Question
This author stated that Reason, “fifty times for one does err,” in his poem “A Satire Against Reason and Mankind.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this licentious, monkey-carrying author who was a courtier for Charles II, although he was briefly exiled for accidentally handing a poem to Charles calling him the “cuckold of Britain.”
ANSWER: John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester [accept either underlined portion] (The other poem is referred to as “A Satire on Charles II.”)
[10m] This 17th Century tract against licensed printing claims that “he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.”
ANSWER: Areopagitica [or Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England] (by John Milton)
[10e] This author bemoans the faults of “Reason,” God’s “viceroy in” him, in “Batter my heart, three-person’d God,” which is one of his Holy Sonnets alongside “Death be not proud.”
ANSWER: John Donne
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Summary
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 0% | 25% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Cornell) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 2023 ILLIAC (Mainsite) | 2023-10-21 | Y | 8 | 11.25 | 100% | 13% | 0% |
Data
| Rochester C | Cornell Wind | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell Fire | Cornell Earth | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Columbia Ly-α | Cornell Wind | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| RIT | Rochester B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Rochester A | Rochester C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |