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What character operates a holistic detective agency

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Dirk Gently

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What author wrote The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady

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Henry James

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What author wrote about a dying writer who dreams of a plane taking him to the top of the title peak

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Ernest Hemingway

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In what work are soft pipes told to pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone

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Ode On a Grecian Urn

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Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front

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Erich Remarque

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What character is traumatized by the death of Snowden

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John Yassarian

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What character is rescued from the vengeful Orlick by Startop

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Pip

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Who wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

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Douglas Adams

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What pessimistic German philosopher wrote The World as Will and Representation

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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What author wrote that dirt and not copper makes a color darker and proclaimed that rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

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Gertrude Stein

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In what novel does Joseph Knecht earn the title of Magister Ludi

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The glass bead game

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12
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In what novel does the ferryman Vasudeva mentor the protagonist

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Siddharta

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13
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Who wrote The glass bead game and Siddhartha

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Herman Hesse

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Near the end of what play are Juno, Isis, and Ceres summoned to celebrate a betrothal

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The Tempest

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What Irish dramatist wrote the play Endgame which preceded the 1957 premiere of Act Without Words

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Samuel Beckett

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What language did Beckett translate Act Without Words into

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French

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In what play is Xanthias forced to walk around a lake and exchanges clothes with the protagonist

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The Frogs

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Who wrote The Outsiders

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S.E Hinton

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In what novel does an aspiring actresses life change after meeting Charles Drouet on a train

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Sister Carrie

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20
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Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy

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Theodore Dreiser

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What author wrote a poem where the author urges it’s subject to come into the garden before he kills her brother in a duel

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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What martyred English saint do the characters visit in the Canterbury Tales

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Thomas Beckett

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What author wrote about a character who had no hopeful verse carved on his tombstone since he became a stern and sad man

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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What author wrote 3 laws of robotics and I, Robot

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Isaac Asimov

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What author wrote about how Toby joined the god’s gardeners religion in The Year of the Flood

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Margaret Atwood

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What colony was founded by the British as a home for black loyalists after the American revolution

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Sierra Leone

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What family employs the housekeeper Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird

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Finch family

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28
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What Scottish poet said that “My love is like a red,red rose” after he heard it sung by a country girl

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Robert Burns

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29
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What character meets Biddy’s son after spending 11 years in Egypt

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Pip

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30
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What character is repeatedly pranked by the duchess and duke

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Don Quixote

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31
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What story ends with the narrator shouting tear up the planks

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The Tell tale heart

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32
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What author wrote about a man named Leggat who kills a crew member

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Joseph Conrad

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33
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Who wrote about Beatrice Okoh in Anthills of the Savannah

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Achebe

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34
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What work claims that Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

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35
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What author wrote 3 sketches describing the city of Sevastopol

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Tolstoy

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36
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What poet created Tilbury Town

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Edwin Robinson

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37
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In what novel does Lena Lingard work as a dressmaker in Black Hawk

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My Antonia (Cather)

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38
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What poet presented two contrary states of the human soul in songs of innocence

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William Blake

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39
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What character claims that the world was created by the god benamuckee

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Friday

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40
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In what novel does Constance Bonacieux try to retrieve a pair of diamond studs that Queen Anne had given to her lover

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The Three Musketeers

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41
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What character suffers from liver problems that fall “just short of being jaundice”

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John Yossarian

42
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What novel is John Yassarian in

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Catch-22

43
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What novel depicts a group of pug faced 8 year olds who stare at patients in a Galloping Senility ward

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Brave New World

44
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Who wrote Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria

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Ovid

45
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What author urged Drink to me only with thine eyes in To Celia

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Ben Johnson

46
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What author wrote The Passionate Shepard to His Love

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Christopher Marlowe

47
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What author wrote about an exiled doctor living in Paris in Arch of Triumph

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Erich Remarque

48
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Who wrote the Femenine Mystique

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Betty Friedan

49
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Who wrote Coming Of Age in Samoa

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Margaret Mead

50
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Who wrote 6 characters in search of an author

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Lugi Pirandello

51
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What author wrote a poem whose speaker complains that the gift of a nine hundred year olds name was not sufficiently valued

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Robert Browning

52
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What poet wrote Richard Cory

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Edwin Robinson

53
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In what work do characters tell 100 stories over 7 days

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The Decameron

54
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Who wrote the Decameron

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Boccaccio

55
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In what novel does poet Miles Coverdale join a utopian farming community

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The Blithedale Romance

56
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Who wrote the Blithedale Romance

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

57
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What philosopher wrote a book that contrasts aesthetic and ethical phases of life

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Kierkegaard

58
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What novel’s narrator recalls loaning a turtleneck sweater to James Castle

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Catcher in the Rye

59
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In what novel does the sailor Charles Marlow hear The horror the horror

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Heart of Darkness

60
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What author wrote the Pathfinder

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James Fenimore Cooper

61
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What author wrote Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses

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Mark Twain

62
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What author depicted a man’s suspicions about his daughter’s parentage in The Father

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August Strindberg

63
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In what August Strindberg play does the title character flirt with the servant Jean

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Miss Julie

64
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In what novel does Adela believe that Dr Aziz assaulted her during a trip to the Marabar Caves

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A Passage To India

65
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Who wrote A Passage to India

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EM Forster

66
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What collection of stories was assembled by Thomas Malory which begins by describing Uther Pendragon’s passion of Igraine

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The Death of Arthur

67
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What poet drew from le Morte d’Arthur to write the Idylls of the King

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

68
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What author referred to himself as that writer with the walrus mustache in a book whose 100 chapters each focus on a year between 1900 and 1999

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Gunter Grass

69
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What author wrote about his job as a plongeur at the Hotel X in Down and Out in Paris and London

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George Orwell

70
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What work describes a heifer with silken flanks that is led to a green altar for sacrifice

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Ode On a Grecian Urn

71
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What author wrote about the boxer Ole Anderson who responds to the news that the title characters are coming for him

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Ernest Hemingway

72
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What donkey riding squire appears in a 1605 novel

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Sancho Panza

73
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What novel’s title character spends almost a year travelling from Ohio to New Mexico

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Death comes for the Archbishop

74
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Who wrote Death comes for the Archbishop

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Willa Cather

75
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What novel is narrated by Jim Burden

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My Antonia

76
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In what sonnet does a traveller from an antique land describe a ruined monument to a king of kings

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Ozymandias

77
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Who wrote Ozymandias

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Percy Shelley

78
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What poem begins Hail to thee blithe spirit

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To a Skylark (shelley)

79
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What plays protagonist tries to flirt with a man who is collecting for the evening star

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A Streetcar Named Desire

80
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What poet claimed that we are out of tune for the winds that will be howling at all hours

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William Wordsworth

81
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What anthropologist wrote The Golden Bough

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James Frazer

82
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In what play does the actress nina sign letters with the name of a bird

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The Seagull

83
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Who wrote the Seagull

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Anton Chekhov

84
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What money lender bears an ancient grudge against the Antonio

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Shylock

85
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What play does Shylock appear in

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The Merchant of Venice

86
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Who wrote the Merchant of Venice

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Shakespeare

87
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What author included a poem beginning Tonight I can write the Saddest lines in his collection 20 love songs and a song of Despair

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Pablo Neruda

88
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What country was Pablo Neruda from

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Chile

89
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In what novel does the merchant Isaac of York provide a horse and armor to the title saxon hero

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Ivanhoe

90
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Who wrote Ivanhoe

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Sir Walter Scott

91
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What poem describes a city that is Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job

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Chicago

92
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Who wrote Chicago

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Carl Sandberg

93
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In what poem does Carl Sandburg reflect on historical memories by saying Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo

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Grass

94
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In what book does John Marcher pass up a chance for love with May Bartram out of fear of an unknown catastrophe

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The Beast in The Jungle

95
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Who wrote the Beast in The Jungle

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Henry James

96
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What author wrote the carpe diem poem To his Coy Mistress

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Andrew Marvell

97
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What book’s narrator supposedly died of a drug overdose

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Go Ask Alice

98
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What man wrote about a Swiss marksman who inspired a revolt against the tyrannical Gessler in the play WIlliam Tell

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Friedrich von Schiller

99
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In what greek drama does a spy report the sons of Oedipus have killed one another

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Seven Against Thebes

100
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Who wrote Seven Against Thebes

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Aeschylus

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