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Question 1

Evelyn Waugh

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Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Question 2

Charles Ryder goes to Oxford in the 1930’s and falls in love with the wealthy Marchmain family in a house called ___

Answer 2

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

Question 3

Brideshead Revisited (1945)

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Evelyn Waugh

Question 4

Thorton Wilder

Answer 4

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

Question 5

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

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Thorton Wilder

Question 6

In 1714, an Inca rope bridge “the finest bridge in all Peru” collapses and five people plunge to their deaths, Brother Juniper investigates each story to prove that the accident was God’s plan

Answer 6

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

Question 7

20th American wrtier of “The Adventures of Augie March”, “Henderson the Rain King”, “Herzog”, “Mr. Sammler’s Planet”, “Humboldt’s Gift”

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Saul Bellow

Question 8

Virginia Woolf novel that inspired Michael Cunningham’s novel “The Hours” (her novel was originally titled this)

Answer 8

Mrs. Dalloway

Question 9

William S. Burroughs, grandon of William Burroughs (inventor of the adding machine)

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Naked Lunch (1959)

Question 10

narrator takes on various aliases from US to Mexico to Tangier and the dreamlike “interzone” featuring random drug-induced experiences

Answer 10

Naked Lunch (1959)

Question 11

Naked Lunch (1959)

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William S. Burroughs

Question 12

Jack Kerouac

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On the Road (1957)

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On the Road (1957)

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Jack Kerouac

Question 14

narrator Sal Paradise and his carefree new friend Dean Moriarty travel around the country participating in jazz, poetry, and drug use, characters represent many key figures in the beat movement

Answer 14

On the Road (1957)

Question 15

E.M. Forster

Answer 15

A Passage to India (1924)

Question 16

A Passage to India (1924)

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E.M. Forster

Question 17

a poem by Walt Whitman, a novel by E.M. Forster, a movie directed by David Lean

Answer 17

A Passage to India

Question 18

4 characters during a trip to the Marabar Caves, Adela finds herself alone with Dr. Aziz in a cave, panicks, and flees (it’s assumed that he assaulted her), Aziz’s trial brings out racial tensions during British Raj

Answer 18

A Passage to India (1924)

Question 19

Philip Roth

Answer 19

Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)

Question 20

Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)

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Philip Roth

Question 21

features a humorous monologue to his therapist containing lots of explicity sexuality (including with a model named “The Monkey”) including masturbation using various props including a piece of liver, feels guilty

Answer 21

Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)

Question 22

Muriel Spark

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Question 23

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

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Muriel Spark

Question 24

An Edinburgh teacher dedicates her prime years to teacehing at a girls’ school

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)

Question 25

John Updike

Answer 25

Rabbit, Run (1960)

Question 26

Rabbit, Run (1960)

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John Updike

Question 27

depicts 5 months in the life of a 26 year old former high school basketball player named Harry '___' Angstrom and his attempts to escape the constraints of his life, 3 other sequels followed

Answer 27

Rabbit, Run (1960)

Question 28

E.L. Doctorow

Answer 28

Ragtime (1975)

Question 29

Ragtime (1975)

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E.L. (Edgar Laurence) Doctorow

Question 30

historical fiction during the time between 1900 and WW1 in 1917 featuring Houdini, Emma Goldman, Henry Ford, and Freud and other fictional characters, later a Broadway musical

Answer 30

Ragtime (1975)

Question 31

Henry Miller

Answer 31

Tropic of Cancer (1934), Tropic of Capricorn (1939)

Question 32

Tropic of Cancer (1934)

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Henry Miller

Question 33

Tender is the Night (1934)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 34

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Answer 34

Tender is the Night (1934)

Question 35

E.M. Forster

Answer 35

Howards End (1910)

Question 36

Howards End (1910)

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E.M. Forster

Question 37

title country house and its influence on the lives of the Schlegels & the Wilcoxes

Answer 37

Howards End (1910)

Question 38

Norman Mailer

Answer 38

The Naked and the Dead (1948)

Question 39

The Naked and the Dead (1948)

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Norman Mailer

Question 40

about a platoon who invades the Japanese-held island of Anopopei during WW2 to observe enemy troops

Answer 40

The Naked and the Dead (1948)

Question 41

W. Somerset Maugham

Answer 41

Of Human Bondage (1915)

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Of Human Bondage (1915)

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W. Somerset Maugham

Question 43

Philip Carey, a medical student with a club foot, is obsessed with the vulgar waitress Mildred, based on the author's own experiences in medical school, later a movie starring Leslie Howard and Bette Davis

Answer 43

Of Human Bondage (1915)

Question 44

A Room with a View (1908)

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E.M. Forster

Question 45

E.M. Forster

Answer 45

A Room with a View (1908)

Question 46

Lucy Honeychurch and her older cousin/chaperone get the wrong room on vacation in Florence, Lucy falls for George, gets engaged to Cecil, weds George

Answer 46

A Room with a View (1908)

Question 47

Frank Herbert

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Dune (1965)

Question 48

Dune (1965)

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Frank Herbert

Question 49

desert planet of Arrakis is known by its natives as this title name, spawned 5 sequels, world's top selling sci fi novel in history

Answer 49

Dune (1965)

Question 50

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

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Robert A. Heinlein

Question 51

Robert A. Heinlein

Answer 51

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

Question 52

a human, Valentine Michael Smith, comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on Mars and raised by Martians, title is an allusion to a phrase in Exodus

Answer 52

Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)

Question 53

Robert A. Heinlein

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Starship Troopers (1959)

Question 54

Starship Troopers (1959)

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Robert A. Heinlein

Question 55

Juan Rico joins the mobile infantry to fight in the war against the invading alien bugs, made into a 1997 movie

Answer 55

Starship Troopers (1959)

Question 56

The World According to Garp (1978)

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John Irving

Question 57

John Irving

Answer 57

The World According to Garp (1978)

Question 58

T.S. ___is the illegitimate son of mother Jenny Fields (she tricked a WW2 brain damaged man known as "Technical Sergeant" ___ into impregnating her), made into a movie with Robin Williams, Glenn Close, and John Lithgow (transexual)

Answer 58

The World According to Garp (1978)

Question 59

Arrowsmith (1925)

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Sinclair Lewis

Question 60

Sinclair Lewis

Answer 60

Arrowsmith (1925)

Question 61

Dr. Martin ___ being his practice in North Dakota, but goes to the island of St. Hubert to fight an epidemic, his wife Leora dies of bubonic plague on the island

Answer 61

Arrowsmith (1925)

Question 62

Watership Down (1972)

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Richard Adams

Question 63

Richard Adams

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Watership Down (1972)

Question 64

story about a small group of rabbits, led by Hazel, who escape the destruction of their home and seek a new place

Answer 64

Watership Down (1972)

Question 65

Winnie-the-Pooth (1926), his real-life only son was named Christopher Robin

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A.A. Milne

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A.A. Milne

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Winnie-the-Pooth (1926)

Question 67

Truman Capote

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In Cold Blood (1966)

Question 68

In Cold Blood (1966)

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Truman Capote

Question 69

non-fiction book about a murder in Holcomb, Kansas of a framer, his wife, and 2 of their 4 children

Answer 69

In Cold Blood (1966)

Question 70

Holly Golightly is a small town girl in the big city (NYC) making a living by socializing with wealthy men (kind of like an American geisha)

Answer 70

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958)

Question 71

J.D. Salinger

Answer 71

Franny and Zooey (1961)

Question 72

Franny and Zooey (1961), first published in the New Yorker

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J.D. Salinger

Question 73

Ethan Frome (1911)

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Edith Wharton

Question 74

Edith Wharton

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Ethan Frome (1911)

Question 75

___ is a New England farmer who falls in love with his wife Zeena's cousin Mattie, they try to commit suicide by running into a tree with a sled, but instead become paralyzed and the wife has to take care of both of them

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Ethan Frome (1911)

Question 76

Orlando (1928), Orlando is a sex-changing hero-heroine

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Virginia Woolf

Question 77

Virginia Woolf

Answer 77

Orlando (1928)

Question 78

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

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Tom Wolfe

Question 79

Tom Wolfe

Answer 79

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

Question 80

bond salesman Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks in movie, also starred Melanie Griffith (love interest) and Bruce Willis (reporter)), Hanks and Griffith accidentally hit-and-run

Answer 80

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

Question 81

A Separate Peace (1959)

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John Knowles

Question 82

John Knowles

Answer 82

A Separate Peace (1959)

Question 83

During WW2 Gene and Finny become friends at prep school in New Hampshire

Answer 83

A Separate Peace (1959)

Question 84

Rebecca (1938), Hitchcock made a movie

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Daphne du Maurier

Question 85

Daphne du Maurier

Answer 85

Rebecca (1938)

Question 86

Look Homeward, Angel (1929), highly autobiographical through the eyes of Eugene Gant

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Thomas Wolfe

Question 87

Thomas Wolfe

Answer 87

Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

Question 88

Thomas Wolfe

Answer 88

You Can't Go Home Again (1940)

Question 89

You Can't Go Home Again (1940), published posthumously

Answer 89

Thomas Wolfe

Question 90

John Updike

Answer 90

The Witches of Eastwick (1984)

Question 91

The Witches of Eastwick (1984)

Answer 91

John Updike

Question 92

3 divorced witches in Rhode Island, made into a movie in 1987 with Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, & Cher (and Jack Nicholson as the guy)

Answer 92

The Witches of Eastwick (1984)

Question 93

O Pioneers! (1913)

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Willa Cather

Question 94

Willa Cather

Answer 94

O Pioneers! (1913)

Question 95

young adult novel that told struggles of prairie life, a group of immigrants from Sweden settle in Nebraska

Answer 95

O Pioneers! (1913)

Question 96

Henry James

Answer 96

The Bostonians (1886)

Question 97

The Bostonians (1886)

Answer 97

Henry James

Question 98

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Answer 98

Willa Cather

Question 99

Willa Cather

Answer 99

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)

Question 100

The Tin Drum (1959)

Answer 100

Gunter Grass

Question 101

Gunter Grass

Answer 101

The Tin Drum (1959)

Question 102

Nikos Kazantzakis

Answer 102

Zorba the Greek (1946)

Question 103

a young Greek intellectual ventures to escape his bookish life with the aid of the boisterous and mysterious elderly Alexis ___

Answer 103

Zorba the Greek (1946)

Question 104

Dead Souls (1842), he burned the second part shortly before he died, convinced it was evil

Answer 104

Nikolai Gogol

Question 105

Nikolai Gogol

Answer 105

Dead Souls (1842)

Question 106

Book that became a movie about Alan Shepard, Chuck Yeager, and John Glenn about experiment rocket-powered aircraft after WW2, including Chuck Yeager breaking the sound bariier

Answer 106

The Right Stuff (1979)

Question 107

19/20th American journalist and essayist for the Baltimore Sun

Answer 107

H.L. Mencken

Question 108

The Elements of Style (1918)

Answer 108

William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White

Question 109

William Strunk, Jr. & E.B. White

Answer 109

The Elements of Style (1918)

Question 110

Rachel Carson

Answer 110

Silent Spring (1962)

Question 111

Silent Spring (1962)

Answer 111

Rachel Carson

Question 112

launched the environmental protection movement by warning of the dangers of pesticides and herbicides

Answer 112

Silent Spring (1962)