Last Line of Question: Literature Flashcards
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Name this Thomas Pynchon work in which representatives from Tristero go to an auction to outbid Oedipa Maas during the title action
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The Crying of Lot 49
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Name this French play set in an indefinitely-locked Second Empire-style room, by Jean-Paul Sartre
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No Exit
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Name this German author of The Tin Drum
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Gunter Wilhelm Grass
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Name this Southern gothic author who created the serial killer The Misfit in “A Good Man is Hard to Find”
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Mary Flannery O’Connor
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Name this William Golding novel about English school boys stranded on an island who offer up a pig’s head to a mysterious “beast”
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Lord of the Flies
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Name this novel whose title character is the meddling Ms. Woodhouse, written by Jane Austen
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Emma
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Name this transsexual prophet of literary works set in Thebes, who also tries and fails to advise Oedipus
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Tiresias
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Name this author of The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea
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Ernest Hemingway
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Name this novel centering on Father Jean Marie Latour’s experiences in New Mexico, which was written by Willa Cather
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Name this Chilean Poet of “Canto General” and “Twenty Love Poems and One Song of Despair”.
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Pablo Neruda
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Name this word, which names a collection by Michel de Montaigne and which has come to mean any short piece of writing
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Essay
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Name this author of The Glass Bead Game and Steppenwolf
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Hermann Hesse
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Name this novel by Leo Tolstoy where the title character engages in a lengthly affair with Count Vronsky before committing suicide near this work’s end
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Anna Karenina
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Name this poet whose “Songs of Innocence and Experiences” includes “The Tyger”
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William Blake
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In this play, which includes the character Xanthias, Dionysus goes on a mission to bring back Euripides from the underworld, and while crossing the River Styx, he hears the title amphibians croaking “brekekekex koax-koax.”. Name this comedy by Aristophanes.
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The Frogs
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Name this man who was marooned with Friday, the title castaway of a novel by Daniel DeFoe
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Robinson Crusoe
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Name this author of Aaron’s Rod, Sons and Lovers, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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D.H. Lawrence
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Name this man who described the demagogue Willy Starke in “All the King’s Men”
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Robert Penn Warren
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Name this novel about Humbert Humbert’s affair with the “nymphet” Dolores Haze, by Vladimir Nabokov
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Lolita
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Name this poem which begins “Hail to thee, blithe spirit!”, written by Percy Shelley
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To a Skylark
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Identify this poet who wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Hollow Men,” and “The Waste Land”
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T. S. Eliot
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What is this work by Lebanese-born poet, Khalil Gibran, which is a collection of discussion of the human condition by Almustafa
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The Prophet
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Name this play whose title is a pun on the name’s similarity to a word meaning “sincere”, a work by Oscar Wilde
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The Importance of Being Ernest
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Name this Gothic novel subtitled “The Modern Prometheus” by its author Mary Shelley
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Frankenstein
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Name this author of World According to Garp and The Cider House Rules
John Irving
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Name this Japanese author of The Sea of Fertility who commited seppuku on television
Mishima Yukio
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Name this Platonic dialogue that recounts the real-life trial at which Socrates was found guilty of corrupting the Athenian youth and ordered to drink hemlock in 399 BCE
The Apology of Socrates
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Name this work in which Tea Cake is shot by Janie Crawford, a novel by Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Name this Central European country, the setting of Elie Wiesel's "Night".
Poland
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Name this author of Voss
Patrick White
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Name this Titan, the title character of an Aeschylus play in which he is bound
Prometheus
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What author of Midnight's Children earned a fatwa from Ayatollah Khomeini for his characterization of Muhammad in The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
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Name this epistolary Sturm und Drang novel about a melancholic youth artist, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Name this poet who asked what happened to a "Dream Deferred," a leader of the Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
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Including the line "The horror, the horror," identify this frame story about Captain Marlow, a work by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
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Name this Guy de Maupassant story about the titular round French prostitute
Ball of Fat
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Name this wood-carrier of Prospero who tries to assault Miranda in The Tempest
Caliban
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Name this novel in which Arkady befriends the nihilist Bazarov by Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Sons
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Name this author of "Mending Wall," "Stooping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," and "The Road not Taken"
Robert Frost
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Name this Irish playwright of Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Ernest, whose only novel was The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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Name this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne which takes place in a mansion with the title features on its roof
The House of the Seven Gables
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Name this British author of the poems "Gunga Din" and "If," as well as The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
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Name this play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan in which Lady Teazle associates with the title gropu of rumor-mongerers
The School for Scandal
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Identify this author of "Money" and "Time's Arrow", whose father wrote the novel Lucky Jim and was named Kingsley
Martin Louis Amis
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Name this writer of "The Conservationist" and "July's People", the South African author of "Burger's Daughter"
Nadine Gordimer
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Name this work, addressed "to the inhabitants of space in general" and written by Edwin Abbott, which consists of A. Square's monograph about life in a two-dimensional society.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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The source of hte phrase "jealousy, that green-eyed monster," name this play in which Iago hates the titular "Moor of Venice", a work of Shakespeare
Othello
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Name this English poet of dramatic monologues including "My Last Duchess"
Robert Browning
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Name this "Booker of Bookers" featuring Saleem Sinai written by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children
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Identify this playwright of Hay Fever and Blithe Spirit
Noel Coward
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Name this author who created the characters Jordan Baker, Daisy Buchanan, and Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
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Name this play in which Abbie Putnam has an affair with her husband's son Eben Cabot, written by Eugene O'Neill
Desire Under the Elms
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Give this surname shared by American playwright Maxwell and "Winesburg, Ohio" author Sherwood
Anderson
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Name this type of poem, examples of which include Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Homer's Odyseey
Epic poems
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Name this love story where the titular governess falls in love with her employer, Edmund Rochester, by Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre
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Name this Russian author of The Inspector General and Dead Souls
Nikolay Gogol
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Name this novelist who created Milo Minderbinder, Major Major Major Major, and Yossarian in Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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Identify this author who wrote a poem inspired by the Aztec calendar and an essay collection about Mexican society titled "Sunstone" and Labyrinth of Solitude respectively.
Octavio Paz Lozano
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Name this final play by Anton Checkhov where at a party in this work, Lopakhin announces that he has purchased the title estate
The Cherry Orchard
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Name this rascal taken inby Squire Allworthy, a foundling created by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
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Sir Thomas returns from Antigua to this work's title location and eventually gives his blessing to the marriage between Edmund Bertram and Fanny Price. Name this novel published three years before Northanger Abbey by its author, Jane Austen.
Mansfield Park
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Name this Shakespeare play set in Messina, in which Don Pedro plays matchmaker to Beatrice and Benedick
Much Ado about Nothing
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Name this poetry collection by Charles Baudelaire, the preface of which addresses the reader as "Hypocrite reader, my likeness, my brother!"
The Flowers of Evil
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Name this British dramatist of The Dumb Waiter and The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter
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Identify this poet of To His Mistress Going to Bed and A Valedictorian: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne
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Name this author who wrote about boys stranded on an island in Lord of the Flies
William Golding
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Name this Russian poet of Boris Gudonov and Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
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Name this novel about Oscar Matzerath, writen by Gunter Grass
The TIn Drum
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Name this American author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.
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Name this novel about a man of La Mancha by Cervantes
Don Quixote de la Mancha
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Name this English writer of "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and "Sons and Lovers"
D. H. Lawrence
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Name this Colombian author of One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Identify this protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caufield
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Identify this African-American author who wrote about Bigger Thomas in Native Son
Richard Wright
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Name this epistolary novel by Alice Walker that develops through a series of letters written to God by the protagonist, Celie.
The Color Purple
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Name this author of The Kingdom of this World and An Explosion in the Cathedral, a Cuban
Alejo Carpentier
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Name this home of Gerard de Nerval, Stephane Mallarme, and Arthur Rimbaud
France
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Name this author of "The Portrait of a Lady," "The Turn of the Screw," and "Daisy Miller."
Henry James
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Name this author of A Dictionary of the English Language
Samuel Johnson
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Name this novel by Emily Bronte featuring Heathcliff, an orphan who for a time owns the title estate
Wuthering Heights
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Set in an Oregon mental hospital, name this novel about Randle Patrick McMurphy's rebellion against Nurse Ratched, written by Ken Kesey
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Name this character who wears a black veil in a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The minister (Reverend Hooper)
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Name this poem, whose title refers to "a darkling plain where ignorant armies clash by night," by Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
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Featuring a tour of Paradise, Purgatory, and the Inferno, name this work by Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
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Santiago is the title figure of what novel, which won the 1953 Pulitzer for Fiction for Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
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Name this spiritual youngest brother of Smerdyakov, Dimitri, and Ivan in Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov
Alyosha Karamazov
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Name this author of Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
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Name this Greek lyric poet of victory odes for athletes in contests such as the Olympic games
Pindar
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Name this novel about the matchmaking antics of the titular Miss Woodhouse, a work by Jane Austen
Emma
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Julian Sorel is the protagonist of what novel by Stendhal
The Red and the Black
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Name this author of "Temple of the Golden Pavillion" and "Confessions of a Mask"
Yukio Mishima
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Name this author of Anthills of the Savannah, No Longer at Ease, and Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
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Name this work that concludes with the swallowing of arsenic by the title character Emma, a creation of Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
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Name this novel about Frederic Henry written by Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms
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In addition to The Lesson and The Chairs, name this Absurdist Romanian playwright of The Bald Soprano
Eugene Ionesco
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Name this author of "Ward Number Six," "The Lady with the Lapdog," and "Gooseberries," who also wrote plays like The Cherry Orchard
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Name this character who is visited by some time-specific ghosts in Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.
Ebenezer Scrooge
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Name this early African American poet published in the book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral; she also described her own situation in "On being brought from Africa to America"
Phillis Wheatley
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Name this work, about twenty-four hours of the title character's experiences in a gulag, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Name this novel by Eudora Welty about the marriage of Troy Flavin and Dabney Fairchild
Delta Wedding
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Name this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel whose protagonist is Hester Prynne
The Scarlet Letter
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Name this twice-exiled "poet of the Caucasus" who wrote the novel "A Hero of Our Time"
Mikhail Lermontov
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Name this style of Greek drama contrasted with comedy
Greek tragedy
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Name this home country of Witold Gombrowicz, Joseph Conrad, and Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland
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Name this English writer of An Ideal Husband, Lady Windermere's Fan, and the Importance of Being Ernest
Oscar WIlde
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Name this author who created Kristin Lavransdatter, a Norwegian Nobel laureate
Sigrid Undset
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Name this work in which characters like the Manciple, Nun's Priest, Miller, and Knight tell stories while on a pilgrimage, a work of Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
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Name this Shakespeare history play in which the title monarch opens, "Now is the winter of our discontent / made glorious summer by the son of York."
Richard III
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Name this British poet whose collections Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience contain "The Lamb" and "The Tyger"
William Blake
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This collection contains a poem that repeatedly addresses a woman as "like the sea, like time," as "lost discoverer," and recalls that "in you everything sank!" Written by the author of Spain in our Hearts and Canto General, this is what poetry collection by Pablo Neruda?
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Name this German poet of the Duino Elegies
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Name this author of Steppenwolf and Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
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Name this novel about Paul Baumer's service in World War I, a work of Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Name this Hemingway novel in which Robert Jordan blows up a bridge in Spain
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Name this novel by Sinclair Lewis where the protagonist decides to marry Will, a doctor, though she finds that her descriptions of Gopher Prairie fall short of her expectations
Main Street
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Name this rascal taken in by Squire Allworthy, a foundling created by Henry Fielding
Tom Jones
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Name this phenomenon, which Ernest Hemingway found atop Mount Kilimanjaro
Snow
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Name this tale, based on the Battle of Roncevaux Pass, that centeres on the titular paladin of Charlemagne, the oldest significant surviving work of French literature.
The Song of Roland
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Name this poetic form consisting of seventeen sounds until broken into three lines of five, seven, and five syllables
Haiku
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The author of "The Secret Sharer", Nostromo, and Lord Jim, name this author who wrote about Marlow narrating the downfall of Kurtz in Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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George Antrobus is a character in what play that features ice ages and puppots to tell the history of humans written by Thorton Wilder?
The Skin of Our Teeth
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Name this poem about a city in Illinois, written by Carl Sandburg
Chicago
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Name this British author of "Oliver Twist" who wrote about Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"
Charles Dickens
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Name this British poet of "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Name this Southern gothic author who created the serial killer The Misfit in "A Good Man is Hard to Find"
Mary Flannery O'Connor
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Name this author who created Dr. Primrose and Kate Hardcastle in The Vicar of Wakefield and She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith
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Name this author of The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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Name this mock epic about the Baron's theft of Belinda's hair, written by Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
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Name this author of Maggie: A Girl of The Streets and The Red Badge of Courage
Stephen Crane
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Name this novel narrated by Ishmael in which Captain Ahab chases a white whale
Moby-Dick
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Name this novel about a woman who shacks up with Count Vronsky and throws herself in front of a train, written by Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
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Name this creator of Edna Pontellier and the author of The Awakening
Kate Chopin
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Name this American author of "An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge" and "The Devil's Dictionary"
Ambrose Bierce
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Identify this novel about an animal that is three-quarters wolf and one-quarter dog, the companion novel to The Call of the Wild written by Jack London
White Fang
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Identify this country, the setting of Pedro Juan Gutierrez's trilogy "Dirty Havana"
Cuba
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Identify this reculsive poet who wrote "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" and "Because I could not stop for Death"
Emily Dickinson
