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”
