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Question 1

Legend of the Sleepy Hollow

Answer 1

Washington Irving.

Question 2

Bartelby, the Scrivener

Answer 2

Herman Melville.

Question 3

Batman: Dark Knight Returns

Answer 3

Frank Miller.

Question 4

Dracula

Answer 4

Bram Stoker

Question 5

Fronteras Americanas

Answer 5

Guillermo Verdecchia

Question 6

Alien

Answer 6

Ridley Scott

Question 7

My Last Duchess

Answer 7

Robert Browning. About a Duchess that was supposedly killed by the Duke, who suspected an affair between her and the painter.

Question 8

Ulysses

Answer 8

Alfred Lord Tennyson, about a friend dying and a hero that wants to become a hero again. Is he selfish or heroic?

Question 9

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Answer 9

T.S. Elliot. About an unconfident and insecure speaker who always says “there is more time”, and envies animals.

Question 10

Whoso List to Hunt

Answer 10

Sir Thomas Wyatt, about King Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn. Not actually chasing a deer, but chasing a woman.

Question 11

When I Consider How My Light is Spent

Answer 11

John Milton, about how God urges Milton to be patient, and says that those who suffer hardships the best in life serve God the best.

Question 12

My Mistress’ Eyes are Nothing like the Sun

Answer 12

William Shakespeare, about how a mistress cannot reach his standards, and a mistress is just a regular person.

Question 13

Ozymandias

Answer 13

Percy Bysshe Shelley, about how nothing lasts forever, and there is no such thing as immorality. A vast empire crumbles.