| 1) She begs her beloved husband, the prince of Troy, not to go into battle against the Acheans. But duty obliges this prince of Troy to protect his homeland until he is finally slain by Achilles. Who is this couple? |
 |
Orpheus and Euridice
Paris and Helen
Hector and Andromache
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
|
|
| 2) In Thackeray's Vanity Fair, the fortunes of two women and their romances with the same man hang in the balance during this famous continental battle. |
|
Blenheim
Austerlitz
Koniggratz
Waterloo
|
|
| 3) In 'A Game of Chess', the second section of this great poem, a woman sits in a pub discussing a man named Albert, his return from World War I, and his wife Lil's lukewarm reception. Name the poem and its author. |
|
The Wasteland by T. S. Eliot
More Pansies by D. H. Lawrence
'The Pangolin' by Marianne Moore
'Lessons of the War' by Henry Reed
|
|
| 4) Name the knight from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene who battles the evil magician Busirane to free Sir Scudamour's beloved, Amoret, from imprisonment in the enchanter's castle. |
|
Priamond
Guyon
Britomartis
Artegall
|
|
| 5) In War and Peace, Pierre Bezukhov survives the Battle of Borodino to marry whom? |
|
Anna Scherer
Princess Helene
Natasha Rostov
Mary Bolkonskaya
|
|
| 6) Chaucer's love story Troilus and Criseyde ends on a sadder note than the Shakespearean version. Who kills Troilus at the end of this Middle-English poem? |
|
Diomedes
Odysseus
Priam
Achilles
|
|
| 7) In Walter Scott's Waverley, Edward Waverly returns from action in which rebellion to marry Rose Bradwardine? |
|
The Wallace Uprising
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1715
The War of Jenkins' Ear
|
|
| 8) In the midst of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay is almost lost to his beloved wife, the former Lucie Manette. Who is the character in Dickens' Tale of Two Cities who goes to the guillotine in Darnay's place? |
|
Arthur Clenham
John Dawkins
Sydney Carton
Richard Carstone
|
|
| 9) Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma describes the romance between Fabrizio and Clelia, set against which historical backdrop? |
|
The Napoleonic Wars
The War of the Spanish Succession
The Thirty Years' War
The Franco-Prussian War
|
|
| 10) Name Thomas Pynchon's 'gifted' anti-hero from Gravity's Rainbow who engages in numerous sexual liaisons during the London Blitz. |
|
Jeremiah Dixon
Tyrone Slothrop
Mucho Maas
Herbert Stencil
|
|
my cart |
