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BB lit questions 2006-2011 Flashcards

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Mr Bumble, Bill Sikes, Nancy, and the Artful Doger are all characters in what novel?

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Oliver Twist

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Children?

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Richard Wright

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How many lines are in each stanza of Dante’s Commedia?

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Walt Whitman wrote in what type of verse?

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Free Verse

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Who wrote “To my dear and Loving husband”?

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Anne Bradstreet

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Who wrote The Dead?

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James Joyce

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Who’s hair was cut in the Rape of the Lock?

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Belinda

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What planet do the invaders from The War of The Worlds come from?

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Mars

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Shakespear wrote mainly in what three categories?

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History, comedy, and tragedy

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Who wrote “upon the Burning of our House”?

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Anne Bradstreet

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Who invented the Italian Sonnet form?

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Petrarch

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Edna Pontellier is a character in what book?

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The Awakening

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Rose of Sharon was a character in what novel?

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Grapes of Wrath

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Who murders Jay Gatsby?

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(George?) Wilson

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What Grave yard poet wrote “The paths of glory lead but to the grave”?

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Thomas Gravy

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Who wrote The Death of the Heart?

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Elizabeth Bowen

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Who kills King Arthur?

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Mordred

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Who wrote Dover Beach?

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Mathew Arnold

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Which Greek Philosopher called himself Gadfly?

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Socrates

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What poem about the American Revolution and poet contains this quote “listen my children and you shall hear”?

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Longfellow and paul reveers ride

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Piggy and Ralph were characters in what book?

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Lord of the Flies

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Arthur Dimmsdale was a preacher in what novel

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Scarlett Letter

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Who read a poem at JFK’s inaugeration?

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Robert Frost

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Miss Watson was a character in what novel?

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Huckleberry Finn

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Who wrote Don Juan?
Lord George Gordon Byron
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Who was tossed out of school for Atheism?
Percy Shelly
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What is Samuel Pepys writing genre?
Diary
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What opera by Leonard Bernstein is based on a satrical work by Voltaire?
Candide
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Who wrote Tarzan
Edgar ric Burroughs
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Dr Manette is a character in what book?
A Tale of two Cites
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Who wrote Richard Cory?
Edward Arlington Robinson
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Myrtle Wilson was a character in what novel?
The Great Gatsby
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For whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway is about what war?
spanish civil war
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Lady Brett Ashley is a character in what book?
The sun also rises
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Which two authors write in a method/genre in Steam of Consciousness
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce
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Who wrote Go Down, Moses?
William Faulkner
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Who was a metaphysical poet?
John Donne
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Who wrote "A Sound of Thunder"?
Ray Bradbury
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Who wrote hichhiker's guide to the Galaxy?
Douglas Adams
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Sydney Carton is a Character in what book?
A Tale of two Cites
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What was Hector Hugh Munro's pen name?
Saki
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Who wrote The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
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What book with what author was "Justify the Ways of God to men" written in?
Paradise Lost, John Milton
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Who wrote Death Be Not Proud?
John Donne
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Who wrote Intruder in the Dust?
William Faulkner
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Tea Cake was in what novel?
Their eyes were watching god
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Jean Valjean was a character from what play?
Les Miserables
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Who wrote "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"?
James Thurber
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Which Author Said "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."
Voltaire
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Who wrote She Walks in Beauty?
Lord George Gordon Byron
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who was a Polish born Britsh Author?
Joseph Conrad
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Which American Author said "Man is the only animal that blushes- or needs to."
Mark Twain
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Who invented the English Sonnet form?
Shakespear
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Estella, Miss Havisham, Joe Bargery, and Pip are characters in what novel?
Great Expectations
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Hester Prynne was a character in what novel?
The Scarlett Letter
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Who wrote "The Open Window"?
Saki or Munro
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who said the "The Horror, the Horror" in heart of darkness?
Mister Kurtz

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