Test: ALL Allusions (definitions) - 20 Questions

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. socratic
  2. achilles heel
  3. hyacinth
  4. siren
  5. pandemonium
  1. a a weakness that leads to failure; vulnerable point
  2. b Wild tumult; disorder; noise
  3. c questioning used to establish an idea or opinion or find the truth
  4. d Seductive women; a device for sounding signals of warning
  5. e a bulbous plant that is widely cultivated for its cylindrical cluster of fragrant flowers in a variety of colors

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. Spiritual; without physical desire
  2. a colorless and odorless chemical element with the atomic number 2
  3. A person engaged in a dangerous but potentially rewarding adventure
  4. City or place of great luxury, sensuality, and often vice and corruption
  5. hunter, builder

5 True/False Questions

  1. proteanExceedingly variable; assuming different forms

          

  2. sibylA prophetess; fortune-teller

          

  3. titanicOf enormous magnitude, force, or power

          

  4. atlasOne who bares a heavy burden

          

  5. pollyannaExceedingly variable; assuming different forms

          

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