Academic Team: Books/Authors

Question 1

Key Terms: A la recherche de temps perdu

Answer 1

In Search of lost of Time by Marcel Proust

Question 2

Key Terms: the hero of Homer’s Odyss/ Leopold Bloom

Answer 2

Ulysses by James Joyce

Question 3

Key Terms: La Mancha/Alonso Quixano/country gentleman in his fifties

Answer 3

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Question 4

Key Terms: Nobel Prize–winning/the elitism of the Buendía family

Answer 4

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Question 5

Key Terms: Jazz Age/chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity

Answer 5

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 6

Key Terms: The saga of Captain Ahab/whale

Answer 6

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Question 7

Key Terms: Napoleon’s invasion of Russia/Napoleonic era on Tsarist society

Answer 7

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Question 8

Key Terms: Prince of Denmark/

Answer 8

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Question 9

Key Terms: ancient Greek epic poems/Homer/sequel to the Iliad

Answer 9

The Odyssey by Homer

Question 10

Key Terms: offenses against morality and religion/profound dispassion

Answer 10

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Question 11

Key Terms: moving human drama/unforgettable visionary journey

Answer 11

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Question 12

Key Terms: (famous for its subject) the protagonist and unreliable becomes obsessed and sexually involved with a twelve-year-old girl.

Answer 12

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Question 13

Key Terms: last and greatest novel/crime story and a passionate philosophical debate

Answer 13

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Question 14

Key Terms: Murder story/murderer’s point of veiw/

Answer 14

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Question 15

Key Terms: non-linear/several flashbacks/Thrushcross Grange/Mr. Lockwood

Answer 15

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Question 16

Key Terms: Elizabeth Bennet/moral rightness/geneder roles

Answer 16

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Question 17

Key Terms: high school and college curricula/the loss of innocence

Answer 17

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Question 18

Key Terms: Huckleberry Finn is indisputably the most appealing child-hero in American literature

Answer 18

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Question 19

Key Terms: doomed love affair/rejects her passionless marriage

Answer 19

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Question 20

Key Terms: little girl tumbling down a rabbit hole/crazy world/Mad Hatter/Chesier cat/Red queen

Answer 20

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Question 21

Key Terms: dactylic hexameters/Trojan War

Answer 21

The Iliad by Homer

Question 22

Key Terms: Ramsay family/Scotland between 1910 and 1920

Answer 22

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Question 23

Key Terms: historical novel/later stages of World War II

Answer 23

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Question 24

Key Terms: Belgian trading company/ferry-boat captain in Africa

Answer 24

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Question 25

Key Terms: set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County/Compson family/Southern aristocrats

Answer 25

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Question 26

Key Terms: Winston Smith/regime's propaganda

Answer 26

Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

Question 27

Key Terms: bildungsroman/the style of book that follows the story of a man or woman in their quest for maturity

Answer 27

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Question 28

Key Terms: Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales/Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age

Answer 28

One Thousand and One Nights by India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt

Question 29

Key Terms: Set during the Great Depression/driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry

Answer 29

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Question 30

Key Terms: a Southern Gothic novel/It is a story about three families of the American South

Answer 30

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Question 31

Key Terms: social and intellectual issues facing African-Americans/early twentieth century/black nationalism

Answer 31

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Question 32

Key Terms: As a Southern Gothic novel/Bildungsroman/racial injustice/destruction of innocence

Answer 32

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Question 33

Key Terms: one of the most important novels of the twentieth century/the terrifying tale of Josef K.

Answer 33

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Question 34

Key Terms: Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black)/Chronicle of the 19th century/an historical psychological novel in two volumes

Answer 34

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Question 35

Key Terms: A Study of Provincial Life/It is her seventh novel/begun in 1869

Answer 35

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Question 36

Key Terms: a great classic recounting the four remarkable journeys of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver/From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language/remains an enchanting fantasy

Answer 36

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Question 37

Key Terms: Pulitzer Prize-winning novel/ her fifth novel/loosely based on the life and legal case of the slave Margaret Garner

Answer 37

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Question 38

Key Terms: Created from two short stories/Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street and The Prime Minister

Answer 38

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Question 39

Key Terms: Russian short-story writer, playwright, and physician/one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature

Answer 39

The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov

Question 40

Key Terms: first published in English/extraordinary first novel/has had a profound impact on millions of American readers

Answer 40

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Question 41

Key Terms: narrative of the title character, a small, plain-faced, intelligent and honest English orphan/The novel goes through five distinct stages

Answer 41

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Question 42

Key Terms: Latin epic poem/writien in the late 1st century BC (29–19 BC)/tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy

Answer 42

The Aeneid by Virgil

Question 43

Key Terms: From his 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity/his immensely influential collections

Answer 43

Collected Fiction by Jorge Luis Borges

Question 44

Key Terms: The novel explores the lives and values of the so-called Lost Generation/Pamplona

Answer 44

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Question 45

Key Terms: story of the abandoned waif who learns to survive through challenging encounters with distress and misfortune

Answer 45

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Question 46

Key Terms: Tristram's narration of his life story/one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply

Answer 46

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Question 47

Key Terms: is a poetry collection by the American poet/

Answer 47

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Question 48

Key Terms: widely considered to be one of the most influential works of 20th century German literature

Answer 48

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

Question 49

Key Terms: semi-autobiographical novel/serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916

Answer 49

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Question 50

Key Terms: loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India/which took place at midnight on 15 August 1947

Answer 50

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Question 51

Key Terms: the hardships of Liesel Meminger along with her story living in Nazi, Germany

Answer 51

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Question 52

Key Terms: documents the traumas and gradual triumph of Celie, an African American teenager raised in rural isolation in Georgia/esist the paralyzing self-concept forced on her by others/Celie narrates her life through painfully honest letters to God

Answer 52

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Question 53

Key Terms: that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene

Answer 53

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Question 54

Key Terms: the relationship between Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson

Answer 54

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Question 55

Key Terms: Brian Robeson must find a way to survive alone in the woods after his plane crashes, to come to terms with his parents' divorce, and to affirm his manhood

Answer 55

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen