Monday, November 10, 2008

Questions for quiz #2

Tatar book -- various endings
  • Snow White
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • Rapunzel
  • Rumplestilskin
  • Jack and the beanstalk
  • Frog Prince
Talbott pages
  • 21
  • 27-29
  • 92
  • 134
  • 183 - 186
  • 204-206

  • 290 - 298

My Book and Heart Shall Never Part

Alice chapters
  • Humpty Dumpty
  • Wool and Water
  • Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee
  • Caterpillar
  • Question of morals

QUESTIONS:

Classic illustrator of Alice: Tenniel

Last word in Beauty and the Beast (Tatar): Virtue

Who wins after death? the worms (we may yet triumph through Art (Groucho))

Oscar Wilde: "Life imitates art"

themes of the class:
myth | dream | coincidence | art | history

White Knight might represents? Carroll himself

Parodist’s counterpart to "How Doth the Busy Bee"? "How Doth the Little Crocodile"

The beautiful food of which the mock turtle sings? soup

Hatter's riddle: Why is a raven like a writing desk?

Most quoted author after Shakespeare? Carroll

___ is a depersonalized _____ and _____ is a personalized ___
(myth is a depersonalized dream and dream is a personalized myth)

Create your own portmanteau

Who is the rudest of all the flowers?

Animate | anima | soul

Who is the volcano? Alice

Where does Alice live? the collective unconscious | dust

Alice first growth change? shrinks to 10 inches

Title of the deleted chapter from Through the Looking Glass? A Wasp in a Wig

How does Alice offend the mouse? cats!

During the Protestant Reformation, what was the intent of children’s literature? to inculcate moral values to children

According to My Book and Heart, the first Bible published was in? Algonquin

Which two animals sparked curiosity re: evolution? the mammoth and the monkey

What invention influenced the Reformation? the Gutenburg Press

Why are hatters mad? mercury in hat bands (misplaced concreteness)

Create an anagram of _____ (MS torture)

What does White Rabbit drop? white gloves and a fan

In Cocteau's film Beaty and the Beast, Beauty's tears become? diamonds

D.H. Lawrence: “Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”

Lewis Carrol's nickname inspired which character? Dodo

Tautology: circular argument “I’m interested because it’s interesting.”

Goody-Two-Shoes is an emblem of _____ (perfection) which adults lack -- My Book and Heart

If Alice is a part of the Red King's dream, then what are Tweedle Dum and Dee? ditto ditto ditto

What causes Walrus and Carpenter to weep? they feel sorry for the wee Oysters they are gobbling down

Big theme of English classes? the Dark Side (Far Side? :)

Most prolific serial killer 19th century England? Mary Ann Cotton

Two primary ghosts in Talbot book? Sid James and The White Lady

Jabberwocky poem based on which legend? Lambton worm

Last line of Alice: "Life, what is it but a dream?" ACROSTIC

Walter Pater: “All art aspires to the condition of music”

My Book and Heart: “The text informs reality”

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