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1. Robert Burns's poem (1796) about his love and a rose concentrated on which of the many attributes of a rose?
2. Alexandre Dumas fils is famous for his novel "La Dames aux Camellias." Why does the heroine carry camellias?
3. Who wrote "Le Spectre de la Rose" or "The Ghost of the Rose" ?
4. Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" was written in honor of what great person?
5. Everybody knows "Arsenic and Old Lace". What was the original novel that provided the inspiration for the title of the play on which the movie was based?
6. "The Scarlet Pimpernel" was a 1902 novel by Baroness Orczy. What was the hero's name?
7. In this poem by Hugh MacDiarmid, a drunk man is looking at what kind of flower?
8. "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" is a justly famous poem by what writer?
9. In what country does Sir Harold Acton's novel, "Peonies and Ponies" take place?
10. Iris Murdoch wrote a novel called the "Unofficial" what?
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