Lit unfortunately Flashcards
What author has a novel where friar John founds an institution with the motto “Do what thou wilt”
Rabelais
Who wrote The Vicomte of Bragelonne
Alexander Dumas
What text tells rulers that it is safer to be feared than loved
The Prince
What Weaver of Raveloe rebuilds his life after he is accused of theft
Silas Marner
What novel’s protagonist has a fistfight as a boy with his eventual roomate, Herbert Pocket
Great Expectations
In what play do Nick and Honey visit George and Martha
Who’s afraid of virginia woolf
Who wrote Silas Marner
George Elliot
What author wrote about a protagonist who wrestles Amalinze the cat
Achebe
Who wrote Walden Two
BF Skinner
Who wrote Waiting for Godot
Beckett
What character is banished from a city after urinating to put out a fire
Gulliver
In what novel is a character gifted an electric piano after a terrible Schuman performance in her youth
The Joy Luck Club (Tan)
Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels
Johnathon Swift
Who wrote Chickamauga
Ambrose Bierce
Who wrote Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Who wrote Leda and the Swan
William Butler Yates
What novel features a flashback to Damuddy’s funeral
The sound and the Fury
Who wrote the House of Mirth
Edith Wharton
What author wrote about Celie in the Color Purple
Alice Walker
In what novel does Jim Burden relate his experiences with the title member of the Shimerda family
My Antonia
Who wrote My Antonia
Willa Cather
What poem begins “I will arise and go now”
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Who wrote the Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yates
What animal did Carol Ann Duffy write a collection about
Bees
Who wrote the Human Comedy
Balzac
In what novel does the title character work at a lignite mine on Crete
Zorba the Greek
Who wrote Zorba the Greek
Kzantzakis
What author wrote about his father’s death from tuberculosis, which coincided with a 1943 riot in Harlem
James Baldwin
What novel’s main character explores a building he nicknames the Palace of Green Porcelain
The Time Machine
What poet described how the hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls
William Blake
What author wrote about a vengeful Brazilian baron that poisons a married couple
Balzac
Who wrote The Second Coming
William Butler Yates
What novel contains a blank chapter that implies the protagonist’s death
Tale of Genji (Murasaki)
What poem describes a place where “midnight’s all a glimmer”
Lake Isle of Innisfree
Who wrote a letter titled “my dungeon shook” which was sent to his nephew on the 100th anniversary of emancipation
James Baldwin
What novel’s protagonist defends himself using his prized matches
The time machine
Who wrote the time machine
HG Wells
What author wrote a poem whose speaker “wandered through each chartered street” of London
William Blake
What play begins and ends with a maid named Sabina worrying about George’s return from work
Skin of Our Teeth
What play is set in Grover’s Corners
Our Town
Who wrote The Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder
What author compared the tenderness of patient minds to funeral flowers
Wilfred Owen
What book says it’s not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in zanzibar
Walden
What author wrote Young Goodman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What author created a trilogy known as To the Ends of the Earth
William Golding
What poem has it’s first section addressed to a man who murdered his twelve secretaries
Howl
Who wrote Jude the Obscure and Tess of the Durburvilles
Thomas Hardy
In what play does Maggie question her husband Brick’s sexuality
Cat on a hot tin roof
In what play does a man eat all of the cucumber sandwiches prepared for the visit of a relative
The importance of being earnest
What man described a persons attempt to move into a higher social class using pecuniary emulation
Thorstein Veblen
What novel talks about an artist who is poor because his grandmother was disowned for marrying a Polish musician
Middlemarch (Elliot)
What author wrote a poem where the speaker observes that the atmosphere is not a perfume
Walt Whitman
In what play does a man write a novel about a boy who killed his parents, but his father in law steps in to prevent it from being published
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf
What author’s years of exile on the island of Guernsey inspired his novel Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo
What author wrote about a hobo named soapy who decides to reform after hearing a church organ
O Henry
What Mexican state created mariachi and is home to Guadalajara
Jalisco
What novel describes the stopped clocks at Satis House where a woman always wears a wedding dress
Great Expectations
What poet wondered if old unhappy far off things and battles long ago were the subject of a tune sung by a worker in the poem The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth
Who wrote Go Tell it on the Mountain
Baldwin
What novel sees the title character marry Edward Rochester
Jane Eyre
Who wrote Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
What author wrote about a decayed house where a Jew squats on the window sill
TS Elliot
What book is about a former boxing champion who goes to Spain where he gets into a fight with a matador
The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)
In what novel do psychiatrists prescribe shock treatments to address Esther’s mental issues
The Bell Jar (Plath)
In what novel does Edward Leeford try to prevent the title character from receiving an inheritance
Oliver Twist
Who adopts Oliver Twist
Mr Brownlow
What author’s poem The Portent depicts the execution of John Brown and was part of his civil war collection called Battle-Pieces
Herman Mellville
What author introduced the phrase “Willing suspension of disbelief” in his Biographia Literaria
Coleridge
What author depicted a fictional south african civil war in July’s People
Nadine Gordimer
What poem describes a sword that melts into gory icicles
Beowulf
Who is holden caufields sister in the catcher in the rye
Phoebe
What war is the subject of Tobias Wolff’s memoir In Pharoah’s Army
Vietnam
What author’s second novel about Temple Drake includes the quote “the past is never dead. it’s not even past”
William Faulkner
What book contains 100,000 couplets and is in sanskrit
Mahabharata
Who wrote the Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Ruth Benedict
What author wrote a poem that ends with a warning to remember the fate of the horse Meg
Robert Burns
Who wrote The Prince
Machiavelli
What collection’s second edition ends with a poem describing the light hearts of those who leave/just to be leaving
Fleurs du mal
What author described the dreamless, uninvaded sleep of a monster that inhabits the abysmal sea
Alfred Lord Tennyson
What cousin of Nick Carraway accidentally kills Myrtle Wilson
Daisy Buchanan
What novel is set during WW2 and centers on John Yossarian
Catch-22
Who wrote Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Who wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Edward Albee
In what novel is Meursalt put on trial for shooting an arab man
The stranger
Who wrote the stranger
Albert Camus
What thinker advocated for a mixed constitution in a book critical of Republic
Aristotle
What poet described the emanations of four beings known as zoas that were created by Albion
William Blake
What author wrote The Power and the Glory and The Third Man
Henry Greene
What novel’s Uji chapters follow two relatives of the protagonist
Tale of Genji (Murasaki)
What novel features a title mahjong group
The Joy Luck Club
Who wrote the Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
What author talked about her experiences raising four children in Life Among the Savages
Shirley Jackson
In what novel by Shirley Jackson does a woman draw a slip of paper marked with a black spot and is then stoned to death
The Lottery
What woman is killed at the end of The Lottery
Tessie
What author wrote about Harry Angstrom in Rabbit,Run
John Updike
What novel’s protagonist is helped by lessons from Abbe Faria
The count of montercristo
What is the prison/fortress called in the Count of Montecristo
Chateau Deef
What man is actually the count of Montecristo
Edmond Dantes
What man is described as a mystagogue of science in a Frederich Nietzche book
Socrates
In what novel is the stage name Waldengarver taken by the former church clerk Wopsle
Great Expectations
