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Literature I
Lit facts learned about at ACE Camp
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who wrote "Hamlet"? | Shakespeare |
| Who wrote "A Streetcar Named Desire", and name the main character who is raped by Stanley Kowalski. | Tennessee Williams; Blanche DuBois |
| Name this play, written in 1953, that came from the Salem Witch Trials and whose main characters are: Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams, John Proctor, and Giles Corey. | The Crucible |
| Name the novel that starts with: "Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea." | The Portrait of a Lady |
| This novel's protagonist is wrongly accused by a former sailor, John Claggert, of mutiny. The protagonist then accidentally kills Claggert, and Captain Vere is forced to hang the Protagonist. | Billy Budd, Foretopman |
| This novel is set in Yoknapatawpha County, Miss. It describes the fall of the Compson family. The three Compson sons are Benjy, an idiot, Quentin, a suicidal Harvard freshman, and Jason, the eldest. | The Sound and the Fury |
| Name the author of the first known novel. Also name the work. | Marusaki Shikibu; The Tale of Genji |
| Name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. | Selma Lagerlof |
| Name the poet whose works include, "The Road Not Taken", "Fire and Ice", "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Mending Wall", and "The Death of a Hired Man". | Robert Frost |
| Name the poet and the work that feature the phrase, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye can." | Robert Herrick; To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
| Name the author whose Pen Name is Boz. | Charles Dickens |
| Name the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, and was the first Arab to win. | Naguib Mafouz |
| Name the 2 authors who declined the Nobel Prize in Literature and the years. | Boris Pastarnak (1958) and Jean-Paul Sartre (1964) |
| Name all the Pen Names of the three Bronte sisters. | Acton Bell, Currer Bell, and Ellis Bell |
| Name the author of "Medea" and was a famous Greek playwrite. | Euripides |
| Name this novel that depicts Dante traveling through "Inferno", "Purgatorio", and "Paradiso". | The Divine Comedy |
| Name the man who rapes Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire". | Stanley Kowalski |
| Name this protagonist whose famous saying is, "I would prefer not to." | Bartleby |
| This short story by Poe introduced C. Auguste Dupin, a detective. It is about two women who are found murdered and the culprit ends up being an orangutan. | The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
| Name the "Father of Free Verse" whose works include, "Leaves of Grass" and "O Captain! My Captain!". | Walt Whitman |
| This play by Eugene O'Neill features the protagonist "Hickey"- Theodore Hickman. Hickey returns to End of the Line Cafe and suggests that the citizens give up their "pipe dreams" and start living productive lives. | The Iceman Cometh |
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