BB lit questions 2006-2011 Flashcards
Mr Bumble, Bill Sikes, Nancy, and the Artful Doger are all characters in what novel?
Oliver Twist
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Children?
Richard Wright
How many lines are in each stanza of Dante’s Commedia?
3
Walt Whitman wrote in what type of verse?
Free Verse
Who wrote “To my dear and Loving husband”?
Anne Bradstreet
Who wrote The Dead?
James Joyce
Who’s hair was cut in the Rape of the Lock?
Belinda
What planet do the invaders from The War of The Worlds come from?
Mars
Shakespear wrote mainly in what three categories?
History, comedy, and tragedy
Who wrote “upon the Burning of our House”?
Anne Bradstreet
Who invented the Italian Sonnet form?
Petrarch
Edna Pontellier is a character in what book?
The Awakening
Rose of Sharon was a character in what novel?
Grapes of Wrath
Who murders Jay Gatsby?
(George?) Wilson
What Grave yard poet wrote “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”?
Thomas Gravy
Who wrote The Death of the Heart?
Elizabeth Bowen
Who kills King Arthur?
Mordred
Who wrote Dover Beach?
Mathew Arnold
Which Greek Philosopher called himself Gadfly?
Socrates
What poem about the American Revolution and poet contains this quote “listen my children and you shall hear”?
Longfellow and paul reveers ride
Piggy and Ralph were characters in what book?
Lord of the Flies
Arthur Dimmsdale was a preacher in what novel
Scarlett Letter
Who read a poem at JFK’s inaugeration?
Robert Frost
Miss Watson was a character in what novel?
Huckleberry Finn
Who wrote Don Juan?
Lord George Gordon Byron
Who was tossed out of school for Atheism?
Percy Shelly
What is Samuel Pepys writing genre?
Diary
What opera by Leonard Bernstein is based on a satrical work by Voltaire?
Candide
Who wrote Tarzan
Edgar ric Burroughs
Dr Manette is a character in what book?
A Tale of two Cites
Who wrote Richard Cory?
Edward Arlington Robinson
Myrtle Wilson was a character in what novel?
The Great Gatsby
For whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is about what war?
spanish civil war
Lady Brett Ashley is a character in what book?
The sun also rises
Which two authors write in a method/genre in Steam of Consciousness
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
Who wrote Go Down, Moses?
William Faulkner
Who was a metaphysical poet?
John Donne
Who wrote “A Sound of Thunder”?
Ray Bradbury
Who wrote hichhiker’s guide to the Galaxy?
Douglas Adams
Sydney Carton is a Character in what book?
A Tale of two Cites
What was Hector Hugh Munro’s pen name?
Saki
Who wrote The Optimist’s Daughter
Eudora Welty
What book with what author was “Justify the Ways of God to men” written in?
Paradise Lost, John Milton
Who wrote Death Be Not Proud?
John Donne
Who wrote Intruder in the Dust?
William Faulkner
Tea Cake was in what novel?
Their eyes were watching god
Jean Valjean was a character from what play?
Les Miserables
Who wrote “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”?
James Thurber
Which Author Said “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
Voltaire
Who wrote She Walks in Beauty?
Lord George Gordon Byron
who was a Polish born Britsh Author?
Joseph Conrad
Which American Author said “Man is the only animal that blushes- or needs to.”
Mark Twain
Who invented the English Sonnet form?
Shakespear
Estella, Miss Havisham, Joe Bargery, and Pip are characters in what novel?
Great Expectations
Hester Prynne was a character in what novel?
The Scarlett Letter
Who wrote “The Open Window”?
Saki or Munro
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who said the “The Horror, the Horror” in heart of darkness?
Mister Kurtz
