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• Fantasy Novels

In Philip Pullman’s fantasy novel Northern Lights, what is the name of Lyra Belacqua’s dæmon?

Answer

Pantalaimon

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Fantasy Novels

Who wrote the fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings?

Answer

J.R.R. Tolkien

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Classic Poetry

In T. S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land, how many sections make up the poem?

Answer

Five

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• Classic Poetry

In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, how many lines does the poem contain?

Answer

14

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Classic Poetry

In Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem “How Do I Love Thee?”, which sonnet number is it?

Answer

Sonnet 43

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Classic Poetry

In T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, which ancient figure appears in the opening epigraph?

Answer

The Cumaean Sibyl

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Classic Poetry

How many cantos did Lord Byron’s unfinished poem Don Juan contain when he died?

Answer

16

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• Classic Poetry

What language is Beowulf, the great early English epic, written in?

Answer

Old English

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Classic Poetry

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, from which London inn does the pilgrimage set out?

Answer

The Tabard Inn

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• Classic Poetry

In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, in what year was the first edition published?

Answer

1667

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• Classic Poetry

How many books make up Homer’s Iliad?

Answer

24

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In William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73, what image represents the speaker’s fading life near the poem’s end?

Answer

The glow of a dying fire

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