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Books, Lit, Bible, Mythology, News Flashcards

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Sid Fleischman Newberry for

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The Whipping Boy

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Author of Candide

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Voltaire

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Author of “Tristram Shandy”

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Laurence Sterne

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Syracuse and Ephesus

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Comedy of Errors (brother/servant pair from each)

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“Now is the winter of our discontent”

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Richard III

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Sign of God’s covenant after the flood

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A rainbow

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Author of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”

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Muriel Spark

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“The Fifth Season” author

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NK Jemisin

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Pulitzer for “The Yearling”

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Marjorie Rawlings

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Bible book with philosophical exploration of the meaning of life

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Ecclesiastes

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“When I have crossed the bar” poet

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Tennyson

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Author of “The Things They Carried”

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Tim O’Brien

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Costard is the comic figure in Shakespeare’s

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Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Shakespeare plays with ghosts

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Hamlet (his father King Hamlet); Macbeth (Banquo); Julius Caesar (Caesar); Richard III (parade)

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Austen novel with John Willoughby

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Sense and Sensibility

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Bible book describing Adam and Eve

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Genesis

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17
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Midsummer Night’s Dream setting

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Athens

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18
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Last book of the Old Testament

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Malachi

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19
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The Lords Prayer is part of the

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Sermon on the Mount

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20
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“Drink to me Only With Thine Eyes” poet

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from Celia by Ben Jonson

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21
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Novel with Heathcliff

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Wuthering Heights

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22
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Deceived to steal his father’s blessing

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Jacob

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Jean Craighead George children’s book

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Julie of the Wolves

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Lafeu is a Shakespeare character in

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All’s Well that Ends Well

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25
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Othello’s wife

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Desdemona

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26
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Valentine and Proteus are characters in

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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27
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George Selden children’s book

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A Cricket in Times Square

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28
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Raskolnikov is the murderer in

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Crime and Punishment

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29
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How long was Jesus in the desert after being baptized

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40 days and 40 nights

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30
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“Burr” and “Lincoln” author

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Gore Vidal

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31
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Author of “The Thin Man”

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Dashiell Hammet

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32
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“Angle of Repose” author

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Wallace Stegner

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33
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Author of Mike Hammer private eye novels

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Mickey Spillane

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34
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Shakespeare play about the Trojan War

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Troilus and Cressida

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35
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King Hrothgar is a character in

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Beowulf

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36
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“Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war”

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Marc Antony in Julius Caesar

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37
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“School for Scandal” author

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Richard Birnsley Sheridan

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38
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Pulitzer for “Dragon’s Teeth”

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Upton Sinclair

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39
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Pulitzer for “The Goldfinch”

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Donna Tartt

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40
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Prospero is a character in

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The Tempest

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41
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Place where Jacob had his dream

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Bethel - house of god

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42
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Author of “a dance to the music of time” cycle

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Anthony Powell

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43
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Where did Jesus change water into wine?

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At a wedding in Cana

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44
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All the King’s Men author

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Robert Penn Warren

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45
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Author of “The Assistant” about Jewish grocer getting robbed

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Bernard Malamud

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46
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Marguerite Henry children’s books

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“Misty of Chincoteague” and “King of the Wind”

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47
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“Faust” author

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Goethe

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48
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“Do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart”

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Proverbs

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49
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Shakespeare play where ____ takes the credit for killing Hotspur

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Henry IV part 1, Falstaff

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50
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3 couples in Merchant of Venice

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Bassanio and Portia, Gratiano and Nerissa (Portia’s maid), Lorenzo and Jessica

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51
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Susan Cooper children’s series

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The Dark is Rising

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52
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Death in Venice author

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Thomas Mann

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53
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Author of “A Death in the Family”

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James Agee

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54
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“Piranesi” author

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Susanna Clarke

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55
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“Ozymandias” poet

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Shelley

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56
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“The Three-Body Problem” author

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Cixin Liu

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57
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What happens to Queen Margaret’s army in Henry VI? part 3

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Richard Neville defeats them, seizes throne and proclaims Edward IV the new king

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58
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Author of mystery novels with Siamese cats

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Lillian Jackson Braun

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59
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Lion in Winter is about

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Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine

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60
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Author of The Island of Doctor Moreau

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HG Wells

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61
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“The City & the City” author

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China Mieville

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62
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“Eugene Onegin” author

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Alexander Pushkin

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63
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Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus with

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Perfume from an alabaster jar

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64
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Author of “Slaughterhouse-Five”

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Kurt Vonnegut

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65
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Bible book describing Moses delivering his people from Pharaoh

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Exodus

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66
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The Life and Opinions of _____, Gentleman

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Tristram Shandy

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67
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Odysseus’s son

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Telemachus

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68
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What do donkeys and goats eat out of?

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A manger

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69
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Bible book describing Tower of Babel

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Genesis

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70
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Author of “Number the Stars”

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Lois Lowry

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71
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Author of “The French Lieutenant’s Woman”

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John Fowles

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72
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Absalom and Achitophel poet

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John Dryden

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73
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Historian of the Roman emperors

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Tacitus

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74
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Author of USA Trilogy

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John Dos Passos

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75
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“Last of the Mohicans” author

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James Fenimore Cooper

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76
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Le Morte d’Arthur

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Thomas Malory

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77
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’ it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’

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Macbeth

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78
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Rosalind is a Shakespeare character in

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As You Like It

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79
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Author of “Housekeeping”

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Marilynne Robinson

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80
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Eleanor Estes children’s book about clothes

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The Hundred Dresses

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81
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“Democracy” American novel author

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Henry Adams

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82
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“The Lady of Shalott” poet

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Tennyson

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83
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John Carter creator

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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84
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early 20th trilogy about English “new money” family

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The Forsyte Saga

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85
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Novel where writer becomes obsessed with a beautiful youth

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Death in Venice

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86
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Two sisters flee court persecution into the forest

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As You Like It

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87
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Descendants of Ham

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Canaanites

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88
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Bible book describing creation of universe and man

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Genesis

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89
Q

Play with Battle of Agincourt

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Henry V

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90
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Caius Martius is the original name of

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Coriolanus

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91
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The fishermen of the miraculous catch

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Peter, James and John

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92
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Shakespeare play where nobleman’s generosity to his friends is not reciprocated so he moves to a cave

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Timon of Athens

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93
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Oronooko author

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Aphra Behn

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94
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The Chronicles of Narnia books

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – 1950
Prince Caspian – 1951
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – 1952
The Silver Chair – 1953
The Horse and His Boy – 1954
The Magician's Nephew – 1955
The Last Battle – 1956
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95
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Who is your personal spiritual caretaker

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Guardian angel

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96
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Bible book describing building of the temple and its destruction by Babylonians

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2 Chronicles

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97
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‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’

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Midsummer Night’s Dream

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98
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Too busy cooking to listen to Jesus

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Martha

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99
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Book narrated by Sal Paradise

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On The Road

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100
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Author of “Unbearable Lightness of Being”

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Milan Kundera

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101
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Who told Namaan to go wash in the Jordan River to be healed

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Elisha

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102
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Author of “Naked Lunch”

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William Burroughs

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103
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“Color Purple” author

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Alice Walker

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104
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Pulitzer for “The Underground Railroad”

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Colson Whitehead

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105
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Author of The Senator’s Wife

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Sue Miller

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106
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Pulitzer for “The Orphan Master’s Son”

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Adam Johnson

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107
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Bible book in which God prescribes laws governing sacrifices and festivals

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Leviticus

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108
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Play where Prince Hal slays Hotspur in battle

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Henry IV part 1

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109
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Why did pharaoh want to kill the baby boys

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Joseph was dead and his descendants, the Hebrews, were too numerous and powerful

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110
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Sam Spade novels author

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Dashiell Hammett

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111
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Collective name for “blessed are the ______, for they shall”

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Beatitudes

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112
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“Woman in White” author

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Wilkie Collins

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113
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Book in which Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead

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John

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114
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Protagonist of this novel is befriended by the Peggotty family

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David Copperfield

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115
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Wife of Priam, Queen of Troy

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Hecuba

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116
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Matthew 5:13 says that “ye are” this mineral phrase, meaning representative of the best of society

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Salt of the earth

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117
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Book about Bigger Thomas

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Native Son by Richard Wright

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118
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Bible book in which author lists stories of signs and miracles to convince readers to believe

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Gospel of John

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119
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“Because i could not stop for Death”

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Emily Dickinson

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120
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Shakespeare’s landlady of the Boar’s Head Tavern

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Mistress Quickly

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121
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Phillip the Bastard is a Shakespeare character in

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King John, son of Richard the Lionheart

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122
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Protagonist of Great Expectations

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Pip

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123
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Bible book with a letter encouraging Christians to cling to Christ despite persecution, because he is greater.

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Hebrews

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124
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Richard III is defeated by

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Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth, then becomes Henry VII

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125
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Speak, for your servant is listening

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What Samuel said after he realized it was God calling his name

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126
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Playwright of Lysistrata

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Aristophanes

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127
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Leader of the Achaeans

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Agamemnon

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128
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Taming of the Shrew setting

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Padua

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129
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“The quality of mercy”

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Merchant of Venice

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130
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“How Do I Love Thee?” poet

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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131
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Bible book in which a righteous man argues with friends about faith

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Job

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132
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Where was Jesus baptized

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Bethany

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133
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He kills Achilles

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Paris (arrow through the foot)

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134
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Author of “The Yellow Wallpaper”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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135
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Helen and Diana perform the bed trick

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All’s Well that Ends Well

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Brother of Menelaus

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Agamemnon

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Thrown in a pit by brothers

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Joseph

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Bible book in which Moses dies

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Deuteronomy

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Chief Norse god

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Odin

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Caesar conspirators

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Brutus, Cassius, Casca

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Who kills Tybalt?

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Romeo

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“I will maintain my love to him forever, my covenant with him will never fail” is from

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Psalms

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“Brevity is the soul of wit”

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Hamlet, Polonius

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Pulitzer for “The Overstory”

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Richard Powers

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National Book Award for “Charming Billy”

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Alice McDermott

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“Fiddler on the Roof” inspiring stories

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Sholom Aleichem

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Who attempted Jesus in the desert?

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Satan

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Triumvirate ruling Rome in Antony and Cleopatra

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Antony, Octavius Caesar, Lepidus

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Shakespeare play where King Ferdinand wants the Princess of France

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Loves Labour’s Lost

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Iago suggests to Othello that Desdemona is ________’s lover

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Cassio

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Author of “The heart of the Matter”

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Graham Greene

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Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler author

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EL Konigsburg

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Shakespeare play featuring Joan of Arc

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Henry VI part 1

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Author of “The Maltese Falcon”

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Dashiell Hammet

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“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”

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Philippians

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Author of “Dog Soldiers” about heroin smuggling post Vietnam

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Robert Stone

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His L.A. novels include

“The Black Dahlia”

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James Ellroy

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Novel about Hiro Protagonist

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Snow Crash

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How did the Wise men find Baby Jesus?

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The star of Bethlehem

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“City and the Pillar” author

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Gore Vidal

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Julia and Silvia are characters in

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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Bible book describing history of Israel, culminating with David commissioning the temple

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1 Chronicles

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Bible book in which a man warns neighboring nation they will be judged for plundering Jerusalem

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Obadiah

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Bible book describing Jacob and Joseph

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Genesis

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Shakespeare play where the King of Navarre and his three companions swear to avoid women for three years

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Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Polixenes is a character in

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The Winter’s Tale

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Bible book that is a poem about the vanity of earthly things

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Ecclesiastes

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Pulitzer for “The Road”

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Cormac McCarthy

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Who baptized in Jesus

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John the

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Author of War of the Worlds

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HG Wells

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Novel about Becky Sharp

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Vanity Fair

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Vulgar fat knight character in Shakespeare

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Falstaff

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Shakespeare play where sons are served in a pie

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Titus Andronicus

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Name for Ancient Greeks used in the Iliad

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Achaeans

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Author of “At Swim-Two-Birds”

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Flann O’Brien

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Who struck the rock and made water flow

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Moses

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Prospero adopted, raised, and enslaved ____

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Caliban

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Novel about Esther Summerson

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Bleak House

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Author of “Martian Chronicles”

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Ray Bradbury

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American Psycho novel by

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Brett Easton Ellis

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Camus was born in

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Algeria

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Playwright of The Frogs

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Aristophanes

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Sydney Carton is a character in

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A Tale of Two Cities

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“A Good Man is Hard to Find” author

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Flannery O’Connor

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Pulitzer for “The Executioner’s Song”

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Norman Mailer

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Thaisa is a character in

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Pericles

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“Brideshead Revisited” author

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Evelyn Waugh

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Prince of Troy, foremost Trojan warrior

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Hector

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Author of “Fahrenheit 451”

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Ray Bradbury

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Bible book that is a love poem

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Song of Solomon

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Pulitzer for “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”

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Thornton Wilder

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“Dune” author

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Frank Herbert

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For god So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not Perish but shall have eternal life

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John

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Helps but then tries to blackmail Richard III

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Buckingham

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Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri

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Cabaret-inspiring author

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Christopher Isherwood

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Prospero encourages a romantic relationship between

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Miranda and Ferdinand

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“Jane Eyre” author

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Charlotte Bronte

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British sci fi writer, more than 50 books

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Arthur C. Clarke

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Author of “Falconer”

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John Cheever

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“The Caine Mutiny” author, won Pulitzer

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Herman Wouk, WWII in Pacific

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Novel with Mr. Rochester

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Jane Eyre

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Angelo is the main character in

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Measure for Measure

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Author of “Main Street”

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Sinclair Lewis

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Novelist of “Jaws”

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Peter Benchley

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Troilus and Cressida setting

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Troy

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Pulitzer for “Gilead”

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Marilynne Robinson

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“All the world’s a stage”

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As You Like It, Jaques

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Macbeth’s friend

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Banquo, comes back as ghost

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Esther Forbes children’s book about the Revolution

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Johnny Tremain

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Author of Brideshead Revisited

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Evelyn Waugh

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Bible book with visions of things that have been, that are, and that are yet to come

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Revelation

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“Stranger in a Strange Land” scifi author

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Robert Heinlein

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Posthumus is a character in

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Cymbeline

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“All the King’s Men” author

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Robert Penn Warn

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Created by Charles Portis, this U.S. Marshal helps 14-year-old Mattie Ross track her father’s killer

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Rooster Cogburn

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Pulitzer for “Less”

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Andrew Sean Greer

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Bible book containing dirges for Jerusalem after Babylonian attacks

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Lamentations

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“The Gods Themselves” scifi author

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Isaac Asimov

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Bible book in which disobedient prophet runs from God

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Jonah

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King who instituted major religious reforms in Judah

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Josiah

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“To be or not to be”

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Hamlet

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Book in which Jesus turned water into wine

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John - describing the first miracle

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“Eloise” author

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Kay Thompson

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Confess with your mouth

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Romans

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Gonzalo is a character in

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The Tempest

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Tom Joad is a character in

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Grapes of Wrath

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Shakespeare play with French Princess Katherine

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Henry V

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Bible book describing Abraham and Isaac

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Genesis

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Dr. Faustus playwright

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Christopher Marlowe

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“Wuthering Heights” author

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Emily Bronte

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Author of “The Illustrated Man”

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Ray Bradbury

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“All that glisters is not gold”

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Merchant of Venice

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“Death Be Not Proud” poet

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John Donne

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Play with Duke disguised as a Friar

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Measure for Measure

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“Exodus” author

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Leon Uris

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1930s novel about marginal disappointed Hollywood people

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The Day of the Locust

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Author of “Snow Crash”

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Neal Stephenson

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Author of “Tom Jones”

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Fielding

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Thriller about Jack Ryan and a Soviet Sub

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The Hunt for Red October

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Author of A Clockwork Orange

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JD Salinger

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Bible book with story of Lot

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Genesis

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Author of “Appointment in Samarra”

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John O’Hara

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“A Wrinkle in Time” author

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Madeleine L’Engle

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Narnia author

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C.S. Lewis

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Battle Hymn of the Republic poet

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Julia Ward Howe

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“Way of the World” playwright

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William Congreve

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Bible epistles of _____

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Paul, writing to churches to tell them about how to do things

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“To thine own self be true”

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Hamlet, Polonius

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Bible book describing Jewish queen saving her people from a plot

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Esther

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Author of “Satanic Verses”

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Salman Rushdie

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Shakespeare play where deputy institutes harsh morality laws, abuses his power for sexual favors

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Measure for Measure

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National Book Award for “Sing, Unburied, Sing”

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Jesmyn Ward

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Author of “Call it Sleep”

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Henry Roth

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Hector’s wife, Princess of Troy

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Andromache

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Author of “Gulag Archipelago”

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Solzhenitsyn

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“If music be the food of love, play on”

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Twelfth Night

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Dominant English Restoration poet

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John Dryden

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“New Colossus” poet

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Emma Lazarus

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Iago hates Othello for promoting ____ above him

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Cassio

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Kate DiCamillo Newberry for

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The Tale of Despereaux, about a mouse

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“Come to me, all who are weary, and I will give you rest.”

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Matthew

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King of Sparta in the Iliad

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Menelaus

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Composer of Orfeo

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Monteverdi

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“Fear of Flying” author

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Erica Jong

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Author of “The Spy Who Came In From The Cold”

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John Le Carre

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Bible book in which Israel wanders in the desert for 40 years

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Numbers

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Playwright of Medea

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Euripides

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Pulitzer for “Interpreter of Maladies”

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Jhumpa Lahiri

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Shylock’s daughter

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Jessica

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Pulitzer for “All the Light We Cannot See”

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Anthony Doerr

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Elizabeth George Speare children’s books

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“The Witch of Blackbird Pond” and “The Bronze Bow”

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‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘

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Henry IV part 2, Henry IV

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274
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“The Second Coming” poet

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Yeats

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King John’s mother is

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

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276
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High Fidelity novel by

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Nick Hornby

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“The Accidental Tourist” author

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Anne Tyler

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278
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“The Left Hand of Darkness” author

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Ursula LeGuin

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279
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The leader who followed Moses

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Joshua

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280
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Bible book in which God chooses a man to speak for him to Israel and tell them the error of their ways

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Ezekiel

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281
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Price Judas sold Jesus for

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30 pieces of silver

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282
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Novel about Fanny Price

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Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

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283
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Shakespeare play with main antagonist Octavius Caesar

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Antony and Cleopatra

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284
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Author of “Portnoy’s Complaint”

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Philip Roth

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285
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Book about priest in 1830s New Mexico

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Death comes for the Archbishop

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286
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Hannah prayed to God for a son and had

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Samuel

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287
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Trinculo is a character in

A

The Tempest, jester

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288
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Carol Ryrie Brink children’s book

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Caddie Woodlawn

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289
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Who reappeared to Jesus on the mountain?

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Moses and Elijah

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290
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Author of The Crying of Lot 49

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Thomas Pynchon

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Iago manipulates his friend ______ to help him against Othello

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Roderigo

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Dueled (not to the death) in the Iliad

A

Hector and Ajax

293
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Perdita is a character in

A

The Winter’s Tale (king’s daughter, exiled and grows up as shepherd girl)

294
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Pulitzer for “A Thousand Acres”

A

Jane Smiley

295
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Daughter of King Priam

A

Cassandra

296
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Stephen Dedalus is a character in

A

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

297
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Bible book in which Jesus returns to the Father, the Holy Spirit comes to the church, and the gospel of Jesus spreads throughout the world.

A

Acts

298
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Novel about the Dashwood sisters

A

Sense and Sensibility

299
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“Middlemarch” author

A

George Eliot

300
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‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage’

A

Macbeth

301
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What did Moses he after he moved away from Egypt?

A

The burning bush

302
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Hamlet’s Uncle

A

Claudius

303
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Author of The Day of the Locust

A

Nathanael West

304
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Bible book in which prophet warns Israel about coming Babylonian captivity

A

Jeremiah

305
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Prince Florizel is a character in

A

The Winter’s Tale (woos Perdita the “shepherd girl”)

306
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Forest of Arden is the setting of

A

As You Like It

307
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“Galactic Empire” series scifi author

A

Isaac Asimov

308
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Odysseus’s wife

A

Penelope

309
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Priam’s son killed in combat

A

Hector

310
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Bible book describing prophet warning Israel of future judgment and tell them about coming king to bear their sins

A

Isaiah

311
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English Restoration satirist

A

John Dryden

312
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Author of “All the Pretty Horses”

A

Cormac McCarthy

313
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“The Man in the High Castle” author

A

Philip K. Dick

314
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“For whom the bell tolls” novel author

A

Ernest Hemingway

315
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Declares war on Antony when he goes back to Cleopatra

A

Octavius Caesar - tries to become sole ruler of Rome

316
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Bible book with account of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, focusing on Jesus’ role as the true king of the Jews.

A

Gospel of Matthew

317
Q

noble pair in Twelfth Night

A

Olivia and Orsino

318
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Playwright of The Birds

A

Aristophanes

319
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What kind of seed of small plant grows into big tree in a parable?

A

Mustard

320
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Two sons of Henry IV

A

Henry Prince of Wales (Prince Hal), Prince John of Lancaster

321
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Bible book in which Israel renews its covenant at the foot of the promised land

A

Deuteronomy

322
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Mommie Dearest is about

A

Joan Crawford

323
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Main Bible book describing the life of Jesus

A

Gospel of Matthew

324
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Cynthia Voigt newberry for

A

Dicey’s Song

325
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“Jonathan Strange” author

A

Susanna Clarke

326
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“Prophet of the Space Age”

A

Arthur C. Clarke

327
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“Foundation” series scifi author

A

Isaac Asimov

328
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Author of “Lord of the Flies”

A

William Golding

329
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Dickens character who loves Estella

A

Pip in Great Expectations

330
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Eleanor of Aquitaine is a Shakespeare character in

A

King John

331
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Phaedra playwright

A

Jean Racine

332
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Orlando is a Shakespeare character in

A

As You Like It

333
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First notable professional woman writer

A

Aphra Behn

334
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Novel where Jake Barnes and Bret Ashley feel emptiness in Pamplona

A

The Sun Also Rises

335
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Tarzan creator

A

Edgar Rice Burroughs

336
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Soldiers commanded by Achilles

A

The Myrmidons

337
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Betsy Byars children’s book

A

Summer of the Swans

338
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Sons of Earl of Gloucester

A

Edmund and Edgar

339
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Little House books

A 
Little House in the Big Woods (1932) 
Farmer Boy (1933)
Little House on the Prairie (1935)
On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937)
By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939)
The Long Winter (1940)
Little Town on the Prairie (1941)
These Happy Golden Years (1943)
340
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His companion is The Fool

A

King Lear

341
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Nickname of Henry Percy

A

Hotspur

342
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Three Jules Verne works

A

Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Around the World in Eighty Days

343
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“Bonfire of the Vanities” author

A

Tom Wolfe

344
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Believe in the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved

A

Acts

345
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Commits suicide in Hamlet

A

Ophelia

346
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Author of “The Moviegoer”

A

Walker Percy

347
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“The Fountains of Paradise” sci fi novel author

A

Arthur C. Clarke

348
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King who appoints Richard III regent

A

Edward IV, Richard’s brother

349
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Titus Andronicus setting

A

Rome

350
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Hunchback of Notre Dame author

A

Victor Hugo

351
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Bible book describing Noah’s flood

A

Genesis

352
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‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’

A

Othello, Othello

353
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Hotspur leads rebellious subjects against King

A

Henry IV part 1

354
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Shakespeare play with Earl of Gloucester

A

King Lear

355
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Author of “Wide Sargasso Sea”

A

Jean Rhys

356
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Duke Vincentio is a character in

A

Measure for Measure

357
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Son of King John

A

Henry III

358
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Author of “The Volcano Lover”

A

Susan Sontag

359
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Author of Catch-22

A

Joseph Heller

360
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Battle where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra

A

Battle of Actium

361
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Bible book where a new pharaoh enslaves God’s people

A

Exodus

362
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Norse mythology trickster

A

Loki

363
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Duchess of Malfi playwright

A

John Webster

364
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‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

A

Hamlet

365
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Founder of City Lights bookstore, published Alan Ginsberg

A

Larence Ferlinghetti

366
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Book about saving art from Nazi looting

A

Monuments Men

367
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Hermione is a character in

A

The Winter’s Tale (king’s wife)

368
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Author of “Play it as it Lays”

A

Joan Didion

369
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“A Modest Proposal” author

A

Jonathan Swift

370
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“My kingdom for a horse”

A

Richard III

371
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Book about American whose London trysts match German missile targets

A

Gravity’s Rainbow

372
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Hindu epic about godlike Rama

A

Ramayana

373
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Bible book in which shepherd preaches against injustice in Northern Kingdom of Israel

A

Amos

374
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‘The better part of valor is discretion‘

A

Henry IV part 1, Falstaff

375
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Bible book in which a census is conducted to determine the size of God’s army

A

Numbers

376
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Wonderful Counselor in

A

Isaiah

377
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Who is told to go wash in the Jordan River to be healed

A

Namaan

378
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“Battlefield Earth” scifi author

A

L. Ron Hubbard

379
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Mother of Ishmael

A

Hagar

380
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Pulitzer for “Rabbit is Rich”

A

John Updike

381
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Pulitzer for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

A

Junot Diaz

382
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Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles

A

Isaiah

383
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Rooster Cogburn is a character in

A

True Grit. (Novel then film)

384
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Author of atonement

A

Ian McEwan

385
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Author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey

A

Thornton Wilder

386
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“Nightfall” scifi short story author

A

Isaac Asimov

387
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Play where King Henry marries Margaret of Anjou

A

Henry VI part 2

388
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Author of “Pale Fire” about obsessed gay poet

A

Vladimir Nabokov

389
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Miranda is a character in

A

The Tempest

390
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‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’

A

Julius Caesar, Cassius

391
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Author of Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels

A

Dorothy L. Sayers

392
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Bible book in which Israel splits into two kings after Solomon

A

1 Kings

393
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name of jester in Twelfth Night

A

Feste

394
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Pulitzer for “Empire Falls”

A

Richard Russo

395
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‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’

A

Hamlet, Ophelia

396
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Takes the throne when King John dies

A

his son Henry III

397
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English novel by Hungarian-born author about Stalinist purge and show trials

A

Darkness at Noon

398
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Wife of Menelaus

A

Helen

399
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Bible book in which a man is told to marry a prostitute who leaves him, and he must bring her back

A

Hosea

400
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Duke Frederick is a Shakespeare character in

A

As You Like It

401
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Beverly Clearly Newberry for

A

Dear Mr. Henshaw

402
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Pulitzer for “The Night Watchman”

A

Louise Erdrich

403
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Play in which Falstaff is banished

A

Henry IV part 2

404
Q

‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind’

A

Midsummer Night’s Dream, Helena

405
Q

Author of “Cat’s Cradle”

A

Kurt Vonnegut

406
Q

Author of Phillip Marlowe detective novels

A

Raymond Chandler

407
Q

“April is the cruelest month” poet

A

TS Eliot

408
Q

Bible book with the most thorough account of Jesus’s life, with eyewitness testimonies

A

Gospel of Luke

409
Q

‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’

A

Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar

410
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Bible book with Belshazzar seeing the writing on the wall

A

Daniel

411
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“The Lost World” author

A

Arthur Conan Doyle

412
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“Ivanhoe” author

A

Walter Scott

413
Q

Comic relief in Twelfth Night

A

Sir Toby Belch, Andrew Aguecheek

414
Q

Duke Senior is a Shakespeare character in

A

As You Like It

415
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Who imprisoned Joseph

A

Potiphar

416
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Author of “Watchmen”

A

Alan Moore

417
Q

Angel who told the shepherds of Jesus’s birth

A

Gabriel

418
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Romeo’s best friend

A

Benvolio

419
Q

Bible book in which Moses guides his people to Mt. Sinai

A

Exodus

420
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Bible book collecting songs that Israel sang to God

A

Psalms

421
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French Renaissance author of “Gargantua and Pantagruel”

A

Francois Rabelais

422
Q

Protege of Achilles

A

Patroclus

423
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Bible book ending with God’s people living in Egypt

A

Genesis

424
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Author of “The Golden Notebook”

A

Doris Lessing

425
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Katherine Paterson children’s book

A

Bridge to Terabithia (and Jacob Have I Loved)

426
Q

Rebels against Rome in Antony and Cleopatra

A

Pompey

427
Q

Son of Hector and Andromache

A

Astyanax, killed as a baby

428
Q

“Vanity Fair” author

A

Thackeray

429
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Shakespeare title character flees after revealing nobleman’s incestuous relationship with his daughter

A

Pericles

430
Q

Hero of Niebelungenlied

A

Siegfried

431
Q

Novel with the woman in the attic

A

Jane Eyre

432
Q

historian of Peloponnesian wars

A

Thucydides

433
Q

Pulitzer for “The Stone Diaries”

A

Carol Shields

434
Q

“Bright Lights, Big City” author

A

Jay McInerney

435
Q

“The lady doth protest too much”

A

Hamlet

436
Q

Book in which Jesus healed the blind man

A

John

437
Q

Author of The Blind Assassin

A

Margaret Atwoood

438
Q

Wrote the Oresteia trilogy

A

Aeschylus

439
Q

Author of “Neuromancer”

A

William Gibson

440
Q

He kills Patroclus

A

Hector

441
Q

“Tess of the D’Urbervilles” author

A

Thomas Hardy

442
Q

The only person to ever follow all of the 10 Commandments

A

Jesus

443
Q

“Clan of the Cave Bear” author

A

Jean Auel

444
Q

A bird landed on Jesus after he was baptized, and the bird was

A

The Holy Spirit

445
Q

The woes following the beatitudes are in the book of

A

Luke, part of the Sermon on the Plain

446
Q

Aufidius is a character in

A

Coriolanus

447
Q

Bible books in which Paul gives instructions to his protege

A

1 and 2 Timothy

448
Q

Queen Tamara is a character in

A

Titus Andronicus

449
Q

Author of “Fates and Furies”

A

Lauren Groff

450
Q

2020 novel about black Christian women

A

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

451
Q

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

A

Matthew

452
Q

Pulitzer for “A Visit from the Goon Squad”

A

Jennifer Egan

453
Q

The king who put Daniel in the Lions den

A

Darius

454
Q

Called “On The Road” just “typing”

A

Truman Capote

455
Q

Pilgrim’s Progress author

A

John Bunyan

456
Q

Treasure Island character

A

Long John Silver

457
Q

“‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all” poet

A

Tennyson

458
Q

Shakespeare play where Falstaff woos married women

A

Merry Wives of Windsor

459
Q

Author of The Berlin Stories

A

Christopher Isherwood

460
Q

Shakespeare play where Hotspur’s army is defeated at Shrewsbury

A

Henry IV part 1

461
Q

Play where Duke of York with sons Edward and Richard plots to overthrow king

A

Henry VI part 2

462
Q

Austen novel with Mr. Knightley

A

Emma

463
Q

Bible books telling story of the return of Jews from Babylonian captivity, rebuilding of temple

A

Ezra and Nehemiah

464
Q

“Brave New World” author

A

Aldous Huxley

465
Q

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest author

A

Ken Kesey

466
Q

Marc Antony marries

A

Octavia, Octavius Caesar’s widowed sister

467
Q

The Rover playright

A

Aphra Behn

468
Q

Name of steward in Twelfth Night

A

Malvolio

469
Q

Author of “The Death of the Heart” (1958)

A

Elizabeth Bowen

470
Q

Cardinal Pandolph is a Shakespeare character in

A

King John

471
Q

Play where King tries to bargain with Duke of York, but his wife raises an army to try to defeat him.

A

Henry VI part 3

472
Q

Author of “Herzog”

A

Saul Bellow

473
Q

Disguises herself as Ganymede

A

Rosalind in As You Like It

474
Q

Bible book in which man seeks explanation for suffering and God refuses

A

Job

475
Q

leader of Trojan Army in Iliad

A

Hector, killed in battle

476
Q

Pulitzer for “The Shipping News”

A

E. Annie Proulx

477
Q

“Rape of the Lock” poet

A

Alexander Pope

478
Q

“Ethan Frome” author

A

Edith Wharton

479
Q

Author of The Big Sleep

A

Raymond Chandler

480
Q

Author of “Tropic of Cancer”

A

Henry Miller

481
Q

Playwright of Electra

A

Sophocles

482
Q

Julius Caesar’s wife

A

Calpurnia

483
Q

Caliban is a character in

A

The Tempest

484
Q

Author of “A House for Mr. Biswas”

A

VS Naipaul

485
Q

Pulitzer for “The Killer Angels”

A

Michael Shaara

486
Q

Bible book describing God’s covenant with Abraham

A

Genesis

487
Q

1830 Stendhal work paints a colorful portrait of post-Napoleon France

A

The Red and the Black

488
Q

Widow of Henry VI who then marries Richard III

A

Lady Ann

489
Q

Grendel is a character in

A

Beowulf

490
Q

Moses’ mother

A

Yocheved

491
Q

Book in which Jesus heals the paralytic at Bethesda

A

John

492
Q

Shakespeare play where Prince John leads the King’s forces

A

Henry IV part 2

493
Q

Henry VIII’s father

A

Duke of Buckingham

494
Q

Pulitzer for “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love”

A

Oscar Hijuelos

495
Q

Pulitzer for “The Sympathizer”

A

Viet Thanh Nguyen

496
Q

Ariel is a character in

A

The Tempest

497
Q

National Book Award for “Europe Central”

A

William Vollmann

498
Q

Ate locusts while living in the wilderness

A

John

499
Q

National Book Award for “Shadow Country”

A

Peter Matthiessen

500
Q

Best known Judges

A

Samuel, Eli, Deborah, Samson, Gideon

501
Q

Who kills Mercutio?

A

Tybalt

502
Q

“Childhood’s End” sci fi novel author

A

Arthur C. Clarke

503
Q

Hamlet’s mother

A

Gertrude

504
Q

Patricia McLachlan Newberry for

A

Sarah, Plain and Tall

505
Q

“Andromeda Strain” author

A

Michael Crichton

506
Q

Who was king Lemuel

A

Probably Solomon, maybe Hezekian

507
Q

19th c British writer who championed the Pre-Raphaelites, environmentalism/craft ideas

A

John Ruskin

508
Q

Bible books describing David and Solomon’s southern kingdom

A

Chronicles

509
Q

Big strong Norse god

A

Thor

510
Q

Bible book in which people begin a cycle of sin after Joshua’s death

A

Judges

511
Q

National Book Award for “Salvage the Bones”

A

Jesmyn Ward

512
Q

Mary Ann Evans pen name

A

George Eliot

513
Q

Author of “The Sportswriter”

A

Richard Ford

514
Q

Prussian King who conquered Silesia

A

Frederick the Great

515
Q

Laertes and Ophelia’s father

A

Polonius

516
Q

Cardinal Wolsey is a Shakespeare character in

A

Henry VIII

517
Q

Name of the Merchant of Venice

A

Antonio

518
Q

Author of “Revolutionary Road”

A

Richard Yates

519
Q

Much Ado About Nothing setting

A

Messina

520
Q

King of Sparta, brother to Agamemnon

A

Menelaus

521
Q

King suspects his wife of adultery, imprisons her and exiles their daughter

A

The Winter’s Tale

522
Q

Shakespeare play about Henry IV’s predecessor

A

Richard II

523
Q

Bad angels are called

A

Demons

524
Q

Pulitzer for “The Known World”

A

Edward P. Jones

525
Q

Duke of Gloucester who wants to steal crown from brother Edward IV

A

Richard (III)

526
Q

Post-apocalyptic Catholic monastery novel

A

Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller

527
Q

“Silas Marner” author

A

George Eliot

528
Q

Monster in Beowulf

A

Grendel

529
Q

Who was disguised as the Serpent?

A

Satan

530
Q

Paula Fox children’s book

A

The Slave Dancer

531
Q

King of Troy in the Iliad

A

Priam

532
Q

“The House of Mirth” author

A

Edith Wharton

533
Q

“Ender’s Game” author

A

Orson Scott Card

534
Q

The fruit of the spirit verse is in

A

Galatians

535
Q

They marry the Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cornwall

A

Regan and Goneril

536
Q

Shakespeare - His sons were stolen but are then returned

A

Cymbeline

537
Q

Prophet who lived in the Wilderness

A

John the Baptist

538
Q

‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on’

A

The Tempest, Prospero

539
Q

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” poet

A

Tennyson

540
Q

Adriana is a Shakespeare character in

A

Comedy of Errors

541
Q

Author of “Money” about TV commercial director

A

Martin Amis

542
Q

“Ringworld” author

A

Larry Niven

543
Q

Do unto others is from these books

A

Matthew and Luke

544
Q

Bible book in which man confronts leaders of Israel and Judah regarding their injustice and prophecies that Lord will rule one day

A

Micah

545
Q

Henry Bolingbroke becomes

A

Henry IV

546
Q

Moses’ sister

A

Miriam

547
Q

Come follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people

A

Book of Matthew, said by Jesus

548
Q

Bible book in which God sends a plague of locusts to judge Israel and warn of judgment on surrounding nations

A

Joel

549
Q

Pulitzer for “The Nickel boys”

A

Colson Whitehead

550
Q

author of “The Power and the Glory” about whisky priest in Mexico

A

Graham Greene, condemned by Catholic Church

551
Q

Author of “Deliverance”

A

James Dickey

552
Q

Hamlet mistakenly kills ____, thinking he is ______

A

Polonius, Claudius

553
Q

“The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” scifi author

A

Robert Heinlein

554
Q

Author of “Ragtime”

A

EL Doctorow

555
Q

Pulitzer for “A Confederacy of Dunces”

A

John Kennedy Toole

556
Q

Iago’s wife

A

Emilia

557
Q

“Poet of the Common People” wrote “When the Frost is on the Punkin”

A

James Whitcomb Riley

558
Q

She left her son to die of thirst before God saved him

A

Hagar

559
Q

Books with the Pevensie children

A

Narnia

560
Q

Author of “Player Piano”

A

Kurt Vonnegut

561
Q

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”

A

Marc Antony in Julius Caesar

562
Q

Author of “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

A

Raymond Carver

563
Q

Faerie Queene poet

A

Edmund Spenser

564
Q

who was the Duke of Milan, before his dukedom was usurped and taken from him by his brother

A

Prospero

565
Q

Author of “A Rose for Emily”

A

Faulkner

566
Q

Bible book describing King David’s kingship

A

2 Samuel

567
Q

Bible book collecting sayings to help people make wise decisions

A

Proverbs

568
Q

Butler who plots against Prospero in The Tempest

A

Stephano

569
Q

Isabella is a Shakespeare character in

A

Measure for Measure

570
Q

Also known as Simon

A

Peter

571
Q

Disguises herself in As You Like it

A

Rosalind

572
Q

Chronological first Shakespeare history

A

King John

573
Q

The lord is my shepherd

A

Psalm 23

574
Q

Hero of Around the World in 80 Days

A

Phineas Fogg

575
Q

Pulitzer for “Tales of the South Pacific”

A

Michener

576
Q

Author of Sons and Lovers

A

DH Lawrence

577
Q

Author of “The Magnificent Ambersons” and “Alice Adams” (both Pulitzer)

A

Booth Tarkington

578
Q

Author of The Giver

A

Lois Lowry

579
Q

The priest who gave guidance to Samuel

A

Eli

580
Q

Author of “Native Son”

A

Richard Wright

581
Q

Author of “Under the Volcano” about British consul in Mexico

A

Malcolm Lowry

582
Q

Bible book narrating Solomon’s kingship

A

1 Kings

583
Q

Author of The Corrections

A

Jonathan Franzen

584
Q

Novelist behind The Godfather

A

Mario Puzo

585
Q

Came out of womb holding brother’s heel

A

Jacob

586
Q

William Pene du Bois children’s book

A

The Twenty-One Balloons

587
Q

Who are the Two Gentlemen of Verona?

A

Valentine and Proteus

588
Q

Mistress Page and Mistress Ford

A

Merry Wives of Windsor

589
Q

Peter’s profession

A

Fisherman

590
Q

Celia is a Shakespeare character in

A

As You Like It

591
Q

Scott O’Dell children’s book

A

“Island of the Blue Dolphins”

592
Q

Where did Abraham go at God’s command?

A

Canaan

593
Q

“Flowers in the Attic”

A

VC Andrews

594
Q

“Madam Bovary” author

A

Gustave Flaubert

595
Q

Banquo’s son who escapes

A

Fleance

596
Q

Bible book in which Israel’s kingdoms ignore God and fall

A

2 Kings

597
Q

Book in which Jesus heals a nobleman’s son in Capernaum

A

John

598
Q

Shakespeare play about daughters of Baptista

A

Taming of the Shrew

599
Q

Harry Percy is also known as

A

Hotspur

600
Q

Bible book with brief account of Jesus’ earthly ministry, highlighting authority and servanthood

A

Gospel of Mark

601
Q

Book in which Jesus feeds the multitude (not the loaves and fishes)

A

John

602
Q

Author of “The Recognitions” about an art forger

A

William Gaddis

603
Q

Set an example for the believers

A

Book of Timothy, written by Paul

604
Q

Who walks on water other than Jesus

A

Peter

605
Q

“The Age of Innocence” author

A

Edith Wharton

606
Q

Author of “I, Claudius”

A

Robert Graves

607
Q

Pulitzer for “Advise and Consent”

A

Allen Drury (observed in White House)

608
Q

Comedy of Errors setting

A

Ephesus

609
Q

Greek author of fables

A

Aesop

610
Q

Last book of the New Testament

A

Revelation

611
Q

Pulitzer for “The Hours”

A

Michael Cunningham

612
Q

King Leontes is a character in

A

The Winter’s Tale

613
Q

Author of The Invisible Man

A

HG Wells

614
Q

Why was Daniel put in the Lions den

A

He prayed against the law

615
Q

Author of “The Man Who Loved Children” about miserable Australian family

A

Christina Stead

616
Q

Author of Catcher in the Rye

A

JD Salinger

617
Q

Bible book in which Israel conquers the promised land and divides it among 12 tribes

A

Joshua

618
Q

Bible Book in which God orders the building of his tabernacle

A

Exodus

619
Q

“The Mill on the Floss” author

A

George Eliot

620
Q

“We few…we happy few, we band of brothers”

A

Henry V

621
Q

Author of Darkness at Noon

A

Arthur Koestler

622
Q

Author of “The Poisonwood Bible”

A

Barbara Kingsolver

623
Q

“The Dispossessed” scifi author

A

Ursula LeGuin

624
Q

He kills Hector

A

Achilles

625
Q

Songs of Innocence

A

William Blake

626
Q

Dreamt of gathering grain and his bundle stood up tall

A

Joseph

627
Q

What did God send after Jonah when he tried to run away?

A

a storm

628
Q

Jerry Spinelli Newberry for

A

Maniac Magee

629
Q

“All Quiet on the Western Front” author

A

Erich Maria Remarque

630
Q

What food did god send Moses and Hebrews in the desert

A

Manna and quail

631
Q

Dutch physician who defeats Dracula

A

Van Helsing

632
Q

‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

A

Twelfth Night

633
Q

God’s promise after the flood

A

He would never again flood the earth - the covenant

634
Q

“Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls” poet

A

John Donne

635
Q

Robert Lawson animal children’s book

A

Rabbit Hill

636
Q

Father of Henry Bolingbroke/Henry IV

A

John of Gaunt

637
Q

Author of “The Lottery” short story

A

Shirley Jackson

638
Q

Prospero’s usurping brother

A

Antonio

639
Q

“The Terror” author

A

Dan Simmons

640
Q

Playwright of Volpone

A

Ben Jonson

641
Q

Mildred Taylor children’s book

A

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

642
Q

Charles Darnay is a character in

A

A Tale of Two Cities

643
Q

Pulitzer for “March”

A

Geraldine Brooks

644
Q

Loyal steward of Goneril

A

Oswald

645
Q

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding

A

Proverbs

646
Q

Pulitzer for “Lonesome Dove”

A

Larry McMurtry

647
Q

Author of Cyrano de Bergerac

A

Edmond Rostand

648
Q

Author of “Red Harvest”

A

Dashiell Hammet

649
Q

National Book Award for “Interior Chinatown”

A

Charles Yu

650
Q

Bible book describing the first king of Israel

A

1 Samuel

651
Q

4 lovers in Midsummer Night’s Dream

A

Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena

652
Q

leader of Greek Army in the Iliad

A

Agamemnon

653
Q

Antipholus and Dromio relationship

A

master and servant pairs from Ephesus and Syracuse

654
Q

“New York 2140” author

A

Kim Stanley Robinson

655
Q

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman novels

A

Dragonlance

656
Q

Tamburlaine the Great playwright

A

Christopher Marlowe

657
Q

Author of Blood Meridian

A

Cormac McCarthy

658
Q

Priam and Hecuba’s 6 children

A

Hector, Deiphobus (2nd warrior), Paris, Troilus, Cassandra and Helenus (twins)

659
Q

Bertram is a Shakespeare character in

A

All’s Well that Ends Well

660
Q

Author of “A Passage to India”

A

EM Forster

661
Q

Stephen King book about possessed car

A

Christine

662
Q

Author of “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?”

A

Raymond Carver

663
Q

Hamlet’s schoolmates who spy on him

A

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

664
Q

Robert C. O’Brien children’s book

A

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

665
Q

Novel about Janie Crawford and her Florida town

A

Their Eyes Were Watching God

666
Q

Twelfth Night twins

A

Viola and Sebastian

667
Q

“Chosen” author

A

Chaim Potok

668
Q

Seek and ye shall find

A

Matthew 7:7

669
Q

Who kissed Jesus’s feet

A

Mary Magdalene

670
Q

Shout for joy

A

Psalms

671
Q

Author of “A Handful of Dust”

A

Evelyn Waugh

672
Q

“Starship Troopers” author

A

Robert Heinlein

673
Q

Pulitzer for “Olive Kitteridge”

A

Elizabeth Strout

674
Q

“Blessed are the ____ for they” are in the book of

A

Matthew (Sermon on the Mount)

675
Q

Transforming sorceress in Odyssey

A

Circe

676
Q

“By his stripes/wounds we are healed”

A

Isaiah

677
Q

Bible book in which laws given on Mt. Sinai are recounted to a new generation

A

Deuteronomy

678
Q

Author of “The Persian Boy”

A

Mary Renault

679
Q

Author of “House of the Spirits”

A

Isabel Allende

680
Q

Peter Pan author

A

JM Barrie

681
Q

About 100 years ago, a circus elephant named John L. Sullivan participated in this sport in an act with his trainer

A

boxing

682
Q

Robin McKinley Newberry for

A

The Hero and the Crown

683
Q

“Gulliver’s Travels” author

A

Jonathan Swift

684
Q

Play where Bertram is compelled to marry Helena

A

All’s Well that Ends Well

685
Q

Jonah’s city in the Bible

A

Nineveh

686
Q

Bible Book in which Ten Commandments are given

A

Exodus

687
Q

Bible book in which God prescribes purity laws, including dietary restrictions

A

Leviticus

688
Q

Century of Milton’s “Paradise Lost”

A

17th century

689
Q

Author of The Confessions of Nat Turner

A

William Styron

690
Q

novel about Harry Angstrom

A

Rabbit, Run

691
Q

Austen “Emma”’s last name

A

Woodhouse

692
Q

Touchstone is a Shakespeare character in

A

As You Like It

693
Q

Royal couples in Midsummer Night’s Dream

A

Theseus and Hippolyta, Titania and Oberon

694
Q

Pulitzer for “Middlesex”

A

Jeffrey Eugenides

695
Q

Novel about the Ramsay family vacationing in the Hebrides

A

To The Lighthouse

696
Q

Author of Death Comes for the Archbishop

A

Willa Cather

697
Q

Hamlet’s friend, Ophelia’s brother

A

Laertes

698
Q

Bible book in which a high-ranking wise man in Babylonian and Persian empires has prophetic visions concerning Israel’s future

A

Daniel

699
Q

National Book Award for “The Friend”

A

Sigrid Nunez

700
Q

Dies at the end of Antony and Cleopatra

A

Antony, then Cleopatra

701
Q

Author born in Hindu Trinidad

A

VS Naipaul

702
Q

Book about hungover lecturer that kicked off angry young man fiction

A

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

703
Q

Uriah Heep is a character in

A

David Copperfield

704
Q

“Get thee to a nunnery”

A

Hamlet

705
Q

Diary of 17th century English life

A

Samuel Pepys

706
Q

“Agony and the Ecstasy” author

A

Irving Stone

707
Q

“Robot” series scifi author

A

Isaac Asimov

708
Q

Author of Adam Dalgliesh detective novels

A

PD James

709
Q

“Is this a dagger which I see before me?”

A

Macbeth

710
Q

The Jew of Malta playwright

A

Christopher Marlowe

711
Q

British novel with Cathy

A

Wuthering Heights

712
Q

Tithing is what percent

A

Ten percent of what you have

713
Q

Book about deaf-mute and tomboy in 1930s Georgia

A

“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”

714
Q

National Book Award for “Let the Great World Spin”

A

Colum McCann

715
Q

Virginia Hamilton children’s book

A

M.C. Higgins, The Great

716
Q

Author of “Possession”

A

AS Byatt

717
Q

Author of The Time Machine

A

HG Wells

718
Q

Novel with the Linton family

A

Wuthering Heights

719
Q

Bible book in which a foreigner becomes part of God’s people through marriage

A

Ruth

720
Q

Jaques is a Shakespeare character in

A

As You Like It

721
Q

Who were the explorers of Moses who wanted to move to the land they found

A

Joshua and Caleb

722
Q

Name of cyclops blinded by Odysseus

A

Polyphemus

723
Q

Macbeth kills _____, King of Scotland

A

Duncan

724
Q

Prospero’s daughter is

A

Miranda

725
Q

Author of the Forsyte Saga

A

John Galsworthy

726
Q

Author of Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series

A

MC Beaton

727
Q

Author of Valley of the Dolls

A

Jacqueline Susann

728
Q

“Innocent” and sequel “Presumed Innocent” author

A

Scott Turow

729
Q

Pulitzer for “Independence Day”

A

Richard Ford

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