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The Dance in Literature Quiz!
Answers:1. Moliere, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1670
2. Anonymous, "Good Fellows Must Go Learn to Dance," 1569
3. Guglielmo Ebreo, (dancing master) ca. 1560
4. Frances Burney, Cecilia, 1782
5. Evelyn Waugh, Decline And Fall, 1928
6. R. S. Surtees, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, 1865
7. Catherine E. Beecher, A Treatise on Domestic Economy, 1846
8. The Minuet (Giovanni Gallini)
9. The Waltz (Lord Byron)
10. The Cotillion (the "German") (Emily Post)
11. The Tango (Vernon Castle)
12. The Virginia Reel (Mark Twain)
13. The Pavane (Thoinet Arbeau)
14. The Galop (C.H Cleveland, Jr.)
Score:
12-14 correct: Excellent! You are hereby awarded the Order of the Fan, with Honors!
10-12 correct: Good, but perhaps you need to brush off your reading glasses and your dancing pumps!
9 or fewer correct: Oh, dear! Back to the hands of the Dancing Master!
For extra credit: All of the above quotations but one appear in Dancing Through Time. Which quotation does not?
Answer: Number 5 (Evelyn Waugh)
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