SUPER QUIZ

Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: QUOTATIONS FROM LITERATURE

(e.g., In this Kenneth Grahame classic the Rat says, “It’s not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.” Answer: “The Wind in the Willows.”)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. In which L. Frank Baum novel is the line “I’m really a very good man, but I’m a very bad wizard”?

2. In this Robert Louis Stevenson book a parrot named Captain Flint squawks, “Pieces of eight!”

3. What J.M. Barrie book opens with the line “All Children, except one, grow up”?

GRADUATE LEVEL

4. In this Louisa May Alcott work, Meg says, “It’s so dreadful to be poor!”

5. In which Hans Christian Andersen tale is the line “I was lying on something hard.”?

6. In this Edgar Allan Poe story, the narrator says, “I was sick — sick unto death with that long agony.”

PH.D. LEVEL

7. In which of Shakespeare’s plays does Jessica say, “But love is blind”?

8. In which poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley are the words “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

9. Richard Lovelace poem containing “Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage.”

ANSWERS: 1. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” 2. “Treasure Island.” 3. “Peter Pan.” 4. “Little Women.” 5. “The Princess and the Pea.” 6. “The Pit and the Pendulum.” 7. “The Merchant of Venice.” 8. “Ozymandias.” 9. “To Althea, from Prison.”

SCORING:

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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