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Question 1

Farewell to Arms

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Hemingway

Question 2

WWI novel about the soldier Frederic Henry, who deserts the Italian army

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Farewell to Arms

Question 3

this novel’s protagonist flees to switzerland after the battle of Caporetto and falls in love with a British nurse named Catherine Barkley

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Farewell to Arms

Question 4

this novel’s protagonist plays billiards with Count Greffi and is introduced to his lover by the surgeon Rinaldi

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Farewell to Arms

Question 5

this novel ends with the protagonist waling towards his hotel in the rain

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Farewell to Arms

Question 6

In this novel, bottles of kummel lead Miss van Campen to suspect the protagonist’s jaundice was caused by his alcoholism.

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Farewell to Arms

Question 7

Two characters escape across Lake Maggiore [muh­JOR­ae] to avoid one’s execution by the military police.

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Farewell to Arms

Question 8

This novel’s main female character is accused of having no shame by her former friend Helen Ferguson, who works with Lieutenant (*) Rinaldi.

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Farewell to Arms

Question 9

This novel’s protagonist leaves his lover’s dead body, which was “like saying goodbye to a statue,” and walks back to the hotel in the rain in its ending, which was rewritten 47 times.

Answer 9

Farewell to Arms

Question 10

Crowell Rodgers gives the protagonist of this book a tip about which horse to bet on at the races. After this novel’s protagonist returns from a horse race with the Meyerses, he comforts his love interest who claims that “rain is very hard on loving.”

Answer 10

Farewell to Arms

Question 11

At one point in this novel, one character hides under a tarp covering stockpile artillery on a train bound for Milan and reunites with his lover in Stresa.

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Farewell to Arms

Question 12

Beowulf

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who knows

Question 13

this Old English epic about the title Geatish slayer of Grendel.

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Beowulf

Question 14

One character in this work dies after getting his arm ripped off during a battle in Hrothgar’s mead-hall

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Beowulf

Question 15

This work’s title character is challenged by (*) Breca to a swimming contest and it opens with the funeral of Scyld Scefing.

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Beowulf

Question 16

In this poem, Unferth mocks a visiting warrior over his swimming match with Breca, but lends him the sword (*) Hrunting for a battle with an underwater monster

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Beowulf

Question 17

A (*) descendent of Cain and its mother are defeated by the protagonist of this epic

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Beowulf

Question 18

This poem ends with mourning of its title character as “Kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.” The epithet “God-cursed” for a villain of this poem reflects that character’s descent from Cain.

Answer 18

Beowulf

Question 19

This work’s protagonist dies in a fight against a dragon while accompanied by Wiglaf.

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Beowulf

Question 20

A character in this work uses a heavy sword from the “days of the giants” to decapitate a creature he reached after swimming for a day

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Beowulf

Question 21

This poem’s title character is welcomed by Queen Wealhtheow [WAYL-thay-oh] at a feast where he describes a swimming match against Breca

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Beowulf

Question 22

In a story in this work, the corpses of an uncle and nephew who fought on opposite sides of a battle are burned in the same fire on the orders of the wife of the Frisian king Finn.

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Beowulf

Question 23

Catch 22

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Heller

Question 24

Yossarian’s attempts to leave the Air Force are thwarted by the title paradox in what novel

Answer 24

Catch 22

Question 25

Doc Daneeka repeatedly raises the mission quota and prohibits anyone from pleading insanity to escape, since that demonstrates their sanity

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Catch 22

Question 26

a character censoring letters signs them “Washington Irving” while under Doc Daneeka’s care

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Catch 22

Question 27

One character in this novel is named Vice-Shah of Oran, Imam of Damascus, and Caliph of Baghdad

Answer 27

Catch 22

Question 28

Chocolate-covered cotton is sold by (*) M&M Enterprises in this novel, in which an IBM machine promotes a man to Major Major Major Major

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Catch 22

Question 29

A character in this novel repeats “I’m cold” after he is shot, leading another character to wonder “Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?”

Answer 29

Catch 22

Question 30

One character in this novel was a “human divining rod” for oil, leading companies to follow him to find large deposits.

Answer 30

Catch 22

Question 31

Crime and Punishment

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Dostoyevsky

Question 32

character in this novel relates how Snark poisoned an entire squadron because he put soap in the sweet potatoes, while a third was investigated by the FBI for majoring in English history.

Answer 32

Catch 22

Question 33

The protagonist of this novel is stabbed by (*) Nately’s whore after she blames him for the death of Nately.

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Catch 22

Question 34

One character in this novel answers “Because they have a better shape than horse chestnuts,” when asked why he stuffs crabapples into his cheeks. That character, Orr, later escapes to Sweden.

Answer 34

Catch 22

Question 35

Raskolinikov kills a pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovan

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Crime and Punishment

Question 36

main character is gives money to support the family of Marmeladov after he is killed in a carriage accident

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Crime and Punishment

Question 37

the sister of teh protagonist breaks off her engagement with the lawyer Luzhin and is pursued by the depraved Svidrigailov

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Crime and Punishment

Question 38

protagonist is taunted by Svidriga and pursued by porify Petrovich

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Crime and Punishment

Question 39

Sonya follows the protagonist to Siberia, urges the main character to admit a certain action and reads this novels protagonist the story of Lazarus

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Crime and Punishment

Question 40

in a dream in this novels epiloguue, microbes cause people to believe they are in sole possession of the truth

Answer 40

Crime and Punishment

Question 41

a nobleman nicknames a policeman “Achilles” and says that he is “going to America” before shooting himself in the head

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Crime and Punishment

Question 42

man has troubling dream in which several drunkards beat a horse to death

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Crime and Punishment

Question 43

one character in this work wonders if the afterlife consists of a bathouse full of spiders

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Crime and Punishment

Question 44

In this novel, a policeman saves the life of a woman with red, sunken eyes who threw herself into a river.

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Crime and Punishment

Question 45

Ender’s Game

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Card

Question 46

Andrew Wiggins attends battle school

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Ender’s Game

Question 47

Mazer Rackham aids this character in defeating the Formics after graduating from Battle School

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Ender’s Game

Question 48

In this novel, armies equipped with freeze guns battle in (*) null gravity, and the protagonist of this novel befriends Bean, who helps him use “Dr Device” to destroy the home planet of the buggers

Answer 48

Ender’s Game

Question 49

a character in this book was mentored by Petra Arkanian, whom he defeated at the head of (*) Dragon Army alongside his “Shadow,” Bean

Answer 49

Ender’s Game

Question 50

a character in this novel demands that his followers inform him why they are all upside down, and says “the enemy’s gate is down.”

Answer 50

Ender’s Game

Question 51

This novel’s protagonist wins a guessing game by tearing out the eye of a giant

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Ender’s Game

Question 52

Two characters in this novel write political essays under the pseudonyms Locke and Demosthenes

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Ender’s Game

Question 53

In this novel, Major Imbu discusses the murder of Stilson while Bonzo’s body is being transported back to Spain

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Ender’s Game

Question 54

Heart of Darkness

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Conrad

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the horror, the horror and exterminate all the brutes

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Heart of Darkness

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travels to find ivory trader, Mr. Kurtz

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Heart of Darkness

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Charles Marlow travels up Congo River

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Heart of Darkness

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compares city to whited sepulchre

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Heart of Darkness

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woman mours the death of a man named Marlowe

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Heart of Darkness

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place on the Nellie, a boat that goes to Africa

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Heart of Darkness

Question 61

The title woman marries Mr. Rochester in

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Jane Eyre

Question 62

narrarator is assisted by Russian namesd Harlequin

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Heart of Darkness

Question 63

pilgrims refers to men with sharpened staves he ferried on the river

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Heart of Darkness

Question 64

Jane Eyre

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Bronte

Question 65

In this novel, Grace Poole is blamed for a fire, which the madwoman (*) Bertha Mason started, resulting in the destruction of Thornfield Hall

Answer 65

Jane Eyre

Question 66

A man in this novel goes blind following a fire caused by his insane first wife when she was locked in the attic.

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Jane Eyre

Question 67

The title character declares “Reader, I (*) married him” at the beginning of the final chapter of this novel

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Jane Eyre

Question 68

Helen Burns dies of tuberculosis at Lowood in this novel

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Jane Eyre

Question 69

The red room is a location in this novel, during which an apothecary suggests that the protagonist be sent to a school run by Mr. (*) Brocklehurst

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Jane Eyre

Question 70

The title character of this novel is raised by her abusive aunt and uncle at Gateshead Hall, and she attends school at Lowood Institution.

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Jane Eyre

Question 71

A man in this novel is shocked by the arrival of a visitor from Jamaica after he dresses as a woman to tell the fortunes of Blanche Ingram and his future wife.

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Jane Eyre

Question 72

This character is given a book called the “Child’s Guide” and is told to read the section that discusses a naughty liar named Martha.

Answer 72

Jane Eyre

Question 73

this Metaphysical poet of “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” who included “Death, be not proud” in his Holy Sonnets.

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Donne

Question 74

A man asks for this character’s paintings before heavily critiquing three of them and abruptly telling her that it is time for bed

Answer 74

Jane Eyre

Question 75

This poet of “To His Mistress Going to Bed” describes the innocent “trepidation of the spheres” in a poem that ends, “Thy firmness makes my circle just.”

Answer 75

Donne

Question 76

the Canonization, the Flea, For whome the bell tolls

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Donne

Question 77

This man sought to “justify the ways of God to man” in a Biblically-inspired epic poem partially set in the city of (*) Pandemonium which describes the story of Adam and Eve and the fall of Lucifer

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Milton

Question 78

This author of “The Canonization” and “The (*) Flea” addressed one poem to someone whose “firmness makes my circle just,” and in another poem wrote about a being that is “slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.”

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Donne

Question 79

This poet wrote that “every man” is “a piece of the continent” and “no man is an (*) island” in one of his “meditations.”

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Donne

Question 80

This author described a creature that “sucked me first, and now sucks thee.”

Answer 80

Donne

Question 81

A poem by this author describes women as “mystic books, which only we” “must see reveal’d.”

Answer 81

Donne

Question 82

what metaphysical poet who wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls?”

Answer 82

Donne

Question 83

In one poem by this author, iambic pentameter is chopped on the word “Dull” in a description of “sublunary lovers’ love” who “cannot admit Absence.”

Answer 83

Donne

Question 84

In one poem this author claimed “Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men…though she and I do love.” In another poem by this author, some sad friends say “Now his breath goes,” and some say, “No.” as “Virtuous men pass mildly away.”

Answer 84

Donne

Question 85

In one poem by this author, iambic pentameter is chopped on the word “Dull” in a description of “sublunary lovers’ love” who “cannot admit Absence.” A woman also “purples her name in the blood of the innocence”

Answer 85

Donne

Question 86

This author asked “Who would not sing for” a drowned shepherd in a pastoral elegy dedicated to Edward King. This author of (*) “Il Penseroso” and “Lycidas” wrote an epic poem that seeks to “justify the ways of God to men.”

Answer 86

Milton

Question 87

Paradise Lost, II Penseroso, Lycidas,

Answer 87

Milton

Question 88

In that epic by this author, a character claims “Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven” after rebelling against God.

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Milton

Question 89

One poem by this author urges shepherds to “weep no more” for the drowning of the title character

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Milton

Question 90

In one poem by this author, he denounces “vain, deluding joys” in favor of the “saintly visage” of Melancholy, while in a companion poem he resolves to live with Mirth.

Answer 90

Milton

Question 91

This man wrote an elegy for his friend Edward King that includes the line “Look homeward, Angel” and ends “Tomorrow to fresh woods, and Pastures new.” In addition to “Lycidas,” this man wrote “They also serve who only stand and wait” in a (*) sonnet that begins “When I consider how my light is spent;” that sonnet is sometimes titled “On His Blindness.”

Answer 91

Milton

Question 92

This author asks “Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?” in a poem that ends “They also serve who only stand and wait.”

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Milton

Question 93

Ezra Pound criticized this author for using Latin syntax in the phrase “Him who disobeys, me disobeys.” A poem by this author decries “vain deluding joys” that “dwell in some idle brain” before praising “divinest Melancholy.”

Answer 93

Milton

Question 94

A work by this author begins with a Euripides quote on the meaning of “True Liberty.” That poem describes the uses and harms of the Licensing Order of 1643, and notes that “he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.”

Answer 94

Milton

Question 95

Little Women

Answer 95

Alcott

Question 96

this novel by Louisa May Alcott about Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March.

Answer 96

Little Women

Question 97

Another girl in this novel marries Laurie Laurence after her sister rejects him to marry Professor Bhaer

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Little Women

Question 98

In this novel, Aunt Carrol and Florence invite a young artist to Europe, where she falls in love with her childhood friend, (*) “Laurie” Laurence. Professor Bhaer [“bear”] marries the aspiring writer, Jo, after her sister dies of scarlet fever in this novel about Marmie’s children.

Answer 98

Little Women

Question 99

A visit to the Hummel family causes a girl in this novel to say that her sewing needle is “heavy” as she dies of (*) scarlet fever

Answer 99

Little Women

Question 100

A character in this novel learns German from Professor Bhaer (BAY-er), who criticizes her for writing romance stories for newspapers.

Answer 100

Little Women

Question 101

In this novel, Tina, Minnie, and Kitty play with a language teacher who lives in Miss Kirke’s boarding house with an aspiring writer.

Answer 101

Little Women

Question 102

At the beginning of this novel, the protagonists’ mother convinces them to give their Christmas breakfast to a poor family.

Answer 102

Little Women

Question 103

The family patriarch of this novel’s central family serves as a chaplain in the American Civil War and does not return home for Christmas

Answer 103

Little Women

Question 104

A character in this novel is forced to throw her collection of limes out of a window, and another character in this novel writes stories for a magazine called the Weekly Volcano.

Answer 104

Little Women

Question 105

Characters in this novel form a Charles Dickens-inspired Pickwick Club and re-enact John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

Answer 105

Little Women

Question 106

In one stanza of this poem, the speaker discusses the misery of the world, stating that it is a place “where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies.”

Answer 106

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 107

Ode to a Nightingale

Answer 107

Keats

Question 108

The speaker of this poem realizes that “Now more than ever seems it rich to die” because he called the subject “soft names in many a mused rhyme.”

Answer 108

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 109

its subject was “not born for death” and is called “Immortal”

Answer 109

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 110

an “immortal Bird” is the subject of this poem

Answer 110

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 111

This poem is addressed to a (*) “Dryad of the trees,” and it begins with the speaker saying, “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains by sense.”

Answer 111

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 112

After the title creature of this poem leaves, the speaker asks, “Was it a vision, or a waking dream?… Do I wake or sleep?”

Answer 112

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 113

The speaker of this poem imagines a voice heard “in ancient days by emperor and clown” and Ruth, making her stand “in tears among the alien corn.”

Answer 113

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 114

In another stanza, the speaker “cannot see what flowers are at my feet” or the “soft incense” that “hangs upon the boughs.”

Answer 114

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 115

truth is beauty and beauty truth

Answer 115

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 116

The speaker of this poem is “half in love with easeful death” and will be charioted “on the viewless wings of (*) Poesy.”

Answer 116

Ode to a Nightingale

Question 117

about title orphan who want more gruel / “please sir I want some more”

Answer 117

Oliver Twist

Question 118

Oliver Twist

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Dickens

Question 119

artful dodger steals hankerchief

Answer 119

Oliver Twist

Question 120

the artful dodger and the title character pickpocket in group led by Fagin

Answer 120

Oliver Twist

Question 121

the protagonist stays with Mr. Brownlow

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Oliver Twist

Question 122

Nancy is killed by lover Bill Sikes

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Oliver Twist

Question 123

Mr. Sowerberry and Noah Claypole fight the protagonist

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Oliver Twist

Question 124

Mr. Bumble and Edward Leeford agree to throw a locket and a ring in a river

Answer 124

Oliver Twist

Question 125

Charollete Lucas marries Mr. Collins, the heir of the Longbourn estate

Answer 125

Pride and Prejudice

Question 126

the servant Charoletter is in love wiht a character who adopts the alias ‘Morris Bolter”

Answer 126

Oliver Twist

Question 127

three of the Bennet sisters marry

Answer 127

Pride and Prejudice

Question 128

Bingley proposes to the main family’s eldest sister, Jane

Answer 128

Pride and Prejudice

Question 129

Pride and Prejudice

Answer 129

Austen

Question 130

a character i sent to Austrailia after being caught with a silver snuff-box

Answer 130

Oliver Twist

Question 131

The end of this novel focuses on the lives of Rose Maylie and her nephew, who gives part of his inheritance to his brother, Mr Monks, after he is adopted by Mr Brownlow

Answer 131

Oliver Twist

Question 132

focuses primarily on Elizabeth Bennett’s decision to marry Mr. Darcy

Answer 132

Pride and Prejudice

Question 133

George Wickham prevents a scandal by convincing him to marry Lydia

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Pride and Prejudice

Question 134

this novel begins noting that “a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”

Answer 134

Pride and Prejudice

Question 135

a reverend in this novel offers a man an olive branch and accepts the patronage of Catherine de Bourgh

Answer 135

Pride and Prejudice

Question 136

A clergyman in this novel reads a collection of Fordyce’s sermons to a family

Answer 136

Pride and Prejudice

Question 137

In this novel, the weak singing of a sister at the Netherfield ball causes the protagonist embarrassment

Answer 137

Pride and Prejudice

Question 138

A character in this novel laments, “ Till this moment, I never knew myself” after rejecting a marriage proposal

Answer 138

Pride and Prejudice

Question 139

Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw

Question 140

about the Cocney flower girl eliza Doolittle

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Pygmalion

Question 141

This play sees Professor Higgins and Colonel Pickering making a bet to pass a Cockney girl off as a duchess

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Pygmalion

Question 142

The protagonist of this play throws slippers at a character who was mistaken for a (*) Covent Garden policeman at the beginning of this play

Answer 142

Pygmalion

Question 143

The protagonist of this play marries Freddy Eynsford-Hill and is the subject of a bet between Colonel Pickering and Professor Higgins

Answer 143

Pygmalion

Question 144

A character in this play pays to work in a flower shop on (*) Wimpole Street

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Pygmalion

Question 145

The author of this play added the section “What Happened Afterward” to it to oppose Herbert Tree’s alternate ending. A character in this play stuffs chocolates into his mouth to show they aren’t poisoned

Answer 145

Pygmalion

Question 146

A character in this play is described as the “most original moralist in England” by a millionaire

Answer 146

Pygmalion

Question 147

The main character of this play is dressed in a blue kimono by the housekeeper Mrs. Pearce

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Pygmalion

Question 148

In this play, one character goes out in the rain to fetch a cab for his mother and sister, but it is stolen by the lead actress when they disappear. That character sticks her tongue out at her father when he appears to ask for money, and responds “not bloody likely!” to a question about walking.

Answer 148

Pygmalion

Question 149

The author of this play rejected a happier ending devised by Sir Herbert Tree, saying Tree “ought to be shot” for it

Answer 149

Pygmalion

Question 150

Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Eolian Harp, Kubla Khan, etc

Answer 150

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Question 151

the author who penned the lines, “Water, water everywhere!” in his famous poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

Answer 151

Coleridge

Question 152

The completion of this author’s fifty-four line poem was interrupted by a person from Porlock and discusses Xanadu.

Answer 152

Coleridge

Question 153

In one poem, this author described “A light in sound, a sound-like power in light.” That poem asked to “Tell us of silence” and was addressed to “My pensive Sara!” Another poem by this author describes “four times fifty living men” who “dropped down one by one” after a (*) dice game between Death and Life-in-Death.

Answer 153

Coleridge

Question 154

The narrator of one of this author’s poems notes his “flashing eyes” and “floating hair” after he “drunk the milk of paradise.”

Answer 154

Coleridge

Question 155

This poet described “silent icicles” and a “quiet moon” while the title phenomenon “performs its secret ministry” in “Frost at Midnight.”

Answer 155

Coleridge

Question 156

This writer described a man “winning thy way / With sad yet patient soul, through evil and pain / And strange calamity!” in “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.”

Answer 156

Coleridge

Question 157

This poet described Charles Lamb’s joy at leaving the city while he despairs at being left in nature in “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.”

Answer 157

Coleridge

Question 158

The speaker of one of this author’s poems rambles about an “intellectual breeze” to his “pensive Sara.” The speaker of another of his poems tells of the “symphony and song” of an “Abyssinian maid”, who is “singing of Mount Abora” as the “damsel with a dulcimer”

Answer 158

Coleridge

Question 159

One of this author’s works tells his child that is “cradled by my side” that he “shalt wander like a breeze” and that “all seasons shall be sweet to thee.” Another of his works exclaims “Joy, Lady! is the spirit and the power” after he is unable to “see, not feel how beautiful they are.”

Answer 159

Coleridge

Question 160

One of this man’s works begins by exulting, “How exquisite the scents / Snatch’d from yon bean-field!” This author wrote the Conversation poems, as well as a poem in which the narrator describes how “the night is chilly, but not dark” as the title character enters the woods to pray.

Answer 160

Coleridge

Question 161

Scarlet Letter

Answer 161

Hawthorne

Question 162

Hester Prynne’s adultery

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Scarlet Letter

Question 163

Roger chillingsworth attempts to get Arthur dimmesdale to admit to illegitimately fathering Pearl

Answer 163

Scarlet Letter

Question 164

this object is first encountered in a custom-house

Answer 164

Scarlet Letter

Question 165

traced out by falling meteor as a trio of characters holds hands

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Scarlet Letter

Question 166

object rumored to glow in the night

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Scarlet Letter

Question 167

repels sunshine, said by girl who refueses to cross a brook unless the object is revealed

Answer 167

Scarlet Letter

Question 168

Governor Winthrops death is linked to sighting of meteor

Answer 168

Scarlet Letter

Question 169

protag is questioned in prison by John Wilson

Answer 169

Scarlet Letter

Question 170

narrator remarks on the “sad gray, brown, or black” clothes of people in the marketplace in a chapter describing a public holiday

Answer 170

Scarlet Letter

Question 171

Tale of Genji

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Lady Murasaki

Question 172

In this novel, the husband of Lady Aoi engages in many love affairs with women suhc as Lady Fujitsubo

Answer 172

Tale of Genji

Question 173

the blank chapter, “Vanished into the clouds,” in this book implies the protagonists death

Answer 173

Tale of Genji

Question 174

Kaoru and Nioru’s rivalry is depicted in the (*) Uji chapters of this novel

Answer 174

Tale of Genji

Question 175

this novel’s Uji chapters detail events after the death of the protagonist

Answer 175

Lady Murasaki

Question 176

After arguing with Lady Rokujo, the daughter of the Minister of the Left suffers a seizure in this novel.

Answer 176

Tale of Genji

Question 177

Yugiri is born to the Minister of the Left’s daughter in this novel.

Answer 177

Tale of Genji

Question 178

In this novel, the Akashi Lady’s daughter gives birth to Niou [nee-oh], who romantically competes with Kaoru [kah-oh-roo], the legal son of this novel’s title character.

Answer 178

Tale of Genji

Question 179

One character in this work never shows her face in public because of her large nose, but the protagonist is still attracted by her zither playing.

Answer 179

Tale of Genji

Question 180

The protagonist of this work begins a relationship with the Lady of the Orange Blossoms. During a festival, the title character of this work gives a perfect performance of a dance called the “Waves of the (*) Blue Sea.”

Answer 180

Tale of Genji

Question 181

In this novel’s first chapter, a woman gives birth in “The Paulownia Court” to a character who later marries a girl named after the wisteria flower. After a character in this novel reads a poem that ends, “May lavender, the hue of the troth, be as fast,” another character marries the daughter of the Minister of the Left.

Answer 181

Tale of Genji

Question 182

Tess of the D’URbervilles

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Hardy

Question 183

novel about a common girl from a royal lineage

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Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 184

Angel Clare works on a dairy farm with the title character in this novel

Answer 184

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 185

The title character of this novel names her baby Sorrow, and christens him herself before killing his father Alec in the final section

Answer 185

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 186

This novel’s protagonist is sent to Winchester prison to be executed for murdering Alec

Answer 186

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 187

The title character gives birth to (*) Sorrow and works at Talbothay’s dairy, where she meets a man who later abandons her for a new life in Brazil

Answer 187

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 188

A sleepwalker in this novel carries his wife across a river before laying her in a coffin, and later flees with the milkmaid Izz to (*) Brazil

Answer 188

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 189

One character in this novel stops carrying a basket for the protagonist to paint the words “Thy Damnation Slumbereth Not” on a fence

Answer 189

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 190

A character in this novel travels to a mansion near Trantridge in order to “claim kin” with a rich widow and later kills a flock of wounded pheasants out of mercy

Answer 190

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 191

One character in this work rejects Mercy Chant since she lacks farming skills despite the suggestions of his brothers Felix and Cuthbert

Answer 191

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 192

The protagonist of this work moves to Sandbourne after sending angry letters to her lover before urging him to marry her sister, Liza-Lu

Answer 192

Tess of the D’URbervilles

Question 193

The sun also rises

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hemingway

Question 194

the first novel by Hemingway

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The sun also rises

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novel narrated by Jake Barnes

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The sun also rises

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near the end of the novel, Pedro Romero gets beat up by Robert Cohn

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The sun also rises

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Characters in this novel travel to Pamplona to see the runnings of the bulls

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The sun also rises

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Montoya introduces the narrator and his friends to a 19 year old that Mike Campbell’s fiance later runs off with

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The sun also rises

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a character goes on a five day fishing trip with the protagonist where they meet and Englishman named Harris

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The sun also rises

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One character in this novel alleges a love affair between Jefferson Davis and Ulysses S. Grant and claims that “Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet”

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The sun also rises

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the protagonist has a drink with the prostitute Georgiana but refuses to kiss her due to “sickness”

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The sun also rises

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Watership down

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Adams

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adventure novel about rabbits

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Watership down

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This novel begins with (*) Fiver receiving a vision of his home being destroyed, causing him and his friends to search for a new warren

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Watership down

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featuring Silver, Bigwig, and Hazel

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Watership down

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This book’s protagonists escape to the eponymous Hampshire location after escaping their Sandleford home’s destruction due to Fiver’s premonition

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Watership down

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Refugees from a tyrannical regime in this work include Thethuthinnang, Blackavar, and Hyzenthlay, all of whom escape Efrafa and the rule of General Woundwort.

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Watership down

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Mythical figures in this work include King Darzin, the sun god Lord Frith, and the trickster hero known as ‘The Prince with a Thousand Enemies’, or (*) El-ahrairah.

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Watership down

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One settlement in this work includes such inhabitants as Nildro-hain and Silverweed, who develop song, art, and poetry, and forbids asking where inhabitants are, due to a system known as ‘the shining wire’

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Watership down

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The Second Coming, Easter 1916, Sailing to Byzantium, etc

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W.B. Yeats

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Irish poet of “Easter, 1916” and “Sailing to Byzantium.”

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W.B. Yeats

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Irish poet of “The Second Coming.”

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W.B. Yeats

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the speaker of that poem by this author claims “things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” and describes a creature that “slouches towards Bethlehem.”

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W.B. Yeats

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The speaker of one poem by this author is troubled by “a (*) vast image out of Spiritus Mundi.”

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W.B. Yeats

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This poet “disappeared in the dead of winter” according to a poem memorializing him that states “Poetry makes nothing happen.”

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W.B. Yeats

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This poet, who repeatedly states “A (*) terrible beauty is born” in that poem, wrote“an aged man is but a paltry thing” in another poem that begins “That is no country for old men.”

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W.B. Yeats

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In one poem, this poet claims “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

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W.B. Yeats

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In one poem, this author cautions “tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” The speaker asks “how can we know the dancer from the dance?” in this author’s “Among School Children.”

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W.B. Yeats

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This author described a location where “peace comes dropping slow” in a poem that mentions “nine bean rows” in a place where “midnight’s all a glimmer” and the speaker “will arise and go now.” This author invoked a childhood memory of a vacation spot in County Sligo in “The (*) Lake Isle of Innisfree.”

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W.B. Yeats

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One work by this author details the encounter between the title Spartan queen and Zeus in the form of a bird.

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W.B. Yeats

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In one work by this man, Felipe Montero stumbles upon the title character expressionlessly beheading a goat in the kitchen

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Fuentes

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At the beginning of this novel, the narrator describes how her ancestor Simon established her hometown, and states that she will explain why her brother’s arm is crooked.

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to kill a mockingbird

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A 25-cent debt is repaid in firewood and vegetables, and that debtor’s son slathers his food in molasses. In another scene, Sheriff Heck Tate defers the responsibility of shooting a (*) rabid dog

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to kill a mockingbird

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In one of this author’s unfinished works, Ushant, the Duke of Tintagel, marries Nan St. George. In another of her novels, the protagonist ultimately divorces Raymond De Chelles to re-marry Elmer Moffatt.

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Wharton

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author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence

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Wharton

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In one novel, this author fictionalized his exposure to Buddhism via Gary Snyder. This author of Big Sur used his friend William Burroughs as the model for Old Bull Lee in a novel in which Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise travel the United States

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Kerouac

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In a novel by this author, the protagonist travels in a Jeep nicknamed “Willie” to Los Gatos to meet “the great Cody,” where he falls in love with Billie. Lorenzo Monsanto tells Jack Duluoz about his cat’s death in that novel by this author. In one novel, this author fictionalized his exposure to Buddhism via Gary Snyder

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Kerouac

Question 228

The speaker of this poem exhorts to “Rather at once our time devour.” The speaker of this poem thinks his “vegetable love should grow/ Vaster than empires and more slow”, while its addressee “Shouldst rubies find” walking by the Ganges. The speaker of this poem asks its addressee to “refuse/ Till the (*) conversion of the Jews.

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To His Coy Mistress

Question 229

This author wrote of a murderous chess-playing automaton in one short story, and about Carter Druse, who discovers that an enemy spy he must kill is his father, in another. In addition to “Moxon’s Master” and “A Horseman in the Sky”, this author of “The Damned Thing” wrote about a man unharmed by (*) rifle shot, who imagines getting home

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Bierce

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Dick Dewy and Francis Day fall in love in this author’s novel Under the Greenwood Tree. The reappearance of the furmity-woman triggers the final downfall of the protagonist of one of this author’s novels.

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Hardy

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Angel Clare meets the protagonist at a May Dance in a novel by this author, who opened another book with Michael Henchard selling his (*) wife and daughter for five guineas.

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Hardy

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Red Badge of Courage

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Crane

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Jim Conklin dies in what novel about Henry Fleming during the Civil War

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Red Badge of Courage

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A character in this novel who sees the “red, eye-like glow” of a campfire across the river discovers ants covering a corpse in a chapel-like forest

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Red badge of courage

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character in this novel justifies his decisions by throwing a pine cone at a squirrel

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red badge of courage

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The protagonist of this novel, who later bears the flag of a bunch of “mule drivers” and“mud diggers,” is hit in the head with the butt of a (*) rifle

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red badge of courage

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In this novel, Bill Smithers complains about his hospital being bombed after his hand is crushed by one of his comrades.

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red badge of courage

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In this novel, the protagonist and Wilson “deserve t’ be major-generals” after carrying the (*) Union flag in a charge.

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red badge of courage

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Near the beginning of this novel, the protagonist feels a sensation that “his eyeballs were about to crack like hot stones.”

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red badge of courage

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In one scene of this novel, the protagonist encounters a man with a shoeful of blood, and hears another man singing about “five an’ twenty dead men/Baked in a pie.”

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red badge of courage

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In a flashback in this work, the protagonist’s mother advises him to never do anything he would feel ashamed to tell her.

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red badge of courage

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In one story by this author, Colonel Barclay dies after confronting a crippled man who always walks around with his mongoose Teddy

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Doyle

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In another story by this author, one character receives a well-paying job copying the Encyclopædia Britannica after responding to a newspaper ad searching for (*) red-haired men

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Doyle

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In a story by this author, Elias Openshaw is found dead in a garden pool shortly after receiving a letter inscribed with the letters “KKK” and containing “The Five Orange Pips.”

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Doyle

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In another story by this man, Nemor is destroyed by the title “Disintegration Machine” after being tricked by Professor (*) Challenger.

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Doyle

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Sherlock holmes

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Doyle

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In one story centering on this character, an interpreter named Mr. Melas is kidnapped and brought before a man whose face is covered in plaster.

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Sherlock holmes

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“The Country of the Saints,” the second part of a story about this character, opens with a group of Mormons who rescue a young girl named Lucy.

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Sherlock holmes

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This character finds the black pearl of the Borgias inside a plaster bust of Napoleon.

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Sherlock holmes

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In one story, this character saves Helen Stoner from her stepfather’s “Speckled Band.”

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Sherlock holmes

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This character only refers to Irene Adler as “the woman” after she tricks him in “A Scandal in Bohemia.”

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Sherlock holmes

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In one story including this character, Dr. Roylott attempted to kill Roylott’s stepdaughter, Helen, by using a swamp adder, the title “speckled band.”

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Sherlock holmes

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In one appearance by this character, he calls attention to the “curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” In another of his appearances, he investigates a very large jellyfish while without his usual companion

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Sherlock Holmes

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This character travels through Chicago, Buffalo, and Ireland in pursuit of a German spy, Von Bork. In another work, this man learns the story of agent Birdy Edwards and how he brought the Vermissa Valley gang to justice.

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Sherlock Holmes

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In one story, this character burns papers Charles Augustus Milverton said would ruin Eva Blackwell’s engagement

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Sherlock Holmes

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This character is unable to save Paul Kratides [KRA-TI-DEES] from a charcoal-filled room and uses a wax bust of himself to trap the airgun-shooting Sebastian Moran.

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Sherlock Holmes

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This man once noted that there were precisely seventeen steps leading up to his apartment.

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Sherlock Holmes

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In a novel by this author, two lovers first meet as a railway worker is killed by a train, and one of them commits suicide when she suspects the other, Count Vronsky (VRON-skee), of having an affair.

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Tolstoy

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This author wrote about the effects William Blake’s poetry had on his writing in the semi-autobiographical work Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age.

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Oe

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Servants in this novel include Grimaud, who speaks only in hand-signals; Kitty, who falls in love with the protagonist; and Planchet

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3 muskets

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A character in this novel secretly has a fleur-de-lis tattooed on her left shoulder

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3 muskets

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In this work, a scandal nearly breaks out over Anne of Austria’s diamonds, which she gives to the Duke of Buckingham

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3 muskets

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The protagonist of this work used to frequent the Steel Helmet bar. While following a funeral procession, that protagonist of this novel ponders his relationship with Erica and meets a man who instructs him to go to the Black Eagle

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Steppenwolf

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Later this novel’s protagonist watches a film about Moses before attending a Masked Ball in the Globe Room, where he falls in love with a woman dressed like his friend Herman.

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Steppenwolf

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In a play by this man, a vision inspires an elderly hermit named Makak to journey to Africa. This author notes that “the violence of beast on beast is read as natural law” in a work that declares “the gorilla wrestled with the Superman”

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Walcott

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The protagonist of a novel by this man runs the Wellspring Methodist Church and has an affair with his secretary, Hettie Bowler.

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Sinclair Lewis

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The title character of a novel by this author is an engineer who sells the Revelation Motor Company.

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Sinclair Lewis

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American author of Babbitt, who created Carol Kennicott in Main Street.

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Sinclair Lewis

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Vladimir Nabokov regarded the plot of this novel as unimportant, as he rejected the notion that this novel was a reformist or satirical work.

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Dead Souls

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One character in this novel relates how the protagonist replaced two million fake rubles with two million real rubles to avoid an arrest.

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Dead souls

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The narrator of this novel visits The Swastika Holding Company after a funeral.

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Great Gatsby

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A character in this novel claims “it takes two to make an accident” after being criticized for her driving.

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Great Gatsby

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A gambler in this novel, who wears cufflinks made of human molars, fixed the 1919 World Series.

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Great Gatsby

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Meyer Wolfsheim, is a friend of the title character

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Great Gatsby

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In one poem, this author wrote about a water­carrier who saves the narrator’s life, only to be shot himself, concluding “You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!”

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Kipling

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Another of his poems urges the reader to “send forth the best ye breed” and “have done with childish days. (White mans burden)

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Kipling

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A poet with this last name called for people to “rise, like lions after slumber / In unvanquishable number” in a poem responding to the Peterloo massacre, The Masque of Anarchy

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shelley

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Another (#) author with this last name created a character whom causes Justine Moritz’s hanging by killing William, and later strangles (*) Henry Clerval

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Shelley

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A character in this play describes a woman whose “chariot is an empty hazelnut” and who serves as “the fairies’ midwife.”

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Romeo and Juliet

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The speaker of this poem claims that “the error bred in the bone” is craving “to be loved alone”, and has “a voice to undo the folded lie”

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Sep 1 1939, by Auden

Question 281

Henry Clinton, character read “The Black Plague, Alexander Hancock, Bob Ewell, Dill Harris

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Lee

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The final part of this poem extols the “crazy shepherds of rebellion” and “vast lamb of the middle class” before mentioning a character who, in a dream, walks “dripping from a sea-journey.”

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Howl

Question 283

This poet wrote, “Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal!” in a poem imagining “footprints on the sands of time.”

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Longfellow

Question 284

This author stole the meter from the Kalevala for an epic poem whose hero is born when his mother is impregnated by the wind.

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Longfellow

Question 285

He wrote, “Hardly a man is now alive/Who remembers that famous day and year”, referring to the (*) “eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five.”

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Longfellow

Question 286

In one work, this author described Sybil Carpenter’s encounter with the veteran Seymour.

Answer 286

Sallinger

Question 287

“A Perfect Day for Bananafish” was the first to feature members of this author’s Glass family, which includes the title characters of one of his novels, Franny and Zooey.

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Sallinger

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This author wrote of the history teacher (*) Mr. Spencer, the unsanitary Ackley and two nuns who know a surprisingly large amount about Romeo and Juliet in one novel.

Answer 288

Sallinger

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In response to another character mentioning respect after saying “I never boast, and I never tell lies”, this character says “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.”

Answer 289

Anna Karenina

Question 290

This character is given a bowl of sweetened milk and pieces of bread, but dislikes the taste

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Samsa

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This character attempts to hide a picture of a lady dressed in fur while his furniture is being taken

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Samsa

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this protagonist of Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”

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Samsa

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In a novel by this author, the title couple owns the Muggle-Wumps and catch the “Dreaded Shrinks” after being glued to the floor of their house

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Dahl

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This author of The Twits wrote about a nephew of Spiker and Sponge who makes friends with bugs like Miss (*) Spider in James and the Giant Peach

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dahl

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In this novel, David Gamut attempts to teach some beavers to sing and, while traveling from Fort Edward to Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro are kidnapped by Magua.

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last of the mohicans

Question 296

This novel uses the Tramecksan and Slamecksan parties to mock the Tories and Whigs,

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gullivers travels

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This novel’s protagonist visits (*) Laputa, Luggnag, and Japan

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gullivers travels

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gullivers travels is by

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swift

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This author wrote about Barry Fairbrother suffering from an aneurysm in the novel The Casual Vacancy,

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rowling

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The Cuckoo’s Calling in the Cormoran Strike series, written under the pen name Robert (*) Galbraith

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rowling

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This author’s short story “Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump” appears in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

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rowling

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Along with the daughter of King Pastoria, this character is kidnapped by Queen Coo-ee-oh.

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dorothy Gale

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This friend of Princess Ozma travels with Nick Chopper,

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Dorothy Gale

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A resident of this town vanishes after stopping near Wiley’s Swamp on his way home from a nearby farm.

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sleepy hollow

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This town, also called Tarry Town, is the home of a man who claims he was chased by the Galloping (#) Hessian at a party hosted by Baltus (*) Van Tassel

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sleepy hollow

Question 306

This work begins with the protagonist lying in bed after missing his train to work.

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Metamorphosis

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A violin performance by Grete [GRE­tuh] in this novella is interrupted when three tenants see its protagonist.

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Metamorphosis

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Its protagonist hides under a sofa when others enter his room to avoid being seen and loses a desire for milk

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Metamorphosis

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a character is paralyzed after an (*) apple is lodged in his back and his death is welcomed by his family since he had become “thin and flat.”

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Metamorphosis

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In a play about this legendary figure, he asks “was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships?” when confronted with the spirit of Helen of Troy.

Answer 310

Faust

Question 311

In another play, this (#) man has an affair with Gretchen after a mysterious dog follows him home

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Faust

Question 312

This man ignores the words (*) “Homo, fuge!” on his arm, and instead signs a contract that gives him the ability to use magic

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Faust

Question 313

In one novel by this author, the People of the Mist kidnap the flute-playing Alex and his partner, Nadia.

Answer 313

Allende

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The doctor Tao begins a relationship with Eliza Sommers, who goes to see if the dead bandit Joaquin Murieta was her former lost lover in this author’s novel Daughter of Fortune.

Answer 314

Allende

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Pedro Tercero has three fingers cut off by the owner of the plantation Las Tres Marias, Esteban, who the clairvoyant Clara vows to never speak to again after he knocks out two of her teeth in another of her novels

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Allende

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the house of spirits, city of beasts

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Allende

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A character in this story rides past a tree haunted by Major Andre on his horse Gunpowder after having his marriage proposal rejected at a harvest party.

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legend of sleepy hollow

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Katrina van Tassel, the daughter of a wealthy farmer, ends up marrying Brom (*) Bones over a local school teacher in this story

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legend of sleepy hollow

Question 319

This author wrote a work in which Ainsley attempts to seduce Len so that she may bear a child and Marian tests Duncan by offering him a cake in the shape of a woman

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Atwood

Question 320

Handmaids tail

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Atwood

Question 321

In another work by this author of The Edible Woman, a novel attributed to Laura is revealed to have been based on Alex Thomas’ affair with Iris Chase

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Atwood

Question 322

Thirty cassette tapes found in Bangor, Maine appear in this novel’s “Historical Notes’’ section and are discussed by Professor Pieixoto (pee-ek-SOH-toh)

Answer 322

Handmaids tail

Question 323

In addition to Happy Endings, this author wrote a novel that follows Snowman within a post-apocalyptic world in Oryx and Crake.

Answer 323

Atwood

Question 324

In this novel, when one character says “Blessed be the fruit”, the reply is supposed to be “May the Lord open.”

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Handmaid’s tail

Question 325

A short story collection by Ray Bradbury takes its name from a poem by this man

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Whitman

Question 326

This poet writes about how his soul is “detached, in measureless oceans of space” in one poem and describes a speaker asking “If the body were not the Soul, what is the Soul?”

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Whitman

Question 327

“A Noiseless Patient Spider”

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whitman

Question 328

A poem by this author begins by stating that he is a “lonesome man in Kansas.”

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Ginsberg

Question 329

In addition to the“Wichita Vortex Sutra,” this author asked “Who killed the pork chops?”

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Ginsberg

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describing a poet who is“poking among the meats” as a “childless, lonely old grubber.”

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Ginsberg

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“angel-headed hipsters” and Carl Solomon, who lives in a hospital called (*) Rockland

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Ginsberg

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In one poem, this author asks “what America did you have when… you stood watching the boat disappear on the black waters of Lethe?”

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Ginsberg

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“I know that I shall meet my fate in the clouds above”

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Yeats, Irish

Question 334

the narrator uses “the handkerchief of the Lord” and “the beautiful uncut hair of graves” to describe a type of plant

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whitman

Question 335

One section of this poem describes “twenty-eight young men” bathing in the water who “do not think whom they souse with spray.”

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Song of Myself

Question 336

In one story by this author, a maid sings the same verse of an aria twice after playing a game involving the title substance, “Clay.”

Answer 336

Joyce

Question 337

The main character of another of his stories wonders whether he should quote Robert Browning and hears Mr. D’Arcy sing “The Lass of Aughrim.”

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Joyce

Question 338

story by him concerns (*) Mrs. Conroy’s love for the deceased Michael Furey

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Joyce

Question 339

In this work, a woman nicknamed “Alaiyo” threatens her nephew with a spray gun.

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Raisin in the Sun

Question 340

A woman’s boyfriend calls her choice to straighten her hair “mutilation” and invites her to Nigeria near the end of this play.

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Raisin in the Sun

Question 341

Bobo tells the central family that Willy Harris has run off with the (*) money for a liquor store

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Raisin in the Sun

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family decides to move to Clybourne Park

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Raisin in the Sun

Question 343

Beneatha studies medicine in this play where Walter refuses to concede to pressure from Karl Lindner

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Raisin in the Sun

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Raisnin in the sun

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Hansberry

Question 345

Lord Augustus becomes enamored with the mysterious mother of the title character: play by who?

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Wilde

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title character runs away to Lord Darlington’s house after suspecting that her husband is having an affair with Mrs. Erlynne.: play by who?

Answer 346

Wilde

Question 347

In another of this author’s plays, two bunburying characters charm (*) Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew by pretending to have the title name.

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Wilde

Question 348

two bunburying characters charm (*) Gwendolen Fairfax and Cecily Cardew by pretending to have the title name

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Importance of being earnest

Question 349

The preface to this novel states “it is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors,” and ends by declaring that “all art is quite useless.”

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Question 350

The protagonist of this novel is stalked by a sailor, who is accidentally shot during a hunting party

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Question 351

The sister of that sailor calls the protagonist of this novel “Prince Charming” and later (*) kills herself after the protagonist breaks up with her because of a poor performance as Juliet

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Question 352

“all art is quite useless” ends this novel

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

Question 353

In one story by this writer, the title town drops a word from their motto about temptation after a debacle in which 19 couples attempt to dishonestly acquire a sack of gold.

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Twain

Question 354

In a different work by this author, a stranger at the dilapidated Angel’s Camp relates a story about a bulldog named Andrew Jackson, as well as a different creature named (*) Dan’l Webster

Answer 354

Twain

Question 355

This author wrote about an “aged stranger”

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Twain

Question 356

This author wrote about an “aged stranger” that delivered a message about the suffering of a nation’s enemies in his short story “The War Prayer.”

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Twain

Question 357

The title character is elected mayor of Dawson’s Landing after proving that Tom and Chambers were switched at birth in this man’s Pudd’nhead (*) Wilson

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Twain

Question 358

This author’s novel about Laura Hawkins coined the term “the Gilded Age.”

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Twain

Question 359

This author wrote about a lawyer who uses fingerprints to prove that Tom Driscoll had been switched at birth with Valet de Chambers

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Twain

Question 360

This author of Pudd’nhead Wilson

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Twain

Question 361

To obtain a weapon, one character in this novel dives beneath the river of an iron bridge near the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit.

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Journey to the west

Question 362

“Fiery eyes” are obtained by a character in this novel after being imprisoned in a cauldron for 49 days.

Answer 362

Journey to the west

Question 363

character is subsequently trapped under a (*) mountain for five hundred years before joining Sandy and Pigsy in accompanying Tang Sanzang to atone for their (#) past misdeeds.

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Journey to the west

Question 364

This novel questions whether God had intestines after discussing how Yakov Stalin threw himself against an electric fence.

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Unbearable Lightness of Being

Question 365

this man employs Calpurnia to take care of his children

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Atticus Finch

Question 366

One of this author’s short stories begins by describing a “certain official” who “serves (#) in a certain department,” and a

Answer 366

Gogol

Question 367

another work by this author contrasts the lives of Lieutenant Pirogov and Piskaryov, who both travel along the title street

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Gogol

Question 368

In another of his works, Poprischin believes himself heir to the throne of Spain

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Gogol

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author of (*) “Diary of a Madman” and “Nevsky Prospekt”

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Gogol

Question 370

One of this author’s poems laments that “the sky is a net crammed with shadowy fish” and begins with the words “every day you play with the light of the universe.

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Neruda

Question 371

Another work by this author asks to let “bodies cling like magnets to my body” and asks the subject to “rise up to be born with me, brother.”

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Neruda

Question 372

This author of odes to (*) onions lamented “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

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Neruda

Question 373

In this novel, one character is slapped with a ruler after explaining how a family pays debts with chestnuts;

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Walter shows up to school without a lunch

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 375

A trial in this novel ends with a guilty verdict despite the argument that a series of bruises were likely caused by a (*) left-handed man

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To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 376

in a story by this author, an outlaw decides not to fight the marshal of the title town after he finds out that the marshal is married

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Crane

Question 377

In another story by this author, Johnnie is accused of cheating at cards by the Swede

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Crane

Question 378

The Captain, the Cook, the Correspondent, and the Oiler are all stranded at sea in a story by this author

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Crane

Question 379

The protagonist of this novel meets the ghost of Alexander the Great and debates philosophy with Aristotle and Descartes after facing a pirate attack

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Gulliver’s Travels

Question 380

Scientists in this novel attempt to turn ice into gunpowder in the Grand (#) Academy, where they also attempt to extract sunlight from cucumbers on the floating island of (*) Laputa

Answer 380

Gulliver’s Travels

Question 381

A character in this work was captured by Native Americans and learned many homeopathic remedies in his time in captivity

Answer 381

Scarlett Letter

Question 382

person notes that while the main character does not lie with buried sin but, “hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.”

Answer 382

Scarlett Letter

Question 383

This character says, “I’m quite illiterate. But I read a lot.”

Answer 383

Holden Caulfield

Question 384

He reflects that you can’t erase even half the four-letter words in the world, after reminiscing that the best part of a museum is that nobody in it moves.

Answer 384

Holden Caulfield

Question 385

In this work, one criminal being persecuted at the Wall wears a bag with blood seeping through that resembles a red smile

Answer 385

Handmaids tale

Question 386

Two characters in this novel learn that Janine’s child was a “shredder” while attending a “Prayvaganza.”

Answer 386

Handmaids tale

Question 387

This author wrote a work in which Mr. Medbourne, Mr. Gascoigne, and Colonel Killigrew all desire to turn younger in order to woo Widow Wycherly

Answer 387

Hawthorne