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Literature Flashcards

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Writer of “Emma” about Emma Woodhouse

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Who is Jane Austen?

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Writer of “Anna Kerenina”

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Who is Tolstoy?

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Author of “Portnoy’s Complaint”

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Who is Philip Roth?

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Author of popular legal thrillers

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Who is John Grisham?

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“The Final Days” is Woodward and Bernstein’s sequel to this bestseller

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What is “All the President’s Men”?

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Author of “The Underground Railroad” and “The Nickel Boys”

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Who is Colson Whitehead?

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Dubbed “The Queen of Suspense”; Author of “You Belong to Me”

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Who is Mary Higgins Clark?

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Wrote “Stings” published posthumously in “Ariel” in 1965

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Who is Sylvia Plath?

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These shows were based on books by Candace Bushnell

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What are “The Carrie Diaries” and “Sex and the City”?

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“Little House on the Prairie” was based on books by this author

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Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?

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Author of “Catch 22” (satirical war novel)

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Who is Joseph Heller?

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Hemingway story about a bull

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What is “The Sun Also Rises”?

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Utopian novel by Samual Butler

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What is “Erewhon”?

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Maurice Sendak book

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What is “Where the Wild Things Are”?

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Author of “Little Women”

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Who is Louisa May Alcott?

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Book with Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom

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What is “Ulysses”?

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Book with John Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder

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What is “Catch 22”?

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Book with Lucie Manette and Madame Defarge

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What is “A Tale of 2 Cities”?

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Author who wrote “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me”

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Who is Ralph Ellison?

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Author who wrote “From the forest came the call … distinct and definite as never before,—a long-drawn howl”

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Who is Jack London (The Call of the Wild)?

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The ‘winner’ of the title event in this classic Shirley Jackson story is stoned to death

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What is “The Lottery”?

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Name of the Lion who rules Narnia

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Who is Aslan?

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Author for “Heart of Darkness”

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Who is Joseph Conrad?

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Birthplace of the author of “The Kite Runner”

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What is Afghainstan?

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Author of Alice in Wonderland

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Who is Lewis Carrol?

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Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993

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Who is Toni Morrison?

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He wrote the line ‘Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink’ in his poem ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’

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Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge?

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Wonderboy is the name of a bat, not a superhero, in this 1952 novel

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What is “The Natural”?

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He temporarily dropped the spy stuff in 1971’s ‘The Naive and Sentimental Lover’

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Who is John le Carré

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This Thomas Keneally bestseller was originally published with ‘Ark’ as the 2nd word in the title

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What is “Schindler’s List”?

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Chapter 9 of Ian Fleming’s “Casino Royale” is called “The Game is” this

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What is Baccarat?

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An ailing Chinese emperor tells this bird, you have ‘banished death from my heart, with your sweet song’

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What is a nightingale?

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Chapter 106 of ‘Moby Dick’ is titled ‘Ahab’s’ this

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What is Leg?

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Book/Author where Pencey is the school

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What is “Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger?

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Book with “Far off, the lofty jet of the whale might be seen”

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What is “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville?

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Book with “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?”

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What is “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury?

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Book with Tweedledee

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What is “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll?

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Life can only be understood _____, but it has to be lived _____. Bonus: Who said?

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What are backwards and forwards? -Kierkegaard

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5 letter goal of philosophy defined by Aristotle

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What is truth?

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In this book Auggie Pullman tells readers, “I won’t describe what I look like. Whatever you’re thinking, it’s probably worse”

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What is “Wonder”?

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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “There are no” these “in American lives”

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What are second acts?

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The only Ian Fleming James Bond novel not told in the third person, it’s narrated by one of 007’s paramours

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What is “The Spy who Loved Me”?

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In this novel an inmate named Abbe Faria helps Edmond Dantes plot his escape from prison

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What is “The Count of Monte Cristo”?

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In this drama by Sophocles, the Oracle of Delphi has bad news for the person who murdered Jocasta’s first husband

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What is Oedipus Rex?

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Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote a biography of cancer called this “of All Maladies”

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What is The Emperor?

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James Clavell set “Tai-Pan” in China; this 1975 novel of his is set in Japan in 1600

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What is “Shogun”?

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This story by Hans Christian Andersen served as an inspiration for the movie “Frozen”

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What is “Snow Queen”?

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This scary book mostly takes place in Derry, Maine

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What is “It”?

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The tomboy of Alcott’s March sisters, she wants to be a writer

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Who is Jo?

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Surname of physician Julius, antagonist of a 1958 Fleming novel

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Who is Dr. No?

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L. Frank Baum said he got the name for this after looking at his file cabinet

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What is Oz?

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Part of “Galileo’s Dream” by Kim Stanley Robinson takes place on this moon

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What is Io?

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This 1969 book was first printed in Japan because no U.S. company would then make a book with so many holes in the pages

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What is “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”

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You will definitely lose some time delving into his 7-volume “A la recherche du temps perdu”

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Who is Proust?

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You get more than 200 chapters of Gothic horror with the alliteratively titled “Varney” this creature

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What is a vampire?

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Dmitry is arrested & convicted for his dad’s murder in this Dostoyevsky novel, but Smerdyakov actually committed the crime

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What is “The Brothers Karamazov”?

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His aptly named “Infinite Jest” has drawn comparisons to the works of Thomas Pynchon & Don DeLillo

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Who is David Foster Wallace?

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This title elixir is poured in Ray Bradbury’s semi-autobiographical tale of a small-town summer in 1928

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What is “Dandelion Wine”?

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This British author was married to a woman also named Evelyn–they were called He-Evelyn & She-Evelyn by friends

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Who is Waugh?

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In 2020 this author of “Dear John” returned to familiar territory (love in North Carolina) with “The Return”

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Who is Nicholas Sparks?

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“Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Diiie” is a 1971 collection of poetry by this African-American woman

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Who is Maya Angelou?

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Finally out in 2020, this feminist’s “The Inseparables” was not published in part because Jean-Paul Sartre didn’t like it

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Who is Simone de Beauvoir?

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He began “Dombey and Son” during a trip to Switzerland in 1846

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Who is Charles Dickens?

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The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine gave “rejoice” as a rhyme for the correct pronunciation of his name

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Who is Dr. Seuss?

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Hunter S. Thompson had mixed emotions:

“____ & ____ in Las Vegas”

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What is Fear and Loathing?

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About post-war youth in Britain:

“Look Back in ____”

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What is Anger?

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A biographical novel by Irving Stone:

“The ____ & the ____”

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What is The Agony and the Ecstacy?

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By Chester Himes:

“A ____ in Harlem”

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What is rage?

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Eugene O’Neill drew up Greek tragedy:

“____ Under the Elms”

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What is desire?

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Author of the “Oz” series

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Who is L. Frank Baum?

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Wrote an autobiography called “My Autobiography”

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Who is Charlie Chaplain?

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The first chapter of this Cuban leader’s autobiography “My Life” says, “I made myself into a revolutionary”

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Who is Fidel Castro?

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She has written “Madam Secretary” & “Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box”

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Who is Madeleine Albright?

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Chapters in his 1965 autobiography included “Harlemite”, “Saved” & “Mecca”

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Who is Malcolm X

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His autobiography “Surely You’re Joking, Mr.” him came out in 1985, 40 years after he worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos

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Who is Richard Feynman?

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Charles Baudelaire wrote a poem about these “vast birds of the sea” who famously show up in an English poem

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What are Albatrosses?

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In 2020 Patrick Stewart read these on social media starting with No. 116, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”

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What are Shakespeare Sonnets?

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The 1827 volume “Poems By Two Brothers” had poems by 3 brothers in this family: Charles, Frederick & oh, Lord, Alfred

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What is Tennyson?

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This Whitman work in 52 sections is often described as “The Great American Poem”

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What is “Song of Myself”?

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