1. 'Then temporal death shall bruise the Victors heel, / Or theirs whom he redeems, a death like sleep, / A gentle wafting to immortal Life.' But what kind of death did John Milton mean in the final book of Paradise Lost?

   1. Death while employed on a short-term contract

   2. Death caused by a blow to head

   3. A temporary death until body and soul are resurrected

   4. Death due to subcutaneous bleeding of the foot

2. Which guild of workers traditionally acted the Resurrection in the York Mystery Plays?

   1. Carpenters

   2. Butchers

   3. Blacksmiths

   4. Landlords

3. Aslan is – of course – the lion who comes back to life in CS Lewis’s allegorical Chronicles of Narnia. But to which language does he owe his name?

   1. Greek

   2. Turkish

   3. Armenian

   4. Arabic

4. Sylvia Plath explores the 'walking miracle' of a woman who manages what the poet calls a 'theatrical / Comeback' ... 'One year in every ten' in her poem Lady Lazarus. But in which of her collections did it appear?

   1. The Colossus

   2. Winter Trees

   3. Ariel

   4. Crossing The Water

5. What is the name of the demonic cat who comes back to life after his owner buries him in an ancient Micmac Native American burial ground in Stephen King’s Pet Semetary?

   1. Tully

   2. Church

   3. Pew

   4. Tithes

6. Towards the end of JK Rowling's bestselling children's series, Harry Potter meets Albus Dumbledore in a kind of limbo which resembles a London railway station. But which one?

   1. St Pancras

   2. Clapham Junction

   3. Victoria

   4. King's Cross

7. What was the name of Philip José Farmer’s land in which all humans are resurrected versions of their 25-year-old selves?

   1. Riverworld

   2. Lakemist

   3. Darklands

   4. Coldbog

8. The Better Resurrection begins with the lines: 'I have no wit, no words, no tears; / My heart within me like a stone / Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears'. But who wrote it?

   1. Christina Rossetti

   2. Emily Dickinson

   3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

   4. Felicia Hemans

9. Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his character Sherlock Holmes in The Final Problem, only to bring him back to life several years later. But where was the location of his untimely demise?

   1. 221B Baker Street

   2. Thor Bridge

   3. The Reichenbach Falls

   4. St Bart’s Hospital

10. John Masefield’s tale in verse, Midsummer Night imagines the resurrection of which British figure?

    1. Winston Churchill

    2. Boudicca

    3. William Shakespeare

    4. King Arthur

Solutions

1:C, 2:A, 3:B, 4:C, 5:B, 6:D, 7:A, 8:A, 9:C, 10:D

Scores

1. 3 and above.

   Purgatorial. But you are forgiven, and free to have another go

2. 6 and above.

   Not exactly miraculous, but we have not lost faith in you yet: have another go!

3. 9 and above.

   Immaculately conceived answers. Well done!