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Set 1: Literature Trivia Flashcards

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Complete the line. “If music be the food of love…”

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What is “play on”?

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Hamlet’s closest friend, only major character left alive at play’s end

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Who is Horatio?

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Pasternak’s Moscow medic

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Question: Who is Dr. Zhivago?

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Long-time companion of Dashiell Hammett, she was played in “Julia” by Jane Fonda

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Who is Lillian Hellman?

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Sophocles’ “complex tragedy”

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What is Oedipus Rex?

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Its sequels were “Men against the Sea” & “Pitcairn’s Island”

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What is Mutiny on the Bounty?

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Play in which Queen Gertrude, while watching a play, says, “The lady doth protest too much”

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What is Hamlet?

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Sport defined by Hemingway as “Death in the Afternoon”

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What is bullfighting?

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Her Giant grew into an epic movie

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Who is Edna Ferber?

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He wrote “There was a little girl, she had a little curl” & “The Wreck of the Hesperus”, too

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Who is Henry Wadsworth

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Originally in Dutch, Het Achterhus, this Diary of a Young Girl is best known by its play title

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What is The Diary of Anne Frank?

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After pulling several “rabbits” from his hat, he made The Witches of Eastwick materialize

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Who is John Updike?

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Language in which Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese was originally written

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What is English?

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“Under a spreading chestnut tree” it stands

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What is the village smithy?

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“Dusk—of a summer night” is the first paragraph of his An American Tragedy

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Question: Who is Theodore Dreiser?

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Shakespeare comedy subtitled “Or, What You Will”

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What is Twelfth Night?

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1st name of Defoe’s bawdy heroine, or a gangster’s girlfriend

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What is Moll?

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Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Kennedy, & Mrs. Butler, but never Mrs. Wilkes

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Who is Scarlett O’Hara?

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Hans Brinker’s were silver

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What are ice skates?

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Enid Bagnold’s book that became Liz Taylor’s 1st starring vehicle

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What is National Velvet?

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Vowel missing from entire 50,000 word text of Ernest Wright’s “Gadsby”

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What is E?

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In “Trees”, he claimed that “poems are made by fools like me”

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Who is Joyce Kilmer?

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Time when the raven came rapping

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What is midnight?

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Dramatic form, from Greek for “merrymaking”

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What is comedy?

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19th century Norwegian playwright often called founder of modern drama

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Who is Henrik Isben?

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As he wished, the last play of Eugene O’Neill was produced after his death

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Question: What is Long Day’s Journey Into Night?

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Unknown author of the story of Aladdin

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Who is Anonymous? (Alex: “A bit of trick. We threw you a curve there, gang. Sorry

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In this book, Nick Charles’ Asta is a schnauzer, but in films was played by a wire-haired terrier

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Question: What is The Thin Man?

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Garryowen is the “bloody mangy mongrel” in the “Cylops” episode of this James Joyce novel

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What is Ulysses?

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A gravedigger hands Hamlet this person’s skull

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Who is Yorick?

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He wrote biographies of Columbus & Washington as well as Rip Van Winkle

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Who is Washington Irving?

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Tutored by Ralph Waldo Emerson & Henry David Thoreau, her works include “Jo’s Boys”

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Who is Louisa May Alcott?

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Best-selling book of both ’72 & ’73 was this Richard Bach bird

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What is Jonathan Livingston Seagull?

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J. Onassis was supervising editor for his autobiography, which should prove a “Thriller”

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Who is Michael Jackson?

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Sandburg wrote, “The fog comes on” these, but Brautigan said no, cats do, Carl

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What are little cat feet?

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Expression “The glory that was Greece & the grandeur that was Rome” is by this gloomy poet

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Question: Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

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Queequeg’s occupation in “Moby Dick”

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What is a harpooner?

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It begins, “Marley was dead to begin with”

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What is A Christmas Carol?

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As “Isak Dinesen”, Danish baroness Karen Blixen wrote about this continent she chose as her 2nd home

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What is Africa?

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Melville title sailor who personifies innocence

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Who is Billy Budd?

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James Hilton’s schoolmaster father was the model for this novel’s title character

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Who is Mr. Chips?

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John Steinbeck wrote the preface of a book about this Al Capp character

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Who is Li’l Abner?

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Ironically Catherine, wife of this poet, painter, & printer, was illiterate

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Who is William Blake?

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Coleridge character who cries, “Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink”

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Who is The Ancient Mariner?

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The decadent Snopes clan were featured in this author’s The Hamlet, The Town, & The Mansion

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Who is William Faulkner?

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At the N.Y. customs house, Oscar Wilde asserted he had nothing to declare but this

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What is his genius?

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Captain Nemo “dies” in both these Jules Verne novels

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Question: What are Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island?

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The Mock Turtle said its 4 branches were “ambition, distraction, uglification, & derision”

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What is arithmetic?

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It’s said he turned down Pulitzer for Arrowsmith because he felt he was due one sooner

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Who is Sinclair Lewis?

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In 1895, this 67-year-old count learned to ride the bicycle he received from Moscow admirers

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Question: Who is Leo Tolstoy?

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Of Franny & Zooey & Daphnis & Chloe, the 2 heroines

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Who are Franny and Chloe?

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Famed for taking it off, her writing career took off with The G-String Murders

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Who is Gypsy Rose Lee?

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Frances H. Burnett based this “little” hero in long curls, velvet & lace on her own son, Vivian

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Who is Little Lord Fauntleroy?

54
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In 1976, Publishers Weekly initiated a best seller list for these

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What are paperbacks?

55
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King of Scotland at the start of Macbeth

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Who is Duncan?

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The travelers in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales are on a pilgrimage to shrine of this 12th c. martyr

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Who is Thomas à Becket?

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Probably the 19th c.’s largest single royalty check went to this president’s widow in 1886 for his Memoirs

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Question: Who is Ulysses S. Grant? (Alex: $200,000 check and it was through the good graces of Mark Twain by the way was the publisher.)

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Ben Jonson told Celia, “Drink to me only with thine eyes, & I will” do this

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What is “pledge with mine”?

59
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Author of A Heap o’ Livin’, listed in Avenel’s companion to American Literature as “Famous Bad Poet”

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Who is Edgar Guest?

60
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To “amuse” his mother, he hid in his pockets bats which he’d found in a Hannibal cave

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Who is Mark Twain?

61
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Perhaps Edgar Allan Poe’s flair for the dramatic came from this, his birth parents’ occupation

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What is acting?

62
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What you’ll be if you accomplish all the ifs in Rudyard Kipling’s If, my son

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What is a man?

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In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this was Tom Snout’s occupation tho you may not give a “dam”

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What is tinker?

64
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Turgenev novel that dealt with confrontation between 2 generations & popularized the word “nihilist”

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What is Fathers and Sons?

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Czech writer who wrote in German, his life, like his novels, was a constant “Trial”

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Who is Franz Kafka?

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“I know for a fact there is life after death,” said this author of On Death & Dying

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Who is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?

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Once nearly blind from an infection as a teenager, this Englishman wrote Eyeless in Gaza in 1936

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Who is Aldous Huxley?

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Author of The Third Man, Robert Louis Stevenson was his 1st cousin once removed

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Who is Graham Greene?

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She told her father “I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less”

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Question: Who is Cordelia?

70
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In 1986, his second posthumous novel, The Garden of Eden, was published 25 years after his death

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Who is Ernest Hemingway?

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His pen name is Russian for “bitter”; his depressing plays include The Lower Depths

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Who is Maxim Gorky?

72
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Peter Shaffer called this long time best seller “a tribal record…full of rape, incest & murder”

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What is The Bible?

73
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This “Little Chickadee” got thrown in jail for Sex, a 1926 play she not only starred in, but wrote

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Who is Mae West?

74
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Feminist author of The Female Eunuch, she married 1 of Cosmopolitan’s 1st nude male centerfolds

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Who is Germaine Greer?

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The only two Italian cities mentioned in [Shakespeare’s] titles, they both begin with “V”

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What are Verona and Venice?

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Of this India-born writer, Mark Twain said, “He knows all that can be known, & I know the rest”

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Question: Who is Rudyard Kipling?

77
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The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money comprised this John Dos Passos trilogy

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What is U.S.A.?

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Of Lady Macbeth’s 165 words in her sleepwalking scene, all but 20 have this number of syllables

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What is one?

79
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Name by which Eva St. Clare is better known in Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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What is Little Eva?

80
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Margaret Sanger dedicated her book on birth control to this relative who had had 11 children

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Who is her mother?

81
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Her only non-fiction work was Every Night, Josephine! describing her French poodle’s lifestyle

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Who is Jacqueline Susann?

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Her 1949 tale, “The Lottery”, didn’t feature a pick 6 for cash, but a pick 1 for stoning

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Who is Shirley Jackson?

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Title shared by novels of H.G. Wells & Ralph Ellison, though H.G. added a “The”

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What is Invisible Man?

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The darkest time of this British author’s youth was his job of pasting labels on pots of stove blacking

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Who is Charles Dickens?

85
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In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne did her sinning in this Puritan city

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What is Boston?

86
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Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn’s hometown, St. Petersburg, was based on this Missouri city

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Question: What is Hannibal?

87
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Set in the Outback, this novel opens “On December 8, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her 4th birthday”

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What is The Thorn Birds?

88
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In his novel Falconer, Falconer is a prison

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Who is John Cheever?

89
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His 19th century novels such as The Mysterious Island foretold the submarine, the aqua lung & TV

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Who is Jules Verne?

90
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Born Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, she chose this pseudonym for her 1st novel, 1832’s Indiana

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Who is George Sand?

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In the Dostoevsky novel, one was a writer, one a student at a monastery & one didn’t work at all

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Who are the Brothers Karamazov?

92
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Seeking to end Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes wrote this comedy about a sex strike

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What is Lysistrata?

93
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Thomas Wolfe was born in 1900 & entered the University of this, his native state, at age 15

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What is North Carolina?

94
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His 1st book of stories appeared in 1904, 3 years after he finished serving time for embezzling

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Who is O. Henry?

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In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, this is Abraham Van Brunt’s nickname

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What is Brom Bones?

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The expression “to grow like topsy” comes from this 1852 novel

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What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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The Italian type of this 14-line poem is also known as the Petrarchan

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What is a sonnet?

98
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Famous price of the novels written by Ned Buntline

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What is a dime?

99
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Time magazine called this Working author “the tape recorder’s best friend”

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Who is Studs Terkel?

100
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The sails of her barge were “so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them”

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Who is Cleopatra?

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She called herself “the daughter of two persons of distinguished literary celebrity” in an introduction to one of her novels

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Who is Mary Shelley

102
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This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.

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What is Schindler’s List?

103
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A novel by Chuck Palahniuk was the basis for this film starring Brad Pitt & Edward Norton.

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What is Fight Club?

104
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She stars as literary forger Lee Israel in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, based on the memoir of the same name.

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Who is Melissa McCarthy?

105
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This film with Ray Liotta & Joe Pesci was based on the book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family”

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What is Goodfellas?

106
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Emma Stone played aspiring writer Skeeter Phelan in this ’60s-set film based on the novel of the same name

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What is The Help?

107
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1944’s “Absent in the Spring” is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott

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Who is Agatha Christie?

108
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On Ursula Le Guin’s passing, George R.R. Martin called her one of the great writers of these paired genres of the past century

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What are science fiction and fantasy?

109
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It’s the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman & Kingsolver

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What is Barbara?

110
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During the Harlem Renaissance, she wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

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Who is Zora Neale Hurston?

111
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At 15 she wrote a satirical “History of England” by “a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historian”

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Who is Jane Austen?

112
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This kid lit classic has a chapter called “The Puppies Arrive”

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What is One Hundred and One Dalmatians?

113
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E.L. James self-published this first book in an erotic series that started as fan fiction loosely based on “Twilight”

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What is Fifty Shades of Grey?

114
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The cover of the first edition of this 1961 military novel included a dancing figure & a little airplane

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What is Catch-22?

115
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John Reed gave an eyewitness account of the Bolshevik Revolution in “Ten Days That” did this

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What is Shook The World?

116
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“The Science of Deduction” is chapter one of this Sherlock Holmes story

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What is The Sign of Four?

117
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The novel titled this “Patient” is set in Italy & was written by Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje

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What is The English?

118
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Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote “We Are Going”, the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity

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What are Aboriginal?

119
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Gabriel Sundukian wrote this language’s greatest dramas in what’s now the country of Georgia

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What is Armenian?

120
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This poet told the Nobel Banquet, “Our Irish theatre could (never) have come into existence but for” Henrik Ibsen

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Who is William Butler Yeats?

121
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Son of a Polish patriot, he was born in what’s now Berdychiv, Ukraine & wrote works like “Typhoon” in English

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Who is Joseph Conrad?

122
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This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking” is a real eye-opener

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What is Blink?

123
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Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel

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What is Beloved?

124
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2 psychics have a pyrokinetic child in this Stephen King work

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What is Firestarter?

125
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This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado

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What is Centennial?

126
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In this 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk classic, a data thief matches wits with a powerful artificial intelligence

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What is Neuromancer?

127
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“Pebble in the Sky” was his first novel, the “Foundation” of a long & prolific career writing science fiction

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Who is Asimov?

128
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“The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade” is chapter 3 of “Bridge to” this enchanted land

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What is Terabithia?

129
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He taught us “The Power of Myth”

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Who is Joseph Campbell?

130
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The title of this debut novel by Gillian Flynn is an allusion to cutting, part of Camille Preaker’s traumatic past in the book

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What is Sharp Objects?

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The first book in a series, it opens in Inverness in 1945 & begins. “It wasn’t a very likely place for disappearances”

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What is Outlander?

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