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Where was Jonathan Swift born?
Answer: Dublin
Why: The satirist was a churchman too, serving from 1713 as dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin.
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How does Molière's Tartuffe win over his host?
Answer: Fake piety
Why: The play made tartuffe a word for a hypocrite, in French and in English alike.
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Which vegetable does Swift's Lagado scientist try to get sunbeams from?
Answer: Cucumbers
Why: Lagado's Grand Academy, where he works, is widely read as Swift's jab at London's Royal Society.
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Which revolution does Animal Farm satirize?
Answer: Russian Revolution
Why: Napoleon the pig stands for Joseph Stalin, while his rival Snowball stands for Leon Trotsky.
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Who does Aristophanes mock as a phony thinker in The Clouds?
Answer: Socrates
Why: Aristophanes has Socrates make his entrance dangling above the stage in a basket on a rope.
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What does Gogol's swindler Chichikov buy from landowners?
Answer: Dead serfs
Why: Owners paid tax on every serf listed at the last census, so dead serfs cost them money until the next count.
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