Books, Lit, Bible, Mythology, News Flashcards by D C

Sid Fleischman Newberry for

The Whipping Boy

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Author of Candide

Voltaire

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Author of “Tristram Shandy”

Laurence Sterne

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Syracuse and Ephesus

Comedy of Errors (brother/servant pair from each)

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“Now is the winter of our discontent”

Richard III

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Sign of God’s covenant after the flood

A rainbow

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Author of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”

Muriel Spark

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“The Fifth Season” author

NK Jemisin

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Pulitzer for “The Yearling”

Marjorie Rawlings

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Bible book with philosophical exploration of the meaning of life

Ecclesiastes

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“When I have crossed the bar” poet

Tennyson

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Author of “The Things They Carried”

Tim O’Brien

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Costard is the comic figure in Shakespeare’s

Love’s Labour’s Lost

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Shakespeare plays with ghosts

Hamlet (his father King Hamlet); Macbeth (Banquo); Julius Caesar (Caesar); Richard III (parade)

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Austen novel with John Willoughby

Sense and Sensibility

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Bible book describing Adam and Eve

Genesis

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Midsummer Night’s Dream setting

Athens

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Last book of the Old Testament

Malachi

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The Lords Prayer is part of the

Sermon on the Mount

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“Drink to me Only With Thine Eyes” poet

from Celia by Ben Jonson

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Novel with Heathcliff

Wuthering Heights

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Deceived to steal his father’s blessing

Jacob

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Jean Craighead George children’s book

Julie of the Wolves

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Lafeu is a Shakespeare character in

All’s Well that Ends Well

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Othello's wife

Desdemona

Valentine and Proteus are characters in

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

George Selden children's book

A Cricket in Times Square

Raskolnikov is the murderer in

Crime and Punishment

How long was Jesus in the desert after being baptized

40 days and 40 nights

"Burr" and "Lincoln" author

Gore Vidal

Author of "The Thin Man"

Dashiell Hammet

"Angle of Repose" author

Wallace Stegner

Author of Mike Hammer private eye novels

Mickey Spillane

Shakespeare play about the Trojan War

Troilus and Cressida

King Hrothgar is a character in

Beowulf

"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war"

Marc Antony in Julius Caesar

"School for Scandal" author

Richard Birnsley Sheridan

Pulitzer for "Dragon's Teeth"

Upton Sinclair

Pulitzer for "The Goldfinch"

Donna Tartt

Prospero is a character in

The Tempest

Place where Jacob had his dream

Bethel - house of god

Author of “a dance to the music of time” cycle

Anthony Powell

Where did Jesus change water into wine?

At a wedding in Cana

All the King's Men author

Robert Penn Warren

Author of "The Assistant" about Jewish grocer getting robbed

Bernard Malamud

Marguerite Henry children's books

"Misty of Chincoteague" and "King of the Wind"

"Faust" author

Goethe

“Do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart”

Proverbs

Shakespeare play where ____ takes the credit for killing Hotspur

Henry IV part 1, Falstaff

3 couples in Merchant of Venice

Bassanio and Portia, Gratiano and Nerissa (Portia's maid), Lorenzo and Jessica

Susan Cooper children's series

The Dark is Rising

Death in Venice author

Thomas Mann

Author of "A Death in the Family"

James Agee

"Piranesi" author

Susanna Clarke

"Ozymandias" poet

Shelley

"The Three-Body Problem" author

Cixin Liu

What happens to Queen Margaret's army in Henry VI? part 3

Richard Neville defeats them, seizes throne and proclaims Edward IV the new king

Author of mystery novels with Siamese cats

Lillian Jackson Braun

Lion in Winter is about

Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine

Author of The Island of Doctor Moreau

HG Wells

"The City & the City" author

China Mieville

"Eugene Onegin" author

Alexander Pushkin

Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus with

Perfume from an alabaster jar

Author of "Slaughterhouse-Five"

Kurt Vonnegut

Bible book describing Moses delivering his people from Pharaoh

Exodus

The Life and Opinions of _____, Gentleman

Tristram Shandy

Odysseus's son

Telemachus

What do donkeys and goats eat out of?

A manger

Bible book describing Tower of Babel

Genesis

Author of "Number the Stars"

Lois Lowry

Author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman"

John Fowles

Absalom and Achitophel poet

John Dryden

Historian of the Roman emperors

Tacitus

Author of USA Trilogy

John Dos Passos

"Last of the Mohicans" author

James Fenimore Cooper

Le Morte d'Arthur

Thomas Malory

' it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’

Macbeth

Rosalind is a Shakespeare character in

As You Like It

Author of "Housekeeping"

Marilynne Robinson

Eleanor Estes children's book about clothes

The Hundred Dresses

"Democracy" American novel author

Henry Adams

"The Lady of Shalott" poet

Tennyson

John Carter creator

Edgar Rice Burroughs

early 20th trilogy about English "new money" family

The Forsyte Saga

Novel where writer becomes obsessed with a beautiful youth

Death in Venice

Two sisters flee court persecution into the forest

As You Like It

Descendants of Ham

Canaanites

Bible book describing creation of universe and man

Genesis

Play with Battle of Agincourt

Henry V

Caius Martius is the original name of

Coriolanus

The fishermen of the miraculous catch

Peter, James and John

Shakespeare play where nobleman's generosity to his friends is not reciprocated so he moves to a cave

Timon of Athens

Oronooko author

Aphra Behn

The Chronicles of Narnia books

``` The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – 1950 Prince Caspian – 1951 The Voyage of the Dawn Treader – 1952 The Silver Chair – 1953 The Horse and His Boy – 1954 The Magician's Nephew – 1955 The Last Battle – 1956 ```

Who is your personal spiritual caretaker

Guardian angel

Bible book describing building of the temple and its destruction by Babylonians

2 Chronicles

‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’

Midsummer Night's Dream

Too busy cooking to listen to Jesus

Martha

Book narrated by Sal Paradise

On The Road

Author of "Unbearable Lightness of Being"

Milan Kundera

Who told Namaan to go wash in the Jordan River to be healed

Elisha

Author of "Naked Lunch"

William Burroughs

"Color Purple" author

Alice Walker

Pulitzer for "The Underground Railroad"

Colson Whitehead

Author of The Senator’s Wife

Sue Miller

Pulitzer for "The Orphan Master's Son"

Adam Johnson

Bible book in which God prescribes laws governing sacrifices and festivals

Leviticus

Play where Prince Hal slays Hotspur in battle

Henry IV part 1

Why did pharaoh want to kill the baby boys

Joseph was dead and his descendants, the Hebrews, were too numerous and powerful

Sam Spade novels author

Dashiell Hammett

Collective name for “blessed are the ______, for they shall”

Beatitudes

"Woman in White" author

Wilkie Collins

Book in which Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead

John

Protagonist of this novel is befriended by the Peggotty family

David Copperfield

Wife of Priam, Queen of Troy

Hecuba

Matthew 5:13 says that "ye are" this mineral phrase, meaning representative of the best of society

Salt of the earth

Book about Bigger Thomas

Native Son by Richard Wright

Bible book in which author lists stories of signs and miracles to convince readers to believe

Gospel of John

"Because i could not stop for Death"

Emily Dickinson

Shakespeare's landlady of the Boar's Head Tavern

Mistress Quickly

Phillip the Bastard is a Shakespeare character in

King John, son of Richard the Lionheart

Protagonist of Great Expectations

Pip

Bible book with a letter encouraging Christians to cling to Christ despite persecution, because he is greater.

Hebrews

Richard III is defeated by

Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth, then becomes Henry VII

Speak, for your servant is listening

What Samuel said after he realized it was God calling his name

Playwright of Lysistrata

Aristophanes

Leader of the Achaeans

Agamemnon

Taming of the Shrew setting

Padua

"The quality of mercy"

Merchant of Venice

"How Do I Love Thee?" poet

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Bible book in which a righteous man argues with friends about faith

Job

Where was Jesus baptized

Bethany

He kills Achilles

Paris (arrow through the foot)

Author of "The Yellow Wallpaper"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Helen and Diana perform the bed trick

All's Well that Ends Well

Brother of Menelaus

Agamemnon

Thrown in a pit by brothers

Joseph

Bible book in which Moses dies

Deuteronomy

Chief Norse god

Odin

Caesar conspirators

Brutus, Cassius, Casca

Who kills Tybalt?

Romeo

“I will maintain my love to him forever, my covenant with him will never fail” is from

Psalms

"Brevity is the soul of wit"

Hamlet, Polonius

Pulitzer for "The Overstory"

Richard Powers

National Book Award for "Charming Billy"

Alice McDermott

"Fiddler on the Roof" inspiring stories

Sholom Aleichem

Who attempted Jesus in the desert?

Satan

Triumvirate ruling Rome in Antony and Cleopatra

Antony, Octavius Caesar, Lepidus

Shakespeare play where King Ferdinand wants the Princess of France

Loves Labour's Lost

Iago suggests to Othello that Desdemona is ________'s lover

Cassio

Author of "The heart of the Matter"

Graham Greene

Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler author

EL Konigsburg

Shakespeare play featuring Joan of Arc

Henry VI part 1

Author of "The Maltese Falcon"

Dashiell Hammet

"I can do all things through him who strengthens me."

Philippians

Author of "Dog Soldiers" about heroin smuggling post Vietnam

Robert Stone

His L.A. novels include | "The Black Dahlia"

James Ellroy

Novel about Hiro Protagonist

Snow Crash

How did the Wise men find Baby Jesus?

The star of Bethlehem

"City and the Pillar" author

Gore Vidal

Julia and Silvia are characters in

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Bible book describing history of Israel, culminating with David commissioning the temple

1 Chronicles

Bible book in which a man warns neighboring nation they will be judged for plundering Jerusalem

Obadiah

Bible book describing Jacob and Joseph

Genesis

Shakespeare play where the King of Navarre and his three companions swear to avoid women for three years

Love's Labour's Lost

Polixenes is a character in

The Winter's Tale

Bible book that is a poem about the vanity of earthly things

Ecclesiastes

Pulitzer for "The Road"

Cormac McCarthy

Who baptized in Jesus

John the

Author of War of the Worlds

HG Wells

Novel about Becky Sharp

Vanity Fair

Vulgar fat knight character in Shakespeare

Falstaff

Shakespeare play where sons are served in a pie

Titus Andronicus

Name for Ancient Greeks used in the Iliad

Achaeans

Author of "At Swim-Two-Birds"

Flann O'Brien

Who struck the rock and made water flow

Moses

Prospero adopted, raised, and enslaved ____

Caliban

Novel about Esther Summerson

Bleak House

Author of "Martian Chronicles"

Ray Bradbury

American Psycho novel by

Brett Easton Ellis

Camus was born in

Algeria

Playwright of The Frogs

Aristophanes

Sydney Carton is a character in

A Tale of Two Cities

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" author

Flannery O'Connor

Pulitzer for "The Executioner's Song"

Norman Mailer

Thaisa is a character in

Pericles

"Brideshead Revisited" author

Evelyn Waugh

Prince of Troy, foremost Trojan warrior

Hector

Author of "Fahrenheit 451"

Ray Bradbury

Bible book that is a love poem

Song of Solomon

Pulitzer for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"

Thornton Wilder

"Dune" author

Frank Herbert

For god So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him shall not Perish but shall have eternal life

John

Helps but then tries to blackmail Richard III

Buckingham

Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Cabaret-inspiring author

Christopher Isherwood

Prospero encourages a romantic relationship between

Miranda and Ferdinand

"Jane Eyre" author

Charlotte Bronte

British sci fi writer, more than 50 books

Arthur C. Clarke

Author of "Falconer"

John Cheever

"The Caine Mutiny" author, won Pulitzer

Herman Wouk, WWII in Pacific

Novel with Mr. Rochester

Jane Eyre

Angelo is the main character in

Measure for Measure

Author of “Main Street”

Sinclair Lewis

Novelist of "Jaws"

Peter Benchley

Troilus and Cressida setting

Troy

Pulitzer for "Gilead"

Marilynne Robinson

"All the world's a stage"

As You Like It, Jaques

Macbeth's friend

Banquo, comes back as ghost

Esther Forbes children's book about the Revolution

Johnny Tremain

Author of Brideshead Revisited

Evelyn Waugh

Bible book with visions of things that have been, that are, and that are yet to come

Revelation

"Stranger in a Strange Land" scifi author

Robert Heinlein

Posthumus is a character in

Cymbeline

"All the King's Men" author

Robert Penn Warn

Created by Charles Portis, this U.S. Marshal helps 14-year-old Mattie Ross track her father's killer

Rooster Cogburn

Pulitzer for "Less"

Andrew Sean Greer

Bible book containing dirges for Jerusalem after Babylonian attacks

Lamentations

"The Gods Themselves" scifi author

Isaac Asimov

Bible book in which disobedient prophet runs from God

Jonah

King who instituted major religious reforms in Judah

Josiah

"To be or not to be"

Hamlet

Book in which Jesus turned water into wine

John - describing the first miracle

"Eloise" author

Kay Thompson

Confess with your mouth

Romans

Gonzalo is a character in

The Tempest

Tom Joad is a character in

Grapes of Wrath

Shakespeare play with French Princess Katherine

Henry V

Bible book describing Abraham and Isaac

Genesis

Dr. Faustus playwright

Christopher Marlowe

"Wuthering Heights" author

Emily Bronte

Author of "The Illustrated Man"

Ray Bradbury

"All that glisters is not gold"

Merchant of Venice

"Death Be Not Proud" poet

John Donne

Play with Duke disguised as a Friar

Measure for Measure

"Exodus" author

Leon Uris

1930s novel about marginal disappointed Hollywood people

The Day of the Locust

Author of "Snow Crash"

Neal Stephenson

Author of "Tom Jones"

Fielding

Thriller about Jack Ryan and a Soviet Sub

The Hunt for Red October

Author of A Clockwork Orange

JD Salinger

Bible book with story of Lot

Genesis

Author of "Appointment in Samarra"

John O'Hara

"A Wrinkle in Time" author

Madeleine L'Engle

Narnia author

C.S. Lewis

Battle Hymn of the Republic poet

Julia Ward Howe

"Way of the World" playwright

William Congreve

Bible epistles of _____

Paul, writing to churches to tell them about how to do things

"To thine own self be true"

Hamlet, Polonius

Bible book describing Jewish queen saving her people from a plot

Esther

Author of "Satanic Verses"

Salman Rushdie

Shakespeare play where deputy institutes harsh morality laws, abuses his power for sexual favors

Measure for Measure

National Book Award for "Sing, Unburied, Sing"

Jesmyn Ward

Author of “Call it Sleep”

Henry Roth

Hector's wife, Princess of Troy

Andromache

Author of "Gulag Archipelago"

Solzhenitsyn

"If music be the food of love, play on"

Twelfth Night

Dominant English Restoration poet

John Dryden

"New Colossus" poet

Emma Lazarus

Iago hates Othello for promoting ____ above him

Cassio

Kate DiCamillo Newberry for

The Tale of Despereaux, about a mouse

"Come to me, all who are weary, and I will give you rest."

Matthew

King of Sparta in the Iliad

Menelaus

Composer of Orfeo

Monteverdi

"Fear of Flying" author

Erica Jong

Author of "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold"

John Le Carre

Bible book in which Israel wanders in the desert for 40 years

Numbers

Playwright of Medea

Euripides

Pulitzer for "Interpreter of Maladies"

Jhumpa Lahiri

Shylock's daughter

Jessica

Pulitzer for "All the Light We Cannot See"

Anthony Doerr

Elizabeth George Speare children's books

"The Witch of Blackbird Pond" and "The Bronze Bow"

‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘

Henry IV part 2, Henry IV

"The Second Coming" poet

Yeats

King John's mother is

Eleanor of Aquitaine

High Fidelity novel by

Nick Hornby

"The Accidental Tourist" author

Anne Tyler

"The Left Hand of Darkness" author

Ursula LeGuin

The leader who followed Moses

Joshua

Bible book in which God chooses a man to speak for him to Israel and tell them the error of their ways

Ezekiel

Price Judas sold Jesus for

30 pieces of silver

Novel about Fanny Price

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen

Shakespeare play with main antagonist Octavius Caesar

Antony and Cleopatra

Author of "Portnoy's Complaint"

Philip Roth

Book about priest in 1830s New Mexico

Death comes for the Archbishop

Hannah prayed to God for a son and had

Samuel

Trinculo is a character in

The Tempest, jester

Carol Ryrie Brink children's book

Caddie Woodlawn

Who reappeared to Jesus on the mountain?

Moses and Elijah

Author of The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

Iago manipulates his friend ______ to help him against Othello

Roderigo

Dueled (not to the death) in the Iliad

Hector and Ajax

Perdita is a character in

The Winter's Tale (king's daughter, exiled and grows up as shepherd girl)

Pulitzer for "A Thousand Acres"

Jane Smiley

Daughter of King Priam

Cassandra

Stephen Dedalus is a character in

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Bible book in which Jesus returns to the Father, the Holy Spirit comes to the church, and the gospel of Jesus spreads throughout the world.

Acts

Novel about the Dashwood sisters

Sense and Sensibility

"Middlemarch" author

George Eliot

‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage'

Macbeth

What did Moses he after he moved away from Egypt?

The burning bush

Hamlet's Uncle

Claudius

Author of The Day of the Locust

Nathanael West

Bible book in which prophet warns Israel about coming Babylonian captivity

Jeremiah

Prince Florizel is a character in

The Winter's Tale (woos Perdita the "shepherd girl")

Forest of Arden is the setting of

As You Like It

"Galactic Empire" series scifi author

Isaac Asimov

Odysseus's wife

Penelope

Priam's son killed in combat

Hector

Bible book describing prophet warning Israel of future judgment and tell them about coming king to bear their sins

Isaiah

English Restoration satirist

John Dryden

Author of "All the Pretty Horses"

Cormac McCarthy

"The Man in the High Castle" author

Philip K. Dick

"For whom the bell tolls" novel author

Ernest Hemingway

Declares war on Antony when he goes back to Cleopatra

Octavius Caesar - tries to become sole ruler of Rome

Bible book with account of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, focusing on Jesus’ role as the true king of the Jews.

Gospel of Matthew

noble pair in Twelfth Night

Olivia and Orsino

Playwright of The Birds

Aristophanes

What kind of seed of small plant grows into big tree in a parable?

Mustard

Two sons of Henry IV

Henry Prince of Wales (Prince Hal), Prince John of Lancaster

Bible book in which Israel renews its covenant at the foot of the promised land

Deuteronomy

Mommie Dearest is about

Joan Crawford

Main Bible book describing the life of Jesus

Gospel of Matthew

Cynthia Voigt newberry for

Dicey's Song

"Jonathan Strange" author

Susanna Clarke

"Prophet of the Space Age"

Arthur C. Clarke

"Foundation" series scifi author

Isaac Asimov

Author of "Lord of the Flies"

William Golding

Dickens character who loves Estella

Pip in Great Expectations

Eleanor of Aquitaine is a Shakespeare character in

King John

Phaedra playwright

Jean Racine

Orlando is a Shakespeare character in

As You Like It

First notable professional woman writer

Aphra Behn

Novel where Jake Barnes and Bret Ashley feel emptiness in Pamplona

The Sun Also Rises

Tarzan creator

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Soldiers commanded by Achilles

The Myrmidons

Betsy Byars children's book

Summer of the Swans

Sons of Earl of Gloucester

Edmund and Edgar

Little House books

``` Little House in the Big Woods (1932) Farmer Boy (1933) Little House on the Prairie (1935) On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937) By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939) The Long Winter (1940) Little Town on the Prairie (1941) These Happy Golden Years (1943) ```

His companion is The Fool

King Lear

Nickname of Henry Percy

Hotspur

Three Jules Verne works

Journey to the Center of the Earth Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas Around the World in Eighty Days

"Bonfire of the Vanities" author

Tom Wolfe

Believe in the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved

Acts

Commits suicide in Hamlet

Ophelia

Author of "The Moviegoer"

Walker Percy

"The Fountains of Paradise" sci fi novel author

Arthur C. Clarke

King who appoints Richard III regent

Edward IV, Richard's brother

Titus Andronicus setting

Rome

Hunchback of Notre Dame author

Victor Hugo

Bible book describing Noah's flood

Genesis

‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’

Othello, Othello

Hotspur leads rebellious subjects against King

Henry IV part 1

Shakespeare play with Earl of Gloucester

King Lear

Author of "Wide Sargasso Sea"

Jean Rhys

Duke Vincentio is a character in

Measure for Measure

Son of King John

Henry III

Author of "The Volcano Lover"

Susan Sontag

Author of Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Battle where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra

Battle of Actium

Bible book where a new pharaoh enslaves God's people

Exodus

Norse mythology trickster

Loki

Duchess of Malfi playwright

John Webster

‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’

Hamlet

Founder of City Lights bookstore, published Alan Ginsberg

Larence Ferlinghetti

Book about saving art from Nazi looting

Monuments Men

Hermione is a character in

The Winter's Tale (king's wife)

Author of "Play it as it Lays"

Joan Didion

"A Modest Proposal" author

Jonathan Swift

"My kingdom for a horse"

Richard III

Book about American whose London trysts match German missile targets

Gravity's Rainbow

Hindu epic about godlike Rama

Ramayana

Bible book in which shepherd preaches against injustice in Northern Kingdom of Israel

Amos

‘The better part of valor is discretion‘

Henry IV part 1, Falstaff

Bible book in which a census is conducted to determine the size of God's army

Numbers

Wonderful Counselor in

Isaiah

Who is told to go wash in the Jordan River to be healed

Namaan

"Battlefield Earth" scifi author

L. Ron Hubbard

Mother of Ishmael

Hagar

Pulitzer for "Rabbit is Rich"

John Updike

Pulitzer for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"

Junot Diaz

Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles

Isaiah

Rooster Cogburn is a character in

True Grit. (Novel then film)

Author of atonement

Ian McEwan

Author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Thornton Wilder

"Nightfall" scifi short story author

Isaac Asimov

Play where King Henry marries Margaret of Anjou

Henry VI part 2

Author of "Pale Fire" about obsessed gay poet

Vladimir Nabokov

Miranda is a character in

The Tempest

‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’

Julius Caesar, Cassius

Author of Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels

Dorothy L. Sayers

Bible book in which Israel splits into two kings after Solomon

1 Kings

name of jester in Twelfth Night

Feste

Pulitzer for "Empire Falls"

Richard Russo

‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’

Hamlet, Ophelia

Takes the throne when King John dies

his son Henry III

English novel by Hungarian-born author about Stalinist purge and show trials

Darkness at Noon

Wife of Menelaus

Helen

Bible book in which a man is told to marry a prostitute who leaves him, and he must bring her back

Hosea

Duke Frederick is a Shakespeare character in

As You Like It

Beverly Clearly Newberry for

Dear Mr. Henshaw

Pulitzer for "The Night Watchman"

Louise Erdrich

Play in which Falstaff is banished

Henry IV part 2

‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind'

Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena

Author of "Cat's Cradle"

Kurt Vonnegut

Author of Phillip Marlowe detective novels

Raymond Chandler

“April is the cruelest month” poet

TS Eliot

Bible book with the most thorough account of Jesus's life, with eyewitness testimonies

Gospel of Luke

‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’

Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar

Bible book with Belshazzar seeing the writing on the wall

Daniel

"The Lost World" author

Arthur Conan Doyle

"Ivanhoe" author

Walter Scott

Comic relief in Twelfth Night

Sir Toby Belch, Andrew Aguecheek

Duke Senior is a Shakespeare character in

As You Like It

Who imprisoned Joseph

Potiphar

Author of "Watchmen"

Alan Moore

Angel who told the shepherds of Jesus’s birth

Gabriel

Romeo's best friend

Benvolio

Bible book in which Moses guides his people to Mt. Sinai

Exodus

Bible book collecting songs that Israel sang to God

Psalms

French Renaissance author of "Gargantua and Pantagruel"

Francois Rabelais

Protege of Achilles

Patroclus

Bible book ending with God's people living in Egypt

Genesis

Author of "The Golden Notebook"

Doris Lessing

Katherine Paterson children's book

Bridge to Terabithia (and Jacob Have I Loved)

Rebels against Rome in Antony and Cleopatra

Pompey

Son of Hector and Andromache

Astyanax, killed as a baby

"Vanity Fair" author

Thackeray

Shakespeare title character flees after revealing nobleman's incestuous relationship with his daughter

Pericles

Hero of Niebelungenlied

Siegfried

Novel with the woman in the attic

Jane Eyre

historian of Peloponnesian wars

Thucydides

Pulitzer for "The Stone Diaries"

Carol Shields

"Bright Lights, Big City" author

Jay McInerney

"The lady doth protest too much"

Hamlet

Book in which Jesus healed the blind man

John

Author of The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwoood

Wrote the Oresteia trilogy

Aeschylus

Author of "Neuromancer"

William Gibson

He kills Patroclus

Hector

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" author

Thomas Hardy

The only person to ever follow all of the 10 Commandments

Jesus

"Clan of the Cave Bear" author

Jean Auel

A bird landed on Jesus after he was baptized, and the bird was

The Holy Spirit

The woes following the beatitudes are in the book of

Luke, part of the Sermon on the Plain

Aufidius is a character in

Coriolanus

Bible books in which Paul gives instructions to his protege

1 and 2 Timothy

Queen Tamara is a character in

Titus Andronicus

Author of "Fates and Furies"

Lauren Groff

2020 novel about black Christian women

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

“Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”

Matthew

Pulitzer for "A Visit from the Goon Squad"

Jennifer Egan

The king who put Daniel in the Lions den

Darius

Called "On The Road" just "typing"

Truman Capote

Pilgrim's Progress author

John Bunyan

Treasure Island character

Long John Silver

"'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all" poet

Tennyson

Shakespeare play where Falstaff woos married women

Merry Wives of Windsor

Author of The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood

Shakespeare play where Hotspur's army is defeated at Shrewsbury

Henry IV part 1

Play where Duke of York with sons Edward and Richard plots to overthrow king

Henry VI part 2

Austen novel with Mr. Knightley

Emma

Bible books telling story of the return of Jews from Babylonian captivity, rebuilding of temple

Ezra and Nehemiah

"Brave New World" author

Aldous Huxley

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author

Ken Kesey

Marc Antony marries

Octavia, Octavius Caesar's widowed sister

The Rover playright

Aphra Behn

Name of steward in Twelfth Night

Malvolio

Author of "The Death of the Heart" (1958)

Elizabeth Bowen

Cardinal Pandolph is a Shakespeare character in

King John

Play where King tries to bargain with Duke of York, but his wife raises an army to try to defeat him.

Henry VI part 3

Author of "Herzog"

Saul Bellow

Disguises herself as Ganymede

Rosalind in As You Like It

Bible book in which man seeks explanation for suffering and God refuses

Job

leader of Trojan Army in Iliad

Hector, killed in battle

Pulitzer for "The Shipping News"

E. Annie Proulx

"Rape of the Lock" poet

Alexander Pope

"Ethan Frome" author

Edith Wharton

Author of The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

Author of "Tropic of Cancer"

Henry Miller

Playwright of Electra

Sophocles

Julius Caesar's wife

Calpurnia

Caliban is a character in

The Tempest

Author of "A House for Mr. Biswas"

VS Naipaul

Pulitzer for "The Killer Angels"

Michael Shaara

Bible book describing God's covenant with Abraham

Genesis

1830 Stendhal work paints a colorful portrait of post-Napoleon France

The Red and the Black

Widow of Henry VI who then marries Richard III

Lady Ann

Grendel is a character in

Beowulf

Moses’ mother

Yocheved

Book in which Jesus heals the paralytic at Bethesda

John

Shakespeare play where Prince John leads the King's forces

Henry IV part 2

Henry VIII's father

Duke of Buckingham

Pulitzer for "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love"

Oscar Hijuelos

Pulitzer for "The Sympathizer"

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Ariel is a character in

The Tempest

National Book Award for "Europe Central"

William Vollmann

Ate locusts while living in the wilderness

John

National Book Award for "Shadow Country"

Peter Matthiessen

Best known Judges

Samuel, Eli, Deborah, Samson, Gideon

Who kills Mercutio?

Tybalt

"Childhood's End" sci fi novel author

Arthur C. Clarke

Hamlet's mother

Gertrude

Patricia McLachlan Newberry for

Sarah, Plain and Tall

"Andromeda Strain" author

Michael Crichton

Who was king Lemuel

Probably Solomon, maybe Hezekian

19th c British writer who championed the Pre-Raphaelites, environmentalism/craft ideas

John Ruskin

Bible books describing David and Solomon's southern kingdom

Chronicles

Big strong Norse god

Thor

Bible book in which people begin a cycle of sin after Joshua's death

Judges

National Book Award for "Salvage the Bones"

Jesmyn Ward

Mary Ann Evans pen name

George Eliot

Author of "The Sportswriter"

Richard Ford

Prussian King who conquered Silesia

Frederick the Great

Laertes and Ophelia's father

Polonius

Cardinal Wolsey is a Shakespeare character in

Henry VIII

Name of the Merchant of Venice

Antonio

Author of "Revolutionary Road"

Richard Yates

Much Ado About Nothing setting

Messina

King of Sparta, brother to Agamemnon

Menelaus

King suspects his wife of adultery, imprisons her and exiles their daughter

The Winter's Tale

Shakespeare play about Henry IV's predecessor

Richard II

Bad angels are called

Demons

Pulitzer for "The Known World"

Edward P. Jones

Duke of Gloucester who wants to steal crown from brother Edward IV

Richard (III)

Post-apocalyptic Catholic monastery novel

Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller

"Silas Marner" author

George Eliot

Monster in Beowulf

Grendel

Who was disguised as the Serpent?

Satan

Paula Fox children's book

The Slave Dancer

King of Troy in the Iliad

Priam

"The House of Mirth" author

Edith Wharton

"Ender's Game" author

Orson Scott Card

The fruit of the spirit verse is in

Galatians

They marry the Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cornwall

Regan and Goneril

Shakespeare - His sons were stolen but are then returned

Cymbeline

Prophet who lived in the Wilderness

John the Baptist

'We are such stuff as dreams are made on'

The Tempest, Prospero

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" poet

Tennyson

Adriana is a Shakespeare character in

Comedy of Errors

Author of "Money" about TV commercial director

Martin Amis

"Ringworld" author

Larry Niven

Do unto others is from these books

Matthew and Luke

Bible book in which man confronts leaders of Israel and Judah regarding their injustice and prophecies that Lord will rule one day

Micah

Henry Bolingbroke becomes

Henry IV

Moses’ sister

Miriam

Come follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people

Book of Matthew, said by Jesus

Bible book in which God sends a plague of locusts to judge Israel and warn of judgment on surrounding nations

Joel

Pulitzer for "The Nickel boys"

Colson Whitehead

author of "The Power and the Glory" about whisky priest in Mexico

Graham Greene, condemned by Catholic Church

Author of "Deliverance"

James Dickey

Hamlet mistakenly kills ____, thinking he is ______

Polonius, Claudius

"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" scifi author

Robert Heinlein

Author of "Ragtime"

EL Doctorow

Pulitzer for "A Confederacy of Dunces"

John Kennedy Toole

Iago's wife

Emilia

"Poet of the Common People" wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin"

James Whitcomb Riley

She left her son to die of thirst before God saved him

Hagar

Books with the Pevensie children

Narnia

Author of "Player Piano"

Kurt Vonnegut

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"

Marc Antony in Julius Caesar

Author of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"

Raymond Carver

Faerie Queene poet

Edmund Spenser

who was the Duke of Milan, before his dukedom was usurped and taken from him by his brother

Prospero

Author of “A Rose for Emily”

Faulkner

Bible book describing King David's kingship

2 Samuel

Bible book collecting sayings to help people make wise decisions

Proverbs

Butler who plots against Prospero in The Tempest

Stephano

Isabella is a Shakespeare character in

Measure for Measure

Also known as Simon

Peter

Disguises herself in As You Like it

Rosalind

Chronological first Shakespeare history

King John

The lord is my shepherd

Psalm 23

Hero of Around the World in 80 Days

Phineas Fogg

Pulitzer for "Tales of the South Pacific"

Michener

Author of Sons and Lovers

DH Lawrence

Author of "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams" (both Pulitzer)

Booth Tarkington

Author of The Giver

Lois Lowry

The priest who gave guidance to Samuel

Eli

Author of "Native Son"

Richard Wright

Author of "Under the Volcano" about British consul in Mexico

Malcolm Lowry

Bible book narrating Solomon's kingship

1 Kings

Author of The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Novelist behind The Godfather

Mario Puzo

Came out of womb holding brother’s heel

Jacob

William Pene du Bois children's book

The Twenty-One Balloons

Who are the Two Gentlemen of Verona?

Valentine and Proteus

Mistress Page and Mistress Ford

Merry Wives of Windsor

Peter’s profession

Fisherman

Celia is a Shakespeare character in

As You Like It

Scott O'Dell children's book

"Island of the Blue Dolphins"

Where did Abraham go at God’s command?

Canaan

"Flowers in the Attic"

VC Andrews

"Madam Bovary" author

Gustave Flaubert

Banquo's son who escapes

Fleance

Bible book in which Israel's kingdoms ignore God and fall

2 Kings

Book in which Jesus heals a nobleman’s son in Capernaum

John

Shakespeare play about daughters of Baptista

Taming of the Shrew

Harry Percy is also known as

Hotspur

Bible book with brief account of Jesus' earthly ministry, highlighting authority and servanthood

Gospel of Mark

Book in which Jesus feeds the multitude (not the loaves and fishes)

John

Author of "The Recognitions" about an art forger

William Gaddis

Set an example for the believers

Book of Timothy, written by Paul

Who walks on water other than Jesus

Peter

"The Age of Innocence" author

Edith Wharton

Author of "I, Claudius"

Robert Graves

Pulitzer for "Advise and Consent"

Allen Drury (observed in White House)

Comedy of Errors setting

Ephesus

Greek author of fables

Aesop

Last book of the New Testament

Revelation

Pulitzer for "The Hours"

Michael Cunningham

King Leontes is a character in

The Winter's Tale

Author of The Invisible Man

HG Wells

Why was Daniel put in the Lions den

He prayed against the law

Author of "The Man Who Loved Children" about miserable Australian family

Christina Stead

Author of Catcher in the Rye

JD Salinger

Bible book in which Israel conquers the promised land and divides it among 12 tribes

Joshua

Bible Book in which God orders the building of his tabernacle

Exodus

"The Mill on the Floss" author

George Eliot

"We few...we happy few, we band of brothers"

Henry V

Author of Darkness at Noon

Arthur Koestler

Author of "The Poisonwood Bible"

Barbara Kingsolver

"The Dispossessed" scifi author

Ursula LeGuin

He kills Hector

Achilles

Songs of Innocence

William Blake

Dreamt of gathering grain and his bundle stood up tall

Joseph

What did God send after Jonah when he tried to run away?

a storm

Jerry Spinelli Newberry for

Maniac Magee

"All Quiet on the Western Front" author

Erich Maria Remarque

What food did god send Moses and Hebrews in the desert

Manna and quail

Dutch physician who defeats Dracula

Van Helsing

‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’

Twelfth Night

God’s promise after the flood

He would never again flood the earth - the covenant

"Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls" poet

John Donne

Robert Lawson animal children's book

Rabbit Hill

Father of Henry Bolingbroke/Henry IV

John of Gaunt

Author of "The Lottery" short story

Shirley Jackson

Prospero's usurping brother

Antonio

"The Terror" author

Dan Simmons

Playwright of Volpone

Ben Jonson

Mildred Taylor children's book

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Charles Darnay is a character in

A Tale of Two Cities

Pulitzer for "March"

Geraldine Brooks

Loyal steward of Goneril

Oswald

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding

Proverbs

Pulitzer for "Lonesome Dove"

Larry McMurtry

Author of Cyrano de Bergerac

Edmond Rostand

Author of "Red Harvest"

Dashiell Hammet

National Book Award for "Interior Chinatown"

Charles Yu

Bible book describing the first king of Israel

1 Samuel

4 lovers in Midsummer Night's Dream

Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena

leader of Greek Army in the Iliad

Agamemnon

Antipholus and Dromio relationship

master and servant pairs from Ephesus and Syracuse

"New York 2140" author

Kim Stanley Robinson

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman novels

Dragonlance

Tamburlaine the Great playwright

Christopher Marlowe

Author of Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

Priam and Hecuba's 6 children

Hector, Deiphobus (2nd warrior), Paris, Troilus, Cassandra and Helenus (twins)

Bertram is a Shakespeare character in

All's Well that Ends Well

Author of "A Passage to India"

EM Forster

Stephen King book about possessed car

Christine

Author of "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"

Raymond Carver

Hamlet's schoolmates who spy on him

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Robert C. O'Brien children's book

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Novel about Janie Crawford and her Florida town

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Twelfth Night twins

Viola and Sebastian

"Chosen" author

Chaim Potok

Seek and ye shall find

Matthew 7:7

Who kissed Jesus’s feet

Mary Magdalene

Shout for joy

Psalms

Author of "A Handful of Dust"

Evelyn Waugh

"Starship Troopers" author

Robert Heinlein

Pulitzer for "Olive Kitteridge"

Elizabeth Strout

“Blessed are the ____ for they” are in the book of

Matthew (Sermon on the Mount)

Transforming sorceress in Odyssey

Circe

"By his stripes/wounds we are healed"

Isaiah

Bible book in which laws given on Mt. Sinai are recounted to a new generation

Deuteronomy

Author of "The Persian Boy"

Mary Renault

Author of "House of the Spirits"

Isabel Allende

Peter Pan author

JM Barrie

About 100 years ago, a circus elephant named John L. Sullivan participated in this sport in an act with his trainer

boxing

Robin McKinley Newberry for

The Hero and the Crown

"Gulliver's Travels" author

Jonathan Swift

Play where Bertram is compelled to marry Helena

All's Well that Ends Well

Jonah's city in the Bible

Nineveh

Bible Book in which Ten Commandments are given

Exodus

Bible book in which God prescribes purity laws, including dietary restrictions

Leviticus

Century of Milton's "Paradise Lost"

17th century

Author of The Confessions of Nat Turner

William Styron

novel about Harry Angstrom

Rabbit, Run

Austen "Emma"'s last name

Woodhouse

Touchstone is a Shakespeare character in

As You Like It

Royal couples in Midsummer Night's Dream

Theseus and Hippolyta, Titania and Oberon

Pulitzer for "Middlesex"

Jeffrey Eugenides

Novel about the Ramsay family vacationing in the Hebrides

To The Lighthouse

Author of Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

Hamlet's friend, Ophelia's brother

Laertes

Bible book in which a high-ranking wise man in Babylonian and Persian empires has prophetic visions concerning Israel's future

Daniel

National Book Award for "The Friend"

Sigrid Nunez

Dies at the end of Antony and Cleopatra

Antony, then Cleopatra

Author born in Hindu Trinidad

VS Naipaul

Book about hungover lecturer that kicked off angry young man fiction

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Uriah Heep is a character in

David Copperfield

"Get thee to a nunnery"

Hamlet

Diary of 17th century English life

Samuel Pepys

"Agony and the Ecstasy" author

Irving Stone

"Robot" series scifi author

Isaac Asimov

Author of Adam Dalgliesh detective novels

PD James

"Is this a dagger which I see before me?"

Macbeth

The Jew of Malta playwright

Christopher Marlowe

British novel with Cathy

Wuthering Heights

Tithing is what percent

Ten percent of what you have

Book about deaf-mute and tomboy in 1930s Georgia

"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"

National Book Award for "Let the Great World Spin"

Colum McCann

Virginia Hamilton children's book

M.C. Higgins, The Great

Author of "Possession"

AS Byatt

Author of The Time Machine

HG Wells

Novel with the Linton family

Wuthering Heights

Bible book in which a foreigner becomes part of God's people through marriage

Ruth

Jaques is a Shakespeare character in

As You Like It

Who were the explorers of Moses who wanted to move to the land they found

Joshua and Caleb

Name of cyclops blinded by Odysseus

Polyphemus

Macbeth kills _____, King of Scotland

Duncan

Prospero's daughter is

Miranda

Author of the Forsyte Saga

John Galsworthy

Author of Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series

MC Beaton

Author of Valley of the Dolls

Jacqueline Susann

"Innocent" and sequel "Presumed Innocent" author

Scott Turow

Pulitzer for "Independence Day"

Richard Ford

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