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After Beowulf slays [Grendel](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16328/16328-h/16328-h.htm), the monster's mother also attacks the mead hall.

In the epic poem _Beowulf_, what's the name of the monster who terrorizes Heorot?

The ancient Roman [poet](http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/prologue.html#virgil) guides Dante through hell and purgatory.

Who guides Dante's journey through hell?

"The Servant's Tale" does not [exist](http://english.fsu.edu/canterbury/).

Which is NOT one of _The Canterbury Tales_?

The prince of Morocco speaks the [line](http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/full.html) in _The Merchant of Venice_.

Which of the following quotes actually belongs to Shakespeare?

(1) The noun "[effect](http://web.ku.edu/~edit/affect.html)" and (2) the past participle of "lie," "[lain](http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/how-to-use-lay-and-lie)," correctly complete this sentence.

Complete the sentence: "Adversity has the \_\_\_ of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have \_\_\_ dormant." —Horace, _Satires_

The [sonnets](https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/sonnet-poetic-form) are made up of three quatrains and one couplet.

Shakespearean sonnets use the following rhyme scheme:

[Heathcliff](http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_19c/wuthering/narrator.html) narrates no part of _Wuthering Heights_.

Who does NOT narrate part of _Wuthering Heights_?

[Poe](https://www.britannica.com/topic/C-Auguste-Dupin) is considered by many to be the father of detective fiction.

In the detective fiction genre, \_\_\_ is to Edgar Allen Poe as Sherlock Holmes is to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

["A Modest Proposal"](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1080/1080-h/1080-h.htm) and [_Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/76/76-h/76-h.htm) indeed fit the Webster [_definition_](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satire) of "hold[ing] up human vices and follies to ridicule."

"A Modest Proposal" and _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn_ both belong to which genre of literature?

The [poem](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43290) ends with an equally iconic line: "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, 
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity" are famous lines from which poem?

It was [published](https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/rare-books/faulkner-william/sound-and-the-fury/83324.aspx) in 1929.

Which of the following is the original cover art for _The Sound and the Fury_?

[Transcendentalism](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/) was an early 19th century movement.

All of the following are 20th century literary movements except:

Thus [begins](https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahgalo/it-was-a-queer-sultry-summer) one of Kurt Vonnegut's most popular novels.

Which novel begins with the line, "All this happened, more or less"?

In the first sentence, "principle" should be "principal." In the second, "seconds" should be possessive, with an apostrophe after the word. And in the third, "saucy" is spelled thusly.

Which sentence is error-free?

It [earned](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/9395051/Toni-Morrison-on-love-loss-and-modernity.html) the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Toni Morrison's _Song of Solomon_ was published in:

You're most definitely not an English major!

You're an English major through and through!

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