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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Clue | Answer |
| "Achilles’ rage in The Iliad" | "Homer" |
| "Odysseus returns to Penelope" | "Homer" |
| "Aeneas founds Rome" | "Virgil" |
| "Metamorphoses transformation myths" | "Ovid" |
| "Pilgrims tell tales to Canterbury" | "Geoffrey Chaucer" |
| "Knight tilts at windmills" | "Miguel de Cervantes" |
| "Elizabeth Bennet rejects Darcy" | "Jane Austen" |
| "Opening line 'It was the best of times'" | "Charles Dickens" |
| "Oliver Twist asks for more" | "Charles Dickens" |
| "Heathcliff loves Catherine" | "Emily Brontë" |
| "Jane Eyre marries Rochester" | "Charlotte Brontë" |
| "Anna Karenina dies under train" | "Leo Tolstoy" |
| "Pierre Bezukhov in War and Peace" | "Leo Tolstoy" |
| "Raskolnikov murders pawnbroker" | "Fyodor Dostoevsky" |
| "Brothers Ivan | Dmitri |
| "Call me Ishmael" | "Herman Melville" |
| "Ahab hunts white whale" | "Herman Melville" |
| "Bartleby prefers not to" | "Herman Melville" |
| "Hester Prynne wears scarlet A" | "Nathaniel Hawthorne" |
| "Leaves of Grass celebrates democracy" | "Walt Whitman" |
| "I sing the body electric" | "Walt Whitman" |
| "Because I could not stop for Death" | "Emily Dickinson" |
| "Hope is the thing with feathers" | "Emily Dickinson" |
| "Jay Gatsby throws parties" | "F. Scott Fitzgerald" |
| "Green light across bay" | "F. Scott Fitzgerald" |
| "Santiago battles marlin" | "Ernest Hemingway" |
| "Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms" | "Ernest Hemingway" |
| "Big Brother watches Winston" | "George Orwell" |
| "Animals overthrow humans" | "George Orwell" |
| "Sethe haunted by Beloved" | "Toni Morrison" |
| "Pecola Breedlove wants blue eyes" | "Toni Morrison" |
| "Milkman Dead in Song of Solomon" | "Toni Morrison" |
| "Celie writes letters to God" | "Alice Walker" |
| "Shug Avery sings blues" | "Alice Walker" |
| "Janie Crawford marries Tea Cake" | "Zora Neale Hurston" |
| "Tea Cake dies of rabies" | "Zora Neale Hurston" |
| "Battle Royal scene" | "Ralph Ellison" |
| "Brotherhood political group" | "Ralph Ellison" |
| "Bigger Thomas kills Mary Dalton" | "Richard Wright" |
| "Memoir Black Boy" | "Richard Wright" |
| "John Grimes in Go Tell It on the Mountain" | "James Baldwin" |
| "David and Giovanni in Paris" | "James Baldwin" |
| "Tish and Fonny in If Beale Street Could Talk" | "James Baldwin" |
| "What happens to a dream deferred?" | "Langston Hughes" |
| "My soul has grown deep like rivers" | "Langston Hughes" |
| "Pulitzer for Annie Allen" | "Gwendolyn Brooks" |
| "We Real Cool" | "Gwendolyn Brooks" |
| "Blanche DuBois depends on kindness" | "Tennessee Williams" |
| "Willy Loman’s downfall" | "Arthur Miller" |
| "Nora Helmer slams door" | "Henrik Ibsen" |
| "Cherry Orchard sold to Lopakhin" | "Anton Chekhov" |
| "April is the cruellest month" | "T. S. Eliot" |
| "Beauty is truth | truth beauty" |
| "Albatross hung around neck" | "Samuel Taylor Coleridge" |
| "Do not go gentle into that good night" | "Dylan Thomas" |
| "Macondo family saga" | "Gabriel García Márquez" |
| "Essay The Labyrinth of Solitude" | "Octavio Paz" |
| "Blood Wedding" | "Federico García Lorca" |
| "A Personal Matter" | "Kenzaburō Ōe" |
| "Things Fall Apart" | "Chinua Achebe" |
| "Midnight’s Children" | "Salman Rushdie" |
| "Snow Country" | "Yasunari Kawabata" |
| "Gitanjali" | "Rabindranath Tagore" |
| Clue | Answer |
| "Achilles’ rage in the Trojan War" | "The Iliad" |
| "Odysseus returns to Penelope" | "The Odyssey" |
| "Founding of Rome through Aeneas" | "The Aeneid" |
| "Transformation myths including Pygmalion" | "Metamorphoses" |
| "Italian poem with Inferno | Purgatorio |
| "Pilgrims tell tales on the way to Canterbury" | "The Canterbury Tales" |
| "Knight tilts at windmills" | "Don Quixote" |
| "Elizabeth Bennet rejects Mr. Darcy" | "Jane Austen" |
| "Opening line 'It was the best of times | it was the worst of times'" |
| "Oliver Twist asks 'Please | sir |
| "Heathcliff and Catherine’s doomed love" | "Wuthering Heights" |
| "Jane Eyre marries Mr. Rochester" | "Jane Eyre" |
| "Anna Karenina throws herself under a train" | "Anna Karenina" |
| "Pierre Bezukhov debates philosophy" | "War and Peace" |
| "Raskolnikov murders the pawnbroker" | "Crime and Punishment" |
| "Brothers Ivan | Dmitri |
| "Opening line 'Call me Ishmael'" | "Moby-Dick" |
| "Captain Ahab hunts the white whale" | "Herman Melville" |
| "Scrivener who 'prefers not to'" | "Bartleby |
| "Hester Prynne wears the scarlet letter A" | "The Scarlet Letter" |
| "Leaves of Grass celebrates democracy" | "Walt Whitman" |
| "Line 'I contain multitudes'" | "Leaves of Grass" |
| "Poem 'Because I could not stop for Death'" | "Emily Dickinson" |
| "Poem 'Hope is the thing with feathers'" | "Emily Dickinson" |
| "Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties" | "The Great Gatsby" |
| "Green light across the bay" | "F. Scott Fitzgerald" |
| "Santiago battles a marlin" | "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| "Frederic Henry in World War I" | "A Farewell to Arms" |
| "Big Brother watches Winston Smith" | "1984" |
| "Farm animals overthrow humans" | "Animal Farm" |
| "Sethe haunted by ghost of daughter" | "Beloved" |
| "Pecola Breedlove wishes for blue eyes" | "The Bluest Eye" |
| "Milkman Dead searches for identity" | "Song of Solomon" |
| "Celie writes letters to God" | "The Color Purple" |
| "Shug Avery sings blues" | "Alice Walker" |
| "Janie Crawford marries Tea Cake" | "Their Eyes Were Watching God" |
| "Battle Royal scene" | "Invisible Man" |
| "Bigger Thomas kills Mary Dalton" | "Native Son" |
| "John Grimes struggles with faith" | "Go Tell It on the Mountain" |
| "David and Giovanni in Paris" | "Giovanni’s Room" |
| "Tish and Fonny in Harlem" | "If Beale Street Could Talk" |
| "Poem 'What happens to a dream deferred?'" | "Langston Hughes" |
| "Poem 'My soul has grown deep like the rivers'" | "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" |
| "Poem 'We Real Cool'" | "Gwendolyn Brooks" |
| "Play A Raisin in the Sun" | "Lorraine Hansberry" |
| "Willy Loman’s tragic downfall" | "Death of a Salesman" |
| "Salem witch trials allegory" | "The Crucible" |
| "Blanche DuBois depends on kindness of strangers" | "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| "Laura Wingfield collects glass animals" | "The Glass Menagerie" |
| "Vladimir and Estragon wait endlessly" | "Waiting for Godot" |
| "Nora Helmer slams the door" | "A Doll’s House" |
| "Hedda Gabler shoots herself" | "Hedda Gabler" |
| "Cherry Orchard sold to Lopakhin" | "The Cherry Orchard" |
| "Nina says 'I am a seagull'" | "The Seagull" |
| "Poem 'Ozymandias' about ruined statue" | "Percy Bysshe Shelley" |
| "Poem 'Beauty is truth | truth beauty'" |
| "Albatross hung around sailor’s neck" | "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" |
| "Poem 'April is the cruellest month'" | "The Waste Land" |
| "Poem 'Do not go gentle into that good night'" | "Dylan Thomas" |
| "José Arcadio Buendía founds Macondo" | "One Hundred Years of Solitude" |
| "Florentino Ariza waits for Fermina Daza" | "Love in the Time of Cholera" |
| "Essay on Mexican identity" | "The Labyrinth of Solitude" |
| "Play Blood Wedding" | "Federico García Lorca" |
| "Play The House of Bernarda Alba" | "Federico García Lorca" |
| "Novel A Personal Matter" | "Kenzaburō Ōe" |
| "Okonkwo hangs himself" | "Things Fall Apart" |
| "Saleem Sinai born at partition" | "Midnight’s Children" |
| "Snow Country love affair" | "Yasunari Kawabata" |
| "Poetry collection Gitanjali" | "Rabindranath Tagore" |
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