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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
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
Lilacs
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Who wrote When Lilacs in the Dooryard Last Bloom'd and wrote Song of Myself
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
Finnegan's Wake
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Who wrote Finnegan's Wake
James Joyce
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What novel describes the activities of Leopold Bloom
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
Cry the Beloved Country
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What character is discovered to be a prostitute after Stephen Kumalo finds her in Johannesburg
Gertrude
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Who wrote Cry the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
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What poet wrote about a fight in The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov
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
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
Eugene Onegin
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What story's narrator lies awake at night listening to death watch beetles in the walls
The Telltale Heart
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In what play does Nora Helmer realize her husband Torvald has treated her like a toy
A Doll's House
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What Henrik Ibsen play is named after the wife on an unremarkable scholar Jorgen
Hedda Gabler
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In what drama does Pastor Manders learn the Helen's happy marriage to Captain Alving was a sham
Ghosts
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What character narrates a novel that describes Gentleman Brown's attacks on the East Indies region of Patusan
Charles Marlow
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What book does Charles Marlow narrarate
Heart of Darkness (Conrad)
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What character sinks into alcoholism at the Chestnut Tree Cafe after he is threatened by hungry rats in Room 101
Winston Smith
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What author wrote about an Igbo priest Ezeulu in Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
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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
King Lear
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What long poem is dedicated to Carl Solomon
Howl
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What psychiatric hospital is mentioned in Howl
Rockland
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Who wrote Howl
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
Ajax
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What character took 10 years to return from Troy to his homeland of Ithaca
Odysseus
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What character who is wisest of the centaurs tutored Ajax and many other heroes
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"
Arthur Miller
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What Canadian author depicted a pandemic caused by a supervirulent virus in her novel Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood
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What English poem is about the escapades of a man from Seville
Don Juan
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Who wrote Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron
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What poet laureate did Lord Byron call "rather insolent" in his dedication to Don Juan
Robert Southey
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What character claims to be Rudolf Schmidt, who has a brain tumor while on a train
Holden Caulfield
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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
Denis Diderot
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What Russian empress corresponded with Voltaire
Catherine the Great
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What French enlightenment thinker supported separation of powers in his The Spirit of the Laws
Baron de Montesquieu
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Who wrote The Necklacke
Guy de Maupassant
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In what story is the title prostitute shunned by stagecoach passengers who had begged her for help
Ball of Fat
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What war is Ball of Fat set during
Franco-Prussian War
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What character uses the phrase "The woman" to refer to the clever Irene Adler
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
Countee Cullen
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What French sociologist wrote Elementary Forms of Religious Life and The Rules of Sociological Method
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
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
Araby
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What collection is Araby a part of
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
Madame Bovary
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What german author wrote the Phenomenology of Spirt and pioneered a threefold dialectic that inspired Karl Marx
Hegel
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In what novel does the architect Robert Faehmel plays the title game every day at the Prince Heinrich Hotel
Billiards at Half Past Nine
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Who wrote Billiards at Half Past Nine
Heinrich Boll
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What author described a solemn and slow procession that is winding around him in By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
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
Brave New World
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What F Scott Fitzgerald novel about Dick and Nicole Diver is set at the Ritz
Tender is the Night
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Who wrote American Psycho
Bret Ellis
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Who wrote the play No Exit
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
The second sex
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Who wrote The Last Temptation of Christ and Zorba the Greek
Kazantzakis
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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
Kate Chopin
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Who wrote The Good Earth
Pearl Buck
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Who wrote The Children's Hour and Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman
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Who wrote a poetry collection titled North of Boston
Robert Frost
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What novel's preface is titled The Custom House
The Scarlet Letter
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What villainous priest stabs Captain Phoebus out of jealous rage
Claude Frollo
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What character was blamed for the murder of Captain Phoebus in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Esmeralda
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What animal is arrested and put on trial for sorcery along with Esmerelda in the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Goat
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What character is the oldest daughter of Baptista Minola and the sister of Bianca
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
Aristophanes
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What novel's narrarator discusses Benny McClenahan who travels with four girls
The Great Gatsby
92
What character stole half an ounce of chocolate from his starving baby sister on the day his mother disappeared
Winston Smith
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What character's cat, Pitty Sing, is thrown against a tree after causing a car crash
The grandmother
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In what book is the grandmother killed by the misfit
A good man is hard to find
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What state is A Good Man is Hard to Find set in
Georgia
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What installment of the Waverly novels depicts women named Rebecca and Rowena
Ivanhoe
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Who wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
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What title character shares her inheritance with St. John and his sisters
Jane Eyre
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What allegory was written by John Bunyan
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
Around the world in 80 days

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