Literature Part 1 Flashcards
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1897 novel contains the line “At sunrise the Count could appear in his own form”
“Dracula”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 14th century work is divided into 3 sections: “Inferno”, “Purgatorio” & “Paradiso”
“The Divine Comedy”
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Dickens said this title character was “born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk” as a “posthumous child”
“David Copperfield”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1861 George Eliot novel is subtitled “The Weaver of Raveloe”
“Silas Marner”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At the beginning of Orwell’s “Animal Farm”, Major Snowball & Napoleon are pigs who live on this farm
Manor Farm
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote that he “lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years”
Tarzan
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His 1926 novel “The Sun Also Rises” has been published in England as “Fiesta”
Ernest Hemingway
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies” was a follow-up to her stories of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny
Beatrix Potter
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| She made Tom Sawyer whitewash her fence
Aunt Polly
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title home of a Hawthorne tale has “an elm-tree of wide circumference, rooted before the door”
“The House of the Seven Gables”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| When this group came to power in China, they demanded all literature depict heroes of the working class
Communists
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The first sequel to this classic French novel was titled “Twenty Years After”
The Three Musketeers
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He penned the classic line “There was an old man with a beard, who said ‘It is just as I feared’”
Edward Lear
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| New Zealander Jane Campion directed the 1996 film version of this Henry James novel
The Portrait of a Lady
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1981 American playwright Beth Henley won a Pulitzer Prize for this “criminal” play
Crimes of the Heart
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “A Study in Scarlet”, he told Holmes, “I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them”
Watson
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote “The Pioneers”, the first in the series of these “tales”
Leatherstocking Tales
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “I must go, Cathy”, said Heathcliff, seeking to extricate himself from his companion’s arms in this novel
“Wuthering Heights”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| George Du Maurier introduced this evil hypnotist in his 1894 novel “Trilby”
Svengali
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Wilkins is the first name of this “David Copperfield” character who’s always waiting “In case anything turned up”
Mr. Micawber
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A 1927 book of short stories by Ernest Hemingway was titled “Men Without” these
Women
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Poet who wrote, “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out”
Robert Frost
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pioneers” Oliver Edwards is this frontiersman’s companion
Natty Bumppo
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The father of this “Good-Bye, Mr. Chips” author was a schoolteacher, not a hotelier
James Hilton
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Balzac wrote “La Comedie Humaine” in the 1840s & this American wrote “The Human Comedy” in the 1940s
William Saroyan
$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1998 Jose Saramago became the first writer in this language to win a Nobel Prize for Literature
Portuguese
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter one of this book informs us that “There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot”
Martin Chuzzlewit
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Originally, the term Picaresque referred to fiction from this country about rogues called Picaros
Spain
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins with the words “Reader, I married him”
Jane Eyre
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, “Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A category called Famous Andres would have to include this Frenchman who wrote “Man’s Fate” & “Man’s Hope”
Andre Malraux
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Dante work, the poet is given a tour through hell, purgatory & paradise
The Divine Comedy
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This author of “No Exit” said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964
Jean-Paul Sartre
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Flaubert title character commits suicide because of mounting debt & lies told to her husband Charles
Madame Bovary
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the epic poem “Beowulf”, Beowulf destroys this monster by tearing off his arm
Grendel
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1872 Samuel Butler satire has the alternate title “Over The Range”
Erewhon
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This character writes, “Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid….we got six thousand dollars apiece”
Huckleberry Finn
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Ernest Hemingway’s only Pulitzer Prize came in 1953 for this short novel about a Cuban named Santiago
The Old Man And The Sea
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this allegory, Christian uses a key called Promise to escape from the Doubting Castle
Pilgrims Progress
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a Dickens novel, this title character’s mother Clara unfortunately marries Mr. Murdstone
David Copperfield
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The character Jesse B. Semple figures prominently in many of this “Harlem” poet’s short stories
Langston Hughes
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The only thing this “Wizard of Oz” character was afraid of was “a lighted match”
the Scarecrow
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This children’s story describes Toad Hall as “a dignified old house of mellowed red brick”
The Wind in the Willows
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1941 his story “The Devil And Daniel Webster” was adapted as a film starring Edward Arnold
Stephen Vincent Benet
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This novel begins, “My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip…”
Great Expectations
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Though not in travel brochures, Erskine Caldwell’s “Tobacco Road” is located in this state
Georgia
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 7 of this Louisa May Alcott novel is entitled “Amy’s Valley of Humiliation”
“Little Women”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His “Jungle Book” prose begins, “It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills…”
Rudyard Kipling
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “I believe you think me a fiend!” says Heathcliff “with his dismal laugh” in this novel
“Wuthering Heights”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man “without much salt in his brain-pan”
“Don Quixote”
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Tolstoy epic of Russian society between 1805 & 1815 contains more than 500 characters
“War and Peace”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Dan’l Webster was the name of the title amphibian in “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of” this “County”
Calaveras County
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Sancho Panza rides a donkey named Dapple in this Cervantes novel
Don Quixote
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The final chapter of “The Scarlet Letter” says that her tombstone bore the letter “A”
Hester Prynne
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Archdeacon Claude Frollo was this hunchback’s master
Quasimodo
$3000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Poe tale contains the line, “The French army had entered Toledo”
The Pit & The Pendulum
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the Andersen tale, at age 15 she swims to the ocean’s surface & views the world above for the first time
The Little Mermaid
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this H.G. Wells novel, the first Martian spaceship lands near the town of Woking
“War of the Worlds”
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Tom Canty, born in a slum called Offal Court, & Edward Tudor are the title characters in this Twain novel
“The Prince and the Pauper”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Mr. Charrington, who runs an antique shop, is actually a member of the Thought Police
“1984”
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Leora, the wife of this Sinclair Lewis doctor, dies of bubonic plague on the island of St. Hubert
Arrowsmith
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1922 he published “The Red House Mystery”; in 1928 “The House At Pooh Corner”
A.A. Milne
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Mr. Kurtz is an agent of a Belgian Congo trading station in this Joseph Conrad novella
“Heart Of Darkness”
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This western author stopped using pen names soon after the publication of “Hondo “ in 1953
Louis L’Amour
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Big Knockover”, a collection of his stories & short novels, was edited by Lillian Hellman
Dashiell Hammett
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His novel “Cancer Ward” originally was banned in the Soviet Union
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Readers in 1860-61 picked up copies of “All The Year Round” to read installments of his “Great Expectations”
Charles Dickens
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Time in this futuristic Aldous Huxley novel is measured from the invention of the Model T Ford
“Brave New World”
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel relates the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., who’s harassed by local firemen
“Ragtime”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Saul Bellow’s title character whose “gift” to Charlie Citrine was a sense of hope
Humboldt
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Willa Cather’s “My Antonia”, “O Pioneers!” & “A Lost Lady” are set on the frontier in this midwestern state
Nebraska
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Dickens title orphan was given his name by Mr. Bumble
Oliver Twist
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This author’s “The Man Who Would Be King” has been called the perfect short story
Rudyard Kipling
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This John Bunyan work written as a dream was published in 2 parts: Part I in 1678 & Part II in 1684
“The Pilgrim’s Progress”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Title novella of the Philip Roth collection that won the 1960 National Book Award
“Goodbye, Columbus”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The 42nd Parallel” is the first novel in this John Dos Passos trilogy
“USA”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Jo March becomes a writer & marries Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged professor
Little Women
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1848 Thackeray work is subtitled “A Novel Without A Hero”
Vanity Fair
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Her husband, a physician, assumed the name Roger Chillingworth
Hester Prynne
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Hemingway novel, Robert Jordan falls in love with Maria
For Whom The Bell Tolls
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Thomas Hardy novel about Bathsheba Everdene was first published anonymously in 1874
Far From The Madding Crowd
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This English lord dedicated an 1880 volume of poetry to his grandson, who was also named Alfred
Alfred Lord Tennyson
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His famous story “The Tell-Tale Heart” tells us, “It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye”
Edgar Allan Poe
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 18-year-old Carrie Meeber leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago in this Theodore Dreiser novel
Sister Carrie
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Orwell novel, the Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, concerns itself with war
1984
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the last years of his life, he devoted many of his working hours to “Finnegans Wake”
James Joyce
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Roderick & Madeline are the doomed twins in his scary 1839 story “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Edgar Allan Poe
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Miller’s Tale” is one of the bawdiest stories in this collection of Chaucer “Tales”
“The Canterbury Tales”
$2500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He published “Flappers and Philosophers”, his first book of short stories, in 1920, the year he married Zelda
F. Scott Fitzgerald
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Red Rover” is a sea novel by this author of “The Last of the Mohicans”
James Fenimore Cooper
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He said it took him “Five years to write ‘In Cold Bloo
Truman Capote
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 2 old Quakers, Captain Peleg & Captain Bildad, are part-owners of the Pequod in this 1851 novel
Moby Dick
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this novel, d’Artagnan, a native of Gascony, is described as “Don Quixote at 18”
The Three Musketeers
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “Good Wives”, the second part of this novel, Aunt March dies & leaves her home, Plumfield, to Jo
Little Women
$700 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| William Makepeace Thackeray wrote that “Some of the love passages” of this Charlotte Bronte work “made me cry”
Jane Eyre
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In a Thomas Hardy novel, grain merchant Michael Henchard serves in this title political office
The Mayor of Casterbridge
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Dickens novel about a foundling is subtitled “The Parish Boy’s Progress”
Oliver Twist
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His “Anna Karenina” was originally published in installments between 1875 & 1877
Leo Tolstoy
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| It’s the English title of Isabel Allende’s novel “La Casa de los Espiritus”
The House of the Spirits
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| William Dean Howells wrote of Silas Lapham & she wrote of “Silas Marner”
George Eliot
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this 1979 book Norman Mailer told the story of convicted killer Gary Gilmore
The Executioner’s Song
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Alex Haley’s first major work was “The Autobiography Of” this black militant leader
Malcolm X
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book “Ulysses”
James Joyce
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In its original language, this Jules Verne novel is known as “Vingt mille lieues sous les mers”
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Buffalo Girls” & “The Evening Star” are among this “Lonesome Dove” author’s recent novels
Larry McMurtry
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1914, 146 of this late American’s poems were published by her niece under the title “The Single Hound”
Emily Dickinson
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Charles Dickens ended this story with the line “God bless us, every one!”
A Christmas Carol
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Last Temptation Of Christ” has this many chapters, the traditional number of years of Jesus’ life
33
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow”, Abraham Van Brunt, a rival of Ichabod Crane, is better known by this name
Brom Bones
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| To research this novel, Irving Stone stayed in Van Gogh’s asylum cell
Lust For Life
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Paul Riesling, this Sinclair Lewis realtor’s one true friend, shoots his wife & is sent to prison
George Babbitt
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “A Tale of Two Cities” opens as Dr. Alexander Manette is released after 18 years in this prison
The Bastille
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At one point in this 1862 novel, Jean Valjean owns a factory
Les Miserables
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “Through The Looking Glass”, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the meaning of this nonsense poem
Jabberwocky
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the final scene of “Rebecca”, this stately mansion of Maxim De Winter burns
Manderley
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this 1965 Frank Herbert novel refers to the desert planet of Arrakis
Dune
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 17-year-old Holden Caulfield is the narrator of this acclaimed 1951 novel
“The Catcher in the Rye”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Kholstomer” by this “War And Peace” author is a satire on human beings from a horse’s point of view
Leo Tolstoy
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Mercedes of Castile” is a lesser-known novel by this author of “The Leather-Stocking Tales”
James Fenimore Cooper
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His third published novel, “Sartoris”, was the first he set in Yoknapatawpha County
William Faulkner
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Man of Law’s Tale” in this Chaucer work tells the story of Constance, an emperor’s daughter
“The Canterbury Tales”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chapter 6 of this Hawthorne classic is titled “Pearl”
The Scarlet Letter
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Budd Schulberg’s novel “The Harder They Fall” deals with corrupt practices in this sport
boxing
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 1938’s “Out Of The Silent Planet” was the first sci-fi novel by this Narnia creator
C.S. Lewis
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Published in 1923, “The Prophet” is a book of 28 poetic essays by this Lebanese-American
Kahlil Gibran
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Amory Blaine, a student at Princeton, is the hero of this first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The final chapter of this classic book is entitled “Quasimodo’s Marriage”
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote about Polish life in “Poland” & the history of South Africa in “The Covenant”
James Michener
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Published in 1613, his “Exemplary Tales” are believed to be the first short stories written in Castilian
Cervantes
$2000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A curse placed on one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ancestors inspired this 1851 novel
“The House of the Seven Gables”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Kipling short story, Daniel Dravot becomes the godlike monarch of an Afghani tribe
“The Man Who Would Be King”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1923 Vladimir Nabokov translated “Alice In Wonderland” into this language
Russian
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Ernest Hemingway’s novel “For Whom The Bell Tolls” takes place during this country’s Civil War
Spain
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| First published in 1835, “Berence” has been called “his most horrifying tale”
Edgar Allan Poe
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He may have put his rabbit to rest, but in 1996 he published a new family saga, “In The Beauty Of The Lilies”
John Updike
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Buddenbrooks” was the first important novel by this 20th century German author
Thomas Mann
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist’s “The War of the Worlds” on radio
H.G. Wells
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| On his fifth voyage, he encounters the Old Man of the Sea
Sinbad
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Myrtle Wilson is accidentally run over & killed by Daisy Buchanan
“The Great Gatsby”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This E.M. Forster novel is set in the fictional city of Chandrapore
“A Passage To India”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In his 1938 work “The Unvanquished”, the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War
William Faulkner
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Stephen Crane novel is set during the Battle of Chancellorsville
“The Red Badge of Courage”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In an Anthony Hope novel, King Rudolf is “The Prisoner Of” this castle in Ruritania
Zenda
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Novel in which an old seaman sings, “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo–Ho–Ho, and a bottle of rum”
“Treasure Island”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Raymond Chandler private eye was introduced in the 1939 novel “The Big Sleep”
Philip Marlowe
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Poe’s “The Mystery of Marie Roget” was a sequel to this story featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin
“The Murders in the Rue Morgue”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Poe tale Captain Kidd’s treasure is found with the aid of a secret code & a scarab beetle
The Gold Bug
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Published in 1961, “The Winter of” this was John Steinbeck’s last novel
The Winter of Our Discontent
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Carolyn Meeber is the title character of this Theodore Dreiser novel
Sister Carrie
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Truman Capote novella, the story of Holly Golightly is narrated by Fred, a struggling writer
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Kipling orphan’s father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab
Kim
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The first four chapters of this Bram Stoker work are from Jonathan Harker’s journal
“Dracula”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| City that was the starting & ending point of Phileas Fogg’s 80-day trip around the world
London
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1726, he received 200 pounds for his tale of Lemuel Gulliver, the only time he was paid for his writing
Jonathan Swift
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Husband of poet Elizabeth, he wrote “O’ to be in England, now that April’s there”
Robert Browning
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This German was in his 80’s when he finished writing “Faust” a few months before his death in 1832
Goethe
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In addition to Buck & White Fang, this author wrote about Jerry, an Irish terrier pup
Jack London
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Early collections of his stories include “Flappers And Philosophers” & “Tales Of The Jazz Age”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “David Copperfield”, Wilkins is the first name of this kindhearted optimist
Mr. Micawber
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This B. Traven novel about 3 Americans looking for gold in Mexico was first published in Germany
“The Treasure of the Sierra Madre”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “To Let” was the last novel in this John Galsworthy series
“The Forsyte Saga”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this 17th C. novel, Sancho Panza is promised, & eventually gets, the governorship of his own island
“Don Quixote”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1895 story set in the future was H.G. Wells’ first novel
“The Time Machine”
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The full title of this 1872 tale ends with “And what Alice found there”
“Through the Looking-Glass”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| James Jones’ 1962 novel “The Thin Red Line” was a sequel to this 1951 work
“From Here to Eternity”
$2500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Characters in this Dickens novel include Mealy Potatoes, Mr. Creakle & Edward Murdstone
“David Copperfield”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Lotus Blossom is the concubine of Wang Lung in this Pearl Buck novel
“The Good Earth”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is set in the town of St. Petersburg in this state
Missouri
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| At the end of “Moby Dick”, this narrator is rescued by another whaling ship, the Rachel
Ishmael
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This R.D. Blackmore novel begins in Exmoor, in the county of Somerset, in the year 1673
“Lorna Doone”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Edith Wharton title character has a hypochondriac wife named Zenobia
Ethan Frome
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Mowgli’s song “Against People” appears in this author’s “Second Jungle Book”
Rudyard Kipling
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In chapter 2 of this Tolstoy novel, Princess Bolkonsky says, “Tell me what this war is about”
“War And Peace”
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Edgar Allan Poe story concerns “a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence”
“Masque of the Red Death”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This “Babbitt” author published his 1st novel, “Hike And The Aeroplane”, under the pseudonym Tom Graham
Sinclair Lewis
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This “Brave New World” author’s 1921 novel “Crome Yellow” abounds with eccentric characters
Aldous Huxley
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The hero of this Mark Twain novel calls himself “A Yankee of the Yankees….and nearly barren of sentiment”
“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In his 1913 novel “Sons And Lovers”, Miriam is based on his close friend Jessie Chambers
D.H. Lawrence
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| John Updike called this author’s “The Metamorphosis” “An indubitable masterpiece”
Franz Kafka
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Written in 1900, “In the Ravine” is one of this Russian playwright’s finest stories
Anton Chekhov
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Wamba is a brave jester who risks his life to save his master Cedric in this Sir Walter Scott novel
“Ivanhoe”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He based the Red Queen on Miss Prickett, the governess of Alice Liddell
Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson)
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Atlas Shrugged” is the fullest fictional presentation of this author’s philosophy, objectivism
Ayn Rand
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This James Joyce book was first published in France in 1922
“Ulysses”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The epistolary novel, in the form of these, was popularized by Samuel Richardson’s “Pamela” in 1740
Letters
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Proust paid to publish “Swann’s Way”, the first part of this epic work, after publishers rejected it
“Rememberance of Things Past”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| It’s what made Quasimodo deaf
Ringing of the bells
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| James Fenimore Cooper wrote “The Pioneers” & she wrote “O Pioneers!”
Willa Cather
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Robert Jordan’s big mission in “For Whom The Bell Tolls” is to blow up one of these structures
Bridge
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Thomas Mann story published as “Der Tod In Venedig” in 1912; it didn’t appear in English until 1925
“Death In Venice”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This E.M. Forster novel is divided into 3 sections: “Mosque”, “Caves” & “Temple”
“A Passage to India”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| While teaching Russian literature at Cornell, he wrote his famous novel “Lolita”
Vladimir Nabokov
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Much Obliged, Jeeves”, this author’s last collection of Bertie-&-Jeeves stories, was published in 1971
P.G. Wodehouse
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| It begins, “In the ancient city of London….A boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty….”
“The Prince And The Pauper”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In novels by Baroness Orczy, this colorful hero is really Sir Percy Blakeney
“The Scarlet Pimpernel”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse is based on the early life of Buddha
“Siddhartha”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Spaniard rides a bony old nag named Rocinante on his quests
Don Quixote
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Longfellow based his tales of this inn on the Red Horse Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Wayside Inn
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1902 Joseph Conrad novella is set in the Belgian Congo
“Heart of Darkness”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “Great Expectations”, Pip falls in love with Estella, a ward of this spinster
Miss Havisham
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1904 this short story author’s first book, “Cabbages and Kings”, was published
O. Henry
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Cervantes novel that tells us, “A knight errant without a lady is like…a body without a soul”
“Don Quixote”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote his first novel, “Murphy”, in 1938, 14 years before his famous play “Waiting for Godot”
(Samuel) Beckett
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His wife Mary said the caroling of a skylark in Leghorn inspired his poem “To a Skylark”
(Percy) Shelley
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Knight’s Tale” by this 14th century author is based on Boccaccio’s poem “Teseida”
(Geoffrey) Chaucer
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His 1958 novel “Our Man in Havana” takes place in pre-Castro Cuba
Graham Greene
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, Nick Carraway lives next door to this title character
the Great Gatsby
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Part I of this Willa Cather novel is entitled “The Wild Land”
O Pioneers!
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His novel “Daisy Miller” opens at the Trois Couronnes hotel in Vevey, Switzerland
Henry James
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He published his third novel, “A Cool Million”, in 1934, one year after “Miss Lonelyhearts”
Nathanael West
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In English, Ivan Turgenev’s novel “Ottsy i Deti” is known by this “familial” title”
Fathers and Sons
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Slow and steady wins the race” is the famous last line of this fable
“The Tortoise and the Hare”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Part of this Robert Louis Stevenson tale takes place in a sinister house called the “Laboratory”
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Rex Stout character loves gardening & gourmet foods, as did Stout
Nero Wolfe
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This title character in a Frances Hodgson Burnett novel is the grandson of an earl
Lord Fauntleroy
$1100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Booth Tarkington novel tells the tale of a girl’s attempts to raise her station in life
Alice Adams
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of his 1840 novel “The Pathfinder” refers to Natty Bumppo
(James Fenimore) Cooper
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The sequel to “Tom Brown’s Schooldays” is called “Tom Brown at” this university
Oxford
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Natasha Rostova marries Pierre Bezukhov in this classic Tolstoy novel
War and Peace
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His poems from the Scots Observer were collected in “Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses”
(Rudyard) Kipling
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote his 1848 novel “Dombey and Son” while living in Switzerland
Charles Dickens
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 1719 novel about a mariner who lived 8 & 20 years all alone in an uninhabited island
Robinson Crusoe
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Cervantes’ Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry
Don Quixote
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This author introduced detective Mike Hammer in “I, The Jury”
Mickey Spillane
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Although married to Alexei, she falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky
Anna Karenina
$2200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Meursault is the rather cold, effectless narrator of this Camus novel
The Stranger
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| After his son Kingsley Doyle was killed in World War I, he became a devoted spiritualist
Arthur Conan Doyle
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The Martian invaders in this H.G. Wells novel are destroyed by earthly bacteria
War of the Worlds
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In “The Call of the Wild”, Judge Miller’s gardener kidnaps this dog & sells him for $50
Buck
$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Peachy Carnahan & Daniel Dravitt plan to make themselves kings of Kafiristan in this Kipling story
The Man Who Would Be King
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The Plain of Ease, the Valley of Humiliation & the Country of Conceit appear in this John Bunyan work
Pilgrim’s Progress
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities” takes place during this struggle
the French Revolution
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| George S. Kaufman helped John Steinbeck turn this work about George & Lennie into a play
Of Mice and Men
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| First published in 1966, “The Bloomsday Book” is a guide to this James Joyce work
Ulysses
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Henry Miller’s “The Colossus of Maroussi” is an account of his travels in this country
Greece
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Herman Wouk won a 1952 Pulitzer Prize for this “novel of World War II”
The Caine Mutiny
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The book-of-the-month club calls this Dostoyevsky work “the greatest crime novel ever written”
Crime and Punishment
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In an 1896 sequel, this Mark Twain title character turned “Detective”
Tom Sawyer
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1846 these sisters published a collection of poems under the pen names Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell
the Brontë sisters
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| One of his last collections of tales, “Uncle Remus and the Little Boy”, was published posthumously in 1910
Joel Chandler Harris
$1200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Hemingway novel about the “Lost Generation” is told from the viewpoint of Jake Barnes
The Sun Also Rises
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His stores include “The Man Who Was” and “The Man Who Would Be King”
Rudyard Kipling
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| John Galsworthy’s 1906 work “The Man of Property” was the first in this series of novels
The Forsyte Saga
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1852 work was subtitled “Life Among the Lowly”
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this Ernest Hemingway story, an author awaits death while on an African safari
The Snows of Kilomanjaro
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This 1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne collection contained 39 of his stories
The Twice-Told Tales
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| George Shelby dedicates his life to abolition in this Harriet Beccher Stowe novel
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote many short stories with surprise endings including “The Gift of the Magi”
O. Henry
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Sylvia Plath novel was first published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas
The Bell Jar
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Lady Brett Ashley elopes with a bullfighter in this Hemingway novel
The Sun Also Rises
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Dr. Pangloss is the tutor to this title character created by Voltaire
Candide
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Ellen Glasgow, a native of this Virginia capital, set several novels there but called it “Queenborough”
Richmond
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Title character who says, “Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day — mock me horribly!”
Doran Gray
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| She wrote in “Emma”, “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other”
Jane Austen
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This “Madame Bovary” author visited Tunisia to research “Salammbo”, his novel about Carthage
Flaubert
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Eugenie Grandet” is considered one of the finest novels in his series “La Comedie Humaine”
Balzac
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die” is from this Tennyson poem
“Charge of the Light Brigade”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The 1956 novel “Compulsion” was based on the story of this duo defended by Darrow
Leopold & Loeb
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Chingachgook became the last of the Mohicans when this man, his son, died
Uncas
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Oliver Goldsmith play is subtitled “The Mistakes of the Night”
“She Stoops to Conquer”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote “Penrod”, “Penrod and Son” & “Penrod Jashber”
Booth Tarkington
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Ole E. Rolvaag wrote a “Saga Of” it & Laura Ingalls Wilder set a “Little House” on it
The Prairie
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote about the auto industry in “Wheels” & the airline industry in “Airport”
Arthur Hailey
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Dubliners” is a collection of short stories by this Irish author
James Joyce
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In an 1854 poem Tennyson asked her to “Come Into The Garden”
Maud
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| This Mississippian, known for her love of the South, won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Optomist’s Daughter”
Eudora Welty
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ON FILM ||| Ray Bradbury & producer-dir. John Huston co-wrote the screenplay based on this Melville classic
“Moby Dick”
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ON FILM ||| In a 1941 film based on R.L. Stevenson’s horror classic, Spencer Tracy played these 2 title characters
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ON FILM ||| Rod Taylor traveled from the year 1899 to 802,701 A.D. in this film based on an H.G. Wells book
“The Time Machine”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ON FILM ||| James Dean & Raymond Massey starred in this Cain & Abel fable based on a novel by John Steinbeck
“East of Eden”
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ON FILM ||| This 1880 novel by Lew Wallace was made into a film in 1907, 1926 & 1959
“Ben-Hur”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Poet John Donne was first to write “No man is” this
an island
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Bret Harte wrote a short story about “The Outcasts of” this mining camp
Poker Flat
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The Reader’s Encyclopedia said, “He loved the… main streets of America even as he deplored them”
Sinclair Lewis
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Ayn Rand book that ends with “Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark”
The Fountainhead
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His eccentric novel “Tristram Shandy” contains blank pages & 1-sentence chapters
Laurence Sterne
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In this novel, Bill Sikes kills Nancy
Oliver Twist
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His poems include “Highland Mary”, “The Banks O’ Down”, & “A Man’s A Man For A’ That”
Robert Burns
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “The Silmarillion”, his prequel to “Lord of the Rings”, was published after his death
J.R.R. Tolkien
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The color mentioned in the title of Zane Grey’s most popular novel
purple (Riders of the Purple Sage)
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Robert Browning wrote, do this “along with me! The best is yet to be!”
“Grow Old With Me”
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He collaborated with ex-wife Margaret Bourke White on documentaries but not on “God’s Little Acre”
Erskine Caldwell
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| His novels “Ragtime” & “World’s Fair” were both set in NYC before WWII
E.L. Doctorow
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this novel by Charles Jackson has become a catch phrase for a major drinking binge
“The Lost Weekend”
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Some of the stories & poems in “We Are Still Married” reflect on this author’s life in Minnesota
Garrison Keillor
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| We wonder what his grandfather, the adding machine inventor, would have thought of “Naked Lunch”
William S. Burroughs
$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled “The Knitting Done”
A Tale of Two Cities
$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| It’s where Philip Nolan asked to be buried
at sea
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| When he saw water snakes in the moonlight and blessed them, the albatross fell from his neck
The Ancient Mariner
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote his 1948 novel “The Naked and the Dead” while he was enrolled at the Sorbonne
Norman Mailer
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| She received the Pulitzer prize for her “Collected Stories”, not for “Ship of Fools”
Katherine Anne Porter
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The young narrator of “Treasure Island”
Jim Hawkins
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| A well-known Ambrose Bierce short story is about an incident at this bridge in Northern Alabama
Owl Creek Bridge
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 1st name of the Maugham title character “Miss Thompson”
Sadie
$6000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Brom Bones dressed up as this to scare the schoolmaster away from Katrina
the Headless Horseman
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Daniel Defoe title character who was a tart, a wife, a thief, a convict, then grew rich & lived honest
Moll Flanders
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Requiem for a Nun” was his sequel to “Sanctuary”
Faulkner
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In his 1940 classic Western novel, Walter Van Tilburg Clark sets his “Incident” in this valley
the Ox-Bow
$100 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Since 1918, the “O. Henry Awards” have been given to outstanding examples of this form
a short story
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The “History of New York… by Diedrich Kickerbocker” was actually written by him
Washington Irving
$300 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| The title of this famous Anita Loos work states that they “Prefer Blondes”
gentlemen
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Thomas Mann’s “Magic Mountain” is set in a Swiss sanatorium for this disease
tuberculosis
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Peter Quint & Miss Jessel are the ghosts in this Henry James ghost story
The Turn of the Screw
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In titles, animal associated with both Volpone and Reynard
fox
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Malcolm Lowery’s “Under the Volcano” is set mainly in this country
Mexico
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Granddaughter of the author of “Trilby”, she wrote “Rebecca”
Daphne DuMaurier
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| One contributor to “Knickerbocker” magazine was this author, who used Knickerbocker as a pseudonym
Washington Irving
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| English poet who wrote “Endymion”, “Hyperion”, and its unfinished revision, “The Fall of Hyperion”
John Keats
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Death of his son led him to write a “History of Spiritualism” before his last Sherlock Holmes book
(Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “A Christmas Carol” character who tells Scrooge, “I wear the chain I forged in life”
Jacob Marley
$500 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Narrator of classic tales translated by Sir Richard Burton, or title of <a>this</a> “suite” music
Scheherezade
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 19th c. feminist Catharine Beecher wrote “The American Woman’s Home” with this more famous sister
Harriet Beecher Stowe
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Subtitled “A Tale of Acadie”, this Longfellow poem describes the tragic romance of an Acadian woman
Evangeline
$None ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| 1952 novel that begins off the coast of Cuba, & ends on shore 3 days later
The Old Man and the Sea
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| According to both Burns & Steinbeck, their best laid schemes “gang aft a-gley”
mice and men
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In 1671, Milton wrote “Paradise Regained”, a sequel to this
Paradise Lost
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| English title of 7-part novel “A la recherche du temps perdu” by Proust
Remembrance of Things Past
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “All stories, if continued far enough, end in death…” he wrote in “Death in the Afternoon”
Ernest Hemingway
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Language in which Browning’s “Sonnets from the Portuguese” was originally written
English
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| “Grimm” stories
fairy tales
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Literary point of view when I write like this
first person singular
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Language of Chaucer
Middle English
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Vowel missing from entire 50,000 word text of Ernest Wright’s <a>“Gadsby”</a>
E
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| In the ’20s, Hemingway & Fitzgerald were among these “missing” literary offspring
The Lost Generation
$200 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Depending on the book, he could be a “Jones”, a “Sawyer”, or an “Uncle”
Tom
$400 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| He wrote “The 3 Musketeers”; his son wrote “Camille”
(Alexandre) Dumas
$600 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Where you can’t go again in Thomas Wolfe title
home
$800 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Irving’s bird-like hero chased by the Headless Horseman
Ichabod Crane
$1000 ||| Category: LITERATURE ||| Shaw’s scorched saint
St. Joan of Arc
