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LHS Literature ALL
Short Literature Tossups and Bonuses
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Buck Mulligan tells this character, "Your absurd name, an ancient Greek!" A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man recounts the education of what character, who befriends Leopold Bloom in James Joyce's novel Ulysses? | Stephen Dedalus [accept either part of name] |
| This philosopher wrote, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." Name this philosopher who discussed the best of all possible worlds in Candide. | Voltaire |
| In one poem, this author wrote, "the Windows failed — and then I could not see to see." Name this Belle of Amherst who wrote the poem "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died." | Emily Dickinson |
| This novel's title comes from a quote that begins, "He fell in October, 1918, on a day… that the army report confined itself to the single sentence." Name this novel by Erich Maria Remarque about Paul Baumer and other German soldiers during World War I. | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| A character in this novel flees Pondicherry aboard the Tsimtsum, which crashes. What adventure novel is about a teenage boy who survives 227 days stranded in a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger and is by Yann Martel? | Life of Pi |
| This novel follows Baba's years in Fremont and Amir's return to Kabul after growing up amid the rise of the Taliban. Name this Khaled Hosseini novel titled for a type of toy. | The Kite Runner |
| Robert Heinlein’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset takes its title from this poem, which is about a king who vows "to strive to seek to find and not to yield." Name this poem about a Greek hero by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. | "Ulysses" (Do not confuse with James Joyce's Ulysses novel) |
| Work began with a series of interviews in Greenwich Village when the subject was undergoing a second spiritual conversion. Ghostwritten by Alex Haley, which 1965 book presents the life of a controversial Black activist and his ideas about nationalism? | The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| This author introduced proprietors of Black Meat in a novel partly set in Interzone. Name this Beat Generation author who wrote Naked Lunch. | William S. Burroughs |
| Sweet Thursday is the sequel to what John Steinbeck novel about Mack and his friends trying to thank the amiable Doc for his kindness, named for a part of California where workers packed sardines? | Cannery Row |
| This man's time with King Faisal was recounted in his book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. What colonel served as the British leader of the Arab Revolt during World War I that helped liberate Damascus from the Ottoman Empire? | T. E. Lawrence [or Lawrence of Arabia] |
| This author wrote that “We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man" in The War of the Worlds. | H.G. Wells |
| In what book is the planet Arrakis the only source of the sought-after drug melange? | Dune |
| Drawing on his experience as a prisoner of war, Pierre Boulle examined the nature of the relationship between prisoner and jailer in what book? | Planet of the Apes |
| In A Clockwork Orange, what process brainwashes people such that they end up being physically ill if they even think about committing a crime? | Ludovico Technique |
| An Ernest Hemingway novel about Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes | The Sun Also Rises |
| In this Ernest Hemingway novel, Lieutenant Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley move to Switzerland after he abandons the Italian Army at Caporetto. | A Farewell to Arms |
| ablo accidentally kills Anselmo by dropping a fragment of steel in this Ernest Hemingway novel, in which Maria and Pilar are members of a guerrilla group. | For Whom the Bell Tolls |
| This Ernest Hemingway novel, titled for the last words of Stonewall Jackson, depicts Colonel Richard Cantwell, who has a terminal heart condition. | Across the River and into the Trees |
| The James Bond novel From Russia With Love involves a train trip that begins in this city, as well as Murder on the Orient Express. Name this city whose metro is the largest in Turkey. | Istanbul |
| Lucy Manette and this character are saved when Sydney Carton sacrifices his own life. Name this wealthy character who is put on trial for treason in A Tale of Two Cities. | A Tale of Two Cities |
| During a scene in this novel, a character states, “Think a minute or two. I'll wait a while, Miss Everdene. Will you marry me? Do, Bathsheba. I love you far more than common.” Name this novel featuring Gabriel Oak by Thomas Hardy. | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| In novel, this character's younger sister flees an abusive situation and travels to Africa with a missionary couple. This protagonist struggles in relationship with blues singer Shug Avery. Name this main character from The Color Purple by Alice Walker. | Celie Johnson [accept either part] |
| The movie based on this book climaxes with a 19-game winning streak. Sabermetrics, the use of statistical analysis to quantify baseball records and player performance, is highlighted in what 2003 book by Michael Lewis? | Moneyball |
| In one poem, this author used the metaphors “mother of exiles” and “Golden Door.” What author's poem “The New Colossus” is carved on the base of the Statue of Liberty? | Emma Lazarus |
| In this novella, a character says he hopes to "live off the fatta the lan." Name this novella that depicts Curley's Wife and the farmers George and Lennie, written by John Steinbeck? | Of Mice and Men |
| In which short story are the four main characters known only as the Officer, the Condemned, the Soldier, and the Explorer? This story by Franz Kafka depicts a torture device in the title prison camp. | In the Penal Colony |
| A father in this novel warns his son that he has "to carry the fire." The two main characters are referred to simply as the Man and the Boy in which post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy? | The Road |
| This novel opens, "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs." Esther Greenwood is the protagonist of what 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath? | The Bell Jar |
| This novel was based on the Thousand Days' War and the dominance of the United Fruit Company. Name this novel chronicling seven generations of the Buendia family in Colombia by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. | One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| During a scene in this novel, a character states, “Think a minute or two. I'll wait a while, Miss Everdene. Will you marry me? Do, Bathsheba. I love you far more than common.” Name this novel featuring Gabriel Oak by Thomas Hardy. | Far From the Madding Crowd |
| In novel, this character's younger sister flees an abusive situation and travels to Africa with a missionary couple. This protagonist struggles in relationship with blues singer Shug Avery. Name this main character from The Color Purple by Alice Walker. | Celie Johnson [accept either underlined portion] |
| The movie based on this book climaxes with a 19-game winning streak. Sabermetrics, the use of statistical analysis to quantify baseball records and player performance, is highlighted in what 2003 book by Michael Lewis? | Moneyball |
| In one poem, this author used the metaphors “mother of exiles” and “Golden Door.” What author's poem “The New Colossus” is carved on the base of the Statue of Liberty? | Emma Lazarus |
| An early member of this movement criticized how Rousseau depicted Sophia's education in his book Emile and wrote a 1792 "Vindication." Mary Wollstonecraft was an early member of what movement advocating for the equality of the sexes. | feminism |
| In this novella, a character says he hopes to "live off the fatta the lan." Name this novella that depicts Curley's Wife and the farmers George and Lennie, written by John Steinbeck? | Of Mice and Men |
| In which short story are the four main characters known only as the Officer, the Condemned, the Soldier, and the Explorer? This story by Franz Kafka depicts a torture device in the title prison camp. | In the Penal Colony |
| A father in this novel warns his son that he has "to carry the fire." The two main characters are referred to simply as the Man and the Boy in which post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy? | The Road |
| This novel opens, "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs." Esther Greenwood is the protagonist of what 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath? | The Bell Jar |
| This poem opens by describing how dead bodies are left as "carrion food for dogs and birds." The line "Sing, Goddess, sing of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus" opens what Homer poem about the Trojan War? | The Iliad |
| This work begins with letters written between the author, the town clerk of Antwerp, and a counselor to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Author discusses spending five years on an island in the New World in what work of political philosophy by Thomas More? | Utopia |
| Primo Levi's book If This is a Man is set at this location on the eve of the arrival of Soviet troops. January 27 is commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day for the date in 1945 when what Nazi death camp was liberated by Soviet troops? | Auschwitz |
| This author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings recited her poem "On the Pulse of the Morning" at President Clinton's 1993 inauguration. | Maya Angelou |
| What Professor Emeritus at Princeton University won a Pulitzer Prize for Beloved in 1988? | Toni Morrison |
| This author fictionalized his coming to terms with his homosexuality in his book Giovanni's Room. | James Baldwin |
| This Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of the Patternist series and the Xenogenesis series was the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship? | Octavia Butler |
| Herman Melville is best known for what novel about Ahab's quest for the title white whale? | Moby-Dick |
| This Herman Melville novella, which was unfinished at his death, centered on a sailor who accidentally kills John Claggart. | Billy Budd |
| This "Scrivener" from a Herman Melville short story repeatedly states, "I would prefer not to." | Bartleby |
| Omoo was Herman Melville's sequel to this narrative about captive life with a tribe of cannibals. | Typee |
| This author, who may have been an illegitimate son of King Christian VIII, is commemorated by International Children's Book Day. Name this author of "The Snow Queen" and other fairy tales, which he wrote from Denmark. | Hans Christian Andersen |
| This character's victims include pawnbroker Alyonya Ivanovna and her handicapped sister Lizabeta. Police inspector Porfiry Petrovich lowers the sentence of what axe-murderer, the central character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment? | Rodion Raskolnikov |
| A poem by this author states, "All day long through Frederick street / Sounded the tread of marching feet." Name this author of "Barbara Frietchie," who depicted a family trapped in their house in Snow-Bound. | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich adapted this book into a stage play, in which the van Daans hide from the Nazis. Name this book set in the Secret Annex, chronicling the life of a young girl. | Diary of Anne Frank |
| A poem by this author states, "Build thee more stately mansions." Who was this noted father of a Supreme Court justice, the author of "The Chambered Nautilus"? | Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr |
| This location titles a poem in which Beatrice arrives after Virgil guides readers through its layers. What theological halfway house for deceased usurers was elaborated as a way to get capitalists into heaven? | Purgatory |
| Aristotle used this term for a person who feels pain caused by the undeserved success of another. A brown dwarf theorized to be in a binary system with the sun has what name, which also describes the relationship with Moriarty to Sherlock Holmes? | nemesis |
| This state was the setting of The Law of Nines by Terry Goodkind. With Anton Cuzak, Antonia leaves for what state, the home of Willa Cather? | Nebraska |
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