Books, Lit, Bible, Mythology, News Flashcards
(729 cards)
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Sid Fleischman Newberry for
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The Whipping Boy
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Author of Candide
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Voltaire
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Author of “Tristram Shandy”
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Laurence Sterne
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Syracuse and Ephesus
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Comedy of Errors (brother/servant pair from each)
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“Now is the winter of our discontent”
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Richard III
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Sign of God’s covenant after the flood
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A rainbow
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Author of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
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Muriel Spark
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“The Fifth Season” author
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NK Jemisin
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Pulitzer for “The Yearling”
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Marjorie Rawlings
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Bible book with philosophical exploration of the meaning of life
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Ecclesiastes
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“When I have crossed the bar” poet
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Tennyson
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Author of “The Things They Carried”
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Tim O’Brien
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Costard is the comic figure in Shakespeare’s
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Love’s Labour’s Lost
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Shakespeare plays with ghosts
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Hamlet (his father King Hamlet); Macbeth (Banquo); Julius Caesar (Caesar); Richard III (parade)
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Austen novel with John Willoughby
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Sense and Sensibility
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Bible book describing Adam and Eve
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Genesis
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Midsummer Night’s Dream setting
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Athens
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Last book of the Old Testament
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Malachi
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The Lords Prayer is part of the
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Sermon on the Mount
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“Drink to me Only With Thine Eyes” poet
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from Celia by Ben Jonson
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Novel with Heathcliff
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Wuthering Heights
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Deceived to steal his father’s blessing
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Jacob
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Jean Craighead George children’s book
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Julie of the Wolves
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Lafeu is a Shakespeare character in
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All’s Well that Ends Well
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Othello's wife
Desdemona
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Valentine and Proteus are characters in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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George Selden children's book
A Cricket in Times Square
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Raskolnikov is the murderer in
Crime and Punishment
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How long was Jesus in the desert after being baptized
40 days and 40 nights
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"Burr" and "Lincoln" author
Gore Vidal
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Author of "The Thin Man"
Dashiell Hammet
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"Angle of Repose" author
Wallace Stegner
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Author of Mike Hammer private eye novels
Mickey Spillane
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Shakespeare play about the Trojan War
Troilus and Cressida
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King Hrothgar is a character in
Beowulf
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"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war"
Marc Antony in Julius Caesar
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"School for Scandal" author
Richard Birnsley Sheridan
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Pulitzer for "Dragon's Teeth"
Upton Sinclair
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Pulitzer for "The Goldfinch"
Donna Tartt
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Prospero is a character in
The Tempest
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Place where Jacob had his dream
Bethel - house of god
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Author of “a dance to the music of time” cycle
Anthony Powell
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Where did Jesus change water into wine?
At a wedding in Cana
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All the King's Men author
Robert Penn Warren
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Author of "The Assistant" about Jewish grocer getting robbed
Bernard Malamud
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Marguerite Henry children's books
"Misty of Chincoteague" and "King of the Wind"
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"Faust" author
Goethe
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“Do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart”
Proverbs
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Shakespeare play where ____ takes the credit for killing Hotspur
Henry IV part 1, Falstaff
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3 couples in Merchant of Venice
Bassanio and Portia, Gratiano and Nerissa (Portia's maid), Lorenzo and Jessica
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Susan Cooper children's series
The Dark is Rising
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Death in Venice author
Thomas Mann
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Author of "A Death in the Family"
James Agee
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"Piranesi" author
Susanna Clarke
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"Ozymandias" poet
Shelley
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"The Three-Body Problem" author
Cixin Liu
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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
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Author of mystery novels with Siamese cats
Lillian Jackson Braun
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Lion in Winter is about
Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Author of The Island of Doctor Moreau
HG Wells
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"The City & the City" author
China Mieville
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"Eugene Onegin" author
Alexander Pushkin
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Mary Magdalene anointed Jesus with
Perfume from an alabaster jar
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Author of "Slaughterhouse-Five"
Kurt Vonnegut
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Bible book describing Moses delivering his people from Pharaoh
Exodus
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The Life and Opinions of _____, Gentleman
Tristram Shandy
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Odysseus's son
Telemachus
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What do donkeys and goats eat out of?
A manger
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Bible book describing Tower of Babel
Genesis
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Author of "Number the Stars"
Lois Lowry
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Author of "The French Lieutenant's Woman"
John Fowles
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Absalom and Achitophel poet
John Dryden
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Historian of the Roman emperors
Tacitus
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Author of USA Trilogy
John Dos Passos
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"Last of the Mohicans" author
James Fenimore Cooper
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory
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' it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
Macbeth
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Rosalind is a Shakespeare character in
As You Like It
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Author of "Housekeeping"
Marilynne Robinson
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Eleanor Estes children's book about clothes
The Hundred Dresses
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"Democracy" American novel author
Henry Adams
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"The Lady of Shalott" poet
Tennyson
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John Carter creator
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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early 20th trilogy about English "new money" family
The Forsyte Saga
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Novel where writer becomes obsessed with a beautiful youth
Death in Venice
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Two sisters flee court persecution into the forest
As You Like It
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Descendants of Ham
Canaanites
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Bible book describing creation of universe and man
Genesis
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Play with Battle of Agincourt
Henry V
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Caius Martius is the original name of
Coriolanus
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The fishermen of the miraculous catch
Peter, James and John
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Shakespeare play where nobleman's generosity to his friends is not reciprocated so he moves to a cave
Timon of Athens
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Oronooko author
Aphra Behn
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The Chronicles of Narnia books
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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
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Who is your personal spiritual caretaker
Guardian angel
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Bible book describing building of the temple and its destruction by Babylonians
2 Chronicles
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‘The course of true love never did run smooth.’
Midsummer Night's Dream
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Too busy cooking to listen to Jesus
Martha
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Book narrated by Sal Paradise
On The Road
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Author of "Unbearable Lightness of Being"
Milan Kundera
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Who told Namaan to go wash in the Jordan River to be healed
Elisha
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Author of "Naked Lunch"
William Burroughs
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"Color Purple" author
Alice Walker
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Pulitzer for "The Underground Railroad"
Colson Whitehead
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Author of The Senator’s Wife
Sue Miller
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Pulitzer for "The Orphan Master's Son"
Adam Johnson
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Bible book in which God prescribes laws governing sacrifices and festivals
Leviticus
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Play where Prince Hal slays Hotspur in battle
Henry IV part 1
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Why did pharaoh want to kill the baby boys
Joseph was dead and his descendants, the Hebrews, were too numerous and powerful
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Sam Spade novels author
Dashiell Hammett
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Collective name for “blessed are the ______, for they shall”
Beatitudes
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"Woman in White" author
Wilkie Collins
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Book in which Jesus raise Lazarus from the dead
John
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Protagonist of this novel is befriended by the Peggotty family
David Copperfield
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Wife of Priam, Queen of Troy
Hecuba
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Matthew 5:13 says that "ye are" this mineral phrase, meaning representative of the best of society
Salt of the earth
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Book about Bigger Thomas
Native Son by Richard Wright
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Bible book in which author lists stories of signs and miracles to convince readers to believe
Gospel of John
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"Because i could not stop for Death"
Emily Dickinson
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Shakespeare's landlady of the Boar's Head Tavern
Mistress Quickly
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Phillip the Bastard is a Shakespeare character in
King John, son of Richard the Lionheart
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Protagonist of Great Expectations
Pip
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Bible book with a letter encouraging Christians to cling to Christ despite persecution, because he is greater.
Hebrews
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Richard III is defeated by
Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth, then becomes Henry VII
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Speak, for your servant is listening
What Samuel said after he realized it was God calling his name
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Playwright of Lysistrata
Aristophanes
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Leader of the Achaeans
Agamemnon
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Taming of the Shrew setting
Padua
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"The quality of mercy"
Merchant of Venice
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"How Do I Love Thee?" poet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Bible book in which a righteous man argues with friends about faith
Job
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Where was Jesus baptized
Bethany
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He kills Achilles
Paris (arrow through the foot)
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Author of "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Helen and Diana perform the bed trick
All's Well that Ends Well
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Brother of Menelaus
Agamemnon
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Thrown in a pit by brothers
Joseph
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Bible book in which Moses dies
Deuteronomy
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Chief Norse god
Odin
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Caesar conspirators
Brutus, Cassius, Casca
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Who kills Tybalt?
Romeo
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“I will maintain my love to him forever, my covenant with him will never fail” is from
Psalms
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"Brevity is the soul of wit"
Hamlet, Polonius
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Pulitzer for "The Overstory"
Richard Powers
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National Book Award for "Charming Billy"
Alice McDermott
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"Fiddler on the Roof" inspiring stories
Sholom Aleichem
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Who attempted Jesus in the desert?
Satan
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Triumvirate ruling Rome in Antony and Cleopatra
Antony, Octavius Caesar, Lepidus
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Shakespeare play where King Ferdinand wants the Princess of France
Loves Labour's Lost
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Iago suggests to Othello that Desdemona is ________'s lover
Cassio
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Author of "The heart of the Matter"
Graham Greene
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Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler author
EL Konigsburg
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Shakespeare play featuring Joan of Arc
Henry VI part 1
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Author of "The Maltese Falcon"
Dashiell Hammet
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"I can do all things through him who strengthens me."
Philippians
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Author of "Dog Soldiers" about heroin smuggling post Vietnam
Robert Stone
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His L.A. novels include
| "The Black Dahlia"
James Ellroy
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Novel about Hiro Protagonist
Snow Crash
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How did the Wise men find Baby Jesus?
The star of Bethlehem
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"City and the Pillar" author
Gore Vidal
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Julia and Silvia are characters in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
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Bible book describing history of Israel, culminating with David commissioning the temple
1 Chronicles
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Bible book in which a man warns neighboring nation they will be judged for plundering Jerusalem
Obadiah
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Bible book describing Jacob and Joseph
Genesis
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Shakespeare play where the King of Navarre and his three companions swear to avoid women for three years
Love's Labour's Lost
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Polixenes is a character in
The Winter's Tale
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Bible book that is a poem about the vanity of earthly things
Ecclesiastes
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Pulitzer for "The Road"
Cormac McCarthy
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Who baptized in Jesus
John the
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Author of War of the Worlds
HG Wells
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Novel about Becky Sharp
Vanity Fair
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Vulgar fat knight character in Shakespeare
Falstaff
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Shakespeare play where sons are served in a pie
Titus Andronicus
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Name for Ancient Greeks used in the Iliad
Achaeans
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Author of "At Swim-Two-Birds"
Flann O'Brien
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Who struck the rock and made water flow
Moses
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Prospero adopted, raised, and enslaved ____
Caliban
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Novel about Esther Summerson
Bleak House
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Author of "Martian Chronicles"
Ray Bradbury
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American Psycho novel by
Brett Easton Ellis
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Camus was born in
Algeria
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Playwright of The Frogs
Aristophanes
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Sydney Carton is a character in
A Tale of Two Cities
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"A Good Man is Hard to Find" author
Flannery O'Connor
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Pulitzer for "The Executioner's Song"
Norman Mailer
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Thaisa is a character in
Pericles
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"Brideshead Revisited" author
Evelyn Waugh
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Prince of Troy, foremost Trojan warrior
Hector
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Author of "Fahrenheit 451"
Ray Bradbury
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Bible book that is a love poem
Song of Solomon
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Pulitzer for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
Thornton Wilder
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"Dune" author
Frank Herbert
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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
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Helps but then tries to blackmail Richard III
Buckingham
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Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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Cabaret-inspiring author
Christopher Isherwood
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Prospero encourages a romantic relationship between
Miranda and Ferdinand
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"Jane Eyre" author
Charlotte Bronte
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British sci fi writer, more than 50 books
Arthur C. Clarke
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Author of "Falconer"
John Cheever
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"The Caine Mutiny" author, won Pulitzer
Herman Wouk, WWII in Pacific
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Novel with Mr. Rochester
Jane Eyre
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Angelo is the main character in
Measure for Measure
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Author of “Main Street”
Sinclair Lewis
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Novelist of "Jaws"
Peter Benchley
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Troilus and Cressida setting
Troy
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Pulitzer for "Gilead"
Marilynne Robinson
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"All the world's a stage"
As You Like It, Jaques
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Macbeth's friend
Banquo, comes back as ghost
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Esther Forbes children's book about the Revolution
Johnny Tremain
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Author of Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh
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Bible book with visions of things that have been, that are, and that are yet to come
Revelation
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"Stranger in a Strange Land" scifi author
Robert Heinlein
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Posthumus is a character in
Cymbeline
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"All the King's Men" author
Robert Penn Warn
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Created by Charles Portis, this U.S. Marshal helps 14-year-old Mattie Ross track her father's killer
Rooster Cogburn
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Pulitzer for "Less"
Andrew Sean Greer
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Bible book containing dirges for Jerusalem after Babylonian attacks
Lamentations
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"The Gods Themselves" scifi author
Isaac Asimov
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Bible book in which disobedient prophet runs from God
Jonah
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King who instituted major religious reforms in Judah
Josiah
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"To be or not to be"
Hamlet
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Book in which Jesus turned water into wine
John - describing the first miracle
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"Eloise" author
Kay Thompson
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Confess with your mouth
Romans
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Gonzalo is a character in
The Tempest
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Tom Joad is a character in
Grapes of Wrath
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Shakespeare play with French Princess Katherine
Henry V
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Bible book describing Abraham and Isaac
Genesis
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Dr. Faustus playwright
Christopher Marlowe
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"Wuthering Heights" author
Emily Bronte
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Author of "The Illustrated Man"
Ray Bradbury
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"All that glisters is not gold"
Merchant of Venice
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"Death Be Not Proud" poet
John Donne
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Play with Duke disguised as a Friar
Measure for Measure
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"Exodus" author
Leon Uris
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1930s novel about marginal disappointed Hollywood people
The Day of the Locust
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Author of "Snow Crash"
Neal Stephenson
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Author of "Tom Jones"
Fielding
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Thriller about Jack Ryan and a Soviet Sub
The Hunt for Red October
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Author of A Clockwork Orange
JD Salinger
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Bible book with story of Lot
Genesis
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Author of "Appointment in Samarra"
John O'Hara
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"A Wrinkle in Time" author
Madeleine L'Engle
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Narnia author
C.S. Lewis
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Battle Hymn of the Republic poet
Julia Ward Howe
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"Way of the World" playwright
William Congreve
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Bible epistles of _____
Paul, writing to churches to tell them about how to do things
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"To thine own self be true"
Hamlet, Polonius
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Bible book describing Jewish queen saving her people from a plot
Esther
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Author of "Satanic Verses"
Salman Rushdie
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Shakespeare play where deputy institutes harsh morality laws, abuses his power for sexual favors
Measure for Measure
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National Book Award for "Sing, Unburied, Sing"
Jesmyn Ward
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Author of “Call it Sleep”
Henry Roth
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Hector's wife, Princess of Troy
Andromache
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Author of "Gulag Archipelago"
Solzhenitsyn
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"If music be the food of love, play on"
Twelfth Night
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Dominant English Restoration poet
John Dryden
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"New Colossus" poet
Emma Lazarus
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Iago hates Othello for promoting ____ above him
Cassio
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Kate DiCamillo Newberry for
The Tale of Despereaux, about a mouse
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"Come to me, all who are weary, and I will give you rest."
Matthew
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King of Sparta in the Iliad
Menelaus
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Composer of Orfeo
Monteverdi
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"Fear of Flying" author
Erica Jong
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Author of "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold"
John Le Carre
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Bible book in which Israel wanders in the desert for 40 years
Numbers
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Playwright of Medea
Euripides
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Pulitzer for "Interpreter of Maladies"
Jhumpa Lahiri
270
Shylock's daughter
Jessica
271
Pulitzer for "All the Light We Cannot See"
Anthony Doerr
272
Elizabeth George Speare children's books
"The Witch of Blackbird Pond" and "The Bronze Bow"
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‘Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.‘
Henry IV part 2, Henry IV
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"The Second Coming" poet
Yeats
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King John's mother is
Eleanor of Aquitaine
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High Fidelity novel by
Nick Hornby
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"The Accidental Tourist" author
Anne Tyler
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"The Left Hand of Darkness" author
Ursula LeGuin
279
The leader who followed Moses
Joshua
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Bible book in which God chooses a man to speak for him to Israel and tell them the error of their ways
Ezekiel
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Price Judas sold Jesus for
30 pieces of silver
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Novel about Fanny Price
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
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Shakespeare play with main antagonist Octavius Caesar
Antony and Cleopatra
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Author of "Portnoy's Complaint"
Philip Roth
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Book about priest in 1830s New Mexico
Death comes for the Archbishop
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Hannah prayed to God for a son and had
Samuel
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Trinculo is a character in
The Tempest, jester
288
Carol Ryrie Brink children's book
Caddie Woodlawn
289
Who reappeared to Jesus on the mountain?
Moses and Elijah
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Author of The Crying of Lot 49
Thomas Pynchon
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Iago manipulates his friend ______ to help him against Othello
Roderigo
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Dueled (not to the death) in the Iliad
Hector and Ajax
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Perdita is a character in
The Winter's Tale (king's daughter, exiled and grows up as shepherd girl)
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Pulitzer for "A Thousand Acres"
Jane Smiley
295
Daughter of King Priam
Cassandra
296
Stephen Dedalus is a character in
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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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
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Novel about the Dashwood sisters
Sense and Sensibility
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"Middlemarch" author
George Eliot
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‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage'
Macbeth
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What did Moses he after he moved away from Egypt?
The burning bush
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Hamlet's Uncle
Claudius
303
Author of The Day of the Locust
Nathanael West
304
Bible book in which prophet warns Israel about coming Babylonian captivity
Jeremiah
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Prince Florizel is a character in
The Winter's Tale (woos Perdita the "shepherd girl")
306
Forest of Arden is the setting of
As You Like It
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"Galactic Empire" series scifi author
Isaac Asimov
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Odysseus's wife
Penelope
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Priam's son killed in combat
Hector
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Bible book describing prophet warning Israel of future judgment and tell them about coming king to bear their sins
Isaiah
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English Restoration satirist
John Dryden
312
Author of "All the Pretty Horses"
Cormac McCarthy
313
"The Man in the High Castle" author
Philip K. Dick
314
"For whom the bell tolls" novel author
Ernest Hemingway
315
Declares war on Antony when he goes back to Cleopatra
Octavius Caesar - tries to become sole ruler of Rome
316
Bible book with account of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection, focusing on Jesus’ role as the true king of the Jews.
Gospel of Matthew
317
noble pair in Twelfth Night
Olivia and Orsino
318
Playwright of The Birds
Aristophanes
319
What kind of seed of small plant grows into big tree in a parable?
Mustard
320
Two sons of Henry IV
Henry Prince of Wales (Prince Hal), Prince John of Lancaster
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Bible book in which Israel renews its covenant at the foot of the promised land
Deuteronomy
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Mommie Dearest is about
Joan Crawford
323
Main Bible book describing the life of Jesus
Gospel of Matthew
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Cynthia Voigt newberry for
Dicey's Song
325
"Jonathan Strange" author
Susanna Clarke
326
"Prophet of the Space Age"
Arthur C. Clarke
327
"Foundation" series scifi author
Isaac Asimov
328
Author of "Lord of the Flies"
William Golding
329
Dickens character who loves Estella
Pip in Great Expectations
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Eleanor of Aquitaine is a Shakespeare character in
King John
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Phaedra playwright
Jean Racine
332
Orlando is a Shakespeare character in
As You Like It
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First notable professional woman writer
Aphra Behn
334
Novel where Jake Barnes and Bret Ashley feel emptiness in Pamplona
The Sun Also Rises
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Tarzan creator
Edgar Rice Burroughs
336
Soldiers commanded by Achilles
The Myrmidons
337
Betsy Byars children's book
Summer of the Swans
338
Sons of Earl of Gloucester
Edmund and Edgar
339
Little House books
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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)
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340
His companion is The Fool
King Lear
341
Nickname of Henry Percy
Hotspur
342
Three Jules Verne works
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Around the World in Eighty Days
343
"Bonfire of the Vanities" author
Tom Wolfe
344
Believe in the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved
Acts
345
Commits suicide in Hamlet
Ophelia
346
Author of "The Moviegoer"
Walker Percy
347
"The Fountains of Paradise" sci fi novel author
Arthur C. Clarke
348
King who appoints Richard III regent
Edward IV, Richard's brother
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Titus Andronicus setting
Rome
350
Hunchback of Notre Dame author
Victor Hugo
351
Bible book describing Noah's flood
Genesis
352
‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well.’
Othello, Othello
353
Hotspur leads rebellious subjects against King
Henry IV part 1
354
Shakespeare play with Earl of Gloucester
King Lear
355
Author of "Wide Sargasso Sea"
Jean Rhys
356
Duke Vincentio is a character in
Measure for Measure
357
Son of King John
Henry III
358
Author of "The Volcano Lover"
Susan Sontag
359
Author of Catch-22
Joseph Heller
360
Battle where Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra
Battle of Actium
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Bible book where a new pharaoh enslaves God's people
Exodus
362
Norse mythology trickster
Loki
363
Duchess of Malfi playwright
John Webster
364
‘There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’
Hamlet
365
Founder of City Lights bookstore, published Alan Ginsberg
Larence Ferlinghetti
366
Book about saving art from Nazi looting
Monuments Men
367
Hermione is a character in
The Winter's Tale (king's wife)
368
Author of "Play it as it Lays"
Joan Didion
369
"A Modest Proposal" author
Jonathan Swift
370
"My kingdom for a horse"
Richard III
371
Book about American whose London trysts match German missile targets
Gravity's Rainbow
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Hindu epic about godlike Rama
Ramayana
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Bible book in which shepherd preaches against injustice in Northern Kingdom of Israel
Amos
374
‘The better part of valor is discretion‘
Henry IV part 1, Falstaff
375
Bible book in which a census is conducted to determine the size of God's army
Numbers
376
Wonderful Counselor in
Isaiah
377
Who is told to go wash in the Jordan River to be healed
Namaan
378
"Battlefield Earth" scifi author
L. Ron Hubbard
379
Mother of Ishmael
Hagar
380
Pulitzer for "Rabbit is Rich"
John Updike
381
Pulitzer for "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
Junot Diaz
382
Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles
Isaiah
383
Rooster Cogburn is a character in
True Grit. (Novel then film)
384
Author of atonement
Ian McEwan
385
Author of The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder
386
"Nightfall" scifi short story author
Isaac Asimov
387
Play where King Henry marries Margaret of Anjou
Henry VI part 2
388
Author of "Pale Fire" about obsessed gay poet
Vladimir Nabokov
389
Miranda is a character in
The Tempest
390
‘The fault, dear Brutus, lies not within the stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.’
Julius Caesar, Cassius
391
Author of Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels
Dorothy L. Sayers
392
Bible book in which Israel splits into two kings after Solomon
1 Kings
393
name of jester in Twelfth Night
Feste
394
Pulitzer for "Empire Falls"
Richard Russo
395
‘We know what we are, but know not what we may be.’
Hamlet, Ophelia
396
Takes the throne when King John dies
his son Henry III
397
English novel by Hungarian-born author about Stalinist purge and show trials
Darkness at Noon
398
Wife of Menelaus
Helen
399
Bible book in which a man is told to marry a prostitute who leaves him, and he must bring her back
Hosea
400
Duke Frederick is a Shakespeare character in
As You Like It
401
Beverly Clearly Newberry for
Dear Mr. Henshaw
402
Pulitzer for "The Night Watchman"
Louise Erdrich
403
Play in which Falstaff is banished
Henry IV part 2
404
‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind'
Midsummer Night's Dream, Helena
405
Author of "Cat's Cradle"
Kurt Vonnegut
406
Author of Phillip Marlowe detective novels
Raymond Chandler
407
“April is the cruelest month” poet
TS Eliot
408
Bible book with the most thorough account of Jesus's life, with eyewitness testimonies
Gospel of Luke
409
‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.’
Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar
410
Bible book with Belshazzar seeing the writing on the wall
Daniel
411
"The Lost World" author
Arthur Conan Doyle
412
"Ivanhoe" author
Walter Scott
413
Comic relief in Twelfth Night
Sir Toby Belch, Andrew Aguecheek
414
Duke Senior is a Shakespeare character in
As You Like It
415
Who imprisoned Joseph
Potiphar
416
Author of "Watchmen"
Alan Moore
417
Angel who told the shepherds of Jesus’s birth
Gabriel
418
Romeo's best friend
Benvolio
419
Bible book in which Moses guides his people to Mt. Sinai
Exodus
420
Bible book collecting songs that Israel sang to God
Psalms
421
French Renaissance author of "Gargantua and Pantagruel"
Francois Rabelais
422
Protege of Achilles
Patroclus
423
Bible book ending with God's people living in Egypt
Genesis
424
Author of "The Golden Notebook"
Doris Lessing
425
Katherine Paterson children's book
Bridge to Terabithia (and Jacob Have I Loved)
426
Rebels against Rome in Antony and Cleopatra
Pompey
427
Son of Hector and Andromache
Astyanax, killed as a baby
428
"Vanity Fair" author
Thackeray
429
Shakespeare title character flees after revealing nobleman's incestuous relationship with his daughter
Pericles
430
Hero of Niebelungenlied
Siegfried
431
Novel with the woman in the attic
Jane Eyre
432
historian of Peloponnesian wars
Thucydides
433
Pulitzer for "The Stone Diaries"
Carol Shields
434
"Bright Lights, Big City" author
Jay McInerney
435
"The lady doth protest too much"
Hamlet
436
Book in which Jesus healed the blind man
John
437
Author of The Blind Assassin
Margaret Atwoood
438
Wrote the Oresteia trilogy
Aeschylus
439
Author of "Neuromancer"
William Gibson
440
He kills Patroclus
Hector
441
"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" author
Thomas Hardy
442
The only person to ever follow all of the 10 Commandments
Jesus
443
"Clan of the Cave Bear" author
Jean Auel
444
A bird landed on Jesus after he was baptized, and the bird was
The Holy Spirit
445
The woes following the beatitudes are in the book of
Luke, part of the Sermon on the Plain
446
Aufidius is a character in
Coriolanus
447
Bible books in which Paul gives instructions to his protege
1 and 2 Timothy
448
Queen Tamara is a character in
Titus Andronicus
449
Author of "Fates and Furies"
Lauren Groff
450
2020 novel about black Christian women
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
451
“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
452
Pulitzer for "A Visit from the Goon Squad"
Jennifer Egan
453
The king who put Daniel in the Lions den
Darius
454
Called "On The Road" just "typing"
Truman Capote
455
Pilgrim's Progress author
John Bunyan
456
Treasure Island character
Long John Silver
457
"'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all" poet
Tennyson
458
Shakespeare play where Falstaff woos married women
Merry Wives of Windsor
459
Author of The Berlin Stories
Christopher Isherwood
460
Shakespeare play where Hotspur's army is defeated at Shrewsbury
Henry IV part 1
461
Play where Duke of York with sons Edward and Richard plots to overthrow king
Henry VI part 2
462
Austen novel with Mr. Knightley
Emma
463
Bible books telling story of the return of Jews from Babylonian captivity, rebuilding of temple
Ezra and Nehemiah
464
"Brave New World" author
Aldous Huxley
465
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest author
Ken Kesey
466
Marc Antony marries
Octavia, Octavius Caesar's widowed sister
467
The Rover playright
Aphra Behn
468
Name of steward in Twelfth Night
Malvolio
469
Author of "The Death of the Heart" (1958)
Elizabeth Bowen
470
Cardinal Pandolph is a Shakespeare character in
King John
471
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
472
Author of "Herzog"
Saul Bellow
473
Disguises herself as Ganymede
Rosalind in As You Like It
474
Bible book in which man seeks explanation for suffering and God refuses
Job
475
leader of Trojan Army in Iliad
Hector, killed in battle
476
Pulitzer for "The Shipping News"
E. Annie Proulx
477
"Rape of the Lock" poet
Alexander Pope
478
"Ethan Frome" author
Edith Wharton
479
Author of The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
480
Author of "Tropic of Cancer"
Henry Miller
481
Playwright of Electra
Sophocles
482
Julius Caesar's wife
Calpurnia
483
Caliban is a character in
The Tempest
484
Author of "A House for Mr. Biswas"
VS Naipaul
485
Pulitzer for "The Killer Angels"
Michael Shaara
486
Bible book describing God's covenant with Abraham
Genesis
487
1830 Stendhal work paints a colorful portrait of post-Napoleon France
The Red and the Black
488
Widow of Henry VI who then marries Richard III
Lady Ann
489
Grendel is a character in
Beowulf
490
Moses’ mother
Yocheved
491
Book in which Jesus heals the paralytic at Bethesda
John
492
Shakespeare play where Prince John leads the King's forces
Henry IV part 2
493
Henry VIII's father
Duke of Buckingham
494
Pulitzer for "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love"
Oscar Hijuelos
495
Pulitzer for "The Sympathizer"
Viet Thanh Nguyen
496
Ariel is a character in
The Tempest
497
National Book Award for "Europe Central"
William Vollmann
498
Ate locusts while living in the wilderness
John
499
National Book Award for "Shadow Country"
Peter Matthiessen
500
Best known Judges
Samuel, Eli, Deborah, Samson, Gideon
501
Who kills Mercutio?
Tybalt
502
"Childhood's End" sci fi novel author
Arthur C. Clarke
503
Hamlet's mother
Gertrude
504
Patricia McLachlan Newberry for
Sarah, Plain and Tall
505
"Andromeda Strain" author
Michael Crichton
506
Who was king Lemuel
Probably Solomon, maybe Hezekian
507
19th c British writer who championed the Pre-Raphaelites, environmentalism/craft ideas
John Ruskin
508
Bible books describing David and Solomon's southern kingdom
Chronicles
509
Big strong Norse god
Thor
510
Bible book in which people begin a cycle of sin after Joshua's death
Judges
511
National Book Award for "Salvage the Bones"
Jesmyn Ward
512
Mary Ann Evans pen name
George Eliot
513
Author of "The Sportswriter"
Richard Ford
514
Prussian King who conquered Silesia
Frederick the Great
515
Laertes and Ophelia's father
Polonius
516
Cardinal Wolsey is a Shakespeare character in
Henry VIII
517
Name of the Merchant of Venice
Antonio
518
Author of "Revolutionary Road"
Richard Yates
519
Much Ado About Nothing setting
Messina
520
King of Sparta, brother to Agamemnon
Menelaus
521
King suspects his wife of adultery, imprisons her and exiles their daughter
The Winter's Tale
522
Shakespeare play about Henry IV's predecessor
Richard II
523
Bad angels are called
Demons
524
Pulitzer for "The Known World"
Edward P. Jones
525
Duke of Gloucester who wants to steal crown from brother Edward IV
Richard (III)
526
Post-apocalyptic Catholic monastery novel
Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter Miller
527
"Silas Marner" author
George Eliot
528
Monster in Beowulf
Grendel
529
Who was disguised as the Serpent?
Satan
530
Paula Fox children's book
The Slave Dancer
531
King of Troy in the Iliad
Priam
532
"The House of Mirth" author
Edith Wharton
533
"Ender's Game" author
Orson Scott Card
534
The fruit of the spirit verse is in
Galatians
535
They marry the Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cornwall
Regan and Goneril
536
Shakespeare - His sons were stolen but are then returned
Cymbeline
537
Prophet who lived in the Wilderness
John the Baptist
538
'We are such stuff as dreams are made on'
The Tempest, Prospero
539
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" poet
Tennyson
540
Adriana is a Shakespeare character in
Comedy of Errors
541
Author of "Money" about TV commercial director
Martin Amis
542
"Ringworld" author
Larry Niven
543
Do unto others is from these books
Matthew and Luke
544
Bible book in which man confronts leaders of Israel and Judah regarding their injustice and prophecies that Lord will rule one day
Micah
545
Henry Bolingbroke becomes
Henry IV
546
Moses’ sister
Miriam
547
Come follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people
Book of Matthew, said by Jesus
548
Bible book in which God sends a plague of locusts to judge Israel and warn of judgment on surrounding nations
Joel
549
Pulitzer for "The Nickel boys"
Colson Whitehead
550
author of "The Power and the Glory" about whisky priest in Mexico
Graham Greene, condemned by Catholic Church
551
Author of "Deliverance"
James Dickey
552
Hamlet mistakenly kills ____, thinking he is ______
Polonius, Claudius
553
"The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" scifi author
Robert Heinlein
554
Author of "Ragtime"
EL Doctorow
555
Pulitzer for "A Confederacy of Dunces"
John Kennedy Toole
556
Iago's wife
Emilia
557
"Poet of the Common People" wrote "When the Frost is on the Punkin"
James Whitcomb Riley
558
She left her son to die of thirst before God saved him
Hagar
559
Books with the Pevensie children
Narnia
560
Author of "Player Piano"
Kurt Vonnegut
561
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears"
Marc Antony in Julius Caesar
562
Author of "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love"
Raymond Carver
563
Faerie Queene poet
Edmund Spenser
564
who was the Duke of Milan, before his dukedom was usurped and taken from him by his brother
Prospero
565
Author of “A Rose for Emily”
Faulkner
566
Bible book describing King David's kingship
2 Samuel
567
Bible book collecting sayings to help people make wise decisions
Proverbs
568
Butler who plots against Prospero in The Tempest
Stephano
569
Isabella is a Shakespeare character in
Measure for Measure
570
Also known as Simon
Peter
571
Disguises herself in As You Like it
Rosalind
572
Chronological first Shakespeare history
King John
573
The lord is my shepherd
Psalm 23
574
Hero of Around the World in 80 Days
Phineas Fogg
575
Pulitzer for "Tales of the South Pacific"
Michener
576
Author of Sons and Lovers
DH Lawrence
577
Author of "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Alice Adams" (both Pulitzer)
Booth Tarkington
578
Author of The Giver
Lois Lowry
579
The priest who gave guidance to Samuel
Eli
580
Author of "Native Son"
Richard Wright
581
Author of "Under the Volcano" about British consul in Mexico
Malcolm Lowry
582
Bible book narrating Solomon's kingship
1 Kings
583
Author of The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
584
Novelist behind The Godfather
Mario Puzo
585
Came out of womb holding brother’s heel
Jacob
586
William Pene du Bois children's book
The Twenty-One Balloons
587
Who are the Two Gentlemen of Verona?
Valentine and Proteus
588
Mistress Page and Mistress Ford
Merry Wives of Windsor
589
Peter’s profession
Fisherman
590
Celia is a Shakespeare character in
As You Like It
591
Scott O'Dell children's book
"Island of the Blue Dolphins"
592
Where did Abraham go at God’s command?
Canaan
593
"Flowers in the Attic"
VC Andrews
594
"Madam Bovary" author
Gustave Flaubert
595
Banquo's son who escapes
Fleance
596
Bible book in which Israel's kingdoms ignore God and fall
2 Kings
597
Book in which Jesus heals a nobleman’s son in Capernaum
John
598
Shakespeare play about daughters of Baptista
Taming of the Shrew
599
Harry Percy is also known as
Hotspur
600
Bible book with brief account of Jesus' earthly ministry, highlighting authority and servanthood
Gospel of Mark
601
Book in which Jesus feeds the multitude (not the loaves and fishes)
John
602
Author of "The Recognitions" about an art forger
William Gaddis
603
Set an example for the believers
Book of Timothy, written by Paul
604
Who walks on water other than Jesus
Peter
605
"The Age of Innocence" author
Edith Wharton
606
Author of "I, Claudius"
Robert Graves
607
Pulitzer for "Advise and Consent"
Allen Drury (observed in White House)
608
Comedy of Errors setting
Ephesus
609
Greek author of fables
Aesop
610
Last book of the New Testament
Revelation
611
Pulitzer for "The Hours"
Michael Cunningham
612
King Leontes is a character in
The Winter's Tale
613
Author of The Invisible Man
HG Wells
614
Why was Daniel put in the Lions den
He prayed against the law
615
Author of "The Man Who Loved Children" about miserable Australian family
Christina Stead
616
Author of Catcher in the Rye
JD Salinger
617
Bible book in which Israel conquers the promised land and divides it among 12 tribes
Joshua
618
Bible Book in which God orders the building of his tabernacle
Exodus
619
"The Mill on the Floss" author
George Eliot
620
"We few...we happy few, we band of brothers"
Henry V
621
Author of Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
622
Author of "The Poisonwood Bible"
Barbara Kingsolver
623
"The Dispossessed" scifi author
Ursula LeGuin
624
He kills Hector
Achilles
625
Songs of Innocence
William Blake
626
Dreamt of gathering grain and his bundle stood up tall
Joseph
627
What did God send after Jonah when he tried to run away?
a storm
628
Jerry Spinelli Newberry for
Maniac Magee
629
"All Quiet on the Western Front" author
Erich Maria Remarque
630
What food did god send Moses and Hebrews in the desert
Manna and quail
631
Dutch physician who defeats Dracula
Van Helsing
632
‘Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.’
Twelfth Night
633
God’s promise after the flood
He would never again flood the earth - the covenant
634
"Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls" poet
John Donne
635
Robert Lawson animal children's book
Rabbit Hill
636
Father of Henry Bolingbroke/Henry IV
John of Gaunt
637
Author of "The Lottery" short story
Shirley Jackson
638
Prospero's usurping brother
Antonio
639
"The Terror" author
Dan Simmons
640
Playwright of Volpone
Ben Jonson
641
Mildred Taylor children's book
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
642
Charles Darnay is a character in
A Tale of Two Cities
643
Pulitzer for "March"
Geraldine Brooks
644
Loyal steward of Goneril
Oswald
645
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding
Proverbs
646
Pulitzer for "Lonesome Dove"
Larry McMurtry
647
Author of Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand
648
Author of "Red Harvest"
Dashiell Hammet
649
National Book Award for "Interior Chinatown"
Charles Yu
650
Bible book describing the first king of Israel
1 Samuel
651
4 lovers in Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius, Helena
652
leader of Greek Army in the Iliad
Agamemnon
653
Antipholus and Dromio relationship
master and servant pairs from Ephesus and Syracuse
654
"New York 2140" author
Kim Stanley Robinson
655
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman novels
Dragonlance
656
Tamburlaine the Great playwright
Christopher Marlowe
657
Author of Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
658
Priam and Hecuba's 6 children
Hector, Deiphobus (2nd warrior), Paris, Troilus, Cassandra and Helenus (twins)
659
Bertram is a Shakespeare character in
All's Well that Ends Well
660
Author of "A Passage to India"
EM Forster
661
Stephen King book about possessed car
Christine
662
Author of "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?"
Raymond Carver
663
Hamlet's schoolmates who spy on him
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
664
Robert C. O'Brien children's book
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
665
Novel about Janie Crawford and her Florida town
Their Eyes Were Watching God
666
Twelfth Night twins
Viola and Sebastian
667
"Chosen" author
Chaim Potok
668
Seek and ye shall find
Matthew 7:7
669
Who kissed Jesus’s feet
Mary Magdalene
670
Shout for joy
Psalms
671
Author of "A Handful of Dust"
Evelyn Waugh
672
"Starship Troopers" author
Robert Heinlein
673
Pulitzer for "Olive Kitteridge"
Elizabeth Strout
674
“Blessed are the ____ for they” are in the book of
Matthew (Sermon on the Mount)
675
Transforming sorceress in Odyssey
Circe
676
"By his stripes/wounds we are healed"
Isaiah
677
Bible book in which laws given on Mt. Sinai are recounted to a new generation
Deuteronomy
678
Author of "The Persian Boy"
Mary Renault
679
Author of "House of the Spirits"
Isabel Allende
680
Peter Pan author
JM Barrie
681
About 100 years ago, a circus elephant named John L. Sullivan participated in this sport in an act with his trainer
boxing
682
Robin McKinley Newberry for
The Hero and the Crown
683
"Gulliver's Travels" author
Jonathan Swift
684
Play where Bertram is compelled to marry Helena
All's Well that Ends Well
685
Jonah's city in the Bible
Nineveh
686
Bible Book in which Ten Commandments are given
Exodus
687
Bible book in which God prescribes purity laws, including dietary restrictions
Leviticus
688
Century of Milton's "Paradise Lost"
17th century
689
Author of The Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron
690
novel about Harry Angstrom
Rabbit, Run
691
Austen "Emma"'s last name
Woodhouse
692
Touchstone is a Shakespeare character in
As You Like It
693
Royal couples in Midsummer Night's Dream
Theseus and Hippolyta, Titania and Oberon
694
Pulitzer for "Middlesex"
Jeffrey Eugenides
695
Novel about the Ramsay family vacationing in the Hebrides
To The Lighthouse
696
Author of Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
697
Hamlet's friend, Ophelia's brother
Laertes
698
Bible book in which a high-ranking wise man in Babylonian and Persian empires has prophetic visions concerning Israel's future
Daniel
699
National Book Award for "The Friend"
Sigrid Nunez
700
Dies at the end of Antony and Cleopatra
Antony, then Cleopatra
701
Author born in Hindu Trinidad
VS Naipaul
702
Book about hungover lecturer that kicked off angry young man fiction
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
703
Uriah Heep is a character in
David Copperfield
704
"Get thee to a nunnery"
Hamlet
705
Diary of 17th century English life
Samuel Pepys
706
"Agony and the Ecstasy" author
Irving Stone
707
"Robot" series scifi author
Isaac Asimov
708
Author of Adam Dalgliesh detective novels
PD James
709
"Is this a dagger which I see before me?"
Macbeth
710
The Jew of Malta playwright
Christopher Marlowe
711
British novel with Cathy
Wuthering Heights
712
Tithing is what percent
Ten percent of what you have
713
Book about deaf-mute and tomboy in 1930s Georgia
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
714
National Book Award for "Let the Great World Spin"
Colum McCann
715
Virginia Hamilton children's book
M.C. Higgins, The Great
716
Author of "Possession"
AS Byatt
717
Author of The Time Machine
HG Wells
718
Novel with the Linton family
Wuthering Heights
719
Bible book in which a foreigner becomes part of God's people through marriage
Ruth
720
Jaques is a Shakespeare character in
As You Like It
721
Who were the explorers of Moses who wanted to move to the land they found
Joshua and Caleb
722
Name of cyclops blinded by Odysseus
Polyphemus
723
Macbeth kills _____, King of Scotland
Duncan
724
Prospero's daughter is
Miranda
725
Author of the Forsyte Saga
John Galsworthy
726
Author of Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series
MC Beaton
727
Author of Valley of the Dolls
Jacqueline Susann
728
"Innocent" and sequel "Presumed Innocent" author
Scott Turow
729
Pulitzer for "Independence Day"
Richard Ford
