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V'.c.t....A ?--xi GHEITO W ARZ PACKET (R. Luo, C. Meigs, B. Shapiro) LITERATURE 4/4 HISTORY 4/4 SCIENCE 4/4 TRASH 4/4 FINE ARTS 2/2 RMP 3/3 GEOGRAPHY 111 CURRo EVENTS 111 GENERAL K. 3/3 26126 LITERATURE Although he chose not to call this poem an ode, the poet hoped that his transitions and "the impassioned music of the versification" would recall that form. Most sections take the form of recollections, made in towns and cities. In the later stanzas, the poet remarks that though he has lost his boyish fascination, he can now hear "The still, sad music of humanity," portending the sentiment he expressed more clearly in The Prelude a few years later. In the final stanzas, the poet calls out to his sister Dorothy, hoping to evoke "The language of [his] former heart." FTP, name this masterwork of William Wordsworth, written on a 1798 visit to the River Wye. ANSWER: Lines: Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbev. On Revisiting the Banks ofthe River Wye During a Tour. July 13, 1798 After earning his PhD at Yale, he published Shelley's Mythmaking and ironically spent the better part of the 1960's attacking the neo-Christian and formalist aspects of New Criticism. Expanding on his pro-Romantic ideas in works like The Anxiety ofInfluence and Kabbalah and Criticism, he eventually turned to more concerted studies of Gnosticism and Biblical Texts, indicative of his later work. FTP, name this Yale professor and staunch defender of the Western Canon. ANSWER: Harold Bloom It begins with an indecent phone call while the narrator is listening to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie and cooking spaghetti. Next, Toru Okada must chase down his wife's cat, Noboru Wataya, in order to save his marriage. This leads to a frightening series of misadventures involving two psychic prostitutes named Creta and Malta, an, a bizarre recounting of the battle of Nom on han, and, of course, an evil young economics professor also named Noboru Wataya. FTP, name this wacky, Pynchonesque tour-de-force by Haruki Murakami. ANSWER: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Accompanied by a princess, a donkey, and a dwarf, the first enemy he encounters is Error, a half woman, half-snake who attempts to kill him by projectile vomiting poisonous books. More sinister are the falsely pious magician Archimago and the evil witch Duessa, who lead him away from his charge Una and into the House of Pride. Although he gets imprisoned by the giant Orgoglio, King Arthur saves his ass so he can go almost get killed again by Despair. FTP, name this hapless hero from the first book of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, best known for the symbol on his breastplate. ANSWER: The Redcrosse Knight (prompt on St. George) Given a description from Harold Bloom's Genius: A Mosaic of 100 Exemplary Creative Minds, name the author FTPE. A. Bloom identifies this Portugese Nobel prizewinner as "one of the last titans of an expiring literary genre". You may know him better for works like The Stone Raft and Blindness ANSWER: Jose Saramago B. Bloom calls this gifted novelist and short-story writer one of America's foremost Gnostics, and spends several passages rhapsodizing her works The Violent Bear it Away and Wise Blood ANSWER: (Mary) Flannery O'Connor C. One of only four living American novelists Bloom views as "worthy of our praise", this Ad Executive turned novelist is most famous for topical works such as Libra and White Noise ANSWER: Don DeLillo Identify the following works of Vladimir Nabokov from descriptions FTSNOP A. F5P, some critics have called this most famous novel, "A Tale of Old Europe Debauching Young America" and "The Only Convincing Love Story of our Century". Either way, it involves a filthy old Humbert Humbert taking several lurid road trips with Dolores Hayes. ANSWER: Lolita B. FlOP, formally the most unconventional and involuted ofNabokov's works, this 1962 anti-novel begins with Charles Kinbote's commentary on the title poem, the masterwork of his friend and colleague John Shade. This is followed by bizarre narrative of Prince Charles Xavier ofZembla, who mayor may not be Kinbote himself, no one really knows. ANSWER: Pale Fire C. Published just after his 70 th birthday, Nabokov considered this last novel his finest work. Set on the vaguely fantastic Antiterra, it combines a bizarre treatise on the nature of time with a love affair between two cousins, Van Veen and the title character, who later turn out to be brother and sister. ANSWER: Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (note: that is the full title, the part after the "or" is not an acceptable answer) Identify the poet from poems, 30-20-10 A. 30) "The Revolutionaries Stop for Orangeade", "The Idea of Order at Key West" 20) "The Man with the Blue Guitar", "Peter Quince at the Clavier" 10) "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", "The Emperor ofIce Cream" ANSWER: Wallace Stevens Identify the American dramatist, given play titles FTPE A. The Play about the Baby, Zoo Story ANSWER: Edward Franklin Albee B. Resurrection Blues, The Crucible ANSWER: Arthur Miller C. Barefoot in the Park, Lost in Yonkers ANSWER: (Marvin) Neil Simon HISTORY Many of the leader of the aggressor's cruel actions were attributed to his Irish hussy mistress, Eliza Lynch. Major battles lost by the aggressor included the loss of the river fortress at Humaita and at Tuyuti, and the campaign of Lomas Valentinas ultimately proved disastrous for the aggressor. Though the war began well with a successful invasion ofMato Grosso and the famous battle at Curupayty, the then strongest army in Latin America was eventually defeated. FTP, name this war whose defensive command was led by Bartolome Mitre and later the Duque do Caxias (CA W-SHE-AHS), and whose aggressor was led by Francisco Solano Lopez, a war fought between Paraguay and Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil. ANSWER: War of the Triple Alliance or Guerra de la Triple Alianza or Guerra da Triplice Alianca His praetorian prefect, Plautianus, was compared by many to Sejanus, and like this emperor, was born in Lepcis Magna. His famous wife was given the title mater castrotum, the first to gain that title since Marcus Aurelius' wife. His early reign was marked by civil war between himself, Clod ius Albinus, and Pescennius Niger, and when he died in York, there was contention for the throne between his two sons, Bassianus and Geta, the former of whom would kill the latter and became known by a nickname derived from a type of cloak, Caracalla. FTP, name this African-born Roman emperor from 193 to 211 who began a namesake dynasty. ANSWER: Lucius Septimius Severus First elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP from Newark, and among his early charitable work concerned working with faIlen women, and he was at times accused of using the services of these prostitutes. His last public moment came in 1896 when he denounced the Armenian genocides, and he was famous for his part in the two-day delay that may have proved fatal to General Gordon in Khartoum. Among acts that he led through Parliament were ones banning peacetime flogging in the army and arranging for the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. FTP, name this generaIly anti-imperialist politician of the late 19th century, most of his career a Liberal, who tried to get Irish Home Rule. ANSWER: William Ewert Gladstone His film debut came at age eighty-eight as associate justice Joseph Story in the film Amistad. A Harvard Law graduate, he began his career as a clerk for John Sanborn in the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit, and after a stint as chief counsel to the Mayo Clinic, he was appointed by Eisenhower to replace Sanborn. He wrote the opinion of the court in Bigelow v. Virginia and Ohio v. Roberts, and was known as one of the "Minnesota Twins" along with Warren Burger. FTP, name this justice of the Supreme Court, appointed by Nixon, most famous for writing the opinion of the court in Roe v. Wade. ANSWER: Harry Andrew Blackmun Answer these questions about a famous ambassador to South Vietnam, FTPE. A. This man, a senator from Massachusetts and grandson of a famous same-named isolationist, was named ambassador to South Vietnam in 1963, by the man who had famously defeated him twice, John F. Kennedy. ANSWER: Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. B. Lodge was the Vice Presidential candidate for this man's losing presidential campaign. ANSWER: Richard M(ilhous) Nixon C. Lodge managed to become the only write-in candidate to win the New Hampshire Primary, defeating this eventual winner of the Republican nomination by 13 percent. ANSWER: Barry M(orris) Goldwater Name these Balkan nationalist leaders who fought against the Ottoman Empire, FTPE. A. Winning battles at Mishar and Deligrad in 1806, he captured Belgrade. EventuaIly losing his aIliance with the Russians, he left Serbia, and was returned by Hetairia, only to be assassinated. His descendants started the dynasty that ruled Serbia until 1945. ANSWER: George Petrovic or Karageorge or Karadjorje B. He managed to unite all the Albanians under the League ofLezha, he held out against Ottoman armies led by Murad II. King Zog claimed descent from this man. ANSWER: Gjorj (pronounced George) Kastrioti Skanderbeg (accept either) C. A leader of the Philike Hetairia, he raised a Greek revolt in Jassy, in Moldavia, but the Romanian population did not join him. His brother Demetrios was a major leader in the more famous revolt, and this man's last name is the same as the location of Eastern Michigan University.