006 A 10 MCQS QUIZ ON WORLD'S GREAT THINKERS

Great thinkers, over the Centuries , have made our livable. Here is a 10 question Multiple Choice Quiz, based on their Quotes. You can online answer them by clicking on the radio buttons. Or else, if you have no time, you can check the answers, by moving your mouse on the 'dot' at the end of each question.

Quiz on thoughts of Great Thinkers.

1: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Writers should not judge.~ This view is attributed to
a`Ernest Hemingway b`Charles Dickens c`Vladimir Nabokov d`Leo Tolstoy .


2: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Law is an ass.~ This view is attributed to
a`Ernest Hemingway b`Charles Dickens c`Vladimir Nabokov d`Leo Tolstoy .


3: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.~ This quote is attributed to
a`William Shakespeare b`John Milton c`Christopher Marlowe d`Jane Austen .


4: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Rain does not know how to fall upwards.~ This view is attributed to
a`Ernest Hemingway b`Charles Dickens c`Vladimir Nabokov d`Leo Tolstoy .


5: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.~ This quote is attributed to
a`Ben Jonson b`Samuel Johnson c`Virginia Woolf d`Jane Austen .


6: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.~ This quote is attributed to
a`Ben Jonson b`Samuel Johnson c`Virginia Woolf d`Jane Austen .


7: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Love and be loved.~ This view is attributed to
a`Ernest Hemingway b`Charles Dickens c`Vladimir Nabokov d`Leo Tolstoy .


8: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.~ This quote is attributed to
a`Ben Jonson b`Samuel Johnson c`Virginia Woolf d`Jane Austen .


9: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.~ This quote is attributed to
a`William Shakespeare b`John Milton c`Christopher Marlowe d`John Dryden .


10: ENGLISH LITERATURE : QUOTES ~Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.~ This quote is attributed to
a`William Shakespeare b`John Milton c`Christopher Marlowe d`John Dryden .

002, SLAVE POETESS WAS MADE TO PRAISE HER OWNERS

I furnish below a link to the biography of the first African Poetess in English Ms. Phillis Wheately. The biography is very interesting.

www.docsouth.unc.edu/neh/brownhal/brownhal.html. Here is a part of a poem by Ms. Phillis Wheately found at the same site.

"...I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate,
Was snatched from AfricA's fancied happy state.
What pangs excruciating must molest,
What sorrows labor in my parent's breast!
Steeled was that soul, and by no misery moved,
That from a father seized his babe beloved."

Ms. Phillis Wheately was an African slave girl brought from Africa in a slave ship. Her surname is borrowed from her owners'.

This poem was of the period around 1776, the American War of Independence. At the site you can find that she addressed a poem to George Washington, the first President of US and his reply.

I do not wish to say that Ms. Phillis Wheately was totally free to express herself fully and frankly. She was expected to praise her owners, the religion of her owners. Nevertheless, something is better than nothing.

I welcome your comments.