American Literature Flashcards
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Scarlet Letter” says, “to forbid the culprit to hide his face… was the essence of” this 7-letter punishment
the pillory
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Deerslayer” was the last written, but first chronologically, of his “Leatherstocking Tales”
James Fenimore Cooper
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this J.D. Salinger novel, the main character asks a cab driver where the Central Park ducks go in the winter
The Catcher in the Rye
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Hemingway story, a fisherman named Santiago was once an arm wrestler known as “El Campeon”
The Old Man and the Sea
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His 1988 book “A Different Kind of Christmas” was based on a story outline for the TV film “Roots: The Gift”
Alex Haley
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The manuscript for “Billy Budd” was found among his papers & published in 1924, 33 years after his death
Herman Melville
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A contemporary review of this 1851 novel said, “Who would have looked for… poetry in blubber?”
Moby-Dick
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1961 Joseph Heller novel was set on the island of Pianosa during WWII
Catch-22
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Old Stony Phiz in “The Great Stone Face” by this author of “Twice-Told Tales” is said to be based on Daniel Webster
Hawthorne
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A 1936 operetta, “The Headless Horseman”, was based on this 1820 short story
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In a 1947 novelette by John Steinbeck, a diver named Kino finds the valuable title object to pay his child’s doctor bill
pearl
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1929 Thomas Wolfe novel is subtitled “A Story of the Buried Life”
Look Homeward Angel
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| His 1841-42 South Pacific voyage aboard the whaler Acushnet provided the basis for his most famous novel
(Herman) Melville
$2500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| C. Auguste Dupin is the hero of Edgar Allan Poe’s first detective story, “The Murders” here
in the Rue Morgue
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Shortly after “The House of the Seven Gables”, he wrote a book of classical myths, “A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys”
Hawthorne
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” is set in the early 20th century in this typical American town located in New Hampshire
Grover’s Corners
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A hard journey through Mississippi with a smelly corpse is the subject of his “As I Lay Dying”
Faulkner
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Chapter 14 of this classic American novel is entitled “Hester and the Physician”
The Scarlet Letter
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this novel by Alice Walker, Celie moves to Memphis, where she designs & sells unisex pants
The Color Purple
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Henry Fleming, the hero of “The Red Badge of Courage”, reappeared in his short story “Lynx-Hunting”
Stephen Crane
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This William Faulkner novel opens with a tale told by Benjy, an idiot
The Sound and the Fury
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| <a>This</a> poet published her novel “The Bell Jar” using the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
(Sylvia) Plath
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Subtitles of books in this 19th century series include “A Tale”, “The Inland Sea” & “The First War-Path”
Leatherstocking Tales
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| An epigraph he used on one story says, “our hearts though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums are beating”
Edgar Allan Poe
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1906 novel says, “Now & then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no…”
The Jungle
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Chapter 2 in a 1932 work of his begins, “The bullfight is not a sport in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word”
Ernest Hemingway
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1894 Mark Twain took this character “Abroad”; 2 years later, he became a “Detective”
Tom Sawyer
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Sinclair Lewis physician begins his practice in his wife’s hometown, Wheatsylvania, North Dakota
(Martin) Arrowsmith
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Pyncheon Street, previously called Maule’s Lane, was the location of this title home
The House of the Seven Gables
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this 1940 novel, deaf-mute John Singer commits suicide when he learns his friend Spiros has died
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Sartoris” published in 1929 was his first novel to deal with Yoknapatawpha County
Faulkner
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In England his 1950 science fiction novel “The Martian Chronicles” was titled “The Silver Locusts”
Bradbury
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| 1926’s top 2 fiction sellers were John Epskine’s “The Private Life of Helen of Troy” & this Anita Loos book
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1925 novel contains the line “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy”
The Great Gatsby
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 140-pound character in “The Call of the Wild” is a cross between a St. Bernard & a Scotch Shepard
Buck
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This classic by Stephen Crane is subtitled “An Episode of the American Civil War”
The Red Badge of Courage
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Books by this Nobel Prize winner include “Love”, “Beloved” & “Tar Baby”
Toni Morrison
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Willa Cather novel is divided into 5 books, the first being “The Shimerdas”
My Antonia
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This first novel by Bernard Malamud is considered one of the best baseball books of all time
The Natural
$1400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Hemingway’s epigraph to this novel includes a Biblical passage that begins, “One generation passeth away…”
The Sun Also Rises
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This bestselling Western author wrote about the Sackett family in more than a dozen novels
Louis L’Amour
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This “Age of Innocence” author made her debut in society in 1879
(Edith) Wharton
$1500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Sons”, the second book in a trilogy begun with this work, traces the destinies of the 3 sons of Wang Lung
The Good Earth (by Pearl Buck)
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Sinclair Lewis doctor attempts to halt an epidemic on a West Indian island with his anti-bacterial serum
Martin Arrowsmith
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In the prologue of a 1952 novel, this author wrote, “I am an invisible man”
(Ralph) Ellison
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title object of this 1850 novel is described as “so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom”
The Scarlet Letter
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It contains the line “There stood the Kaatskill Mountains…there was every hill and dale…as it had always been”
Rip Van Winkle
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The Joad family in “The Grapes of Wrath” leaves this Dust Bowl state & heads to California
Oklahoma
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In one scene in this 1925 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Daisy Buchanan hits Myrtle Wilson with her car
The Great Gatsby
$1200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In the midst of writing his 5 Natty Bumppo tales, he paused to write a “History of the Navy of the United States”
(James Fenimore) Cooper
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In “Following the Equator”, this humorist wrote, “Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it”
Mark Twain
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In 1964 he won a National Book Award for his novel “The Centaur”
John Updike
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This novel’s widowed lawyer Atticus Finch had served in the state legislature
“To Kill a Mockingbird”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It’s the pale dry sherry in the title of an 1846 Edgar Allan Poe tale
Amontillado
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 19th century female character “raised a great scandal in godly master Dimmesdale’s church”
Hester Prynne
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1925 Anita Loos book was subtitled “The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”
“Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 15-year-old E.L. Doctorow high school dropout joins gangster Dutch Schultz’ mob
Billy Bathgate
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| One of the original titles of this 1925 novel was “Among Ash Heaps and Millionaires”
The Great Gatsby
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Mark Twain character’s father “Pap” briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi
Huckleberry Finn
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley
“A Farewell to Arms”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey
“Cannery Row”
$1600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| It’s the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell
“Studs”
$2000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck
Wolf Larsen
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This character once asked Becky Thatcher, “Do you love rats?”
Tom Sawyer
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this Louisa May Alcott novel, Jo March writes a play, “The Witch’s Curse”
“Little Women”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The whaling ship in this classic novel had 3 harpooners: Tashtego, Daggoo & Queequeg
“Moby Dick”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this 1952 Hemingway story, Santiago goes 84 days without catching a fish, then hooks a gigantic marlin
“The Old Man and the Sea”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title of this 1939 John Steinbeck novel was taken from a Julia Ward Howe song
“The Grapes of Wrath”
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “The Mute” was the working title of this 1940 novel by a female author
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers)
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He complained to Tom Sawyer that the widow Douglas “makes me wash”
Huck Finn
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Ishmael called him the incarnation of “all the subtle demonisms of life and thought”
Moby Dick
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This J.D. Salinger novel tells the story of 2 days in the life of a 16-year-old boy
“The Catcher in the Rye”
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Brom Bones tells the story of the Headless Horseman in “The Legend of” this place
Sleepy Hollow
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Jack London title canine is tormented by one of his owners to make him savage enough to win dogfights
White Fang
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This title character in an 1876 novel asks, “Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
Tom Sawyer
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Capt. Ahab says his men have been hired to “chase that white whale on both sides of land”
“Moby Dick”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| He’s the author whose work is presented here, with a little help from our friend Wishbone
Washington Irving
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The one word uttered by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
“Nevermore”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Sadly, in a James Fenimore Cooper novel Chingachgook was called “The Last of” this group
the Mohicans
$None ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| The title of this novella that won the 1953 Pulitzer Prize consists of 6 words, each of which is 3 letters long
"The Old Man and the Sea"
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Some of his stories of the Yukon were published in the 1910 collection “Lost Face”
Jack London
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| A rum smuggler is the central character in his 1937 novel “To Have and Have Not”
Ernest Hemingway
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Horseman, Pass By”, the first novel by this Texan, was made into the movie “Hud” in 1963
Larry McMurtry
$800 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This 1936 novel by Faulkner tells the story of Thomas Sutpen & bears the name of an Old Testament figure
“Absalom, Absalom!”
$1000 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Her essays in “Against Interpretation” & “On Photography” call for an emotive response to creative works
Susan Sontag
$100 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Urged to make his peace with God, this “Walden” author replied, “I did not know we had ever quarreled”
Henry David Thoreau
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Clement C. Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” is more popularly known by this title
“Twas’ the Night Before Christmas”
$300 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| “Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands” begins his poem “The Village Blacksmith”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| In Fred Gipson’s novel, this “colorful” dog with one ear missing adopts a Texas frontier family in the 1860s
Old Yeller
$500 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| One of his best known works was “The Man Without a Country”, but he himself was a man from Boston
Edward Everett Hale
$200 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Stephen Crane published this classic book about the Civil War when he was 23
“The Red Badge of Courage”
$400 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| Reading is out as books go up in smoke in this Ray Bradbury classic
“Fahrenheit 451”
$600 ||| Category: AMERICAN LITERATURE ||| This Upton Sinclair expose of the meatpacking industry led to the passage of a Pure Food & Drug Act
“The Jungle”
