Books

Question 1

Modern black author, teacher

Answer 1

James Baldwin
Go tell it on the mountain
Notes of a native son

Question 2

Who were the main characters of Don Quixote?

Answer 2

Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Rocinante
Dapple
Dulcinea del Toboso

Question 3

What was the Algonquin Round Table?

Answer 3

1919-1929 Algonquin Hotel
Formerly the Vicious Circle
NYC writers, critics and actors
Ruth Hale - woman’s rights writer
Robert Benchley- grandpa to Peter

Question 4

Who wrote Don Quixote?

Answer 4

Miguel de Cervantes

Question 5

What are the modern sailing books and who wrote them?

Answer 5

Sailing a serious ocean
Sailing to the edge of time
John Kretschmer

Question 6

What was the book about the black guy in LA who ran a farm in his house?

Answer 6

The Sellout - Paul Beatty

Question 7

When was Don Quixote written?

Answer 7

1605-1615

Question 8

Who wrote “Remains of the Day”?

Answer 8

Kazuo Ishiguro

Question 9

Who wrote “Unbearable lightness of being”?

Answer 9

Mila Kundera (1929- )

Question 10

Who wrote the Goldfinch?

Answer 10

Donna Tartt

Question 11

Book about modern layers of society, jealosy

Answer 11

Caste, Isabel Wilkerson

Question 12

What else did Mila Kundera write?

Answer 12

Book of laughter and forgetting

Question 13

William Faulkner

Answer 13

1897-1962
The Sound and the Fury

Question 14

Ayn Rand

Answer 14

Atlas Shrugged
Fountainhead

Question 15

Albert Camus - most famous book

Answer 15

The Stranger

Question 16

Who wrote “The Color Purple”

Answer 16

Alice Walker, 1944-

Question 17

Mark Twain

Answer 17

1835-1910
Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer

Question 18

Pride and Prejudice

Answer 18

Jane Austen
1813

Question 19

Moby Dick

Answer 19

Herman Melville
1851

Question 20

Jane Austen - books

Answer 20

Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Couples should improve/ educate each other

Question 21

Characters from Pride and Prejudice

Answer 21

Elizabeth Bennet
Jane Bennet
Mr Darcy
Mr Wickham

Question 22

Jane Austen - life

Answer 22

1787-1817

Question 23

Little Women

Answer 23

Louisa May Alcott, 1868

Question 24

Compare Little Women to Pride and Prejudice

Answer 24

Both have strong protagonists
P&P is more about women not being bound by class
Little Women is about women not being bound by gender roles

Question 25

Count of Monte Cristo author

Answer 25

Alexandre Dumas 1844

Question 26

Main Characters from Moby Dick

Answer 26

Ishmael - Author Captain Ahab Queequeg Starbuck Stubb Ship - Pequod

Question 27

Theme of Moby DIck

Answer 27

Man cannot completely conquer nature Revenge can consume you Limits of knowledge-Melville knows lots, but the whale still wins

Question 28

Characters from Sound and Fury

Answer 28

Quentin Jason Caddie Benjy Dilsey

Question 29

Theme of Sound and Fury

Answer 29

Time is circular - like Arrival Some characters hate time Dilsey and Benjy are free of it Dilsey is spiritual Benjy doesn’t understand time.

Question 30

Main characters from Sense and Sensibility

Answer 30

Elinor Dashwood Marianne Dashwood Edward Ferrars John Willoughby

Question 31

Haiku Structure

Answer 31

three lines Syllables = 575

Question 32

Which Sense and Sensibility character do you identify with?

Answer 32

Edward Ferrars- soft spoken, conversation \> money

Question 33

Where does the title for Sense amd Sensibility come from?

Answer 33

``` Sense = Elinor - good sense, practical Sensibility = Marianne (more passionate, optimistic ```

Question 34

Sense and Sensibility

Answer 34

Head and heart Neither on its own is perfect Balance is the key

Question 35

Jane Austen inspiration

Answer 35

She almost inherited Stoneleigh Abbey from a relation who had no spouse and children She oscillated between wealth and poverty. Grew up with status but not wealth

Question 36

Girls from Little Women

Answer 36

Jo March Beth March Meg March Amy March Marmee

Question 37

One hundred years of solitude

Answer 37

Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967

Question 38

The Left Hand of Darkness

Answer 38

Ursula K Le Guin 1969

Question 39

Who wrote Midnight's Children?

Answer 39

Salman Rushdie

Question 40

Who wrote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

Answer 40

Douglas Adams

Question 41

Main character from HG2G?

Answer 41

Arthur Dent

Question 42

Jane Eyre

Answer 42

Charlotte Brontë 1847 Written as Currer Bell Gender and Class

Question 44

Pride and Prejudice vs Jane Eyre Approach / Characters

Answer 44

PP-funny, intelligent, beautiful characters, romcom archetype JE- dramatic, plain characters,

Question 45

Pride and Prejudice vs Jane Eyre themes

Answer 45

PP- status / wealth JE- status / wealth AND gender/feminism

Question 46

Departure

Answer 46

Abfahrt

Question 47

A question

Answer 47

Eine Frage

Question 48

Main characters from To Kill a Mockingbird

Answer 48

Scout, Jem, Atticus Finch Boo Radley, Tom Robinson

Question 49

Two aspects of Dickens’ strategy

Answer 49

1) address social ills 2) build empathy for low status characters who suffer the social ills.

Question 50

Did Dickens spend more effort on defining problems or solutions?

Answer 50

All defining problems/questions, no effort on solutions.

Question 51

Significance of the title “To Kill a Mockingbird”

Answer 51

End of innocence- Scout, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson

Question 52

Common threads between Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

Answer 52

VERY similar A) Kurtz and his MO B) harlequin and Dennis Hopper