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What poet wrote The Bridge and reflected the influence of TS Eliot
Harold Crane
What character often thinks about a rhyme beginning with the words oranges and lemons
Winston Smith
What Portugese author won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for novels such as Blindness
Jose Saramago
What author frequently targeted the statesman Cleon
Aristophanes
What character is abused by Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew
Kate
What novel features a meteor that traces out the title object that is spotted from atop a scaffold
The Scarlet Letter
What author wrote about bearing the bandages, water and sponge in his poem “The Wound-Dresser” which appears in his collection Drum-Taps
Walt Whitman
In what novel does Sir Walter’s daughter Anne unexpectedly encounter her former fiance Frederick Wentworth
Persuasion
What character imagines being shot after he is attacked by the Edmont Hotel’s elevator operator, Maurice
Holden Caulfield
Who wrote Persuasion
Jane Austen
What author wrote a novel in which the Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart helps to restore the inheritance of David Balfour
Robert Louis Stevenson
Who wrote their eyes were watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
What author wrote about a servant named Maslova who is wrongly accused of murder and sent to Siberia in Ressurection
Tolstoy
What detective finds a piece of correspondence hidden in plain sight in The Purloined Letter
Auguste Dupin
What author wrote C. Auguste Dupin
Edgar Allen Poe
Whose corpse is found floating in the Seine in an Edgar Allen Poe mystery
Marie Roget
What daughter of Abel Magwitch was brought up as a ward at Satis house
Estella
What woman raised Estella in Great Expectations
Ms Havisham
What Japanese author committed seppuku on live TV and wrote The Temple of the Golden Pavillion
Yukio Mishima
What work’s protagonist carries out an affair with Duncan while visitng Venice
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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
The Stranger
What man slays the giant Humbaba in the Cedar Forest with his friend Enkidu
Gilgamesh
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
JD Salinger
What character describes a left handed baseball gloves in an essay he writes for his roomate
Holden Caulfield
What flower titles a poem whose speaker mourns after he witnesses the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night
Lilacs
Who wrote When Lilacs in the Dooryard Last Bloom’d and wrote Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
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
Finnegan’s Wake
Who wrote Finnegan’s Wake
James Joyce
What novel describes the activities of Leopold Bloom
Ulysses
In what novel does Stephen Kumalo search for his son, only to find out that he is sentenced to death after murdering Arthur Jarvis
Cry the Beloved Country
What character is discovered to be a prostitute after Stephen Kumalo finds her in Johannesburg
Gertrude
Who wrote Cry the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
What poet wrote about a fight in The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
Mikhail Lermontov
What poet described a failed bet in The Queen of Spades and had a Modest Mussorgsky opera based off of his Boris Godunov
Alexsandr Pushkin
In what Pushkin play does the title character kill Lensky in a duel after he flirts with Lensky’s Fiance
Eugene Onegin
What story’s narrator lies awake at night listening to death watch beetles in the walls
The Telltale Heart
In what play does Nora Helmer realize her husband Torvald has treated her like a toy
A Doll’s House
What Henrik Ibsen play is named after the wife on an unremarkable scholar Jorgen
Hedda Gabler
In what drama does Pastor Manders learn the Helen’s happy marriage to Captain Alving was a sham
Ghosts
What character narrates a novel that describes Gentleman Brown’s attacks on the East Indies region of Patusan
Charles Marlow
What book does Charles Marlow narrarate
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
What character sinks into alcoholism at the Chestnut Tree Cafe after he is threatened by hungry rats in Room 101
Winston Smith
What author wrote about an Igbo priest Ezeulu in Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
What character asks for a mirror to test whether a woman is still alive by seeing if her breath will fog it up
King Lear
What long poem is dedicated to Carl Solomon
Howl
What psychiatric hospital is mentioned in Howl
Rockland
Who wrote Howl
Allen Ginsberg
What warrior duels Hector to a draw in the Iliad and later dies to falling on his own sword
Ajax
What character took 10 years to return from Troy to his homeland of Ithaca
Odysseus
What character who is wisest of the centaurs tutored Ajax and many other heroes
Chiron
What author wrote a play which depicts a Red Hook tenement building where Beatrice asks “When am I gonna be a wife Again”
Arthur Miller
What Canadian author depicted a pandemic caused by a supervirulent virus in her novel Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
What English poem is about the escapades of a man from Seville
Don Juan
Who wrote Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Lord Byron
What poet laureate did Lord Byron call “rather insolent” in his dedication to Don Juan
Robert Southey
What character claims to be Rudolf Schmidt, who has a brain tumor while on a train
Holden Caulfield
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
Denis Diderot
What Russian empress corresponded with Voltaire
Catherine the Great
What French enlightenment thinker supported separation of powers in his The Spirit of the Laws
Baron de Montesquieu
Who wrote The Necklacke
Guy de Maupassant
In what story is the title prostitute shunned by stagecoach passengers who had begged her for help
Ball of Fat
What war is Ball of Fat set during
Franco-Prussian War
What character uses the phrase “The woman” to refer to the clever Irene Adler
Sherlock Holmes
What Harlem Renaissance author wrote that it was a curious thing/to make a poet black in his sonnet Yet Do I Marvel
Countee Cullen
What French sociologist wrote Elementary Forms of Religious Life and The Rules of Sociological Method
David Emile Durkheim
What novel’s protagonist turns 40 and marries the 3rd princess after a period of exile in Suma
The Tale of Genji
What title bazzar does a boy pay a shilling to enter to buy a gift for Mangan’s sister
Araby
What collection is Araby a part of
Dubliners (Joyce)
What novel’s protagonist pretends to take piano lessons so she will have an excuse to meet Leon at a hotel
Madame Bovary
What german author wrote the Phenomenology of Spirt and pioneered a threefold dialectic that inspired Karl Marx
Hegel
In what novel does the architect Robert Faehmel plays the title game every day at the Prince Heinrich Hotel
Billiards at Half Past Nine
Who wrote Billiards at Half Past Nine
Heinrich Boll
What author described a solemn and slow procession that is winding around him in By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame
Walt Whitman
In what novel does Pope give a copy of Shakespeare’s plays to Linda on the Malpais reservation in New Mexico
Brave New World
What F Scott Fitzgerald novel about Dick and Nicole Diver is set at the Ritz
Tender is the Night
Who wrote American Psycho
Bret Ellis
Who wrote the play No Exit
John Paul Sartre
What 1949 treatise by Simone de Beauvoir details the history of discrimination against women and helped launch the second wave of feminism
The second sex
Who wrote The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek
Kazantzakis
What author wrote a story where Madame Valmonde drives to an estate known as L’Abri to see the title character and her mother
Kate Chopin
Who wrote The Good Earth
Pearl Buck
Who wrote The Children’s Hour and Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman
Who wrote a poetry collection titled North of Boston
Robert Frost
What novel’s preface is titled The Custom House
The Scarlet Letter
What villainous priest stabs Captain Phoebus out of jealous rage
Claude Frollo
What character was blamed for the murder of Captain Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Esmeralda
What animal is arrested and put on trial for sorcery along with Esmerelda in the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Goat
What character is the oldest daughter of Baptista Minola and the sister of Bianca
Kate
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
Aristophanes
What novel’s narrarator discusses Benny McClenahan who travels with four girls
The Great Gatsby
What character stole half an ounce of chocolate from his starving baby sister on the day his mother disappeared
Winston Smith
What character’s cat, Pitty Sing, is thrown against a tree after causing a car crash
The grandmother
In what book is the grandmother killed by the misfit
A good man is hard to find
What state is A Good Man is Hard to Find set in
Georgia
What installment of the Waverly novels depicts women named Rebecca and Rowena
Ivanhoe
Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
What title character shares her inheritance with St. John and his sisters
Jane Eyre
What allegory was written by John Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Progress
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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