Literature Flashcards
What was Stephen King’s first published novel?
Carrie 1973
What was Stephen King’s first professional story?
The Glass Floor sold to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967
What is Stephen King’s pseudonym?
Richard Bachman
The eagles are one of the 5 armies in the battle of the five armies that ends what novel?
The Hobbit
President Barack Obama modeled his book Dreams of My Father on this 1952 Ralph Ellison novel
Invisible Man
Popocatépel and Iztaccíhuatl are the two mountains of this type that overshadow the characters of a 1947 Malcolm Lowry novel
Volcanos
In 1938 this novel won the Pulitzer Prize for best fiction, its film adaptation won the Oscar for Best Picture
Gone with the Wind
In 1969 this Philip Roth novel was declared by the Australian government a prohibited import, probably because of the monologue about masturbating with the liver?
Portnoy’s Complaint
While filming a scene, Humphrey Bogart suggested line based on Prospero’s in The Tempest (“we are such stuff as dreams are made of”), which doesn’t appear in this Dashiell Hammett novel
Maltese Falcon
Saleem Sinai discovers that anyone born in India between midnight and 1am on Aug. 15, 1947 has supernatural powers in Midnights Children, written by this Satanic Verses author
Salman Rushdie
The poverty-stricken Bundren family attempt to bury the the remains of Addie Bundren in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi in As I Lay Dying written by this southern author
William Faulkner
This 1947 Pulitzer Prize winning novel’s name is taken from the nursery rhyme”Humpty Dumpty”
All the King’s Men
European cousin Countess Olenska disrupts Newland Archer and May Welland’s perfect marriage at the beginning of this 1920 Edith Wharton novel
The Age of Innocence
“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitAted five travelers into the gulf below begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey by this author
Thornton Wilder
What was the only children’s story ever published by James Bond author Ian Fleming?
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
What is the alternative name of gothic novel Frankenstein?
Modern Day Prometheus
Who is known for Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll
Wide Sargasso Sea is linked to which novel by a Brontë sister?
Jayne Eyre
This was written by Jean Rhys as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jayne Eyre
Macondo, the fictional town in One Hundred Years of Solitude is located in which country
Colombia (the book is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
What is the name of Mr. Darcy’s family estate in Pride and Prejudice?
Pemberly
What tool do the boys use to create fire in Lord of the Flies?
Piggy’s glasses (1954 novel by William Golding)
In Moby-Dick, or the Whale, what does Arab offer to the first man who sights Moby Dick?
A doubloon
Who wrote Anna Karenina?
Leo Tolstoy
The events of the Catcher in the Rye follows which central character?
Holden Cualfield
In the opening of Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood discovers the diary of which character?
Catherine Earnshaw
Which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald states the best thing a girl can be is: a beautiful little fool?
The Great Gatsby
Jayne Eyre is employed at Thornfield Hall in which roll?
Governess
What is the name of Toad’s home in The Wind in the Willows?
Toad Hall
What are the first names of the Brothers Grimm?
Jacob and Wilhelm
First published in 1812. Rapunzel, Hansel & Gretel,
In Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, why is Gregor Samsa unable to quit his job?
Family debts
At the beginning of The Old Man and the Sea, how many days had it been since Santiago had caught a fish?
84
