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ALLUSION QUIZIZZ

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


O, my offence is rank it smells to heaven;

It hath the primal eldest curse upon't,

A brother's murder. (Hamlet, 3.3.42-44)

a)

Prometheus

b)

Julius Caesar

c)

Adam & Eve

d)

Cain and Abel

2.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


Abigail brings the other girls into court, and where she walks the crowd parts like the sea for Israel. (The Crucible)

a)

Orpheus

b)

Moses

c)

Demeter

d)

Casanova

3.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


“I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee.” (Othello)

a)

Judas

b)

Paradise Lost

c)

Perseus

d)

Julius Caesar

4.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell./ though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,/ yet grace must still look so." (Macbeth)

a)

Paradise Lost

b)

Adam & Eve

c)

Moses

d)

Cain & Abel

5.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


His best friend now considered him Brutus due to his recent betrayal.

a)

Casanova

b)

The Legend of El Dorado

c)

Paradise Lost

d)

Julius Caesar

6.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


There's no promise of safety with these secondhand wings

But I'm willing to find out what impossible means.

A leap of faith.


Parody of an angel

Miles above the sea

I hear the voice of reason

Screaming up to me

"You flew too high, for now your too close to the sun

Soon your makeshift wings will come undone"

a)

Demeter

b)

Daedalus

c)

Pandora

d)

Judas

7.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


Don't look back all you'll ever get

Is the dust from the steps before

I don't have to see you every day,

But I just want to know you're there


(She & Him)

a)

Paradise Lost

b)

Attila the Hun

c)

Orpheus

d)

Pandora

8.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow! Let them once more absorb me! One look now Will lap me round for ever, not to pass Out of its light, though darkness lies beyond: Hold me but safe again within the bond Of one immortal look! All woe that was, Forgotten, and all terror that may be, Defied—no past is mine, no future: look at me!


(Robert Browning, Poem)

a)

Kronos and Zeus

b)

Prometheus

c)

Moses

d)

Orpheus

9.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


No one has touched me for weeks

yet in this drugged, gilt afternoon, late,

when nothing is safe, I’m paralyzed,

as though so wildly desired - passing solo through the garden’s


cinnamon, marigolds, famished roses, where a matted shingle

of the swept-up human hair I begged from a local beauty shop


& spread out fruitlessly among the blooms & canes

to keep away the deer might well be a satyr

passed out in the place’s candied gold -

that something regnant with a strange, godlike power

a)

Midas

b)

Pandora

c)

Kronos and Zeus

d)

Prometheus

10.

Identify the story that is alluded to below,


Although religious authorities and moralists objected to the new procedure, the Promethean scientists would not be denied.

a)

Pandora

b)

Prometheus

c)

Perseus

d)

Midas