Academic Decathlon Literature

Question 1

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was well recived.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

What does water symbolize in "The Sea-Wolf"?

Accepted Answer

The balance between life and death.

Question 3

What is an allusion in literature?

Accepted Answer

A reference to a person, place, historical event, or popular literary work.

Question 4

What does the literary term "foil"reffer to?

Accepted Answer

A character with the traites that are the inverse of another character.

Question 5

The theme of Flannery O'Connor's "The River" is heavily religious.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Which of the following in NOT a theme in "The Sea-Wolf"?

Accepted Answer

Fertility

Question 7

What was Oleudah Equiano's "The Interesting Life Of Oleudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African" about?

Accepted Answer

Oleudah Equiano's experiece on a slave ship.

Question 8

What are large bodies of water, like oceans or lakes, symbolicaly associated to ?

Accepted Answer

The unknown or the unknowable.

Question 9

How does Sterling Brown's "Children of the Mississippi" present the Mississippi River?

Accepted Answer

As an object of fear.

Question 10

Which TWO philosophers influenced Jack Londons writing?

Accepted Answer

Nietzcsche, Schopenhaur

Question 11

Who wrote "Robinson Crusoe", which went through multiple reprints in its first year of publication?

Accepted Answer

Daniel Defoe

Question 12

In which era did sea narratives become more prominently religious?

Accepted Answer

The Middle Ages

Question 13

What tribe is poet Natalie Diaz a member of?

Accepted Answer

The Gila River Indian Tribe

Question 14

Adrienne Rich often wrote about gender, sexuality, and current social issues.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Which early political poem makes a case for England to govern the seas surrounding its coast?

Accepted Answer

"Libelle of Englyshe Polycye"

Question 16

What is enjambent in poetry?

Accepted Answer

The continuation of a sentence after a line break.

Question 17

DOUBLE POINTS: What does "'Aha Makavch ithuum" mean?

Accepted Answer

The river runs through the middle of my body.

Question 18

What was Jack Londons first novel?

Accepted Answer

"The Cruise of the Dazzler"

Question 19

As "The Swimmer" progresses, what noticeably changes in the story and in the main character Neddy Merrill?

Accepted Answer

His physical health deteriorates and the tone of the story darkens.

Question 20

What is the Bohemian Club?

Accepted Answer

A social club for male artist, writers, and those interested in the arts,

Question 21

Who was a caregiver of Jack London during his childhood other than his mother?

Accepted Answer

Virginia Prentiss

Question 22

Given what we learned from the last question, who is Humpfry Van Weydens foil in 'The Sea-Wolf"?

Accepted Answer

Captain Wolf Larsen

Question 23

Who wrote "Geographia" which reflects on the bounds of the Atlantic and Indian oceans?

Accepted Answer

Ptolemy

Question 24

What famous explorer did Adrienne Rich reference in "Diving into the Wreck"?

Accepted Answer

Jacques Cousteau

Question 25

We know more about the suface of the Moon than we know about the deep ocean.

Accepted Answer

True

Academic Decathlon Literature

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Academic Decathlon Literature

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