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ALLUSIONS TEST
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Achille's Heel O | Mythological figure who was dipped in the river Styx |
| Achille's heel M | A person's weak or vulnerable point |
| White Elephant O | King Siam gave this as a gift to those who displeased him |
| White Elephant M | An object that has no use to its owner and may be a financial burden |
| Handwriting on the Wall O | Biblical king who saw a hand appear and predict the end of his rein |
| Handwriting on the Wall M | The handwriting on the wall is a warning of doom to come |
| Sound and Fury O | In Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Macbeth compares life to sound and fury when his beloved wife dies |
| Sound and Fury M | Great uproar that is actually meaningless |
| Cain O | Cain murdered his brother due to jealousy. This is the first recorded murder in the bible |
| Cain M | Causing trouble or commotion |
| Methuselah O | Biblical figure who lived to be 969 years old |
| Methuselah M | Refers to an extremely old person |
| Phoenix O | Mythical bird who rose from the ashes of destruction |
| Phoenix M | Symbolizes resurrection of someone after facing many obstacles |
| Holy Grail O | Medieval legend of a cup that Jesus drank from at the last supper |
| Holy Grail M | Object (or anything) that is extremely desirable |
| Machiavellian O | Historical figure who believed in using undesirable methods to rule his people |
| Machiavellian M | Elaborately cunning and scheming |
| Catch-22 O | Sane airmen trying to prove insanity so they can be relieved of flight duty; but to prove insanity, they are obviously sane |
| Catch-22 M | An absurd, no-win situation |
| Ivory tower O | French poet, Alfred DeVingy , shut himself up in an ivory-colored tower so he could write beautiful poems |
| Ivory tower M | Being out of touch with reality |
| Freudian Slip O | Sigmund Freud was a psychotherapist whose work centered on the subconscious mind |
| Freudian Slip M | An intentional slip of the tongue that reveals subconscious thought |
| Medusa O | Famous Gorgon sister who had snakes for hair and turned people to stone with a look |
| Medusa M | Repulsive or terrifying women |
| Murphy's Law O | Originated in the 1940s-"Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong" |
| Murphy's Law M | Something goes wrong and everyone knew it would |
| Icarus O | In Greek Mythology, he disobeyed his father, flew too close to the sun, and died |
| Icarus M | To fail or be destroyed because of ambition |
| Pavlov's dogs/Pavlovian O | Pavlov was a Russian scientist who conducted conditioned response experiments with animals (mainly dogs) |
| Pavlov's dogs/Pavlovian M | An automatic, unthinking response |
| Throw Down the Gauntlet O | In medieval times, knights threw down their gloves to challenge another knight |
| Throw Down the Gauntlet M | Issuing a challenge in a dramatic manner |
| Scapegoat O | Jewish priest laid the sins of the people in a goat and released it into the wilderness |
| Scapegoat M | Any person who takes the blame for the wrongdoing of others |
| Left-handed Compliment O | In literature, the left hand is associated with negativity, clumsiness, doubtful sincerity. The left -hand side of a shield was considered the sinister side. |
| Left-handed Compliment M | A compliment that is also rude and insulting in some way |
| Juggernaut O | A Hindu deity-worshippers threw themselves under this cart so they would die and go to paradise |
| Juggernaut M | Any destructive force that defies opposition |
| Adonis O | In Greek Mythology, a beautiful youth who was loved by Aphrodite and Persephone |
| Adonis M | A man with a handsome face and gorgeous body |
| Bedlam O | Nickname for the mental hospital in London where people wandered the halls screaming and fighting |
| Bedlam M | Wildly chaotic, raucous, and noisy |
Created by:
Jayden T 2012