BB lit questions 2006-2011 Flashcards

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Mr Bumble, Bill Sikes, Nancy, and the Artful Doger are all characters in what novel?

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Oliver Twist

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Children?

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Richard Wright

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How many lines are in each stanza of Dante’s Commedia?

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3

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Walt Whitman wrote in what type of verse?

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Free Verse

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Who wrote “To my dear and Loving husband”?

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Anne Bradstreet

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3
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Who wrote The Dead?

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James Joyce

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3
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Who’s hair was cut in the Rape of the Lock?

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Belinda

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3
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What planet do the invaders from The War of The Worlds come from?

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Mars

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4
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Shakespear wrote mainly in what three categories?

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History, comedy, and tragedy

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4
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Who wrote “upon the Burning of our House”?

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Anne Bradstreet

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5
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Who invented the Italian Sonnet form?

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Petrarch

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Edna Pontellier is a character in what book?

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The Awakening

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6
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Rose of Sharon was a character in what novel?

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Grapes of Wrath

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Who murders Jay Gatsby?

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(George?) Wilson

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What Grave yard poet wrote “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”?

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Thomas Gravy

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10
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Who wrote The Death of the Heart?

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Elizabeth Bowen

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12
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Who kills King Arthur?

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Mordred

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12
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Who wrote Dover Beach?

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Mathew Arnold

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13
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Which Greek Philosopher called himself Gadfly?

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Socrates

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13
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What poem about the American Revolution and poet contains this quote “listen my children and you shall hear”?

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Longfellow and paul reveers ride

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Piggy and Ralph were characters in what book?

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Lord of the Flies

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16
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Arthur Dimmsdale was a preacher in what novel

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Scarlett Letter

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17
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Who read a poem at JFK’s inaugeration?

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Robert Frost

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18
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Miss Watson was a character in what novel?

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Huckleberry Finn

19
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Who wrote Don Juan?

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Lord George Gordon Byron

21
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Who was tossed out of school for Atheism?

A

Percy Shelly

22
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What is Samuel Pepys writing genre?

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Diary

24
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What opera by Leonard Bernstein is based on a satrical work by Voltaire?

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Candide

26
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Who wrote Tarzan

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Edgar ric Burroughs

27
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Dr Manette is a character in what book?

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A Tale of two Cites

27
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Who wrote Richard Cory?

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Edward Arlington Robinson

27
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Myrtle Wilson was a character in what novel?

A

The Great Gatsby

29
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For whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is about what war?

A

spanish civil war

30
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Lady Brett Ashley is a character in what book?

A

The sun also rises

31
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Which two authors write in a method/genre in Steam of Consciousness

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Virginia Woolf and James Joyce

32
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Who wrote Go Down, Moses?

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William Faulkner

33
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Who was a metaphysical poet?

A

John Donne

34
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Who wrote “A Sound of Thunder”?

A

Ray Bradbury

34
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Who wrote hichhiker’s guide to the Galaxy?

A

Douglas Adams

34
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Sydney Carton is a Character in what book?

A

A Tale of two Cites

36
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What was Hector Hugh Munro’s pen name?

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Saki

38
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Who wrote The Optimist’s Daughter

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Eudora Welty

40
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What book with what author was “Justify the Ways of God to men” written in?

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Paradise Lost, John Milton

41
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Who wrote Death Be Not Proud?

A

John Donne

43
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Who wrote Intruder in the Dust?

A

William Faulkner

44
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Tea Cake was in what novel?

A

Their eyes were watching god

44
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Jean Valjean was a character from what play?

A

Les Miserables

46
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Who wrote “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”?

A

James Thurber

47
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Which Author Said “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”

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Voltaire

48
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Who wrote She Walks in Beauty?

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Lord George Gordon Byron

50
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who was a Polish born Britsh Author?

A

Joseph Conrad

51
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Which American Author said “Man is the only animal that blushes- or needs to.”

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Mark Twain

53
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Who invented the English Sonnet form?

A

Shakespear

54
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Estella, Miss Havisham, Joe Bargery, and Pip are characters in what novel?

A

Great Expectations

55
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Hester Prynne was a character in what novel?

A

The Scarlett Letter

56
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Who wrote “The Open Window”?

A

Saki or Munro

57
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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

58
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Who said the “The Horror, the Horror” in heart of darkness?

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Mister Kurtz