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Literature
Book of Answers
| Question | Answer | Question | Answer | Question | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who was Cotton Mather's Father? | Increase | Who is called the "poet of the American Revolution?" | Philip Freneau | What detective did Edgar Allen Poe invent? | C. August Dupin |
| What is the repeated response of Bartleby the Scrivener to his boss? | "I would prefer not to." | Who are Captain Ahab's mates in Melville's Moby Dick? | first mate - Starbuck; second mate - Stubb; third mate - Flask | What is a scrivener? | a copier of legal documents |
| What was the name of "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?" | Daniel Webster | What is the octopus in Frank Norris's novel, The Octopus? | the Pacific and the Southwestern Railroad | What is the source of O. Henry's title "The Four Million" | the population of New York City at the time and and answer to Ward McAlister, who said, "There are only about 400 people in NY society." This collection includes The Gift of the Magi. |
| What kind of accident cripples Ethan Frome in Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome? | He and Mattie Silver drive a sled into a tree in a botched suicide attempt. | Who were the Fugitives? | a group of poets associated with Vanderbilt University in the 1920s and 1930s | What are the books in John Dos Passos's USA trilogy? | THe 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money |
| Who is the hero of Richard Wright's "Native Son" | Bigger Thomas | What paper does Miss Lonelyhearts write for? | the male advise columnist wrote for the Newe York Post-Dispatch in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts | What church does Hazel Motes found in O'Connor's Wise Blood? | the Church Without Christ |
| How many Rabbit novels has John Updike written? | 4 - Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest: hero of all is Harry Angstrom | What is the rainbow in Thoams Pyncheon's Gravitey's Rainbow? | The arc a rocket makes from launch to target. Novel is set in WII Europe at the time German rockets were falling in London | How old is the Epic of Gigamesh? | dates back to about 2,000 BC and concerns the adventures of the hero Gilgamesh and the Wild man Enkidu and Gilgamesh's grief over Enkidu's death |
| What are the books of the Pentateuch? | the first five books of the old Testament | Whomd did classical writers call "the Tenth muse"? | Sappho, a lyric poet whose work exists only in fragments. | What are the three tragedies in Aeschylus's Oresteia | Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumanides |
| What is the riddle of the Sphinx? | What annimal walks on four legs in teh morning, two at noon and three at night? The Sphinx asks Oedipus in Sophocles's Oedipus Rex. Oedipus answers that it is man | Who are the two brothers of Antigone? Which one does she bury agains King Creon's will in Sophocles's Antigone? | Eteocles and Polyneices. Both are dead when the play opens, but Creon forbids the burial of Polyneices, who had rebelled against Creon's rule. Antigone gives him a token burial anyway. Antigone also has a sister, Ismene. | What war were women protesting in Aristophanes's comede Lysistrata? | The Poloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. In the play, the women of Athens and Sparta refuse to have sex with their husbans until peace is made |
| What was the name of Socrates's wife | Xantippe, famed for her shrewishness | Who was older, Beatrice or Dante? | Dante by one year, she dies in 1290 leaving Dante in mourning. He wrote about her in the Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy | When didn Washington Irving court Mary Shelley? | during a trip to France from 1824 - 1726. Mary's husband Percy Shelly had died 2 years earlier |
| Why did Robert Borwning and Elizabeth Barrett have to marry secretly? | Because Berratt's father refused to let his children marry - even though Elizabeth was forty at the time. THey married in London in 1846 and lived in Florence for fifteen happy years until her death in 1861. | On what day did James Joyce and his future wife, Nora Barnacle, have their first date? | Probably June 16, 1904 Bloomsday - the day on which Ulysses is set. | Who was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature? | Selma Lagerlof of Sweden - known for such works as Jerusalem, a collection of stories about Swedish peasant life |
| Who was the first African -= American to win the Pulitzer Prize? | Gwendolyn Brooks in 1950 for Annie Allen a poetry anthology | How many Pulizers did Eugene O'Neill win? | 4 for Beyond th Horizon, Anna Christie, Strange Interlude and Long Day's Journey into Night | How many Pulitzers did Robert Frost win? | 4 for New Hampshire, Collected Poems, A Further Range and A Witness Tree |
| How many Pulitzers did Hemingway win? | 1 for the Old Man and the Sea | In what year did Jean-Paul Sartre refuse the Nobel Prize in Literature? | 1964 saying, "A writer must refuse to allow hiself to be transformed into an institution" | What is the connection between Roland and Orland? | they are the same character: Roland in The Song of Roland and Orlando in Ariosto's Orland Furioso |
| Who is Scheherazade? | the narrator of the Arabian Nights, who tells stories night after night to keep her husband, the Sulton Scharhriah, from strangling her at dawn | What is the name of the Faerie Queen in SPenser's The Faerie Queene? | Gloriana | Was there a real Robinson Crusoe? | Daniel Defoe based The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe on the real life story of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who survived for more than four years on the desert island of Juan Fernandez off the Chilean coast |
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