Winter Break Questions (Lit.)

Question 1

Nine Stories

Answer 1

JD Salinger

Question 2

This character wrote a paper entitled “On Crime”.

Answer 2

Raskolnikov

Question 3

Character:Raskolnikov

Answer 3

Crime and Punishment

Question 4

This play contains “Second-Empire” style furniture.

Answer 4

No Exit

Question 5

In this play, Garcin tries to leave Ines by opening the door of the room.

Answer 5

No Exit

Question 6

This man ran for governor of California on the platform EPIC (End Poverty in California).

Answer 6

Upton Sinclair

Question 7

Character: Lanny Budd

Answer 7

A Presidential Mission

Question 8

In this work, a Lithuanian immigrant flees Chicago after his wife Ona dies in childbirth and his son drowns in a muddy street.

Answer 8

The Jungle

Question 9

Character: Jurgis Rudkus

Answer 9

The Jungle

Question 10

Character: Jim Smiley

Answer 10

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”

Question 11

The speaker of this poem begins by pointing out a painting of the title character by Fra Pandolf.

Answer 11

“My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning

Question 12

“Archaic torso of Apollo” (poem)

Answer 12

Rilke

Question 13

Duino Elegies

Answer 13

Rilke

Question 14

This poet addressed works to Lesbia.

Answer 14

Catullus

Question 15

The Flowers of Evil (collection of poems)

Answer 15

Charles Baudelaire

Question 16

“The Albatross”

Answer 16

Charles Baudelaire

Question 17

“Ode to Joy”

Answer 17

Friedrich Schiller

Question 18

The Man Who Was Thursday

Answer 18

G. K. Chesterton

Question 19

The Napoleon of Notting Hill

Answer 19

G. K. Chesterton

Question 20

Character: Father Brown

Answer 20

“The Blue Cross” by G. K. Chesterton

Question 21

One character in this novel is nicknamed “Polyanna Cowgirl”.

Answer 21

The Bell Jar

Question 22

Characters: Tomas and Tereza

Answer 22

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Question 23

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Answer 23

Milan Kundera

Question 24

“The Indian Burial Ground”

Answer 24

Philip Freneau

Question 25

“The British Prison Ship”

Answer 25

Philip Freneau

Question 26

This author was nicknamed “the Poet of the Revolution”.

Answer 26

Philip Freneau

Question 27

Character: Dogberry

Answer 27

Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing

Question 28

The Wreck of the Deutschland

Answer 28

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 29

“Felix Randall”

Answer 29

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 30

“Spring and Fall”

Answer 30

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 31

“Pied Beauty”

Answer 31

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 32

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

Answer 32

Manuel Puig

Question 33

This man wrote a series of poems to a woman named Marguerite.

Answer 33

Matthew Arnold

Question 34

Empedocles on Etna (poetry collection)

Answer 34

Matthew Arnold

Question 35

“The Bald Soprano”

Answer 35

Eugene Ionesco

Question 36

“The Rhinoceros”

Answer 36

Eugene Ionesco

Question 37

Name this school of thought associated with men such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

Answer 37

Existentialism

Question 38

The Art of War

Answer 38

Sun Tzu

Question 39

Characters: Lucky, Pozzo

Answer 39

Waiting For Godot

Question 40

“Babi Yar” (poem)

Answer 40

Yevtushenko

Question 41

The Cantos

Answer 41

Ezra Pound

Question 42

“The Song of the Wagons”

Answer 42

Du Fu or Tu Fu

Question 43

“September 1, 1939” (poem)

Answer 43

W.H. Auden

Question 44

“Funeral Blues”

Answer 44

W.H. Auden

Question 45

“Musee des Beaux Arts”

Answer 45

W.H. Auden

Question 46

The Hawk and the Rain (poetry collection)

Answer 46

Ted Hughes

Question 47

“The Windhover”

Answer 47

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Question 48

Things Fall Apart

Answer 48

Achebe

Question 49

Name this home country of Achebe.

Answer 49

Nigeria