WSC Quiz 4

Which poet expressed yearning for an older, simpler time in the poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'?

• William Wordsworth

• John Keats

• Joyce Kilmer

• Lee Tzu Pheng

Who wrote the poem 'To Autumn'?

• William Wordsworth

• John Keats

• Joyce Kilmer

• Lee Tzu Pheng

Which work is associated with the longing for an older time?

• Main Street

• Bukit Timah, Singapore

• Writing a Poem Is All I Can Do for You

• To Autumn

Who wrote the poem 'Bukit Timah, Singapore'?

• William Wordsworth

• John Keats

• Joyce Kilmer

• Lee Tzu Pheng

Who wrote the poem 'Writing a Poem Is All I Can Do for You'?

• William Wordsworth

• John Keats

• Joyce Kilmer

• Wu Sheng

What technological advances made town criers obsolete?

• Loudspeakers

• Radios

• Computers

• Floppy disks

What is retrogaming?

• Playing vintage games on original hardware

• Creating games that feel like vintage ones

• Tracking down floppy disks and Apple II computers

• Using loudspeakers and radios for gaming

What is the term used for works set in a more advanced 19th century?

• Retrogaming

• Steampunk

• Back breeding

• Presentism

What method is being used to restore the extinct auroch?

• Locating old DNA fragments

• Stitching DNA back together

• Back breeding burly cows

• Creating games that feel like vintage ones

What did the president of the American Historical Association warn historians against?

• Focusing too much on the 20th and 21st centuries

• Sifting selectively through the past

• Discounting the voices of marginalized peoples

• All of the above