Connell Guides Quiz #9
10 Questions
| Attempts: 140
This month's theme: Three is the magic number!
Questions and Answers
- 1.
What is the name of the last instalment of His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman's trilogy of fantasy novels?- A.
The Subtle Knife
- B.
Northern Lights
- C.
The Golden Compass
- D.
The Amber Spyglass
- 2.
In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1605) Portia's father comes up with a way to test the mettle of potential suitors: they must pick one of three caskets, gold, silver and lead. Which one does Bassanio choose, so winning Portia's hand?
- A.
Gold
- B.
Silver
- C.
Lead
- D.
None of the above
- 3.
What slim poetic form is three lines long and traditionally features the juxtaposition of two images and a reference to a season?
- A.
Sonnet
- B.
Villanelle
- C.
Haiku
- D.
Tanka
- 4.
In which fairy tale, collected by the Brothers Grimm, does a miller's daughter have to spin straw into gold three times and later have three days to guess the name of an impish creature or lose her firstborn child?
- A.
The Silent Princess
- B.
Sleeping Beauty
- C.
The Lazy Spinner
- D.
Rumpelstiltskin
- 5.
In An Inspector Calls (1945), J.B. Priestley's classic three-act play, why does the inspector call?
- A.
A suicide
- B.
A murder
- C.
A parking ticket
- D.
A theft
- 6.
Which comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome, published in 1899, recounts a trip taken by three friends from Kingston to Oxford?
- A.
Three Men on the Bummel
- B.
Three Men on Holiday
- C.
Three Men in a Boat
- D.
Three Men on a Train
- 7.
The Three Witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1611) are referred to as 'weird', from the Old English Wyrd, but what does it mean?
- A.
Chance
- B.
Fate
- C.
Misfortune
- D.
Evil
- 8.
The Samuel Beckett play, Play (1963), features three immobile characters: a man, a wife and his mistress. What kind of vessel is each character being held in?
- A.
Barrel
- B.
Urn
- C.
Coffin
- D.
Vase
- 9.
In Dickens's A Christmas Carol, three ghosts (of Christmases past, present and to come) visit Ebenezer Scrooge, but whose spirit first comes to warn him of the 'incessant torture of remorse'?
- A.
Jacob Marley
- B.
Bob Cratchit
- C.
Fred
- D.
Tiny Tim
- 10.
Which long poem is written in three-line stanzas (called terza rima) and divided up into three books of thirty-three cantos each, concerning a journey from Hell to Heaven?
- A.
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'
- B.
Boccaccio's 'Decameron'
- C.
Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
- D.
Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
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