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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| this author grew up in Harlem, which he portrayed in his first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain | James Baldwin |
| one of his novel is If Beale Street Could Talk | James Baldwin |
| this author wrote several essays, including an examination of race and religion in The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin |
| His essay collection Notes of a Native Son begins with “Everybody’s Protest Novel,” | James Baldwin |
| this author became the first African-American person to win a Pulitzer in 1950 for her poetry collection Annie Allen. | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Many of this authors works reflect her experiences in Bronzeville, | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Her best-known poem is “We Real Cool,” | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| this author wrote the novel Maud Martha. | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| this African American author is best known for his novel Invisible Man which is about someone in a racist socitety and people refuse to see him as human | Ralph Ellison |
| This author wrote an unfinished second novel that was published posthumously in a long version called Three Days Before the Shooting… and a short version called Juneteenth. | Ralph Ellison |
| This author is best known for her play A Raisin in the Sun. | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window is by... | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The autobiography To Be Young, Gifted and Black is by... | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Who was a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance. | Langston Hughes |
| who wrote the poem “I, Too”. | Langston Hughes |
| who wrote the poem “Let America Be America Again” | Langston Hughes |
| who wrote the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” | Langston Hughes |
| who wrote the poem “The Weary Blues” | Langston Hughes |
| who wrote the poem “Harlem,” | Langston Hughes |
| which poet said "What Happens to a dream Deffered" | Langston Hughes |
| This African American Author set many of her works in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida. | Zora Neale Hurston |
| This authors best known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God. | Zora Neale Hurston |
| This author was also a prominent anthropologist, collecting African-American folklore in books like Mules and Men. | Zora Neale Hurston |
| This author was relatively unknown until Alice Walker published and article about her. | Zora Neale Hurston |
| This author was the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature and won a Pulitzer for her novel Beloved. | Toni Morrison |
| This author wrote about Sethe, a slave who escaped from Sweet Home plantation in Kentucky to 124 Bluestone Road in Cincinnati. Sethe is haunted by the ghost of Beloved, a daughter she killed to prevent her from being returned to slavery. Who wrote Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| This author wrote about Pecola Breedlove, a Black foster child who considers herself ugly and wishes she had blue eyes. Who wrote The Bluest Eye. | Toni Morrison |
| this author won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer for her novel The Color Purple | Alice Walker |
| this author wrote the short story “Everyday Use” | Alice Walker |
| This author published an article called “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston.” | Alice Walker |
| This author was born in Africa and brought to the United States as a slave in 1761 . She was freed in the 1770s shortly after the release of her collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. | Phillis Wheatley |
| This author wrote “On Being Brought from Africa to America” | Phillis Wheatley |
| This author praised George Washington in her poem “To His Excellency General Washington.” | Phillis Wheatley |
| This author wrote a collection called Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral. | Phillis Wheatley |
| This author wrote the 1940 bestseller Native Son. | Richard Wright |
| The memoir Black Boy is by... | Richard Wright |
| This author wrote collection of novellas including “Big Boy Leaves Home” and “Fire and Cloud.” | Richard Wright |
| Our Town is by... | Thornton Wilder |
| Long Days Journey into the Night is by... | Eugene O'Neill |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is by... | Edward Albee |
| A Streetcar Named Desire is by... | Tennessee Williams |
| A Raisin in the Sun is by... | Lorraine Hansberry |
| The Crucible is by... | Arthur Miller |
| Death of a Salesman is by... | Arthur Miller |
| Mourning Becomes Electra is by.... | Eugene O'Neill |
| The Glass Menagerie is by... | Tennessee Williams |
| The Iceman Cometh is by... | Eugene O'Neill |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is by... | Tennessee Williams |
| Little Foxes is by... | Lillian Hellman |
| The Spanish Tragedy is by... | Thomas Kyd |
| The Jew of Malta is by... | Christopher Marlowe |
| (The Tragical History of the Life and Death of) Doctor Faustus is by... | Christopher Marlowe |
| Every Man in His Humour is by... | Ben Jonson |
| Volpone is by... | Ben Jonson |
| The Duchess of Malfi is by... | John Webster |
| All for Love (or, the World Well Lost) is by... | John Dryden |
| The Way of the World is by... | William Congreve |
| She Stoops to Conquer (or, The Mistakes of a Night) is by... | Oliver Goldsmith |
| The Rivals is by... | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| The Frogs is by... | Aristophanes |
| The Birds is by... | Aristophanes |
| The Clouds is by... | Aristophanes |
| Lysistrata is by... | Aristophanes |
| Oedipus Rex is by... | Sophocles |
| Antigone is by... | Sophocles |
| Seven Against Thebes is by... | Aeschylus |
| Medea is by... | Euripides |
| The Bacchae is by... | Euripides |
| Oresteia is by... | Aeschylus |
| The Pickwick Papers is by.. | Charles Dickens |
| Oliver Twist is by... | Charles Dickens |
| Nicholas Nickleby is by... | Charles Dickens |
| The Old Curiosity Shop is by... | Charles Dickens |
| A Christmas Carol is by... | Charles Dickens |
| David Copperfield is by... | Charles Dickens |
| Bleak House is by... | Charles Dickens |
| Hard Times is by... | Charles Dickens |
| A Tale of Two Cities is by... | Charles Dickens |
| Great Expectations is by... | Charles Dickens |
| Hamlet is by... | Shakespeare |
| Romeo and Juliet is by... | Shakespeare |
| The Tragedie of Macbeth is by... | Shakespeare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream is by... | Shakespeare |
| Much Ado About Nothing is by... | Shakespeare |
| Julius Caesar is by... | Shakespeare |
| Twelfth Night is by... | Shakespeare |
| King Lear is by... | Shakespeare |
| Othello is by... | Shakespeare |
| The Tempest is by... | Shakespeare |
| The Tales of Genji is her first known novel | Lady Murasaki |
| This author is the daughter of the court official Fujiwara Tametoki | Lady Murasaki |
| He is noted for works like The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Basho |
| he was the first Japanese author to win the Nobel | Kawabata |
| He is best known for three novels: Thousand Cranes, The Sound of the Mountain, and Snow Country | Kawabata |
| this authors first novel is Confessions of a Mask | Mishima |
| His four-volume is epic The Sea of Fertility | Mishima |
| This author is the daughter of the philosophers William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. | Mary Shelley |
| Her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus | Mary Shelley |
| This author wrote about the Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein, who reanimates dead tissue and creates a “monster.” | Mary Shelley |
| her 1826 novel was The Last Man | Mary Shelley |
| 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth is by... | Jules Verne |
| 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is by... | Jules Verne |
| 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is by... | Jules Verne |
| 1895 novella The Time Machine is by... | H.G Wells |
| 1897 novel The War of the Worlds is by | H.G Wells |
| This author is known as "father of science fiction". | H.G Wells |
| 1896 novel The Island of Dr. Moreau is by... | H.G Wells |
| The Invisible Man, which centers on a student of physics named Griffin is by... | H.G Wells |
| This author belonged to a prominent family of British intellectuals that included the Victorian evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley | Aldous Huxley |
| This author depicted his own social milieu in novels such as Crome Yellow and Point Counter Point | Aldous Huxley |
| 1932 novel Brave New World is by... | Aldous Huxley |
| What is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair | George Orwell |
| Animal Farm is by... | George Orwell |
| dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is by... | George Orwell |
| the novel Burmese Days is by... | George Orwell |
| Along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, This author was one of genre science fiction’s “Big Three” writers. | Isaac Asimov |
| Three laws of robotics is by... | Isaac Asimov |
| Who wrote the foundation series | Isaac Asimov |
| The Caves of Steel is by... | Isaac Asimov |
| Pebble in the Sky is by... | Isaac Asimov |
| The Stars, Like Dust is by... | Isaac Asimov |
| who's science fiction and fantasy stories often contain nostalgic elements related to his Midwestern childhood. | Ray Bradbury |
| Dandelion Wine is by... | Ray Bradbury |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes is by... | Ray Bradbury |
| 1950 collection The Martian Chronicles is by... | Ray Bradbury |
| collection The Illustrated Man is by... | Ray Bradbury |
| 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury |
| Slaughterhouse-Five is by... | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Cat’s Cradle is by... | Kurt Vonnegut |
| The Handmaid’s Tale is by... | Margaret Atwood |
| Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood, and MaddAddam are by... | Margaret Atwood |
| Alias Grace and The Blind Assassin are by... | Margaret Atwood |
| Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride are by... | Margaret Atwood |
| The Penelopiad is by... | Margaret Atwood |
| Monty Python’s Flying Circus is by... | Douglas Adams |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is by... | Douglas Adams |
| the authorized sequel And Another Thing… is by.... | Douglas Adams |
| Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul are by... | Douglas Adams |
| War and Peace is by... | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Metamorphisis is by... | Franz Kafka |
| Anna Karenina is by... | Leo Tolstoy |
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue is by... | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Purloined Letter is by... | Edgar Allan Poe |
| The Moonstone is by... | Wilkie Collins |
| The Final Problem is by... | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Hound of the Baskervilles is by... | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Maltese Falcon is by... | Dashiell Hammett |
| The Big Sleep is by... | Raymond Chandler |
| Murder on the Orient Express is by... | Agatha Christie |
| And Then There Were None is by... | Agatha Christie |
| The Name of the Rose is by... | Umberto Eco |
| A wrinkle in time is by... | Madeline L'engle |
| Meg Murry is from this book | a wrinkle in time |
| sounder is a dog and title of a book by this author | Armstrong |
| in this book a mouses son named Timothy falls sick and it puts the family in danger because they can't move out of the cinder block in the farmers field | ms. frisby and the rats of NIMH |
| ms. frisby and the rats of nimh is by... | Robert O'Brien |
| Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry is by... | Mildred D. Taylor |
| Roll of thunder hear my cry is about this character | Cassie Logan |
| Bridge to Terabithia is by... | Katherine Paterson |
| Bridge to Terabithia is about... | Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke |
| Barney Northup is in this book | The Westing Game |
| The Westing Game is by... | Ellen Raskin |
| Dear Mr. Henshaw is by... | Beverly Cleary |
| Leigh Botts is in this book | Dear Mr. Henshaw |
| The Giver is by... | Lois Lowry |
| the Giver is about... | Jonas and Gabriel |
| The View from Saturday is by... | Konigsburg |
| The View from Saturday is about this teacher who works at this middle school | Mrs. Olisnski who is a teacher at Epiphany Middle School. |
| Holes is by... | Louis Sachar |
| name the plot for Holes | The Yelnats family is cursed with bad luck by Madame Zeroni. Stanley Yelnats the 4th is in Camp Green Lake, he is accused of stealing. Everyone is forced to dig holes. Kissin' Kate Barlow kills herself by letting a snake bite her because sam was killed. |
| the collections Cabbages and Kings and, the Four Million are by... | O. Henry |
| this author wrote "The Gift of the Magi" is by... | O. Henry |
| in this book Della sells her hair to Madame Sofronie to buy a gold pocket-watch and Jim sells his watch in so he can buy set of combs but Della and Jims gifts are useless. | "The Gift of the Magi" |
| The "Ransom Red Chief" is by... | O. Henry |
| In this book Ebenezer Dorser's son is kidnapped by Bill and Sam who intend to hold him for ransom. this title character annoys his captors so they pay Mr. Dorset to give his son back. | "The Ransom Red Chief" |
| "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye," is from... by... | The Little Prince; Antoine de Saint Exupery |
| "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed". is a quote from what childrens book | The Little Prince |
| "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "My rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "What makes the desert beautiful... is that somewhere it hides a well". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "People have forgotten this truth... but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "Language is the source of misunderstandings". is from... | The Little Prince |
| "Vain men never hear anything but praise". is from... | The Little Prince |
| quote in Wonder: "When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind." is from... | Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (quoted by Mr. Browne). |
| quote in Wonder "Fortune favors the bold." | Virgil (taught in Latin class). |
| quote in wonder"No man is an island, entire of itself." | John Donne (referenced in the book) |
| quote in wonder "Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." | Mark Twain. |
| quote in wonder "All the world is a stage and the stage is a world of entertainment." | (Paraphrased from Shakespeare, mentioned by Mr. Browne). |
| quote in wonder "I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse." | Wonder (referencing The Elephant Man), spoken by Auggie. |
| quote in wonder "You can't blend in when you were born to stand out." | Wonder (spoken by Via, inspired by The Little Prince theme). |
| "I think there should be a rule that everyone in the world should get a standing ovation at least once in their lives." | Wonder (Auggie's thought). |
| "Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcome the world." | Wonder (Auggie's final precept). |
| "Far above the world Planet Earth is blue. And there's nothing I can do." | —David Bowie, "Space Oddity" |
| Who is the“Big Three” science fiction writers alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein. | Isaac Asimov |
| the robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin and her accounts of her life’s work to reporters. From... by... | I, Robot;Isaac Asimov |
| short stories as “The Last Question” is by... | Isaac Asimov |
| has 37 short stories and 6 novels and opens with a smaller collection called I, robot. collection... by.... | Robot series ; Isaac Asimov |
| Herzog is by... | Saul bellow |
| Moses E. Herzog is from.... | Herzog |
| the character who's surname is the title of this book is divorced and debates killing his second wife Madeline, and her new husband, Valentine, to gain custody of his daughter Junie. From... by... | Herzog ;Saul bellow |
| The adventures of augie march is by... | Saul bellow |
| Humboldt's gift is by... | Saul bellow |
| Ravelstein is by... | Saul bellow |
| The amazing adventures of kavalier & clay is by... | Michael chabon |
| quadlings | short, fat, good-natured people in the wizard of oz |
| the wizard of oz is by... | L.Frank Baum |
| fire and brimstone is from .... | Genesis 19:24 (says that “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven…”) |
| The phrase “fire and brimstone” often denotes highly traditionalist _________ but can also, by extension, characterize any unwavering prediction of _______ and________.Its passage of origin describes the destruction of ______ and ______. | The phrase “fire and brimstone” often denotes highly traditionalist Christians, but can also, by extension, characterize any unwavering prediction of harsh justice and doom. Its passage of origin describes the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. |
| Sodom and Gomorrah are "_____________________" whose residents were so ______ that God rained ______ and _______ to obliterate them for mistreating ____ and his family. | Sodom and Gomorrah, the two “cities of the plain” whose residents were so sinful that God rained brimstone and fire to obliterate them for mistreating Lot and his family. |
| a land of milk and honey is from.... | Leviticus 20:24 (states that “But I said to you, ‘You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am the Lord your God, who has set you apart from the nations.”) |
| how many times was a land of milk and honey mentioned on the old testament | Mentioned at least four times in the Old Testament. |
| “a land flowing with milk and honey” is the homeland bestowed by | god upon the hebrews |
| a land flowing with milk and honey is the same place as... | “the promised land” |
| the yiddish police mans union is by... | Michael chabon |
| "the new colossus" is by... | Emma Lazarus |
| Emma Lazarus's "the new colossus" is this kind of poem | sonnet |
| Nathan Zuckerman is by this author | Philip Roth |
| philip roth's character is from this novel | American pastoral |
| "in the Jewish synagogue at Newport" is by... | Emma Lazarus |
| portnoy's complaint is by... | Philip Roth |
| The Human Stain is by... | Philip Roth |
| the shorty stories "the conversion of the Jews" and "Defender of Faith" are by... | Philip Roth |
| the short story collection called Goodbye, Columbus is by... | Philip Roth |
| the history book The Plot Against America is by... | Philip Roth |
| “Gimpel the Fool” is by... | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| “The Spinoza of Market Street” is by... | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| “Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy,” is by... | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| Sholem Aleichem is by... | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| The Natural is by... | Malamud |
| The Fixer is by... | Malamud |
| this author is known for “The Jewbird” | Malamud |
| The Chosen is by... | Potok |
| My Name is Asher Lev is by... | Potok |
| The Promise is by... | Potok |
| divorce from Marilyn Monroe. | Miller |
| All My Sons is by... | Miller |
| After the Fall is by... | Miller |
| The Odd Couple is by... | Simon |
| Lost in Yonkers is by... | Simon |
| Eugene trilogy is by... | Simon |
| Brighton Beach Memoirs is by... | Simon |
| Biloxi Blues is by... | Simon |
| Broadway Bound is by... | Simon |
| governess at Thornfield Hall | Jane eyre |
| novel’s title character is courted by Edward Rochester | Jane eyre |
| in this book Bertha, has been kept in an attic for years after a debilitating mental illness left her unable to speak or remain calm. | Jane eyre |
| “Reader, I married him.” is a quote in this book | Jane eyre |
| Jane eyre is by... | Charlotte bronte |
| Peyton travels all the way back to his house and is about to embrace his wife when | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
| Peyton's escape was only imagined True or False | True |
| the sweat of your brow is a saying from... | Genesis 3:19 (States that “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken.”) |
| Invoked to denote the rewards yielded by a person’s own ________ ________ | hard work |
| this phrase is taken from the passages after Adam and Eve are _____ from ________ for ___________. They must ________ or ______ _______ rather than enjoy the _______of the garden. | this phrase is taken from the passages after Adam and Eve are banished from Eden for disobeying god. They must find or produce fruits rather than enjoying the fruits of the garden. |
| golden calf is a biblical saying from... | from Exodus 32:2–4 |
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