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What poet wrote The Bridge and reflected the influence of TS Eliot

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Harold Crane

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What character often thinks about a rhyme beginning with the words oranges and lemons

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Winston Smith

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What Portugese author won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for novels such as Blindness

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Jose Saramago

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What author frequently targeted the statesman Cleon

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Aristophanes

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What character is abused by Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew

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Kate

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What novel features a meteor that traces out the title object that is spotted from atop a scaffold

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The Scarlet Letter

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What author wrote about bearing the bandages, water and sponge in his poem “The Wound-Dresser” which appears in his collection Drum-Taps

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Walt Whitman

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In what novel does Sir Walter’s daughter Anne unexpectedly encounter her former fiance Frederick Wentworth

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Persuasion

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What character imagines being shot after he is attacked by the Edmont Hotel’s elevator operator, Maurice

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Holden Caulfield

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Who wrote Persuasion

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Jane Austen

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What author wrote a novel in which the Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart helps to restore the inheritance of David Balfour

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Who wrote their eyes were watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston

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What author wrote about a servant named Maslova who is wrongly accused of murder and sent to Siberia in Ressurection

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Tolstoy

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What detective finds a piece of correspondence hidden in plain sight in The Purloined Letter

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Auguste Dupin

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What author wrote C. Auguste Dupin

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Edgar Allen Poe

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Whose corpse is found floating in the Seine in an Edgar Allen Poe mystery

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Marie Roget

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What daughter of Abel Magwitch was brought up as a ward at Satis house

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Estella

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What woman raised Estella in Great Expectations

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Ms Havisham

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What Japanese author committed seppuku on live TV and wrote The Temple of the Golden Pavillion

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Yukio Mishima

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What work’s protagonist carries out an affair with Duncan while visitng Venice

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

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What novel’s character is silenced by a police officer after asking if it’s illegal to call a man a pimp, and is let off with a warning for beating his girlfriend after the protagonist testifies for him in court

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The Stranger

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What man slays the giant Humbaba in the Cedar Forest with his friend Enkidu

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Gilgamesh

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What author wrote in a story collection about Eloise who sleeps on the edge of her bed to make room for her imaginary friend Mickey Mickeranno

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JD Salinger

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What character describes a left handed baseball gloves in an essay he writes for his roomate

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Holden Caulfield

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What flower titles a poem whose speaker mourns after he witnesses the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night

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Lilacs

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Who wrote When Lilacs in the Dooryard Last Bloom’d and wrote Song of Myself

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Walt Whitman

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What book contains characters such as one who gets his nickname while trying to catch earwigs with a flowerpot and has an unusual writing style

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Finnegan’s Wake

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Who wrote Finnegan’s Wake

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James Joyce

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What novel describes the activities of Leopold Bloom

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Ulysses

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In what novel does Stephen Kumalo search for his son, only to find out that he is sentenced to death after murdering Arthur Jarvis

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Cry the Beloved Country

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What character is discovered to be a prostitute after Stephen Kumalo finds her in Johannesburg

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Gertrude

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Who wrote Cry the Beloved Country

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Alan Paton

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What poet wrote about a fight in The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov

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Mikhail Lermontov

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What poet described a failed bet in The Queen of Spades and had a Modest Mussorgsky opera based off of his Boris Godunov

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Alexsandr Pushkin

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In what Pushkin play does the title character kill Lensky in a duel after he flirts with Lensky’s Fiance

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Eugene Onegin

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What story’s narrator lies awake at night listening to death watch beetles in the walls

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The Telltale Heart

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In what play does Nora Helmer realize her husband Torvald has treated her like a toy

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A Doll’s House

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What Henrik Ibsen play is named after the wife on an unremarkable scholar Jorgen

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Hedda Gabler

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In what drama does Pastor Manders learn the Helen’s happy marriage to Captain Alving was a sham

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Ghosts

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What character narrates a novel that describes Gentleman Brown’s attacks on the East Indies region of Patusan

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Charles Marlow

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What book does Charles Marlow narrarate

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Heart of Darkness (Conrad)

43
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What character sinks into alcoholism at the Chestnut Tree Cafe after he is threatened by hungry rats in Room 101

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Winston Smith

44
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What author wrote about an Igbo priest Ezeulu in Arrow of God

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Chinua Achebe

45
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What character asks for a mirror to test whether a woman is still alive by seeing if her breath will fog it up

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King Lear

46
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What long poem is dedicated to Carl Solomon

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Howl

47
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What psychiatric hospital is mentioned in Howl

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Rockland

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Who wrote Howl

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Allen Ginsberg

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What warrior duels Hector to a draw in the Iliad and later dies to falling on his own sword

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Ajax

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What character took 10 years to return from Troy to his homeland of Ithaca

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Odysseus

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What character who is wisest of the centaurs tutored Ajax and many other heroes

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Chiron

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What author wrote a play which depicts a Red Hook tenement building where Beatrice asks “When am I gonna be a wife Again”

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Arthur Miller

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What Canadian author depicted a pandemic caused by a supervirulent virus in her novel Oryx and Crake

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Margaret Atwood

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What English poem is about the escapades of a man from Seville

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Don Juan

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Who wrote Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

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Lord Byron

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What poet laureate did Lord Byron call “rather insolent” in his dedication to Don Juan

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Robert Southey

57
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What character claims to be Rudolf Schmidt, who has a brain tumor while on a train

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Holden Caulfield

58
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What philosopher worked with Jean d’Alembert to edit the Encyclopedie and wrote the dialogue Rameau’s Nephew shortly after returning to France from Ruissa

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Denis Diderot

59
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What Russian empress corresponded with Voltaire

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Catherine the Great

60
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What French enlightenment thinker supported separation of powers in his The Spirit of the Laws

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Who wrote The Necklacke

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Guy de Maupassant

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In what story is the title prostitute shunned by stagecoach passengers who had begged her for help

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Ball of Fat

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What war is Ball of Fat set during

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Franco-Prussian War

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What character uses the phrase “The woman” to refer to the clever Irene Adler

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Sherlock Holmes

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What Harlem Renaissance author wrote that it was a curious thing/to make a poet black in his sonnet Yet Do I Marvel

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Countee Cullen

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What French sociologist wrote Elementary Forms of Religious Life and The Rules of Sociological Method

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David Emile Durkheim

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What novel’s protagonist turns 40 and marries the 3rd princess after a period of exile in Suma

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The Tale of Genji

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What title bazzar does a boy pay a shilling to enter to buy a gift for Mangan’s sister

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Araby

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What collection is Araby a part of

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Dubliners (Joyce)

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What novel’s protagonist pretends to take piano lessons so she will have an excuse to meet Leon at a hotel

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Madame Bovary

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What german author wrote the Phenomenology of Spirt and pioneered a threefold dialectic that inspired Karl Marx

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Hegel

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In what novel does the architect Robert Faehmel plays the title game every day at the Prince Heinrich Hotel

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Billiards at Half Past Nine

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Who wrote Billiards at Half Past Nine

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Heinrich Boll

74
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What author described a solemn and slow procession that is winding around him in By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame

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Walt Whitman

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In what novel does Pope give a copy of Shakespeare’s plays to Linda on the Malpais reservation in New Mexico

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Brave New World

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What F Scott Fitzgerald novel about Dick and Nicole Diver is set at the Ritz

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Tender is the Night

77
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Who wrote American Psycho

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Bret Ellis

78
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Who wrote the play No Exit

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John Paul Sartre

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What 1949 treatise by Simone de Beauvoir details the history of discrimination against women and helped launch the second wave of feminism

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The second sex

80
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Who wrote The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek

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Kazantzakis

81
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What author wrote a story where Madame Valmonde drives to an estate known as L’Abri to see the title character and her mother

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Kate Chopin

82
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Who wrote The Good Earth

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Pearl Buck

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Who wrote The Children’s Hour and Watch on the Rhine

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Lillian Hellman

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Who wrote a poetry collection titled North of Boston

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Robert Frost

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What novel’s preface is titled The Custom House

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The Scarlet Letter

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What villainous priest stabs Captain Phoebus out of jealous rage

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Claude Frollo

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What character was blamed for the murder of Captain Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Esmeralda

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What animal is arrested and put on trial for sorcery along with Esmerelda in the Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Goat

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What character is the oldest daughter of Baptista Minola and the sister of Bianca

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Kate

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What author broke the fourth wall to describe craftsmen too afraid to make a particular mask in a play that depicts the politcal rise of an itinerant sausage seller

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Aristophanes

91
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What novel’s narrarator discusses Benny McClenahan who travels with four girls

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The Great Gatsby

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What character stole half an ounce of chocolate from his starving baby sister on the day his mother disappeared

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Winston Smith

93
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What character’s cat, Pitty Sing, is thrown against a tree after causing a car crash

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The grandmother

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In what book is the grandmother killed by the misfit

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A good man is hard to find

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What state is A Good Man is Hard to Find set in

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Georgia

96
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What installment of the Waverly novels depicts women named Rebecca and Rowena

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Ivanhoe

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Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel

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Francois Rabelais

98
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What title character shares her inheritance with St. John and his sisters

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Jane Eyre

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What allegory was written by John Bunyan

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Pilgrim’s Progress

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In what novel does William Batulcar manage a troupe of Japaneses acrobats who plan to cross the Pacific to San Fransico

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Around the world in 80 days

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