Where is the Bridge of San Luis Ray

The Bridge near Lima is a product of imagination

When and where does Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" begin?

April, 1387 at the Tabard Inn in Southwark

What is the Wife of Bath's Tale about?

(In the Canterbury Tales) she tells the story of a knight who is condemned to death for rape, but who escapes punishment with the help of an ugly old witch. He then has to face the witch's demands that he marry her.

What does Swift propose in his pamphlet "A Modest Proposal"?

He satirically proposes that poor people raise their children to be slaughtered and sold as food to alleviate poverty in Ireland

What dictionary was called the NED?

The New Oxford English Dictionary

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Description	Book	Description	Book	Description	Book
Died of peritonitis after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party in 1941	Anderson	Where did Virginia Wolf drown herself	The River Ouse near Rodmell, Sussex	Died after being hit by a taxi in Atlanta	Mitchell
Published 111 years after John Toole's death	A Confederacy of Dunces	Wo goes with Everyman to face Judgement	Good Deeds	Won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize	A Conferderacy of Dunces
The play depicts Christ's passion performed every 10 years	Oberammergau Passion Play	A play usually in verse written for private reading rather than open performance	Closet Drama	Manfred	Byron
Prometheus Unbound	Shelley	Manfred, Prometheus Unbound	Closet Drama	A Dublin Theatre dedicated to showing Irish Drama	Abbey Theatre
Based on the novel Porgy	Porgy and Bess	Porgy	Heyward	A crippled beggar and gambler who lives in Catfish Row, Charleston, SC	Porgy
Porgy's Drug Addict mistress	Bess	Porgy And Bess	Gershwin	The Plough and the Stars	O'Casey
Mourning Becomes Electra	O'Neill	Based on the the Banner of the Irish Citizens Army	The Plough and the Stars	Represents Agamemnon in Mourning Becomes Elektra	Ezra Mannon
The Mousetrap	Christie	Represents Clytemnastra in Mourning Becomes Elektra	Christine Mannon	Longest Running Play in theatre history	The Mousetrap
Means New Instrument	Novum Organum	Lycidas	Milton	A Playwright whos work Dryden despised	Shadwell
Mac Flecknoe	Dryden	Commemorated in Lycidas	Edward King	Referred to as Mac Flecknoe	Shadwell
Pamela	Richardson	Pamela's last name	Andrews	Shamela	Fielding
Shamela's last name	Andrews	Auld Lang Syne	Burns	Romance about Life and Scotland published anonymously under the credit the author of Waverly	The Waverly novels
The Waverly novels	Scott	Alternative title to Frankenstein	The modern Prometheus	Frankenstein	Shelley
Exposed the ragged schools and helped get them abolished	Nicholas Nickelby	The modern Prometheus	Shelley	Nicholas Nickelby	Dickens
In what business were Domby & son	a shipping firm	Domby & son	Dickens	Jane Eyre	Bronte
Rochester's House in Jane Eyre	Thornfield Hall	Dorlcote Mill	The Mill on the Floss	The Mill on the Floss	Eliot
Central Character in The Mill on the Floss	Tulliver	Located in St. Ogg's on the River Floss	Dorlcote Mill	Maggie Tulliver's Father	Edward Tulliver
Jude the Obscure	Hardy	Owned by Edward Tulliver	Dorlcote Mill	How many years did Hardy publish his last novel	33 years
Angry Young Men	Osborne, Amis, and Sillitoe	Subtitled A Novel Withoout a Hero	Vanity Fair	Looking Backward 1888 to 2000	Bellamy
Studied with anthropologist Boas	Hurston	Vanity Fair	Thackery	Hurston's old Profession	Folklorist
Mules and Men	Hurston	Compiled of the letter of Celie, a black southern black woman, to God, her sister, and a missionary in Africa, and the letters of Nettie to Celie	The Color Purple	Song of Solomon	Morrison
Beloved	Morrison	Tell My Horse	Hurston	The Color Purple	Walker
Born Chloe Anthony Wofford	Morrison	Their Eyes Were Watching God	Hurston	Created as a royal office in 1668	Laureateship
Compiledblacktraditions of the South and the Carribean	Hurston	First English Poet Laureate	Dryden	First novel to sell 1,000,000 copies	Uncle Tom's Cabin
The first American to be honored with a bust in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey	Longfellow	Starts off in the City of Destruction	Christian	Christian is he main character in this novel by Bunyan	Pilgrim's Progress
Where was Brook Farm	West Roxbury, MASS.	Experiment of a Utopian Community	Brook Farm	Travelled to the Cellestial City, Slough of Despond, Valley of the Shadow of Death, and Vanity Fair	Christian
Founded by George Ripley, and included residents such as Hawethorne, Emerson, and Fuller	Brook Farm	600 British Soldiers marched to their deathat the hands of the Russian Army at Belclava in Crimea on October 25, 1854	The Charge of the Light Brigade	The name of the fictisious region of rural England in which many of Thomas Hardy's novels are set	Wessex
Where was Pearl Buck born	Hillsboro, WV	Who was Brook Farm Founded By	Ripley	The Good Earth	Buck
Where is The Good Earth based	China	What is the locale for Faukners many books	Yoknapatawpha County	-Where is Main Street based	Gopher Prairie
Sortoris	Faulkner	1984	Orwell	As I Lay Dying	Faulkner
The corrupt empire in 1984	Oceania	The Sound of the Fury	Faulkner	Includes Brittain and its archrivals are Eurasia and East Asia	Oceania
Where is the Bridge of San Luis Ray	The Bridge near Lima is a product of imagination	The Bridge of San Luis Ray	Wilder	Absalom, Absalom	Faulkner
Occurs when a God or Goddess reveals his or her identity to a mortal or; the moment of revelation	Epiphany	French for untying; the first of the final untangling of the plot elements in a drama or narrative following a climax	Denouement	Spanish for rogue; the first to a literary genre that centers on the life of a criminal or nere do well	Picaresque
In poetry it's the systematic analysis of patterns or stress or rhythm	Scansion	A transposition of sounds intended or otherwise often with a humorous effect ex. pouring rain; roaring pain	Spoonerism	Principles of psychology	James
Used to refer to the flow of thoughts and sensations conscious and unconscious or can refer to the fictional technique of representing a character's states in a free flowing manner often without conventional punctuation and syntax	Stream of consciousness	Le morte d'arthur	Mallory	Galahad's father	Lancelot
The only knight to peer into the holy grail	Galahad	Dies at the battle of Roncesvalles when he blows on his horn to summon Charlemagne against the pagans	Roland	How does Roland die?	Blowing the horn bursts his temples
How old is Dante when he descends inot the Inferno?	35	What year is it when Dante descends into the Inferno?	1300	Who is Morgan le Fay?	half sister of King Arthur and a sorceress taught by Merlin
When and where does Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" begin?	April, 1387 at the Tabard Inn in Southwark	Who is Harry Bailly?	Host of the Tabard Inn	What does Bailly suggest that the pilgrims do to make the trip easier?	tell each other tales
What is the Wife of Bath's Tale about?	(In the Canterbury Tales) she tells the story of a knight who is condemned to death for rape, but who escapes punishment with the help of an ugly old witch. He then has to face the witch's demands that he marry her.	What is the Wife of Bath's Tale best known for?	the long prologue - in which she tells about her five husbands and her views on marriage.	What does the title "Areopagitics" mean?	Things to be said before the Areopagus
What does Swift propose in his pamphlet "A Modest Proposal"?	He satirically proposes that poor people raise their children to be slaughtered and sold as food to alleviate poverty in Ireland	When did Gibbon get the idea to write "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"?	While he sat "musing amid the ruins of the Capitol? in Rome on October 15, 1764	When did Blackstone write the histories of law?	between 1765 and 1769
Who was the confessing party in "Confessions of an English Opium Eater?	Thomas De Quincey	What cities are examined in Lincoln Steffens's "The Shame of the Cities?	St. Louis, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago	What are the "Ten Days that Shook the World?	They are the days of the RUssian Revolution of 1917, which brought an end to the imperial rule of the czars and replaced it with communism.
What dictionary was called the NED?	The New Oxford English Dictionary	What kind of dog is CHarley in "Travels with Charley"?	He is a poodle who accompanied John Steinbeck on his tour of the US	(blank)	(blank)

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