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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Murders In the Rue Morgue | Poe |
| The Raven | Poe |
| The Tell-Tale Heart | Poe |
| The Cask of Amontillado | Poe |
| Montressor chains Fortunato to a wall | The Cask of Amontillado |
| Fortunato is buried alive in catacombs | The Cask of Amontillado |
| The narrator murders an old man who has a "vulture-eye" and buries him beneath his floorboards. | The Tell-Tale Heart |
| The narrator hears the constant beating of his victim's heart. | The Tell-Tale Heart |
| Anna Karenina | Tolstoy |
| War and Peace | Tolstoy |
| "happy families are all alike," but "unhappy families are unhappy in their own way" | Anna Karenina |
| Characters: Dolly, Stiva, and a woman who has an affair with Count Vronsky | Anna Karenina |
| Stiva witnesses the death of a railway worker | Anna Karenina |
| Andrei Bolkonsky's engagement to Natasha Rostova is broken off before marrying Pierre Bezukhov | War and Peace |
| Rip Van Winkle | Irving |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Irving |
| Protagonist searches for Nicholas Vedder and Brom Dutcher, after playing ninepins with the ghosts of Henry Hudson and his crew | Rip van Winkle |
| Protagonist falls asleep for twenty years in the catskill mountains | Rip van Winkle |
| Katrina van Tassel marries Brom Bones | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Ichabod Crane is chased away by the Headless Horseman | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| The Great Gatsby | Fitzgerald |
| Characters: Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Title character's first name is Jay. | The Great Gatsby |
| A green light at the end of a dock is thought to represent the American Dream | The Great Gatsby |
| Meyer Wolfsheim has cufflinks made of human molars | The Great Gatsby |
| Tom's girlfriend Myrtle dies after Daisy runs her over with a car | The Great Gatsby |
| The Old Man and the Sea | Hemingway |
| A Farewell to Arms | Hemingway |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | Hemingway |
| Hills Like White Elephants | Hemingway |
| The Sun Also Rises | Hemingway |
| This man served as an ambulance driver in WW1 | Hemingway |
| This man has a home in Key West, Florida which is now a museum | Hemingway |
| Polydactyl cats (they have thumbs) | Hemingway |
| A man simply called "The American" tries to convince Jig to get an abortion | Hills Like White Elephants |
| Pedro Romero and the boxer Robert Cohn fight over the lady Brett Ashley | The Sun Also Rises |
| protagonist is Jake Barnes, an American expatriate living in Paris | The Sun Also Rises |
| The main character, Santiago, idolizes the "great Joe DiMaggio" | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Santiago catches a marlin after fishing for 84 days. The marlin is eaten by sharks. | The Old Man and the Sea |
| Robert Jordan is a solder assigned to blow up a bridge with dynamite | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| This man observed the Spanish Civil war as a journalist, which provides background for his book, "For Whom the Bell Tolls" | Hemingway |
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Mr. Corbin
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