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Eponyms: Classic Literature and Mythology - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 6 times
- The average score is 12 of 19
Answer Stats
| Hint | Explanation | Answer | % Correct |
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| Extremely large | From Gargantua, a giant in Rabelais' satirical novels | Gargantuan | 100%
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| Requiring immense strength or effort | From the labors of Hercules in Greek mythology | Herculean | 100%
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| Humorous misuse of similar-sounding words | From Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's The Rivals | Malapropism | 100%
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| Excessively self-absorbed or vain | From Narcissus in Greek mythology | Narcissistic | 100%
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| Relating to authoritarian control, propaganda, or surveillance | From Orwell's 1984 | Orwellian | 100%
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| Depicting grim poverty or harsh social conditions | From Dickens' portrayals of Victorian life | Dickensian | 83%
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| Miserly or excessively frugal | From Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol | Scrooge-like | 83%
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| Referring to endless, futile labor | From Sisyphus in Greek mythology | Sisyphean | 83%
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| Surreal, oppressive, bureaucratic nightmare | From recurring themes in Kafka's writing | Kafkaesque | 67%
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| Idealistic to an impractical or unrealistic degree | From Don Quixote by Cervantes, referring to the title character's hopelessly romantic worldview | Quixotic | 67%
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| A manipulative, controlling influence | From Svengali in du Maurier's Trilby | Svengali | 67%
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| Epic, heroic, or grand in scale | From Homer, author of the Iliad and Odyssey | Homeric | 50%
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| A crude, brutish, uncultured person | From the Yahoos in Swift's Gulliver's Travels | Yahoo | 50%
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| A conformist, materialistic middle-class person | From George F. Babbitt in Lewis' Babbitt | Babbitt | 33%
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| Brooding, rebellious, charismatic antihero | From Lord Byron and his protagonists | Byronic | 33%
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| A charming but selfish and manipulative seducer | From Lothario in Rowe's The Fair Penitent | Lothario | 33%
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| Blindly optimistic | From Dr. Pangloss in Voltaire's Candide | Panglossian | 33%
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| Boldly creative, rebellious, or knowledge-bringing | From Prometheus, who gave fire to humanity | Promethean | 33%
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| Meant in a figurative or non-literal sense | From Samuel Pickwick in Dickens' The Pickwick Papers | Pickwickian | 0%
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