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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  
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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  
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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  
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Prometheus Unbound   Shelley   Manfred, Prometheus Unbound   Closet Drama   A Dublin Theatre dedicated to showing Irish Drama   Abbey Theatre  
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Based on the novel Porgy   Porgy and Bess   Porgy   Heyward   A crippled beggar and gambler who lives in Catfish Row, Charleston, SC   Porgy  
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Porgy's Drug Addict mistress   Bess   Porgy And Bess   Gershwin   The Plough and the Stars   O'Casey  
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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  
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The Mousetrap   Christie   Represents Clytemnastra in Mourning Becomes Elektra   Christine Mannon   Longest Running Play in theatre history   The Mousetrap  
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Means New Instrument   Novum Organum   Lycidas   Milton   A Playwright whos work Dryden despised   Shadwell  
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Mac Flecknoe   Dryden   Commemorated in Lycidas   Edward King   Referred to as Mac Flecknoe   Shadwell  
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Pamela   Richardson   Pamela's last name   Andrews   Shamela   Fielding  
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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  
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The Waverly novels   Scott   Alternative title to Frankenstein   The modern Prometheus   Frankenstein   Shelley  
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Exposed the ragged schools and helped get them abolished   Nicholas Nickelby   The modern Prometheus   Shelley   Nicholas Nickelby   Dickens  
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In what business were Domby & son   a shipping firm   Domby & son   Dickens   Jane Eyre   Bronte  
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Rochester's House in Jane Eyre   Thornfield Hall   Dorlcote Mill   The Mill on the Floss   The Mill on the Floss   Eliot  
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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  
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Jude the Obscure   Hardy   Owned by Edward Tulliver   Dorlcote Mill   How many years did Hardy publish his last novel   33 years  
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Angry Young Men   Osborne, Amis, and Sillitoe   Subtitled A Novel Withoout a Hero   Vanity Fair   Looking Backward 1888 to 2000   Bellamy  
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Studied with anthropologist Boas   Hurston   Vanity Fair   Thackery   Hurston's old Profession   Folklorist  
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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  
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Beloved   Morrison   Tell My Horse   Hurston   The Color Purple   Walker  
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Born Chloe Anthony Wofford   Morrison   Their Eyes Were Watching God   Hurston   Created as a royal office in 1668   Laureateship  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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Where was Pearl Buck born   Hillsboro, WV   Who was Brook Farm Founded By   Ripley   The Good Earth   Buck  
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Where is The Good Earth based   China   What is the locale for Faukners many books   Yoknapatawpha County   -Where is Main Street based   Gopher Prairie  
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Sortoris   Faulkner   1984   Orwell   As I Lay Dying   Faulkner  
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The corrupt empire in 1984   Oceania   The Sound of the Fury   Faulkner   Includes Brittain and its archrivals are Eurasia and East Asia   Oceania  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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  
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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.  
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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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