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Lit People-Plots
Literature characters and plots
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In what city is Hull House? | Chicago |
| Last name of Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy | March |
| Which March sister dies? | Beth |
| Which March sister marries Laurie? | Amy |
| This poet read an original poem at Bill Clinton's first inauguration. | Angelou |
| Main characters--Pride and Prejudice | Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy. Jane and Mr. Bingley. Lydia and Mr. Wickham |
| Main characters in Jane Eyre | Jane and Mr. Rochester |
| Main characters in Wuthering Heights | Cathy (Catherine) Earnshaw and Heathcliff |
| Subject of Bryant's "Thanatopsis" | death |
| Award for children's lit. illustrations | Caldecott Award |
| Holly Golightly | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| Location of In Cold Blood | Kansas farm |
| Twas Brillig and the slithy toves... | Jabberwocky (in Through the Looking Glass) |
| Tale of Two Cities main characters | Charles Darnay, Sydney Carton, Madame Dafarge |
| Famous ending line of Sydney Carton | "It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." |
| Sydney carton goes to the gallows for | Charles Darnay |
| "It was the best of times, | it was the worst of times;" First line of A Tale of Two Cities (London and Paris) |
| Guy Montag, book burning fireman becomes refugee trying to preserve them | Fahrenheit 451 by Bradbury |
| Pip loves heartbreaker Estella raised by woman scorned Miss Havisham | Great Expectations |
| Mr. Jaggers and Abel Magwitch, Pip's lawyer guardian and convict benefactor | Great Expectations |
| Portia, Antonio, Shylock, a jewish money lender in Venice. | The Merchant of Venice--Shakespeare |
| Benedick and Beatrice, Claudio, and Hero | Much Ado About Nothing--Shakespeare |
| Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Polonius are all spies. | Hamlet--Shakespeare |
| Son of Queen Gertrude and Prince of Denmark | Hamlet--Shakespeare |
| Ghost of his father appears to ___ asking for his murder by his brother Claudius to be avenged | Hamlet |
| Nick and Honey invited to home of estranged couple George and Martha. | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee |
| Strange games and story about a fictional son killed in a car wreck. | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee |
| Amanda (mother), Laura and Tom Wingfield | The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) |
| Tom brings "gentleman caller" Jim to meet Laura | The Glass Menagerie |
| Algernon Montcrieff and Jack Worthing(Ernest) who turn out to be brothers | The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde) |
| Stella and Stanley Kowalski | A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) |
| Blance Dubois is sent to a mental institution by Stanley who had raped and traumatized her | A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) |
| John and Elizabeth Proctor | The Crucible (Arthur Miller) |
| Abigail Williams and Giles Corey | The Crucible (Arthur Miller) |
| A criticism of McCarthyism | The Crucible (Miller) |
| A $10,000 insurance check for the Younger family due to death of the father. | A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry) |
| The Tyrone family with all of their problems | Long Day's Journey Into Night (O'Neill) |
| Mary with failed dreams of becoming a pianist is a morphine addict | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| James Sr. and James Jr. are alcoholics and Edmund is greatly ill | Long Day's Journey Into Night |
| Grace Poole, Thornfield Hall, Mr. Rochester | Jane Eyre |
| The illegitimate child, Smyerdyakov is a servant to the title characters | The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky |
| Dmitri, Alyosha, and Ivan who writes the poem, "The Grand Inquisitor" | The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevsky) |
| Raskolnikov kills Alyona Ivanovna (a pawnbroker) believing the good he does with her money outweighs the evil of murder | Crime and Punishment (Dostoyevsky) |
| West Egg | The Great Gatsby |
| Lost Generation author | Fitzgerald |
| George Wilson and Daisy Buchanon | The Great Gatsby |
| Heinrich _________ woos Gretchen after he sells his soul to Mephistopheles in a quest for knowledge | Faust by Goethe |
| enormous nose; poet and swordsman helps Christian woo Roxanne | Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand |
| Adam Trask; epic struggle between good and evil in the untamed West (California ranch) | East of Eden (Steinbeck) |
| Jack, Ralph, Simon, and Piggy | Lord of the Flies (Golding) |
| Chillingworth (minister), Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne | The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne) |
| Topsy, Eva St. Clare, Elize, Simon Legree | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Victorian Era, New Orleans, Edna Pontillier, a free thinker, is only property | The Awakening (Chopin) |
| Milestone in feminist thought by Chopin | The Awakening |
| Bernard Marx and John the Savage (only character not born in the World State | Brave New World (Huxley) |
| Citizens in a perfect society accept destiny at lowly Epsilon or perfect Alpha Plus are kept content by sex and drugs | Brave New World (Huxley) |
| Hank Morgan, Merlin, King Arthur | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| Paul Baumer, Corporal Himmelstoss, fighting in the German army on the French front in WWI | All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) |
| Wang Lung, O-lan | The Good Earth |
| Milo Minderbinder, Col. Cathcart, John Yossarian | Catch-22 |
| Phantom dog of Dartmoor | The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Lily Bart, Lawrence Seldon | The House of Mirth by Wharton |
| "The horror! The horror!" | Heart of Darkness (Conrad) |
| Marlow, Mr. Kurtz | Heart of Darkness |
| Belgian Congo | Heart of Darkness |
| Elinor Dashwood | Sense and Sensibility |
| Bergsons--Shipbuilding Swedish family in Hanover, Nebraska | O Pioneers by Cather |
| Fortunato, Montressor | The Cask of Amontillado by Poe |
| Winston Smith, Big Brother, Ministry of Truth | 1984 by Orwell |
| Christine, Angel of Music | The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux |
| Scarlette O'Hara, Ashley Wilkes, Tara, Bonnie Blue | Gone With the Wind by Mitchell |
| Big Daddy Pollitt, his son, Brick and Brick's wife, Maggie "the Cat," set in Mississippi Delta | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Williams |
| Who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead? | Tom Stoppard |
| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Bronte (Acton Bell) |
| Villette | Anne Bronte |
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