5 Written Questions

1. language and idiom
2. literature
3. Flintlock rifles had an ignition pan containing gunpowder. If the powder in the pan was lit but the propelling charge wasn't lit, there was a flash in the pan, but the fun didn't fire
4. a valiant resistance to authority/rebellion against the established order of the universe
5. mythology

5 Matching Questions

1. Scylla and Charybdis
2. what is Methuselah classified as?
3. origin of Doublespeak
4. What is the origin of Red Herring?
5. origin of Methuselah

1. a Novel, "1984," by George Orwell. He uses this term to refer to a type of propoganda practiced by the state in which language is used ombiguously or intentionally to device. In the novel, the Department was called the "Ministry of Peace" and the War Department was called "Ministry of Love"
2. b A herring is a fish and when it's "cured" or smoked and salted, it turns red and has a very strong, pungent smell. British fugitives in the 1800's would drag a red herring across their trail, thus confusing the hounds and diverting them from following the convict's scents. Red herrings are also dragged across the ground either to train hunting dogs to follow a scent, to throw the dogs off the train, thus prolonging a foxhunt/that poachers used the herring to divert hunting dogs so that they could get the game themselves
3. c Oldest patriarch in the Bible. Lived to be 969 years old.
4. d Biblical
5. e to be caught between two equal dangers in which avoiding one means getting closer to the other. "between a rock and a hard place"

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. diverting someone onto a false trail or distracting a person from the true issue
   1. red herring
   2. Freudian Slip
   3. Methuselah
   4. doublespeak
2. proverbially to refer to an extremely old person
   1. Xanadu
   2. Methuselah
   3. doublespeak
   4. red herring
3. Greek mythology, Prometheus was a demigod known for his cunning. As punishment, Zeus withheld fire from mankind. In response, Prometheus went to Mt. Olympus and stole some fire, which he gave to man. Zeus punished him by chaining him to a rock; each day an eagle came back and ate out his liver, which grew back each night. Rescued by Hercules.
   1. origin of Doublespeak
   2. origin of Methuselah
   3. Promethus/ Promethean
   4. origin of Promethus/ Promethean
4. Don Quixote/Quixotic- to be foolishly/impratically idealistic
   Tilting at Windmills- a naive attempt to be heroic
   1. Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills
   2. handwriting on the wall
   3. What is Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills classified as?
   4. origin of Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills
5. the deliberate use of evasive/ambiguous language
   1. origin of Doublespeak
   2. doublespeak
   3. red herring
   4. Methuselah

5 True/False Questions

1. origin of Don Quixote/Quixotic/Tilting at Windmills → Romance written in the 1600's by Miguel de Cervantes. The hero, Don Quixote, loses his wits after reading too many romances and sets off on his own knightly adventure, accompanied by sidekick, Sancho Panza. Two have various comic adventure. One attack, Don Quixote attacks a group of windmills, believing them to be giants

   True        False

2. what is Freudian Slip classified as? → language and idiom

   True        False

3. origin of Freudian Slip → an accidental/unintentional error, either in speech/action, that apparently reveals one's subconcious desires

   True        False

4. what is Xanadu classified as? → literatue

   True        False

5. What is the Handwriting on the wall classified as? → language and idiom

   True        False