Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

Literature > ModernLibraryTop100 > Flashcards

ModernLibraryTop100 Flashcards

1
Q

Unnamed black narrarator struggling with black identity in Harlem

A

Invisible Man (1952)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Written as a parallel to the Odyssey

A

Ulysees (1922)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

worships Henry Ford (e.g. “Our Ford” instead of “Our Lord”, and the year 632 AF (After Ford))

A

Brave New World (1932)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Chester Gillette murdered Grace Brown on Big Moose Lake

A

An American Tragedy (1925)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

“It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him”

A

Catch-22 (1961)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Billy Pilgrim

A

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Joseph Heller

A

Catch-22 (1961)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

The Joads trapped in the Dust Bowl, move from OK to CA on Route 66 during the Great Depression, doesn’t end well

A

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Jim Casy

A

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Jay Gatsby

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Bigger Thomas

A

Native Son (1940)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

William Faulkner

A

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Major Major Major Major

A

Catch-22 (1961)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

“War is Peace”, “Freedom is Slavery”, “Ignorance is Strength”

A

1984 (1949)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

The only solution to the prolem is denied by a circumstance in the problem

A

Catch-22 (1961)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

a black American 20 yo lives in poverty in Chicago slum and commits crimes “because he’s a product of society’s view towards blacks”, executed

A

Native Son (1940)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

George Orwell

A

1984 (1949)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

June 16 - Bloomsday

A

Ulysees (1922)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Yossarian and other bombadiers try to keep sane on Mediterranean island so they can return home during WW II

A

Catch-22 (1961)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Ministry of Truth

A

1984 (1949)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Clyde Griffiths gets Roberta pregnant, falls in love with rich girl Sondra, lets Roberta drown, is executed

A

An American Tragedy (1925)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Jazz Age / Roaring Twenties

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Eric Blair

A

1984 (1949)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Daisy Buchanan

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Tom Buchanan

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Stanley Kubrick

A

Lolita (1955)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Yossarian tries to plead insanity to keep from flying

A

Catch-22 (1961)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Stepehen rebels against Catholic/Irish conventions in Dublin and leaves for Paris

A

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

semi-autobiographhical about young Lawrence striving to get out of his working-class mining community

A

Sons and Lovers (1913)

22
Q

Billy hides in a _____ to avoid bombing of Dresden

A

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

23
Q

About a Roman Emperor as an autobiographical memoir

A

I, Claudius (1934)

24
Q

Myrtle Wilson

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

25
Q

deaf-mute man (John Singer) and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia, commit suicide after learning his friend Spiros has died

A

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

26
Q

Kurt Vonnegut

A

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

26
Q

Ralph Ellison

A

Invisible Man (1952)

28
Q

Stephen Hero

A

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

29
Q

Theodore Dreiser

A

An American Tragedy (1925)

31
Q

John the savage

A

Brave New World (1932)

32
Q

Humbert Humbert

A

Lolita (1955)

33
Q

dystopia in Oceania with omnipresent govn surveillance and mind control (Big Brother), Winston’s job is to change public records for the party line, he rebels

A

1984 (1949)

34
Q

Futuristic novel set in London of AD 2540

A

Brave New World (1932)

35
Q

now it means a sexually precocious girl, nymphet

A

Lolita (1955)

36
Q

Newspeak, Oldspeak, doublethink, thought police

A

1984 (1949)

38
Q

James Joyce

A

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

40
Q

“Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he’s in the his office”

A

Catch-22 (1961)

41
Q

Stephen Dedalus

A

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

43
Q

Nick Carraway

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

43
Q

Robert Graves

A

I, Claudius (1934)

45
Q

Dolores Haze

A

Lolita (1955)

45
Q

the Ramsays visit the Isle of Skye in Scotland, mostly stream-of-consciousness and thoughts

A

To the Lighthouse (1927)

47
Q

James Joyce

A

Ulysees (1922)

48
Q

Molly Bloom (Penelope)

A

Ulysees (1922)

48
Q

Humbert becomes obsessed with 12 yr old, has sex with her

A

Lolita (1955)

50
Q

Vladimir Nabokov

A

Lolita (1955)

52
Q

Captain John Yossarian

A

Catch-22 (1961)

54
Q

Aldous Huxley

A

Brave New World (1932)

55
Q

Carson McCullers

A

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940)

57
Q

Winston Smith

A

1984 (1949)

58
Q

West Egg & East Egg, Long Island NY

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

59
Q

Day in the life of Leopold Bloom in Dublin

A

Ulysees (1922)

60
Q

Richard Wright

A

Native Son (1940)

61
Q

satirical anti-war (semi-autobiographical) novel starring WW II soldier Billy Pilgrim

A

Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

62
Q

D.H. Lawrence

A

Sons and Lovers (1913)

64
Q

John Steinbeck

A

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

66
Q

As a woman’s “sons grow up, she selects them as lovers”

A

Sons and Lovers (1913)

67
Q

Stephen Dedalus (Telemachus)

A

Ulysees (1922)

68
Q

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A

The Great Gatsby (1925)

69
Q

Ma, Pa, Noah, & Tom Joad

A

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

70
Q

Virginia Woolf

A

To the Lighthouse (1927)

71
Q

sequel is called “Claudius the God” (which includes his death)

A

I, Claudius (1934)

72
Q

comes from a line in Macbeth

A

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

73
Q

Compson Family in Mississippi dealing with the dissolution of their family and reputation

A

The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Literature (10 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions