It’s pretty difficult to be the biggest section asshole in a high-level English seminar. There will always be that slightly balding kid cracking himself up with Latin declensions or quoting verbatim from obscure Milton passages, and HE WINS. But let’s be real: the section asshole competition will continue throughout life, long past graduation. So while English seminars generally make you (or maybe just me?) feel pretty bad about not getting all the Spenserian inside jokes, they’re still a great source of knowledge for literary references that you can whip out later on to impress your Econ major friends. Everyone reads Fitzgerald in high school, but now you can know where he got those sweet titles! Bonus points for providing some sort of vague comparative analysis of the two works! Play along in the comments.

To start you off easy:

1. Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night gets its title from what Keats’ poem?
2. What collection of essays by Didion takes its title from what Yeats’ poem? (Name both the collection and the poem).
3. Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury is taken from what act and scene in what tragedy by Shakespeare?