Honors World Lit I Final Practice

Who was born to the Emperor and his favorite concubine, who dies when the child is only a few years old?

In Hamlet, two characters are princes. They are:

In Hamlet, the kingdom of Denmark faces instability from all of the following EXCEPT:

Who braves marrying King Shahriyar to stop him from killing his brides?

What two stories contain a frame story?

Muhammad began receiving visions from the angel Gabriel at age 40.

Who is asked to choose "to have me foul and old until I die...or else to have me young and beautiful"?

Who kills Hamlet by stabbing him with a poisoned sword, and why?

"...waiting at the Tabard Inn at Southwark..." begins what tale?

The famous line "To be, or not to be, —that is the question" is part of a speech by King Claudius in Hamlet.

Despite evidence to the contrary, Polonius insists that Hamlet is going mad because of his feelings for Ophelia.

The Weezer's job is...

The Wife of Bath had 5 husbands; 2 were good, 3 were bad.

In Hamlet, who says "O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven...A brother’s murder! —Pray can I not..."

Who is Thomas á Becket?

The plague was spread by all of the following EXCEPT:

In The Thousand and One Nights, The Weezer is the father of...

In The Canterbury Tales, Alyson is the name of which pilgrim?

Muslims refer to God as:

Shahrazad keeps the King from killing her by telling him a story each night.

Who is Ishmael?

The story that is often considered the world's first novel is:

All of the following happened during the Renaissance EXCEPT:

Genji thinks, "If she is thus fair in her girlhood, what will she be when she is grown up?" when he meets who?

The author of The Canterbury Tales was

Who makes Hamlet swear to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder"?

In which pilgrim's tale does a knight rape a maiden then get 1 year to find out what women truly want?

Laertes is Hamlet's brother.

The last chapters of The Tale of Genji are not about Genji but about:

Which story has a main character that was either named after the author, or the other way around?

Though he is known as Genji's son, Kaoru is actually Genji's nephew's son.

Renaissance means "rebirth".

Ophelia drowns herself after Hamlet's rejection and her father's murder.

Prince Genji has 2 main loves: ____, who reminds him of his mother, & ____, who reminds him of his first love.

William Shakespeare's theater famously burned down in 1613, though it was rebuilt. It is called:

Murasaki, Lady Fujitsubo's neice, is 10 years old when Genji first meets her.

A government where legal laws and religious laws are the same is called a:

During the Middle Period, goods, religions, and people traveled from Asia to Europe via:

Who has "a strange resemblance between her and Kiri-Tsubo" & is referred to as "the Princess Wistaria"?

Why does the fisherman tell the jinnee the story of King Yoonan and sage Dooban?

In the 1340's, the plague killed approximately 2/3 of Europe's population.

The Weezer tries to discourage Shahrazad from marrying the King by telling her what story?

"Groundlings" is another term for the audience who stands in front of the stage, or in the pit, at an Elizabethan play.

Which story has talking fish that say "If thou return, we return; and if thou come, we come..."

Hamlet is a famous tragic play written by

Who is the author of The Tale of Genji?

In what story are pilgrims traveling to visit the shrine of Thomas á Becket?

Who pledges to Aurelius "When you have made the coast so clear of rocks...then I will love you best of all men"?

Who does Hamlet tell to "Get thee to a nunnery"?

Why does the King in Thousand and One Nights start marrying a new virgin each night and killing her in the morning?