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Lit unfortunately Flashcards

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What author has a novel where friar John founds an institution with the motto “Do what thou wilt”

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Rabelais

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Who wrote The Vicomte of Bragelonne

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Alexander Dumas

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What text tells rulers that it is safer to be feared than loved

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The Prince

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What Weaver of Raveloe rebuilds his life after he is accused of theft

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Silas Marner

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What novel’s protagonist has a fistfight as a boy with his eventual roomate, Herbert Pocket

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Great Expectations

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In what play do Nick and Honey visit George and Martha

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Who’s afraid of virginia woolf

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Who wrote Silas Marner

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George Elliot

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What author wrote about a protagonist who wrestles Amalinze the cat

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Achebe

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Who wrote Walden Two

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BF Skinner

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Who wrote Waiting for Godot

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Beckett

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What character is banished from a city after urinating to put out a fire

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Gulliver

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In what novel is a character gifted an electric piano after a terrible Schuman performance in her youth

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The Joy Luck Club (Tan)

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Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels

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Johnathon Swift

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Who wrote Chickamauga

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Ambrose Bierce

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Who wrote Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes

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Who wrote Leda and the Swan

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William Butler Yates

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What novel features a flashback to Damuddy’s funeral

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The sound and the Fury

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Who wrote the House of Mirth

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Edith Wharton

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What author wrote about Celie in the Color Purple

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Alice Walker

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In what novel does Jim Burden relate his experiences with the title member of the Shimerda family

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My Antonia

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Who wrote My Antonia

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Willa Cather

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What poem begins “I will arise and go now”

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Lake Isle of Innisfree

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Who wrote the Lake Isle of Innisfree

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William Butler Yates

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What animal did Carol Ann Duffy write a collection about

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Bees

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Who wrote the Human Comedy

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Balzac

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In what novel does the title character work at a lignite mine on Crete

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Zorba the Greek

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Who wrote Zorba the Greek

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Kzantzakis

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What author wrote about his father’s death from tuberculosis, which coincided with a 1943 riot in Harlem

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James Baldwin

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What novel’s main character explores a building he nicknames the Palace of Green Porcelain

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The Time Machine

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What poet described how the hapless soldier’s sigh runs in blood down palace walls

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William Blake

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What author wrote about a vengeful Brazilian baron that poisons a married couple

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Balzac

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Who wrote The Second Coming

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William Butler Yates

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33
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What novel contains a blank chapter that implies the protagonist’s death

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Tale of Genji (Murasaki)

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What poem describes a place where “midnight’s all a glimmer”

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Lake Isle of Innisfree

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Who wrote a letter titled “my dungeon shook” which was sent to his nephew on the 100th anniversary of emancipation

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James Baldwin

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36
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What novel’s protagonist defends himself using his prized matches

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The time machine

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37
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Who wrote the time machine

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HG Wells

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38
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What author wrote a poem whose speaker “wandered through each chartered street” of London

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William Blake

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39
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What play begins and ends with a maid named Sabina worrying about George’s return from work

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Skin of Our Teeth

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40
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What play is set in Grover’s Corners

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Our Town

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41
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Who wrote The Skin of Our Teeth

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Thornton Wilder

42
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What author compared the tenderness of patient minds to funeral flowers

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Wilfred Owen

43
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What book says it’s not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in zanzibar

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Walden

44
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What author wrote Young Goodman Brown

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

45
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What author created a trilogy known as To the Ends of the Earth

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William Golding

46
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What poem has it’s first section addressed to a man who murdered his twelve secretaries

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Howl

47
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Who wrote Jude the Obscure and Tess of the Durburvilles

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Thomas Hardy

48
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In what play does Maggie question her husband Brick’s sexuality

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Cat on a hot tin roof

49
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In what play does a man eat all of the cucumber sandwiches prepared for the visit of a relative

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The importance of being earnest

50
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What man described a persons attempt to move into a higher social class using pecuniary emulation

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Thorstein Veblen

51
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What novel talks about an artist who is poor because his grandmother was disowned for marrying a Polish musician

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Middlemarch (Elliot)

52
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What author wrote a poem where the speaker observes that the atmosphere is not a perfume

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Walt Whitman

53
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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

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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf

54
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What author’s years of exile on the island of Guernsey inspired his novel Toilers of the Sea

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Victor Hugo

55
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What author wrote about a hobo named soapy who decides to reform after hearing a church organ

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O Henry

56
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What Mexican state created mariachi and is home to Guadalajara

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Jalisco

57
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What novel describes the stopped clocks at Satis House where a woman always wears a wedding dress

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Great Expectations

58
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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

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William Wordsworth

59
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Who wrote Go Tell it on the Mountain

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Baldwin

60
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What novel sees the title character marry Edward Rochester

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Jane Eyre

61
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Who wrote Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Bronte

62
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What author wrote about a decayed house where a Jew squats on the window sill

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TS Elliot

63
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What book is about a former boxing champion who goes to Spain where he gets into a fight with a matador

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The Sun Also Rises (Hemingway)

64
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In what novel do psychiatrists prescribe shock treatments to address Esther’s mental issues

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The Bell Jar (Plath)

65
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In what novel does Edward Leeford try to prevent the title character from receiving an inheritance

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Oliver Twist

66
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Who adopts Oliver Twist

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Mr Brownlow

67
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What author’s poem The Portent depicts the execution of John Brown and was part of his civil war collection called Battle-Pieces

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Herman Mellville

68
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What author introduced the phrase “Willing suspension of disbelief” in his Biographia Literaria

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Coleridge

69
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What author depicted a fictional south african civil war in July’s People

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Nadine Gordimer

70
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What poem describes a sword that melts into gory icicles

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Beowulf

71
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Who is holden caufields sister in the catcher in the rye

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Phoebe

72
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What war is the subject of Tobias Wolff’s memoir In Pharoah’s Army

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Vietnam

73
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What author’s second novel about Temple Drake includes the quote “the past is never dead. it’s not even past”

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William Faulkner

74
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What book contains 100,000 couplets and is in sanskrit

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Mahabharata

75
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Who wrote the Chrysanthemum and the Sword

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Ruth Benedict

76
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What author wrote a poem that ends with a warning to remember the fate of the horse Meg

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Robert Burns

77
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Who wrote The Prince

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Machiavelli

78
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What collection’s second edition ends with a poem describing the light hearts of those who leave/just to be leaving

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Fleurs du mal

79
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What author described the dreamless, uninvaded sleep of a monster that inhabits the abysmal sea

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

80
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What cousin of Nick Carraway accidentally kills Myrtle Wilson

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Daisy Buchanan

81
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What novel is set during WW2 and centers on John Yossarian

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Catch-22

82
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Who wrote Catch-22

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Joseph Heller

83
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Who wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

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Edward Albee

84
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In what novel is Meursalt put on trial for shooting an arab man

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The stranger

85
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Who wrote the stranger

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Albert Camus

86
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What thinker advocated for a mixed constitution in a book critical of Republic

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Aristotle

87
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What poet described the emanations of four beings known as zoas that were created by Albion

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William Blake

88
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What author wrote The Power and the Glory and The Third Man

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Henry Greene

89
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What novel’s Uji chapters follow two relatives of the protagonist

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Tale of Genji (Murasaki)

90
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What novel features a title mahjong group

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The Joy Luck Club

91
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Who wrote the Joy Luck Club

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Amy Tan

92
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What author talked about her experiences raising four children in Life Among the Savages

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Shirley Jackson

93
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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

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The Lottery

94
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What woman is killed at the end of The Lottery

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Tessie

95
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What author wrote about Harry Angstrom in Rabbit,Run

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John Updike

96
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What novel’s protagonist is helped by lessons from Abbe Faria

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The count of montercristo

97
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What is the prison/fortress called in the Count of Montecristo

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Chateau Deef

98
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What man is actually the count of Montecristo

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Edmond Dantes

99
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What man is described as a mystagogue of science in a Frederich Nietzche book

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Socrates

100
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In what novel is the stage name Waldengarver taken by the former church clerk Wopsle

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Great Expectations

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