Epigrammatic Quotation

Epigrammatic Quotation Quiz

15 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who said, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

  1. John Keats
  2. William Shakespeare
  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  4. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the epigram: "All that glitters is _____."

  1. gold
  2. silver
  3. not gold
  4. diamond
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the epigram "A little learning is a dangerous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."

  1. Alexander Pope
  2. John Milton
  3. William Wordsworth
  4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the epigram: "Hope springs eternal in the human _____."

  1. heart
  2. mind
  3. soul
  4. spirit
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the epigram "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. John Milton
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer
  4. Thomas More
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the epigram: "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men/Gang _____."

  1. aft agley
  2. a'gley
  3. agley
  4. agley
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the epigram "The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."

  1. William Wordsworth
  2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  3. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  4. John Keats
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the epigram: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler, long I stood/And looked down one as far as I could/To where it _____."

  1. bent in the undergrowth
  2. bent in the undergrowth;
  3. bent in the undergrowth.
  4. bent in the undergrowth
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the epigram "Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change/Into something rich and strange."

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. John Milton
  3. John Donne
  4. Ben Jonson
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the epigram: "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player/That struts and frets his hour upon the _____."

  1. stage
  2. world
  3. globe
  4. scene
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the epigram "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. John Milton
  3. John Donne
  4. Ben Jonson
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the epigram: "The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our _____."

  1. powers
  2. time
  3. money
  4. resources
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the epigram "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

  1. William Shakespeare
  2. John Milton
  3. Geoffrey Chaucer
  4. Thomas More
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Complete the epigram: "A little learning is a dangerous thing;/Drink deep, or taste not the _____."

  1. Pierian spring
  2. Castalian spring
  3. Hippocrene
  4. Aganippe
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Who wrote the epigram "Hope springs eternal in the human _____."

  1. heart
  2. mind
  3. soul
  4. spirit