Sample Exam Questions: Passage Identification

Identify the work in which the following passages appear and, if possible, the character who says them.

  1. She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them.
  2. You and I will decide this controversy about wisdom by and bye, taking Bacchus for our judge.
  3. Then he made his most astute pronouncement, the crafty wooer, namely, that the lover is more divine than the beloved, because the god dwells in the former, not the latter, which is perhaps the most delicate, most derisive thought ever thought by man and the source of all the roguery and deep-seated lust in longing.
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