Winter Break Questions (Lit.) Flashcards
Nine Stories
JD Salinger
This character wrote a paper entitled “On Crime”.
Raskolnikov
Character:Raskolnikov
Crime and Punishment
This play contains “Second-Empire” style furniture.
No Exit
In this play, Garcin tries to leave Ines by opening the door of the room.
No Exit
This man ran for governor of California on the platform EPIC (End Poverty in California).
Upton Sinclair
Character: Lanny Budd
A Presidential Mission
In this work, a Lithuanian immigrant flees Chicago after his wife Ona dies in childbirth and his son drowns in a muddy street.
The Jungle
Character: Jurgis Rudkus
The Jungle
Character: Jim Smiley
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
The speaker of this poem begins by pointing out a painting of the title character by Fra Pandolf.
“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning
“Archaic torso of Apollo” (poem)
Rilke
Duino Elegies
Rilke
This poet addressed works to Lesbia.
Catullus
The Flowers of Evil (collection of poems)
Charles Baudelaire
“The Albatross”
Charles Baudelaire
“Ode to Joy”
Friedrich Schiller
The Man Who Was Thursday
G. K. Chesterton
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
G. K. Chesterton
Character: Father Brown
“The Blue Cross” by G. K. Chesterton
One character in this novel is nicknamed “Polyanna Cowgirl”.
The Bell Jar
Characters: Tomas and Tereza
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
“The Indian Burial Ground”
Philip Freneau
“The British Prison Ship”
Philip Freneau
This author was nicknamed “the Poet of the Revolution”.
Philip Freneau
Character: Dogberry
Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing
The Wreck of the Deutschland
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Felix Randall”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Spring and Fall”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Pied Beauty”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Manuel Puig
This man wrote a series of poems to a woman named Marguerite.
Matthew Arnold
Empedocles on Etna (poetry collection)
Matthew Arnold
“The Bald Soprano”
Eugene Ionesco
“The Rhinoceros”
Eugene Ionesco
Name this school of thought associated with men such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
Existentialism
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Characters: Lucky, Pozzo
Waiting For Godot
“Babi Yar” (poem)
Yevtushenko
The Cantos
Ezra Pound
“The Song of the Wagons”
Du Fu or Tu Fu
“September 1, 1939” (poem)
W.H. Auden
“Funeral Blues”
W.H. Auden
“Musee des Beaux Arts”
W.H. Auden
The Hawk and the Rain (poetry collection)
Ted Hughes
“The Windhover”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Things Fall Apart
Achebe
Name this home country of Achebe.
Nigeria
