Language Arts 2024 – High School – District

She is Rama’s consort and the mother of his twin sons. Which of the following characters survives an abduction in the epic Ramayana?

• Arjuna

• Krishna

• Ravana

• Sita

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Li Po and Du Fu were 8th century poets in what is now which country below?

• India

• China

• South Korea

• Japan

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Which of the following works is NOT found in The Thousand and One Nights?

• A. “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”

• B. “Aladdin and the Magic Lamp”

• C. “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

• D. “The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor”

He wrote the “Secular Hymn” for the Secular Games. Which Roman writer below also penned Odes, Epodes, and Epistles?

• Horace

• Ovid

• Virgil

• Cicero

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Pictured here is a chorus of birds from a production of which man’s work?

• Euripides

• Aeschylus

• Sophocles

• Aristophanes

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He illustrated his theory of Forms in “The Allegory of the Cave.” Which one of the following Greek philosophers wrote the dialogues Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic?

• Epicurus

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

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Which choice below is NOT a character from the Old English epic Beowulf?

• Hrothgar

• Grendel

• Gawain

• Wiglaf

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In a medieval French chanson de geste, which of the following characters dies while serving in Charlemagne’s army?

• Taliesin

• Roland

• Caedmon

• Cynewulf

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Below are four Canterbury Tales. Which one follows Constance, the daughter of a Roman emperor and wife of a Syrian sultan?

• The Wife of Bath’s Tale

• The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

• The Knight’s Tale

• The Man of Law’s Tale

Below are four types of medieval vernacular drama. Everyman belongs to which genre, whose characters are often personified vices and virtues?

• miracle play

• passion play

• morality play

• mystery play

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