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1. One of Willa Cather's most famous works is 'Death Comes for the ____________'.
2. In some legends, Death (the Grim Reaper) plays a fiddle with how many strings?
3. According to the Buddhist tradition, deceased people who have followed the Eightfold Path will be freed from the cycle of reincarnation and gain what state of total peace?
4. According to the King James version of the Twenty-Third Psalm, 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no ___________'?
5. In the history of the United States of America, only four U.S. presidents have been assassinated. Who was the SECOND such president?
6. In Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra,' and perhaps in history as well, with what did Cleopatra kill herself?
7. Shah Jahan of India built what famously beautiful building as a memorial to his favorite wife?
8. The Celtic queen, Boudicca (Boadicea), allegedly took poison to prevent torture by the Romans after they defeated her rebel forces in battle. Where is she thought to be buried?
9. Another Celtic leader -- who united Gaul under his command and came very close to defeating Julius Caesar -- did fall into Roman hands. He was brought back to Rome and executed by being dragged apart by wild horses. What was the name of this first French national hero?
10. She had the great misfortune of living in Paris during the Reign of Terror, and she was forced to make death masks of the people who had been guillotined. Later she moved to Britain, and these death masks became the basis of a famous wax museum. She was Madame _________.
11. Robert Frost, perhaps best known among schoolchildren as the author of 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,' also wrote a poem describing 'The Death of the ______________'
12. In Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women', which March sister dies?
13. The European Middle Ages -- a time of war and plague -- was defined by death. One frequent artistic motif, representing death, depicted the Grim Reaper leading people away in the ______________.
14. Joan of Arc, maid of Orleans, was burned as a witch and a heretic by the English in what other French city during the Hundred Years' War?
15. What ancient Egyptian god, father of Horus, was murdered by his brother Seth and then became king of the Underworld?
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