The ancient Chinese work Yijing, sometimes stylized as I Ching, consists of trigrams that can be combined to form sixty-four hexagrams. Which choice below gives the English translation of its name?

The collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and Gemara is known by what name below?

Which of the following tragedies did Euripides write?

Below are four ancient Greek non-fiction writers. Which one collected around sixty essays on ethics in Opera Moralia, and also compiled biographies of “illustrious Greeks and Romans”?

Dionysus and his slave Xanthias travel to the Underworld to rescue Athens’ greatest tragedian in which of the following Aristophanes comedies?

Breca, Wiglaf, and Unferth are all supporting characters in which epic below?

He is the subject of epic poems by the Norman Turol and the Italians Matteo Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto. Which of the following heroes was based on a real Frankish military leader who was also Charlemagne’s nephew?

Which man below satirized French society by writing about the adventures of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel?

Match each Canterbury Tale with its moral.

Christopher Marlowe was responsible for three of the following plays. Which one did Ben Jonson write?

Of the four characters below, which one is still alive at the conclusion of Shakespeare’s Hamlet?

Bajazet, Britannicus, Andromaque, and Phèdre were all Neoclassical tragedies written by which of the following men?

He launched the ballad opera genre, and inspired Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera two centuries later. What Augustan dramatist created Macheath and Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera?

He explored his mystical streak in Wonders of the Invisible World. Which colonial writer below was also a Puritan minister?

Which of the following women introduced readers of her captivity narrative to elements of Native American life, as well as to the causes of Puritan-Native American conflicts?

The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason were two pieces of political propaganda written by which man below?

Tess Durbeyfield, Jude Fawley, Clym Yeobright, and Michael Henchard, the Mayor of Casterbridge are all characters created by which of the following authors?

Below are four Russian authors. Which one is most remembered for his exploration of Bazarov’s nihilism, Fathers and Sons?

Match each nineteenth-century poet with his work.

Which writer below gave his readers A Peep at Polynesian Life in Typee and A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas in Omoo?

In Poe’s short story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” what kind of animal commits the murders?

“The Hollow Men” and “Ash Wednesday” are two of the better-known poems by which writer below, who also penned the line, “April is the cruellest month”?

Which one of the following characters is a psychologist in the World State of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World?

Of the following James Joyce works, which one is a short story collection that includes “Araby” and “The Dead”?

He was the first Nobel Laureate in Literature from his country. Which man below called his first poetry volume Forest Moon, and published The Labyrinth of Solitude before serving as ambassador to India?

He lived under the alias Joseph Anton while the fatwa against him was active. Which of the following authors angered Muslims worldwide—particularly in Iran—with his magical realist novel The Satanic Verses?

His time in a Soviet prison camp inspired Cancer Ward, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and The Gulag Archipelago. Which of the following men couldn’t accept his Nobel Prize in person for fear that his country wouldn’t allow him reentry?

Toni Morrison wrote three of the novels below. Which one is the work of Alice Munro?

Match each Nobel laureate with his work.

Arthur Miller created three of the following characters. Which one did Tennessee Williams write?

Which playwright below penned To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, as well as a groundbreaking drama that inspired the Pulitzer-winning response Clybourne Park?

Three of the following plays earned Eugene O’Neill the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Which one, a one-act about the physical laborer Yank, did not?

In which of the following novels does Jack Kerouac write of Sal Paradise’s fascination with Dean Moriarty?

Which line below did Edna St. Vincent Millay write?

He balanced a successful medical practice with a Pulitzer-winning poetry career. Which of the following men wrote Pictures from Brueghel, as well as “The Red Wheelbarrow”?

Newland Archer, May Welland, and Countess Ellen Olenska are the primary characters in which early Pulitzer winner, a critique of New York City’s high society?

Shug Avery and Mr. ______ are characters in what epistolary novel, a series of letters from Celie to God?

Which of the following characters does NOT appear in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird?

Match each Ernest Hemingway short story with its description.

“Bernice Bobs Her Hair,” “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz,” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” were all written by which man below?

Her own nervous breakdown inspired her most famous short story. Which of the following choices gives the author of “The Yellow Wallpaper”?

“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n” and “Give every man thy ear but few thy voice” are examples of which literary device below?

In English, the patterns in which words form sentences and phrases is known as which of the following?

A gerund phrase is part of which sentence below?

Which of the following sentences includes an adverbial clause?

Which sentence below contains a reflexive pronoun?

Which of the following choices is the Latin prefix meaning “before”?

Below are four Latin legal terms. Which one denotes a legal hearing in which one side is represented, while the other side is absent?

Match each foreign word with its synonym.

Which man below was a Roman poet remembered for his Odes, Epodes, and Epistles, as well as “Ars Poetica”?

Which of the following authors earned the Booker Prize for Disgrace and Life & Times of Michael K, but is best known for his examination of colonization, Waiting for the Barbarians?

Which medieval poet below recorded a series of alliterative dream visions in Piers Plowman?

“Fabulous,” “bicycle,” and “beautiful” are all examples of what metrical foot?

Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound form which of the following playwrights’ Eugene Trilogy?

The Crying of Lot 49, about the Tristero System, and Gravity’s Rainbow, about a V-2 rocket, are two novels by which author below?

The Fixer, based on the true story of an unjustly imprisoned Jewish man in tsarist Russia, earned a Pulitzer Prize for which of the following men, who also created baseball prodigy Roy Hobbs in The Natural?

A person with carcinophobia has a fear of which of the following?

The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma are the two most celebrated novels by which nineteenth-century author?

Match each poet with his or her work.