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How much do you know about LORD B?
How much do you know about LORD B?
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In teams of four or five, answer the following questions about Byron's life and works.
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1
"Fare thee well, and if for ever / Still for ever, fare thee well" is an example of:
anaphora
bad grammar
chiasmus
emotive language
2
Byron wrote "Epitaph to a Dog" in honor of his dead Newfoundland. What was the name of the dog?
Prospero
Boatswain
William Wordsworth
Sennacherib
3
How many sentences are there in "Darkness"?
3
16
12
6
4
Byron's only legitimate child was the first:
fortune teller
computer programmer
female doctor
opera singer
5
On this famous portrait, Byron is wearing the national costume of which nation?
Scotland
Albania
Turkey
Greece
6
What were Byron's alledged last words?
More light!
Now I must sleep.
Wait, I'm not done yet.
Remember me when I am gone away.
7
Byron spoke with a trace of what accent?
Scottish
Greek
Russian
Cockney
8
"Fare Thee Well" is written in
none of the above
anapestic hexameter
iambic tetrameter
iambic pentameter
9
Name the machine breakers Byron famously defended in the House of Lords:
The Machine Breakers
The Philhellenes
The Lakers
The Luddites
10
Byron's nickname for his wife Annabella, who was fond of mathematics, was:
Madame Mathématique
The Princess of Parallelograms
Lady Logarithm
La Donna Divisione
11
Which poem uses the image of an ivy-covered turret?
Darkness
Messalonghi
There's not a Joy
The Destruction Sennacherib
12
Which of these metrical patterns isn't used by Byron in any of the poems studied so far?
Iambic tetrameter
Trochaic pentameter
Trochaic tetrameter
Iambic pentameter
13
Byron's full name was:
George Gordon Mortimer Byron
George Mortimer Byron
George Gordon Byron
Gordon George Byron
14
How did Byron's mother address her son?
Hey, you!
Sonny boy
Byron
Giorgio
15
In which poem does Byron reveal his emotional numbness?
Fare thee Well
There's not a Joy
I Speak not
Darkness
16
"So We'll Go No More a Roving" may have been inspired by what folk song?
The Jolly Beggarman
The Happy Highwayman
The Merry Ottoman
The Foolish Frenchman
17
"She Walks in Beauty" was written in:
1814
1816
1815
1831
18
Byron's birthday was on
July 12
April 19
January 12
January 22
19
Which one of the following quotes is NOT by Byron?
All three of the above are by Byron
Truth is always strange -- stranger than fiction.
Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much
The greatest art of life is sensation.
20
"Where thoughts serenely sweet express how..."
how pure, how deep their dwelling place
how pure, how rich their dwelling place
how pure, how dear their dwelling place
how cute, how dear their dwelling place
21
What deformity was Byron born with?
An oversized ego
A cleft palate
A clubfoot
A missing toe
22
Cambridge students were not allowed to keep dogs. In protest, what "pet" did Byron bring along?
a hyena
a bear
a monkey
a peacock
23
Name the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse:
Greed, War, Death, Misery
Famine, Death, Misery and War
Famine, Death, War and Pestilence
Death, War, Misery, Darkness
24
Lord Byron is said to have inspired what fictional character?
Don Juan
Harry Potter
James Bond
Dracula
25
"The Destruction of Sennacherib" anticipates which one of the following events?
Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo
The eruption of Mount Tambora
The French Revolution
The wreck of the Medusa
26
"These are words of deeper sorrow / Than the wail above the dead" is from what poem?
Fare Thee Well
The Destruction of Sennacherib
Darkness
I Speak Not
27
In 1812, Byron wrote: "I awoke one morning and found myself..."
ruined
famous
in bed with a stranger
cursed
28
What objects did Byron use as wine glasses?
human kneecaps
sewing thimbles
elephant tusks
human skulls
29
"And stern to the haughty, but humble to thee / My soul in its..."
bitterest blackness shall be
bilious boringness can be
blackest bitterness will be
brilliant boorishness should be
30
What was the name of Byron's family estate near Nottingham?
Victory Mansions
Downtown Abbey
Newstead Abbey
Sherwood Mansions
