Literature Quiz.
#150018
03/06/06 01:22 PM
03/06/06 01:22 PM
|
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
JustMe
OP
Underboss
|
OP
Underboss
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 3,733
|
Ladies and Gentlemen, And the winner is.... Partagas! Believe it or not, he got right 13 out of 25!!! Part, congrats. You may have those oranges Fame still owes me... Hope they are eatable. And - it is a tradition - you have to write the new quiz. :p Any quiz. (Goodness gratious, I may imagine... :rolleyes: )
keep your mouth shut, and your eyes open.
|
|
|
|
