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Literature.1 for QB
Literature Frequency list
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Author of Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented | Thomas Hardy |
| In a poem (the caged goldfinch) by this author, the only sound in a churchyard is the “hops from stage to stage” of a goldfinch left in a cage on a grave | Thomas Hardy |
| In that poem by him, the speaker hears the title bird sing of “[s]ome blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware” as he leans upon a “coppice gate.” name this English poet of “The Darkling Thrush.” | Thomas Hardy |
| A novel (Jude the Obscure) by this author ends with a child killing himself and leaving the note “Done because we are too many.” | Thomas Hardy |
| The title stonemason (Jude the Obscure) of one of this author’s novels loves Sue Bridehead and dreams of being an academic | Thomas Hardy |
| Author of Far from the Maddening Crowd | Thomas Hardy |
| In this poem, Unferth gives the protagonist the "unbeatable" sword Hrunting[h-RUN-ting], which immediately dissolves in the blood of a monster. | Beowulf |
| A character in this work is emphasized with the lines “Never again would he glitter and glide / And show himself off in the midnight air.” | Beowulf |
| name this epic poem in Old English whose title hero slays Grendel. | Beowulf |
| One character in this work dies from fighting the Shyflings after he and his wife (*) Hygd are given treasure | Beowulf |
| identify this character who seeks revenge against Beowulf for killing her son. | Grendel’s Mother |
| Wiglaf helps find the hoard of one of these creatures that kills Beowulf | Dragons |
| This character avenges the death of his cousin Eanmund by killing Onela. | Beowulf |
| This character brings a severed arm to Hrothgar after killing the “demon” that terrorized the mead hall at Heorot. | Beowulf |
| Regarding this poem, J. R. R. Tolkien [TOHL-keen] gave a lecture about it titled The Monsters and the Critics | Beowulf |
| Percy Shelley was a mutual friend of which Romantic poets of Don Juan (“joo EN”) and “Ode to a Nightingale?” | John Keats AND Lord Byron |
| At the end of John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” this word is compared against “truth.” | Beauty |
| name this subject of Percy Shelley's Adonais who wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn." | John Keats |
| A poem (Endymion) by this author abruptly ends with the word "Celestial" after the title character stares into Mnemosyne's ("neh MO see nee's") eyes | John Keats |
| For 10 points, “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” and “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” are what works by the author of “Ode to a Nightingale”? | Sonnets (by john keats) |
| In this work, “breathing human passion far above” leaves “a burning forehead and a parching tongue.” | Ode on a grecian urn |
| name this kind of animal that “wast not born for death” in John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.” | Bird |
| John Keats wrote a poem about sitting down to read a play titled for what character “once again”? | King Lear |
| In one poem by this author, the speaker swears that “Once out of nature I shall never take / My bodily form from any natural thing.” The “ceremony of innocence is drowned” | W. B. Yeats |
| This poet envisioned a “tattered coat upon a stick” in a poem that begins by lamenting “that is no country for old men.” | W. B. Yeats |
| name this William Butler Yeats poem about an Irish uprising that took place on the title holiday. | Easter, 1916 |
| In this poem, “cloud to tumbling cloud” and “the birds that range” are listed as things that change “minute by minute.” | Easter, 1916 |
| This author kicked Alistair Crowley down the stairs during a “magical” feud they had as members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. | W.B. Yeats |
| Author of “Sailing to Byzantium” | W. B. Yeats |
| Author of “The Second Coming.” | W. B. Yeats |
| name this author of “Michael Robartes and the Dancer” and a poem beginning, “Turning and turning in the widening gyre.” | W. B. Yeats |
| William Butler Yeats wrote the introduction to this collection, which opens with the line, “thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. | Gitanjali |
| For 10 points, a line of poetry from what author titles a novel about the yam farmer Okonkwo, Things Fall Apart? | W. B. Yeats |
| what Irish poet described a “rough beast” slouching towards Bethlehem in “The Second Coming”? | W. B. Yeats |
| For 10 points, the poets César Vallejo (“va YAY ho”) and Pablo Neruda wrote in what language? | Spanish |
| Author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair | Pablo Neruda |
| in the opening stanza of one work, this poet bitterly states “Jehovah gave the world to Coca Cola Inc.” | Pablo Neruda |
| This poet claimed the title entity “abolished free will” in his poem (*) “United Fruit Company.” | Pabo Neruda |
| A poem by this author describes “damp flies of modest blood and marmalade” ushering in the title corporation in “The United Fruit Company.” | Pablo Neruda |
| This poet celebrated the legacy of the title continent in “America, I Do Not Invoke Your Name in Vain,” a Canto from the same collection as his work (*) The Heights of Macchu Picchu. | Pablo Neruda |
| This poet of the collection Canto General began a poem with “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” | Pablo Neruda |
| Author of “Body of a Woman.” | Pablo Neruda |
| Author of Cry, the Beloved Country | Alan Paton |
| In this novel, Dubula organizes a bus boycott which leads to the protagonist walking to Johannesburg. | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| In this novel Arthur Jarvis, is killed after finishing his essay "The Truth About Native Crime." | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| A man in this novel is laughed at after confusing a complex of gold mines for a major city. | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Arthur Jarvis forgives the burglars who killed his son in this novel, in which the Zulu priest Stephen Kumalo travels to Johannesburg (joh-HAN-iss-burg) to assist Absalom | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| his novel opens by describing hills “grass-covered and rolling” that “are lovely beyond any singing of it” in the town of Ixopo, and Mr. Carmichael later agrees to take a case pro deo | Alan Paton |
| This novel’s protagonist is from Ndotsheni [in/dot/SHAY/nee], near Ixopo | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Name this Zulu Priest and protagonist of Cry, the Beloved Country | Kumalo |
| In this novel, the priest [*] Theophilus Msimangu sends a letter to the protagonist about his sister Gertrude | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| John Kumalo, Stephen Kumalo, Absalom Kumalo, James Jarvis, and Reverend Msimangu are characters from this novel | Cry, the Beloved Country |
| Author of “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” | Pablo Neruda |
| Pablo Neruda was accused of plagiarizing a poem by this author that begins “you are the evening cloud floating in the sky of my dreams.” | Tagore |
| name this "single man in possession of a good fortune" who marries Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. | Mr. Darcy |
| name this family which includes Lydia and Elizabeth, the central family of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. | The Bennet’s |
| A character in this novel laments, "Till this moment, I never knew myself" after rejecting a marriage proposal. | Pride and Prejudice |
| In this novel, the heir of the Longbourn estate marries (*) Charlotte Lucas | Pride and Prejudice |
| In this novel, a man attempts to seduce Georgiana for her inheritance with the help of Mrs. Younge. | Pride and Prejudice |
| this novel uses the phrase “angry people are not always wise” before a woman reminds a man that he sarcastically said of another woman, “She a beauty!—I should as soon call her mother a wit.” | Pride and Prejudice |
| A childhood friend of this character seduces his piano playing sister (*) Georgiana for her money. | Mr. Darcy |
| This novel begins with a wealthy bachelor moving into (*) Netherfield Park. | Pride and Prejudice |
| The speaker declares “I rise with my red hair” and “I (*) eat men like air” | Sylvia Plath |
| Lady Lazarus | Sylvia Plath |
| Daddy | Sylvia Plath |
| Esther Greenwood feels trapped inside the title object in, for 10 points, what only novel by Sylvia Plath? | The Bell Jar |
| This poet declared, "What a trash / To annihilate each decade" after describing "Number Three." | Sylvia Plath |
| poem by this poet tells the title figure “there’s a stake in your fat black heart” | Sylvia Plath |
| “Hope is the thing with feathers” | Emily Dickinson |
| “Because I could not stop for death” | Emily Dickinson |
| name this “Belle of Amherst” that wrote the poem “I taste a liquor never brewed” | Emily Dickinson |
| This poet once wrote that “Escape is such a thankful Word” in one of their poems. | Emily Dickinson |
| O Captain my Captain | Walt Whitman |
| Crossing of the Brooklyn Ferry | Walt Whitman |
| The Tyger | William Blake |
| The Lamb | William Blake |
| London | William Blake |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| For 10 points, name this pilgrim in the Canterbury Tales , who says that the choice of sovereignty over their husbands is what women want. | wife of bath |
| Middle English short story collection by Geoffrey Chaucer in which a groupof pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Thomas Becket stop and tell each other stories. | The Canterbury Tales |
| A husband in this collection tells his wife that she must keep her promise after a magician makes coastal rocks disappear | The Canterbury Tales |
| What dominant tongue in Great Britain from after the arrival of the Normans, which was used by Geoffrey Chaucer to write the Canterbury Tales? | Middle English |
| The Oddyssey | Homer |
| The Iliad | Homer |
| “Parable of the Old Man and the Young” | Wilfrid Owen |
| name this author of The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde |
| Another famous quote by this author of “The Happy Prince” states that “each man kills the thing he loves” from his poem “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” | Oscar Wilde |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol” (“redding jail”), which he wrote after being imprisoned for homosexuality charges. | Oscar Wilde |
| name this Italian poet and founder of the Renaissance, who pioneered the sonnet with many poems to Laura | Petrarch |
| his collection Il Canzoniere | Petrarch |
| For 10 points, name this author who collected stories like “When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine” and “Sexy” in her Interpreter of Maladies. | Lahiri |
| The Lowland and the collection | Lahiri |
| One of this author’s characters eats a piece of candy every night while praying for the family of a man who comes to eat at her house every night | Lahiri |
| For 10 points, E.M. Forster wrote about a Passage to which modern country? | India |
| That man from this modern country is called “Lazaruthian leather” and then says “I ‘ope you liked your drink” before being shot. | India |
| The Count of Monte Cristo | Dumas |
| This novel's title character befriends the Abbé Faria when he is wrongly imprisoned for fourteen years | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| Edmond Dantès takes the title alias while on a quest for revenge in what novel by Alexander Dumas, père? | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| A character in this book adopts the false name Viscount Andrea Cavalcanti | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost |
| For (#) 10 points, identify this poet of “Home Burial,” “Birches,” | Robert Frost |
| wrote a poem to the "daughter of Elysium" called "Ode to Joy." | Rushdie |
| A trilogy by this author is titled for a character who is found out to have been (*) negotiating with the Swedes | Rushdie |
| Bartholomew Fayre | Jonson |
| The Alchemist | Jonson |
| Volpone | Jonson |
| Author of the Little Mermaid | Andersen |
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