Question: We can learn what by carefully examining our literature?
Answer: our history

Question: Who wrote "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto I"?
Answer: Lord Byron

Question: Passing information down through generations was made easier when our society did what?
Answer: once we began to write it down

Question: Authors of literature frequently reference what antecedents?
Answer: Greek mythology and other old religious texts or historical moments

Question: What are some classical societies whose literature is still studied today?
Answer: Ancient China, Ancient India, Persia and Ancient Greece and Rome

Question: Besides entertainment or informational value, classic literature also possessed what quality?
Answer: a covert moral or didactic purpose

Question: What societal evolution helped to develop drama and satire by providing a ready audience?
Answer: urban culture

Question: From what settings did lyric poetry derive?
Answer: courts and aristocratic circles

Question: What is an example of a collection of classic Chinese lyric poetry?
Answer: the Shijing or Book of Songs

Question: Subjects featured in Ancient Chinese literature include what?
Answer: philosophy, historiography, military science, agriculture, and poetry

Question: What two inventions helped make Chinese literature especially important and portable?
Answer: modern paper making and woodblock printing

Question: What historic period was the foundry for classic Chinese literature in the ancient world?
Answer: the Hundred Schools of Thought period

Question: What classic work of war science originated during this period?
Answer: The Art of War

Question: Who wrote The Art Of War?
Answer: Sun Tzu

Question: What were some different genres that emerged from ancient India's oral literary traditions?
Answer: drama, fables, sutras and epic poetry

Question: An important language for ancient Indian literature is what?
Answer: Sanskrit

Question: What ancient religious scriptures were among the first examples of Indian literature?
Answer: The Vedas

Question: The Vedic Period refers to what expanse of time?
Answer: the mid 2nd to mid 1st millennium BCE

Question: The Vedic Period began in the Late Bronze Age and extended until when?
Answer: the Iron Age

Question: What two epic narratives were written by Homer?
Answer: the Iliad and the Odyssey

Question: Who wrote Works and Days and Theogony?
Answer: Hesiod

Question: Plato and Aristotle wrote what type of literature?
Answer: philosophical texts

Question: Who were two important Classic Greek lyric poets?
Answer: Sappho and Pindar

Question: The two great ancient Greek historians were?
Answer: Herodotus and Thucydides

Question: Much medieval literature was influenced by the works of what classic culture?
Answer: Roman

Question: What form of literature enjoyed the most widespread popularity during the Middle Ages?
Answer: the romance

Question: What element is characteristic of a medieval romance?
Answer: an adventurous and sometimes magical narrative

Question: What helped cause the widespread appearance of multiple forms of literature in the Renaissance?
Answer: the invention of printing

Question: What is an early example of the novel form of literature from Europe?
Answer: the German Faust books

Question: What literary movement in the 1700s recalled the fantastical literature of medieval times?
Answer: Romanticism

Question: What elements in 19th century European literature were a reaction to the romanticism movement?
Answer: realism and naturalism

Question: What are two elements prevalent among characters at the center of romanticism works?
Answer: individual experience and emotion

Question: How did naturalism effect the greater world?
Answer: influenced social and political change

Question: 20th century literature reacted to the objectivity of naturalism in the 19th century to what?
Answer: the subjective

Question: What sub-group of literature emerged in the 20th century?
Answer: Genre fiction

Question: Alternative reality genre fiction is also known as what?
Answer: science fiction

Question: Who were two 20th century writers who blurred the lines between journalism and literature?
Answer: William Burroughs, in his early works, and Hunter S. Thompson

Question: By what means did these two writers create and emergent convergence of literature and journalism?
Answer: strong subjective statements

Question: Critics based in what movement find fault in objective realism?
Answer: post-modern

Question: What two elements have reduced the literary nature of scientific journals?
Answer: advances and specialization

Question: The segregation of science writing means that articles in those subjects primarily appear where?
Answer: journals

Question: The work of what classical scientists is caught between being outdated and of literary importance?
Answer: Aristotle, Copernicus, and Newton

Question: In what coursework is one still likely to encounter the works of these classic scientists?
Answer: "history of science" programmes

Question: What classic area of study is now mostly reserved for academic consideration?
Answer: Philosophy

Question: Most serious studies in philosophy are segregated to what publications?
Answer: academic journals

Question: Who are some of the most important philosophers in history?
Answer: Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Augustine, Descartes, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche

Question: What aspect of modern academic philosophy is less literary than technical in nature?
Answer: logic

Question: Serious studies in logic tend to resemble what discipline, moreso than literature?
Answer: mathematics

Question: Literature gives the reader insights into what areas of its characters?
Answer: intimate emotional aspects

Question: How does literary fiction aid the person who reads it?
Answer: It benefits the psychological development and understanding

Question: What writer's entry in "The English Journal" was concerned with young adult fiction?
Answer: D. Mitchell

Question: Why did this author embrace young adult literature as a grownup?
Answer: to re-experience the emotional psychology she experienced as a child

Question: How did the writer refer to this psychological state experienced as a youth?
Answer: “wonder”

Question: How does literature unite members of a society?
Answer: by provoking universal emotions

Question: How does literature expand the horizons of its readers?
Answer: allows readers to access cultural aspects that they are not exposed to

Question: What determines what literary structure a literary author uses for expression of ideas?
Answer: what psychological emotion he or she is attempting to describe

Question: What are the levers an author uses in literature to describe a psychological emotion?
Answer: literary devices

Question: Who conceived of "The Third Force Psychology Theory?"
Answer: Maslow

Question: The theory states that at the center of humans beings is what?
Answer: a nature within them that demonstrates their true “self”

Question: The theory suggests that the quest for this nature represents what?
Answer: the reason for living

Question: What causes a person to become separated from their "true self"?
Answer: neurological development

Question: What author espoused the theory of the "pristine unconscious?"
Answer: D.H Lawrence

Question: What is literary historical writing sometimes called?
Answer: creative nonfiction

Question: Reporting that attempts a creative or literary bent is sometimes called what?
Answer: literary journalism

Question: What is the main function of journalism or historical documentation?
Answer: to record data or convey immediate information

Question: Who are some classic historians regarded as literary historians?
Answer: Herodotus, Thucydides and Procopius

Question: What Babylonian ruler created formal law tables?
Answer: Hammurabi

Question: What religious scripture can be fit into a large, loose definition of legal literature?
Answer: the Bible