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What character operates a holistic detective agency

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Dirk Gently

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What author wrote The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady

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Henry James

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What author wrote about a dying writer who dreams of a plane taking him to the top of the title peak

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Ernest Hemingway

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In what work are soft pipes told to pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone

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Ode On a Grecian Urn

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Who wrote All Quiet on the Western Front

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Erich Remarque

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What character is traumatized by the death of Snowden

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John Yassarian

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What character is rescued from the vengeful Orlick by Startop

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Pip

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Who wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

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Douglas Adams

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What pessimistic German philosopher wrote The World as Will and Representation

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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What author wrote that dirt and not copper makes a color darker and proclaimed that rose is a rose is a rose is a rose

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Gertrude Stein

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In what novel does Joseph Knecht earn the title of Magister Ludi

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The glass bead game

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In what novel does the ferryman Vasudeva mentor the protagonist

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Siddharta

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Who wrote The glass bead game and Siddhartha

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Herman Hesse

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Near the end of what play are Juno, Isis, and Ceres summoned to celebrate a betrothal

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The Tempest

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What Irish dramatist wrote the play Endgame which preceded the 1957 premiere of Act Without Words

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Samuel Beckett

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What language did Beckett translate Act Without Words into

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French

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In what play is Xanthias forced to walk around a lake and exchanges clothes with the protagonist

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The Frogs

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Who wrote The Outsiders

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S.E Hinton

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In what novel does an aspiring actresses life change after meeting Charles Drouet on a train

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Sister Carrie

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Who wrote Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy

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Theodore Dreiser

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What author wrote a poem where the author urges it’s subject to come into the garden before he kills her brother in a duel

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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What martyred English saint do the characters visit in the Canterbury Tales

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Thomas Beckett

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What author wrote about a character who had no hopeful verse carved on his tombstone since he became a stern and sad man

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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What author wrote 3 laws of robotics and I, Robot

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Isaac Asimov

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What author wrote about how Toby joined the god's gardeners religion in The Year of the Flood
Margaret Atwood
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What colony was founded by the British as a home for black loyalists after the American revolution
Sierra Leone
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What family employs the housekeeper Calpurnia in To Kill a Mockingbird
Finch family
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What Scottish poet said that "My love is like a red,red rose" after he heard it sung by a country girl
Robert Burns
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What character meets Biddy's son after spending 11 years in Egypt
Pip
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What character is repeatedly pranked by the duchess and duke
Don Quixote
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What story ends with the narrator shouting tear up the planks
The Tell tale heart
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What author wrote about a man named Leggat who kills a crew member
Joseph Conrad
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Who wrote about Beatrice Okoh in Anthills of the Savannah
Achebe
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What work claims that Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter
Ode on a Grecian Urn
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What author wrote 3 sketches describing the city of Sevastopol
Tolstoy
36
What poet created Tilbury Town
Edwin Robinson
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In what novel does Lena Lingard work as a dressmaker in Black Hawk
My Antonia (Cather)
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What poet presented two contrary states of the human soul in songs of innocence
William Blake
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What character claims that the world was created by the god benamuckee
Friday
40
In what novel does Constance Bonacieux try to retrieve a pair of diamond studs that Queen Anne had given to her lover
The Three Musketeers
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What character suffers from liver problems that fall "just short of being jaundice"
John Yossarian
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What novel is John Yassarian in
Catch-22
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What novel depicts a group of pug faced 8 year olds who stare at patients in a Galloping Senility ward
Brave New World
44
Who wrote Metamorphoses and Ars Amatoria
Ovid
45
What author urged Drink to me only with thine eyes in To Celia
Ben Johnson
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What author wrote The Passionate Shepard to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
47
What author wrote about an exiled doctor living in Paris in Arch of Triumph
Erich Remarque
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Who wrote the Femenine Mystique
Betty Friedan
49
Who wrote Coming Of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
50
Who wrote 6 characters in search of an author
Lugi Pirandello
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What author wrote a poem whose speaker complains that the gift of a nine hundred year olds name was not sufficiently valued
Robert Browning
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What poet wrote Richard Cory
Edwin Robinson
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In what work do characters tell 100 stories over 7 days
The Decameron
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Who wrote the Decameron
Boccaccio
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In what novel does poet Miles Coverdale join a utopian farming community
The Blithedale Romance
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Who wrote the Blithedale Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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What philosopher wrote a book that contrasts aesthetic and ethical phases of life
Kierkegaard
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What novel's narrator recalls loaning a turtleneck sweater to James Castle
Catcher in the Rye
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In what novel does the sailor Charles Marlow hear The horror the horror
Heart of Darkness
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What author wrote the Pathfinder
James Fenimore Cooper
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What author wrote Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
Mark Twain
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What author depicted a man's suspicions about his daughter's parentage in The Father
August Strindberg
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In what August Strindberg play does the title character flirt with the servant Jean
Miss Julie
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In what novel does Adela believe that Dr Aziz assaulted her during a trip to the Marabar Caves
A Passage To India
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Who wrote A Passage to India
EM Forster
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What collection of stories was assembled by Thomas Malory which begins by describing Uther Pendragon's passion of Igraine
The Death of Arthur
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What poet drew from le Morte d'Arthur to write the Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What author referred to himself as that writer with the walrus mustache in a book whose 100 chapters each focus on a year between 1900 and 1999
Gunter Grass
69
What author wrote about his job as a plongeur at the Hotel X in Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
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What work describes a heifer with silken flanks that is led to a green altar for sacrifice
Ode On a Grecian Urn
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What author wrote about the boxer Ole Anderson who responds to the news that the title characters are coming for him
Ernest Hemingway
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What donkey riding squire appears in a 1605 novel
Sancho Panza
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What novel's title character spends almost a year travelling from Ohio to New Mexico
Death comes for the Archbishop
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Who wrote Death comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather
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What novel is narrated by Jim Burden
My Antonia
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In what sonnet does a traveller from an antique land describe a ruined monument to a king of kings
Ozymandias
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Who wrote Ozymandias
Percy Shelley
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What poem begins Hail to thee blithe spirit
To a Skylark (shelley)
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What plays protagonist tries to flirt with a man who is collecting for the evening star
A Streetcar Named Desire
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What poet claimed that we are out of tune for the winds that will be howling at all hours
William Wordsworth
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What anthropologist wrote The Golden Bough
James Frazer
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In what play does the actress nina sign letters with the name of a bird
The Seagull
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Who wrote the Seagull
Anton Chekhov
84
What money lender bears an ancient grudge against the Antonio
Shylock
85
What play does Shylock appear in
The Merchant of Venice
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Who wrote the Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare
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What author included a poem beginning Tonight I can write the Saddest lines in his collection 20 love songs and a song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
88
What country was Pablo Neruda from
Chile
89
In what novel does the merchant Isaac of York provide a horse and armor to the title saxon hero
Ivanhoe
90
Who wrote Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott
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What poem describes a city that is Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job
Chicago
92
Who wrote Chicago
Carl Sandberg
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In what poem does Carl Sandburg reflect on historical memories by saying Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo
Grass
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In what book does John Marcher pass up a chance for love with May Bartram out of fear of an unknown catastrophe
The Beast in The Jungle
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Who wrote the Beast in The Jungle
Henry James
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What author wrote the carpe diem poem To his Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
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What book's narrator supposedly died of a drug overdose
Go Ask Alice
98
What man wrote about a Swiss marksman who inspired a revolt against the tyrannical Gessler in the play WIlliam Tell
Friedrich von Schiller
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In what greek drama does a spy report the sons of Oedipus have killed one another
Seven Against Thebes
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Who wrote Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
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