| Question |
Answer |
| “The Valley of Ashes” |
location in The Great Gatsby |
| Swift |
wrote The Tale of a Tub |
| Amery Blaine |
character in Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise |
| Freud |
wrote Civilization and Its Discontents |
| Charlie Croker |
character created by Tom Wolfe |
| Tom Wolfe |
wrote I Am Charlotte Simmons |
| Hegel |
wrote Phenomenology of Spirit and it deals with the concept of “Geist” |
| Pushkin |
wrote The Captive of the Caucasus and Boris Godunov |
| “The Hearth and the Salamander” |
first section of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury |
| Alice Walker |
wrote Meridian, Temple of My Familiar, and Go-Go Girl |
| Mena, Tragoran, and Treplev |
characters in The Seagull by Chekhov |
| Robert Penn Warren |
first Poet Laureate of the U.S. |
| Chinua Achebe |
wrote Anthills of the Savannah |
| Sophocles |
wrote about the Seven Against Thebes who were Polynices supporters |
| Margaret Atwood |
wrote The Handmaid’s Tale |
| Shields |
wrote The Stone Diaries |
| George Bernard Shaw |
wrote Mrs. Warren’s Profession |
| John Kenneth Galbraith |
wrote The New Industrial State and The Affluent Society |
| Garcia-Lorca |
killed in Spanish Civil War; wrote Lament for the Death of a Bullfighter & Blood Wedding |
| Wang Lung |
main character in The Good Earth by Pearl Buck |
| T. S. Eliot |
wrote The Wasteland which contains the line “April is the cruelest month” |
| John Sinjohn |
pseudonym of Galsworthy |
| Invitation to a Beheading |
written by Vladimir Nabokov |
| Algernon Moncrief and Jack Worthing |
characters in The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde |
| Toni Morrison |
born in 1931 in Lorraine, Ohio |
| The Lady or the Tiger |
written by Frank Stockton |
| Edna Ferber |
won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for So Big |
| Larry McMurtry |
won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove |
| Buddenbrooks |
written by Thomas Mann |
| Player Piano |
written by Kurt Vonnegut |
| A Worn Path |
written by Eudora Welty |
| Baldwin |
was a preacher in Harlem before he became a writer |
| Lincoln Steffens |
wrote The Shame of the Cities |
| Philip Carey |
main character in Of Human Bondage by Maugham |
| Being and Nothingness |
written by Sartre |
| Billy Buck |
main character in The Red Pony by Steinbeck |
| Juvenal and Horace |
wrote satires |
| Maxim Gorky |
the Lower Depths |
| Tom Wolfe |
lived from 1900 |
| Leopold Bloom |
main character in Ulysses by James Joyce |
| Yoknapatawpha County |
founded in part by the Sutpen family |
| Okonkwo |
main character in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe |
| Hawthorne |
wrote Twice Told Tales, called such since they had been published elsewhere before |
| Agatha Christie |
wrote Mousetrap, a play where the audience determines the action |
| Waverly |
setting for the novel Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier |
| Hrothgar |
king that calls on Beowulf to kill the monster Grendel |
| Hansberry |
wrote the Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window |
| Typee |
first novel by Melville |
| Goethe |
discovered the Intermaxillary bone |
| Mr. Sauerberry and Mr. Brumble |
characters in Oliver Twist by Dickens |
| Xenobia |
wife of Ethan Frome by Wharton |
| Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Love in the Time of Cholera |
Garcia-Marquez |
| Shamela and Joseph Andrews |
H. Fielding |
| Holly Golightly |
main character in Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Capote |
| A Christmas Memory |
Capote |
| 731 |
Bede publishes An Ecclesiastical History of the English Speaking Peoples |
| Kris Kristopherson |
father of Anna Christie by O’Neill |
| Catherine Moreland |
character in Northanger Abbey, a gothic novel by Jane Austen |
| Son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia in “Hamlet” |
Laertes |
| The Good Soldier |
Ford Maddox Ford |
| Birth of Tragedy |
Nietzsche |
| Le Morte D’Arthur |
Arthurian legend by Thomas Mallory |
| Author of Lucky Jim |
Kingsley Amis |
| Anthills of the Savannah |
Chinua Achebe |
| “Snowbound,” and “Barbara Frietchie” |
Whittier |
| “Ace in the Hole” and “A & P” |
Updike |
| Point Counterpoint and Eyeless in Gaza |
Huxley |
| Vargas Llorsa |
Peruvian author who ran for president in 1990 |
| “Hyperion” |
Longfellow |
| Madame Bovary’s lover |
is named Rudolf |
| Hubbard family |
main characters in The Little Foxes by Hellman |
| “In Memoriam, A. H. H.” |
poem by Tennyson about his dead friend Arthur Henry Hallam |
| “The Hollow Men” |
T.S. Eliot |
| Essay on Population |
Malthus |
| Scottish knight in a famous ballad who dies “fifty fathoms deep” |
Sir Patrick Spens |
| The Charterhouse of Parma and The Red and the Black |
Stendhal (aka Marie-Henri Beyle) |
| Sartre work including character Antoine Roquentin |
Nausea |
| Hunger |
work by Knut Hamsun |
| Nabokov work with character Hermann |
Despair |
| Orlando |
V. Woolf |
| Austen novel with Isabella Thorpe, Henry Tillney, Catherine Moreland |
Northanger Abbey |
| Look Lake, Welcome to Hard Times, The Book of Daniel, and Ragtime |
E.L. Doctorow |
| 3 young ruffians try to kill Death in this “Canterbury Tale” |
“Pardoner Tale” |
| “The Congo” |
Vachel Lindsay poem |
| Characters include Count Teck de Brancovis and Kurt Mueller |
Watch on the Rhine by Hellman |
| Tennyson poem about King Arthur |
“Idylls of the King” |
| Characters include Mrs. Costello, Mr. Giovanelli, Winterbourne |
Daisy Miller by H. James |
| 12th century work by P. Abelard |
Sic et Non (or Yes and No) |
| Dr. Primrose |
is the Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith |
| Simon Legree |
bad guy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Stowe |
| Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, and The Tin Drum |
make up the Danzig Trilogy by Grass |
| Alice Adams |
Tarkington |
| Being and Nothingness |
Sartre |
| Boston |
Upton Sinclair |
| More Stately Mansions |
O’Neill |
| Inside the Whale and Shooting an Elephant |
Orwell |
| The Primitive Mind of Man |
Boas |
| Before Adam |
London |
| Passions of the Soul |
Descartes treatise |
| The Sea of Fertility |
Yukeo |
| “The Lady doth protest too much” |
Hamlet |
| “Othello” |
we know nothing about it |
| “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” |
we know nothing about it |
| “All art is quite useless” |
Wilde |
| The Temptation of Christ |
Kempis |
| The Consolation of Philosophy |
Boethius |
| Thyrsis and The Scholar Gypsy |
Arnold |
| Equus |
Shaffer |
| “The Rights of Man” |
Thomas Paine |
| Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners |
Bunyan’s autobiography |
| “The Wild Swans at Coole” |
Yeats |
| Pushcart War |
Merrill |
| “Battle of the Sand Belt” |
in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Twain |
| Dangling Man |
Bellow |
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale |
Terry McMillan |
| Stilwell and the American Experience in China and The Guns of August |
Barbara Tuchman |
| Despair |
Nabokov’s first novel |
| Lambert Strether & Widow Newsome |
The Ambassadors by Henry James |
| 1764 |
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon |
| Carter |
man who lives on Mars created by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 2 Years Before the Mast |
Richard Henry Dana |
| Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice |
Hitler’s title for Mein Kampf |
| Dusklands |
J. M. Coetzee |
| The Hunting of the Snark |
Bellman is the narrator |
| “Passionate Shepherd to his Love” |
Marlowe; Raleigh “Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” |
| Letters from the Black Sea |
Ovid |
| Desiderata |
Max Hermann |
| Levin |
suffers a loss of faith in Anna Kerinina |
| Ada Lovelace |
Lord Byron’s daughter who wrote programming language for polynomials |
| Griffin |
is the name of The Invisible Man created by Wells |
| Earth-Sea |
fictional locale created by Ursula K. LeGuin in a sci-fi series |
| The Virginians |
Thackeray |
| Blackberry Winter |
Margaret Meade |
| Ann Singleton |
Ruth Benedict’s pen name for her poetry |
| Czech Authors |
1) Milan Kundera |
| 3) Havel, Vaclav |
author turned head of state |
| Barchester Towers |
Trollope, Anthony |
| America: A Prophecy |
Blake, William |
| Hanno |
musician in Buddenbrooks by Mann |
| Kristine Lind and Krogstad |
characters in A Doll’s House |
| Enrico IV |
Pirandello |
| Mr. Palomar |
Calvino |
| Raphael Hythloday |
narrator of Utopia by More |
| Sea of Fertility |
Mishima |
| Idiots First |
Malamud |
| Mules and Men |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
| Gabriel Tolliver |
Harris, Joel Chandler (he wrote for Atlanta Constitution) |
| Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America |
Benedict, Ruth |
| Salammbo |
Flaubert |
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