Which choice below names the Kingdom over which Gilgamesh rules in a Babylonian epic?

Valmiki wrote what Sanskrit epic, in which a demon king abducts Sita, the wife of Vishnu's seventh avatar?

Below are four ancient Greek writers. Which one earned himself the moniker “father of Greek didactic poetry” with Theogony and Works and Days?

Before Emperor Augustus exiled him, which of the following Romans wrote The Art of Love, and chronicled mythological transformations in Metamorphoses?

Which Greek dramatist below depicted frenzied followers of Dionysus in The Bacchae, condemned war’s cruelty in Trojan Women, and explored a scorned woman’s psyche in Medea?

Young May has an affair with Damian in front of her elderly, blind husband January in which of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?

He was a leading humanist who loved Fiammetta and drew on medieval romances for Il Filocolo and Il Filostrato. Whose masterpiece depicts ten young people fleeing plague-stricken Florence?

He precedes Beowulf as King of the Geats. Which choice below names Beowulf’s uncle and one-time lord and ring-giver?

Match each poet with the line he wrote.

Below are four similarly-named writers. Which one was the Metaphysical poet responsible for “The Flea” and “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”?

Which of the following men was an Elizabethan courtier whose poems include “The Ocean to Cynthia” and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”?

Which of the following characters does NOT appear in Shakespeare’s The Tempest?

Tamburlaine and The Jew of Malta were two plays by which short-lived playwright below, who helped establish dramatic blank verse?

He was a rival of Pierre Corneille. Which man below mastered French classical tragedy in such works as Bajazet, Britannicus, and Phèdre?

He wrote the poem The Deserted Village, but turned to fiction with The Vicar of Wakefield. Which of the following writers included farcical elements in his comedy She Stoops to Conquer?

Which one of the following works did Alexander Pushkin write?

Judge Marmaduke Temple appears, Chingachgook dies, and Natty Bumppo is an elderly resident of New York State in which of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales?

The Transcendentalist movement, which encompassed the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott, was centered in which city below?

Match each Fireside Poet with his work.

Which of the following characters was the creation of Emily Brontë?

Below are four Jane Austen heroines. Which one marries Mr. Knightley after acting as a matchmaker for her friend Harriet?

John Keats wrote three of the following lines. Which one was the work of Lord Byron?

Which author below wrote the naturalistic novels Nana and Germinal, and was convicted of libel for the letter “J’Accuse,” in which he condemned the orchestrators of the Dreyfus affair?

George Eliot created each of the following characters. Which one is a weaver in the village of Raveloe who raises the foundling Eppie?

He created Prince Myshkin in The Idiot, as well as Ivan, Dmitry, and Alyosha in The Brothers Karamazov. Which novelist below focused his masterpiece on Raskolnikov?

Critics describe her stories as Southern gothic, and many have Catholic themes. Which of the following writers penned “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”?

The Spanish Inquisition is the setting for which of the following Edgar Allan Poe short stories?

Her Collected Stories earned a Pulitzer. Which writer below set “Flowering Judas” and “Hacienda” in Mexico, and based “Pale Horse, Pale Rider” on the 1918 flu epidemic?

Match each work with its author.

Which of the following words did George Orwell NOT coin in his novel 1984?

Yossarian, Milo Minderbinder, and Major Major Major are characters in which World War Two-set novel below?

Harry Angstrom is the protagonist of the Rabbit series. Two of its novels won which author below Pulitzer Prizes?

Addie and Anse Bundren, as well as their children, are at the heart of which William Faulkner novel?

The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go are two bestselling novels by which author below, a recent Nobel Laureate in Literature?

His “comedies of menace” include The Birthday Party and The Homecoming. Which of the following playwrights earned a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Theodore Hickman disillusions the patrons of Harry Hope’s bar and boarding house in which drama below, written by Eugene O’Neill?

He won two Drama Pulitzers, for Fences and The Piano Lesson. Which dramatist below created a ten-play cycle spanning the entire 20th century?

Three of the following poets were associated with the Imagist movement. Which one was part of the Confessional school?

Match each Nobel laureate with his poetic line.

Below are four WWI soldier poets. Who focused on combat’s brutality and futility in “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est”?

Juliet uses it in her death speech when she commands the “happy dagger” to “let me die.” A literary device in which a speaker addresses an inanimate object or an absent person shares its name with which punctuation?

When Macbeth says, “I drink to the general joy o’ th’ whole table,” he uses it. Which literary device below substitutes the name of one object or idea for that of a closely related object or idea?

The Eve of St. Agnes and Adonais are written in nine-line stanzas consisting of eight iambic pentameter lines and an alexandrine. This stanza is named for which of the following poets?

Below are four pronouns. Which one can be interrogative or relative, depending on context?

Which of the following sentences is written in the indicative mood?

A participial phrase appears in which sentence below?

The words “innate” and “native” contain a Latin root meaning which of the following?

Below are four French phrases. Which one means “so-so”?

Match each foreign word with its definition.

Common subjects included the Creation, the Last Judgment, and the story of Adam and Eve. Which of the following types of European vernacular drama developed from Latin plays presented on church grounds?

He was a Catholic saint nicknamed “venerable.” Which medieval historian below chronicled the Anglo-Saxons’ conversion to Christianity in Ecclesiastical History of the English People?

The Enuma Elish, a creation myth featuring the deities Marduk and Tiamat, originated in which of the following societies?

Which word below includes the Greek root for “feeling”?

“Miniver Cheevy” and “Richard Cory” are the two best-known poems by which of the following men, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry?

Below are four lesser-known Charles Dickens novels. Which one, his first, was originally published serially under the pseudonym Boz?

Which choice below names the F. Scott Fitzgerald character who narrates The Great Gatsby?

He committed suicide at the Emperor Nero’s insistence. Which of the following writers pioneered the revenge tragedy with Hercules, Thyestes, and Troades?

Which of the following choices names a character in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

Match each Nobel laureate with her work.