The Ultimate Anthology Revision Quiz

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The Ultimate Anthology Revision Quiz

• AQA English Literature Exam

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Round One Name the Poem
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Q1
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Q2
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Q3
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Q4
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Q5
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Q6
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Q7
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Q8
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Q9
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Q10
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Round Two Finish the Quotation
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Im ____ years away from the corner you laugh on

• Q11

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You were _____ always. We did what was best.

• Q12

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Sometimes the sun ________ and we feel alive

• Q13

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Mostly Im so bored I could _____ myself

• Q14

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I cannot rest from _____

• Q15

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Round ThreeGuess the character
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Dont think its only the heart that b-b-b-breaks

• Q 16

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Long time since I walked down lonely street

• Q17

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Hungover and wrecked as I was from a night on the
batter

• Q18

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Im not playing ball boy any longer Batman

• Q19

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I have no other earthly friend

• Q20

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Round FourAnagrams
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GROWNINB

• Q21

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BIECHTRONU

• Q22

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RAMIGATE

• Q23

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WHANTIM

• Q24

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EARAKEPESH

• Q25

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Round Five True or False
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There is more than one poem in the anthology by
Robert Browning

• True or False
• Q26

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In the Bible Salome was responsible for John the
Baptist having his head cut off?

• True or False
• Q27

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Walt Whitman was Scottish

• True or False
• Q28

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There is only one poem by Tennyson in the
Anthology

• True or False
• Q29

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William Butler Yeats was Irish

• True or False
• Q30

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Round SixName the poems these last lines come
from
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

• Q31

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And see bright beetles in the clear lake play

• Q32

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As he held me upon that next best bed.

• Q33

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And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold

• Q34

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I'd take it out and leave it out next year.

• Q35

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Round SevenSpot the mistakes

• Five words have been replaced in this poem. Find
  them and say what the correct word should be

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• I've made out a poem I'm leaving my cat
• to the National Health. I'm sure they can use
• the jellies and tubes and syrups and glues,
• the web of nerves and veins, the loaf of brains,
• and assortment of fillings and stitches and
  wounds,
• blood - a gallon exactly of strawberry soup -
• the chassis or cage or tent of bone
• but not the kidney, they can leave that alone.

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Round EightMultiple Choice
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Q37 The Ancien Regime is which time period

• 1. 14th 18th centuries
• 2. 15th 16th century
• 3. 17th 18th century
• 4. 16th 17th century

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Q38 The Duke of Ferrera was from

• 1. Portugal
• 2. Italy
• 3. Spain
• 4. Malta

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Q39 Ben Johnson is most famous for being ?

• 1. A playwright
• 2. A poet
• 3. An actor
• 4. All of the above

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Q40 Charles Tichbourne was executed for

• 1. Being a Roman Catholic
• 2. Constant poetry writing
• 3. Treason
• 4. 1 and 3

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Q41 In The Man He Killed Thomas Hardy is talking
about which war?

• 1. WW2
• 2. WW1
• 3. The Boer War
• 4. The Hundred Years War

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Round NinePoetic Devices
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Q42 Dont think its only the heart that
b-b-b-breaks

• What device is used here?

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Q43 lifted the gift of fire from the burning
torches,

• What device is used here?

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Q44 Anchor. Kite.

• What device is used here?

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Q45 Outside we watch the evening, failing again,

• What device is used here?

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Q 46 now I'm taller, harder, stronger, older

• What device is used here?

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Round 10Final Round

• The Genius Round
• Which poems are these single words from

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Q47 Nipperkin
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Q48 Tares
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Q49 Demonaic
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Q50 Damasked
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Q51 Countenance
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Answers Round One

• 1 November
• 2 The Eagle or Those bastards in their mansions
• 3 Anne Hathaway
• 4 The Laboratory
• 5 My Last Duchess
• 6 Stealing
• 7 Mother any distance
• 8 My father thought it
• 9 Before you were mine
• 10 Homecoming

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Answers - Round Two

• 11 Ten
• 12 Loved
• 13 Spangles
• 14 Eat
• 15 Travel

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Answers - Round Three

• 16 Miss Havisham
• 17 Elviss Twin Sister
• 18 Salome
• 19 Robin
• 20 Margaret

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Answers Round Four

• 21 Browning
• 22 Tichbourne
• 23 Armitage
• 24 Whitman
• 25 Shakespeare

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Answers Round Five

• 26 True
• 27 True
• 28 False
• 29 False
• 30 True

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Answers Round Six

• 31 Ulysses
• 32 Sonnet
• 33 Anne Hathaway
• 34 Song of the Old Mother
• 35 My Father thought it

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Answers Round Seven

• 36 Poem / Will
• Cat / Self
• Strawberry / Bilberry
• Tent / Cathedral
• Kidney / Heart

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Answers Round Eight

• 37 1) 14th 18th centuries.
• 38 2) Italy
• 39 4) All of the above
• 40 4) One and Three
• 41 3) The Boer War

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Answers Round Nine

• 42 Alliteration
• 43 metaphor etc
• 44 Metaphor / imagery etc
• 45 Metaphor / personification etc
• 46 / Assonance / repetition etc

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Answers Round Ten

• 47 The Man He Killed
• 48 Tichbournes Elegy
• 49 Patrolling Barnegat
• 50 Sonnet 130
• 51 My Last Duchess