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Varsity Language Arts
Literature
Q: What collection of stories by Kipling includes How the
Elephant Got Its Trunk and
The Cat Who Walked By Itself?
A: The Just So Stories
Q: Finish the title of this narrative poem by Longfellow: The
Courtship of______?
A: Miles Standish
Q: Which of John Greenleaf Whittiers poems was subtitled A
Winter Idyll?
A: Snow Bound
Q: Which poem by Thomas Gray begins The curfew tolls the knell
of parting day/The
lowering herd wind slowly oer the lea,?
A: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Q: Edward Fitzgerald created the first English translation of
what famous poetic work by OmarKhayyam?
A: the Rubaiyat
Q: Which collection of poems is made up of the 244 epitaphs of
people speaking from theirgraves in a fictional small town in
Illinois? It is Edgar Lee Masters best known work.
A: Spoon River Anthology
Q: Which play of Shakespeares begins with Christopher Sly being
entertained as a
nobleman?
A: The Taming of the Shrew
Q: In which Shakespearean play does Prince Fortinbras claim the
throne after the death
ofthe title character?
A: Hamlet
Q: Which play begins When shall we three meet again? The three
weird sisters agree to
meet at sundown on the heath.
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A: Macbeth
Q: Which of Shakespeares history plays begins: O! for a Muse of
fire, that wouldascend/The brightest heaven of invention;?
A: Henry V
Q: In which of Shakespeares plays do the characters of Edmund,
Regan, and Gloucester
appear?
A: King Lear
Q: Which play by Aristophanes involves Dionysuss descent into
the underworld to retrievethe recently deceased Euripides? The
title derives from a chorus of amphibians that
appears.
A: The Frogs
Q: Which of Tennessee Williams plays is set in New Orleans?
A: A Streetcar Named Desire
Q: Which novel centers on the activities of the main character
after he is kicked out ofPencey Prep just before Christmas?
A: Catcher in the Rye
Q: The adventures of Alexander Selkirk form the basis of what
novel by Daniel Defoe?
A: Robinson Crusoe
Q: What novel was partially inspired by the sinking of the
shipEssex after an attack by asperm whale?
A: Moby Dick
Q: Elinor and Marianne was a working title of which Jane Austen
novel?
A: Sense and Sensibility
Q: What is the title of Shirley Jacksons short story about a
small town as its residents carry
out an annual ritual?
A: The Lottery
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Q: Which Pulitzer Prize winning novel tells the story of Henry
Wirz and the Civil War
prison camp he commanded? The MacKinlay Kantor works title is
the name of thenotorious Confederate camp.
A: Andersonville
Q: Sir Percy Blakeney was created by Baroness Orczy in which
novel?
A: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Q: Ovid wrote a series of tales written in verse on historical,
legendary, and mythological
figures. What is the title of this work which describes all
varieties of change?
A: Metamorphoses
Q: What is the title of the Leon Uris novel about the
establishment of the modern state ofIsrael?
A: Exodus
Q: The character of Marmee appears in which novel? She is the
mother of four daughters
during the Civil War.
A: Little Women
Q: What was F. Scott Fitzgeralds first novel? The story is about
the gradual disillusionment
of Princeton University student Amory Blaine.
A: This Side of Paradise
Q: Which popular novel of the 1970s was based on the stories of
shark attacks along theNew Jersey coast in 1916? The Peter Benchley
novel was also the source of a movie by
the same name.
A: Jaws
Q: Which of F. Scott Fitzgeralds novel involves the characters
of Monroe Stahr and Celia
Brady? It was unfinished at the authors death.
A: The Last Tycoon or The Love of the Last Tycoon
Q: Which work involves half a dozen characters interrupting a
rehearsal for another play and
insisting that their story be told? It is Luigi Pirandellos best
known play.
A: Six Characters in Search of an Author
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Q: What 19th century Russian novel involves over 500 characters,
including Napoleon
Bonaparte?
A: War and Peace
Q: What was the fourth Mark Twain novel to feature Tom Sawyer as
a character? In it
he
attempts to solve a murder.
A: Tom Sawyer, Detective
Q: What is the name of the poem by Robert Browning about a
mysterious stranger whooffers to rid a German town of rodents? When
he is refused payment, he lures away all
the children.
A: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Q: What is the title of the Langston Hughes poem which includes
the lines: Ive knownrivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.?
A: The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Q: Which childrens book tells the story of an irresponsible bird
named Mayzie and the
creature she dupes into caring for her egg? After remaining 100%
faithful to his task, the
egg-hatches an elephant bird.
A: Horton Hatches the Egg
Q: Which poem includes this line: I call/That piece a wonder,
now: Fra Pandolfs
hands/Worked busily a day, and there she stands.? This dramatic
monologue by Robert
Browning is based on a historical person.
A: My Last Duchess
Q: In which of Shakespeares plays does the Battle of Agincourt
occur?
A: Henry V
Q: In which Medieval epic poem do the characters of Oliver,
Ogier the Dane, and
Charlemagne appear?
A: The Song of Roland
Q: What is the subtitle of The Hobbit?
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A: There and Back Again
Q: The minister Stephen Kumalo is the main character in what
novel by Alan Paton?
A: Cry, The Beloved Country
Q: Which novel by Herman Hesse is not a fictionalized account of
Buddhas life, but uses
parallels from his life instead?
A: Siddhartha
Q: What was Theodore Dreisers first novel? Officially published
in 1900, the publisher
suppressed it until 1912 because of its frankness and supposed
immorality.
A: Sister Carrie
Q: Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote what historical novel about Rome in
the time of Nero? InLatin, the title means Where are you going.
A: Quo Vadis
Q: The sequel to which story continues the adventures of the
former March girls? Jo and her
husband open a boys school inLittle Men.
A: Little Women
Q: Who created the character of Serafina Delle Rose in the play
The Rose Tattoo?
A: Tennessee Williams
Q: Who wroteNight of the Iguana?
A: Tennessee Williams
Q: What playwrights only comedy wasAh, Wilderness?
A: Eugene ONeill
Q: Identify the author who founded the weekly magazines
Household Words and All theYear Round? Most of his later works,
possibly including Our Mutual Friend, were
published in these periodicals.
A: Charles Dickens
Q: Who wrote The Poetry of Minor Connecticut Wits as wells
asPoor Richards Almanack?
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A: Benjamin Franklin
Q: Who wrote the poem which begins I think that I shall never
see a poem as lovely as atree?
A: Joyce Kilmer
Q: Whose collections of dialoguesPhaedo and Symposium? His
Republic is also a dialogue.
A: Plato
Q: Who wrote Toilers of the Sea? His novel The Man Who Laughs
appeared later.
A: Victor Hugo
Q: Which German playwright also wrote The Theory of Colors in
1810? The first part of his
Faust appeared two years earlier.
A: Johann Goethe
Q: Whose last novel was The Reivers published in 1962?
A: William Faulkner
Q: The work The Death of the Hired Man was written by which
poet?
A: Robert Frost
Q: Identify the author of the quote: O its Tommy this, an Tommy
that, an Tommy, goaway; But its Than you, Mister Atkins, when the
band begins to play,. It appears in
the Poem Tommy in the collectionBarrack Room Ballads.
A: Rudyard Kipling
Q: A fictionalized version of the historical county of Wessex is
the setting for which
authors novels? Far from the Madding Crowdis the first work set
there.
A: Thomas Hardy
Q: Who wrote the book of poems Tamerlane and Other Poems in
1827? Ten years later his
Narrative of A Gordon Pym was serialized.
A: Edgar Allen Poe
Q: Who created the character of Jurgis Rudkus in his novel The
Jungle?
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A: Upton Sinclair
Q: who created almanacs under the name Richard Saunders? From
1732 to 1747 the titlewasPoor Richard, and later,Poor Richard
Improved.
A: Ben Franklin
Q: Who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1982, despite
having committed suicide
in 1963? Among her published works are The Colossus
andAriel.
A: Sylvia Plath
Q: Which author wrote many essays including How the Poor Die and
A Nice Cup ofTea? His first book was Down and Out in Paris and
London, which was followed by
several early science fiction works.
A: George Orwell
Q: Who wrote The Parliament of Fowls and, The House of Fame? His
most famous work isundoubtedly The Canterbury Tales.
A: Geoffrey Chaucer
Q: What author created the town of Altamont in the state of
Catawba in his novel.
Look Homeward Angel?
A: Thomas Wolfe
Q: Who wrote Our Town?
A: Thornton Wilder
Q: Who created the character of Dolores Haze in the
novelLolita?
A: Vladimir Nabokov
Q: Identify the author ofKim about a British schoolboy growing
up in India?
A: Rudyard Kipling
Q: Identify the author of Notes from the Undergroundand The
Possessed?
A: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Q: Who composed the epic PoemAeneid?
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A: Virgil
Q: Who wrote the poetry collectionNew Hampshire?
A: Robert Frost
Q: Who wrotePortrait of the Artist as a Young Dog?
A: Dylan Thomas
Q: Who wrote Gift from the Sea?
A: Anne Lindberg
Q: Who wroteRobinson Crusoe?
A: Daniel Defoe
Q: Whose first novel was Maggie: A Girl of the Streets?
A: Stephen Crane
Q: Who penned The House of the Dead, which was inspired by his
lengthy imprisonment ina Siberian labor camp?
A: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Q: Who wrote The Bleachers?
A: John Grisham
Q: Who wroteDesire Under the Elms?
A: Eugene ONeill
Q: Who wrotePortrait of a Lady?
A: Henry James
Q: Who wrote Crossing Brooklyn Ferry?
A: Walt Whitman
Q: Identify the poet who created The Waste Land?
A: T.S. Eliot
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Q: Who wrote The Devils Dictionary?
A: Ambrose Bierce
Q: Who wrote the novel Schindlers Ark?
A: Thomas Keneally
Q: Who wrote Sartoris?
A: William Faulkner
Q: Identify the author of Antigone?
A: Sophocles
Q: Who wrote Out of the Silent Planet?
A: C.S. Lewis
Q: Identify the author ofA Dolls House?
A: Henrik Ibsen
Q: Who wrote the partially autobiographical novel Of Human
Bondage?
A: Somerset Maugham
Q: Who wroteEthan Frome?
A: Edith Wharton
Q: Identify the author of The Optimists Daughter?
A: Eudora Welty
Q: Identify the author of The Fountainhead?
A: Ayn Rand
Q: Who wroteIn Dubious Battle?
A: John Steinbeck
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Q: Who wrote the poemFour Quartets?
A: T.S. Eliot
Q: Who wrote the poem Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight?
A: Vachel Lindsay
Q: Who wrote Gravitys Rainbow?
A: Thomas Pynchon
Q: Who wrote the poem Old Ironsides?
A: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Q: Identify the poet who wrote When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloomd?
A: Walt Whitman
Q: Who won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his workJohn
Browns Body?
A: Stephen Vincent Benet
Q: Renasence and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver are two works by
what poet?
A: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Q: Who wrote the open letter denouncing the Dreyfus affair known
as Jaccuse?
A: Emile Zola
Q: Identify the author of the horror stories The Color Out of
Space and The Dream Quest
of Unknown Kadath.
A: H.P. Lovecraft
Q: What Irishman penned The Celtic Twilightas well as the poems
The Lake Isle of
Innsfree and Easter 1916?
A: William Butler Yeats
Q: Who created the characters of Inspector Javert and Marius
Pontmercy in his novelLes Miserables?
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A: Victor Hugo
Q: What author wrote a campaign biography for his friend
Franklin Pierce, and was laterappointed a consul to Great Britain?
As a result of his travels in Europe he wrote
The Marble Faun.
A: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Q: Who wrote the poem The Childrens Hour?
A: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Q: Who wrote the collection of poems called The Decameron?
A: Giovanni Boccaccio
Q: Who wrote Commentaries on the Gallic Wars? The seven books
describe the authorscampaigns to make Gaul part of the Roman
Empire.
A: Julius Caesar
Q: Which American author took the title of her autobiography
from a poem by Paul
Laurence Dunbar called Sympathy which begins: I know what the
caged bird feels,alas!?
A: Maya Angelou
Q: Who on the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with her
workGilead?
A: Marilynne Robinson
Q: Who used the pen name Boz early in his writing career?
A: Charles Dickens
Q: Which Nobel Prize winning authors most recent book is Magic
Seeds? Earlier worksinclude In a Free State and A Bend in the
River.
A: V. S. Naipaul
Q: What Italian scientist wroteDialogue on the Great World
Systems in 1632? The next
year he was brought before the Inquisition.
A: Galileo (Galilei)
Q: Who wrote Theogony, a poem which synthesizes the various
Greek myths into a whole?
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A: Hesiod
Q: Who wrote Fantastic Mr. Fox? Charlie and the Great Glass
Elevator appeared a fewyears later.
A: Roald Dahl
Q: In the Canterbury Tales who tells the story of Sir Topas? He
also tells the Tale of
Melibee.
A: Geoffrey Chaucer
Q: The fictional continents of Balnibari and Laputa were created
by what author? Notsurprisingly, they appear in his most famous
work, Gullivers Travels.
A: Jonathan Swift
Q: Who wrote the poem in which Madeline performs a special
ritual to see the man she will
marry, and he elopes with her on the eve of St. Agnes day?
A: John Keats
Q: Who wrote The Blithedale Romance in 1852? His most well known
novel The ScarletLetter appeared two years earlier.
A: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Q: Which first ladys books include This I Remember and My
Days?
A: Eleanor Roosevelt
Q: Whose memoir of the Lost Generation is called A Moveable
Feast? In it he recountsanecdotes about his time in 1920s Paris and
mentions authors Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound
and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A: Ernest Hemingway
Q: What author created the town of Altamont in the state of
Catawba in his novel, Look
Homeward, Angel?
A: Thomas Wolfe
Q: What Roman author wroteHistoria naturalis? His interest in
the natural world led him
to study the eruptions of Vesuvius and he died during the
destruction of Pompeii.
A: Pliny (the Elder)
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Q: Which French novelist had plays turned into operas
includingLa Gioconda andRigoletto? His novelNotre Dame de Paris was
turned into a Disney movie.
A: Victor Hugo
Q: Across Spoon Riverwas the autobiography of which American
poet?
A: Edgar Lee Masters
Q: Who wrote a short story called The Ministers Black Veil? It
appears inTwice-Told Tales.
A: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Q: Who wroteParallels Between the Ancients and Moderns in the
1690s? He is betterknown for collecting and publishing the Tales of
Mother Goose.
A: Charles Perrault
Q: Who created the character of Caroline Meeber in the novel
Sister Carrie?
A: Theodore Dreiser
Q: Who wrote a collection of poems inspired by the Civil War
calledDrum-Taps?
A: Walt Whitman
Q: What Western American poet and author penned The Luck of
Roaring Camp and
The Outcasts of Poker Flat?
A: Bret Harte
Q: What Greek philosphers second group of dialogs includes
Gorgias, Symposium, andRepublic?
A: Plato
Q: Who coined the terms newspeak, thought police, and Big
Borther?
A: George Orwell
Q: In ShakespearesJulius Caesar, who says to Brutus, The fault,
dear Brutus, is not in our
stars./But in ourselves, that we are underlings.?
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A: Cassius
Q: Who adopts Cosette after the death of her mother inLes
Miserables?
A: Jean Valjean
Q: Which of Shakespeares characters asks of Ophelia Nymph, in
thy orisons, be all my
sins remembered?
A: Hamlet
Q: In the playKing Lear, who agrees to marry Cordelia despite
her being disowned by her
father?
A: the King of France
Q: Which female, sometimes human, sometimes a Valkyrie appears
in the Volsunga Sagaand theNibelungenlied?
A: Brunhild or Brunhilda
Q: What is the name of one of the young men thrown into a
furnace on the orders of
Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament book of Daniel?
A: Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego
Q: Which Old Testament prophet was able to read the writing on
the wall for King
Belshazzar?
A: Daniel
Q: According to the Old testament, who succeeded David as king
of Israel?
A: Solomon
Q: What is the name of the little deformed man who offers to
spin straw into gold for a girlin exchange for her first child? If
she guesses his name she may keep the baby.
A: Rumplestiltskin
Q: What was the profession of Atticus Finch in To Kill a
Mockingbird?
A: a lawyer
Q: What detective solves the murders in the Rue Morgue?
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A: C. Auguste Dupin
Q: In the Iliad, who was the leader of the Myrmidons?
A: Achilles
Q: In Romeo and Juliet, which of Romeos friends is killed by
Juliets cousin Tybalt?
A: Mercutio
Q: Who is the main character inDeath of a Salesman?
A: Willy Loman
Q: Which literary character gives up knight-errantry after his
defeat by the Knight of the
White Moon and returns home to La Mancha?
A: Don Quixote
Q: Which of the characters in The Canterbury Tales has married
five successive husbands
and boasts of her ability to keep them in line? Her tale is of a
knight who must discover
what women really desire.
A: the Wife of Bath
Q: What was the name of Ebenezer Scrooges employer whom he sees
in the visionprovided by the Ghost of Christmas Past? Scrooges
memories of the Christmas parties
at his warehouse are very happy.
A: Mr. Fezziwig
Q: In the story of Rip van Winkle, who does Rip see playing at
ninepins with his crew?Historically, the English captain was the
victim of a mutiny and his fate is unknown.
A: Henry Hudson
Q: Which Biblical ruler appears in the story The Butterfly That
Stamped? His wisdom in
rendering decisions is legendary.
A: Solomon
Q: Which fictional womans married name is Tesman? This Ibsen
titular character shootsherself to avoid a scandal.
A: Hedda Gabler
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Q: What is the name of Candides beloved in the Voltaire
novel?
A: Cunegonde
Q: Which fictional detective lives in the village of St. Mary
Mead? She solves cases based
on her knowledge of human nature.
A: Jane Marple
Q: What creature teaches Alice to dance the Lobster Quadrille
inAlices Adventures in
Wonderland?
A: the Mock Turtle
Q: Which King of France did the Three Musketeers serve?
A: King Luis XIII
Q: Who serves as the host in The Canterbury Tales? He is the
owner of the Tabard Inn.
A: Harry Bailey
Q: In 1984, what is the name of the ministry responsible for the
identification, arrest and
torture of dissidents? It is here that Winston Smiths will is
broken.
A: Ministry of Love
Q: About which queen did Shakespeare write: Age cannot wither
her, nor custom stale her
infinite variety?
A: Cleopatra
Q: By what other name is the character of Dolores Haze called in
the Vladimir Nabakov
novel?
A: Lolita
Q: In The Tempest, what is the name of the young man who falls
in love with Miranda?
A: Ferdinand
Q: What Sinclair Lewis title character is an ex-football playing
minister, who succeeds on
the basis of half-plagiarized sermons and a good deal of self
promotion?
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A: Elmer Gantry
Q: What was the name of Ebenezer Scrooges long suffering
clerk?
A: Bob Cratchit
Q: What state is usually the setting for the novels of Willa
Cather? She moved there as a
child and is a member of the states Hall of Fame.
A: Nebraska
Q: Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote what poem which helped spur
efforts to preserve the USS
Constitution?
A: Old Ironsides
Q: In what city does the action ofThe Scarlet Letteroccur?
A: Boston
Q: Arthur Millers The Crucible is based on accounts of trials in
what American town?
A: Salem, Massachusetts
Q: The Old Man and the Sea takes place primarily in the waters
surrounding what country?
A: Cuba
Q: According to Virgil, survivors of which besieged city became
the ancestors of theRomans? Its not know if he was just horsing
around.
A: Troy
Q: In A Christmas Carol, what was the ghost of Marley condemned
to drag with him for
eternity?
A: a chain
Q: The Nuns Priests Tale in The Canterbury Tales is a story
about what type of birds andtheir troubles with a fox?
A: chickens
Q: What date and year are mentioned at the beginning of The
Midnight Ride of Paul
Revere?
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A: 18th of April in (17)75
Q: What is the name of the town, based on Sauk Center, MN, which
is the site of SinclairLewiss Main Street?
A: Gopher Prairie
Q: By what other name is the fourteen line poem called an
Italian sonnet known? It is
named after the earliest major practitioner of the form.
A: Petrarchan
Q: What does the phrase Strum and Drang mean? The phrase is used
in reference to aGerman literary movement.
A: Storm and stress or Storm and urge
Q: What is the term for inserting an external means to solve the
problems of a story? This
device originated in Greek drama when a god would arrive
suspended by a crane to savethe day. The term is Latin for god from
the machine.
A: dues ex machina
Q: In the Odyssey, Circe turns Odysseuss crew into what sort of
animals? She turns them
into the creatures after she observes them gorging
themselves.
A: pigs
Q: Dutch author Robert van Gulik created over a dozen mystery
novels about JudgeDee
who lived and worked in what country? The real Judge Dee served
his country
duringthe Tang dynasty.
A: China
Q: What is the term for the tragic flaw of pride or
overconfidence in a hero that leads to his
downfall? This Greek word could be translated as pride or
insolence.
A: hubris
Q: Finish this line from Tennysons The Charge of the Light
Brigade: theirs not to makereply,/Theirs not to reason why,/Theirs
but to (blank)?
A: do or die
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Q: What was the profession of Daggoo, Tashtego and Queequeg in
the novel Moby Dick?
A: harpooners
Q: What item caused the murderer to give himself up at the end
of The Tell-Tale Heart?
A: a watch
Q: In what month do the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales make
their journey?
A: April
Q: What structures did Don Quixote believe to be giants?
A: windmills
Q: What item is purloined in the title of an Edgar Allen Poe
work?
A: a letter
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Q: Identify the Shakespearean play from these quotes:
1. Both baked in this pie/ Whereof their mother daintily hath
fed,2. If we shadows have offended/ Think but this, and all is
mended,
3. Is this a dagger I see before me/ The handles toward my
hand?
4. A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat
of the fish thathath fed of that worm.
5. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brothers hand,/Of life, of crown,
of queen at once
dispatched;6. I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,
7. Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
8. A Daniel come to judgment! Yea, a Daniel!
1. Titus Andronicus
2. A midsummer Nights Dream
3. Macbeth
4. Hamlet5. Hamlet 6. The Taming of the Shrew
7. A Midsummer Nights Dream
8. The Merchant of Venice
Q: Identify the poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley form these
lines:
1. I met a traveler from an antique land/who said: Two vast and
trunkless legs of
stone/Stand in the desert2. Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!/Bird
thou never wert,
3. I weep for Adoniashe is dead!
4. wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere/Destroyer and
preserver, hear, oh,hear!
1. Ozymandias
2. To a Skylark
3. Adonais
4. Ode to the West Wind
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Q: Identify the poem by John Keats form these lines:
1. Thou still unravished bride of quietness/Thou foster child of
silence and slowtime,
2. O what can ail thee, Knight at arms,/Alone and palely
loitering
3. Much have I traveled in the realms of gold,/ And many goodly
states andkingdoms seen.
4. Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness,/Close bosom-friend of
the maturing
sun,
1. Ode on a Grecian Urn
2. La Belle Dame Sans Merci
3. On First Looking into Chapmans Homer4. To Autumn
Q: Identify the authors of the following quotes:
1. A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
2. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the
truth.3. After all, tomorrow is another day.
4. Okie means youre scum. Dont mean nothing itself, its the way
they say it.
5. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in
passing.
6. I celebrate myself, and sing myself.7. I looked upon the Nile
and raised the pyramids above it.
8. The land was ours before we were the lands.
1. Herman Melville
2. Mark Twain
3. Margaret Mitchell4. John Steinbeck
5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6. Walt Whitman7. Langston Hughes
8. Robert Frost
Q: Identify these characters from Othello:
1. Othellos wife who he is deceived into killing?
2. The villain who lies to Othello about his wife?3. The villain
wife who is also killed?
4. Othellos father-in-law who is a Venetian senator?
1. Desdemona
2. Iago
3. Emilia
4. Brabantio
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Q: Identify the following aboutRomeo and Juliet:
1. Who encourages Juliet in her romance with Romeo?2. Who,
besides himself, does Romeo kill?
3. What is the name of the friar who performs the wedding?
4. To what city does Romeo escape after killing the answer to
question 2?
1. the Nurse
2. Tybalt3. Friar Laurence
4. Mantua
Q: Identify the following aboutRichard III:
1. Who is King of England at the beginning of the play?
2. Where does Richard hold his nephews and eventually kill
them?
3. What physical anomaly is Richard said to possess?4. During
the Battle of Bosworth Field, what is Richard willing to trade
his
kingdom for?
1. Edward IV
2. the Tower (of London)
3. a hunchback 4. a horse
Q: Identify the following about the play Oedipus the King:
1. Who wrote it?
2. Who has caused a plague in the city of Thebes by murdering
King Laius?3. Who is the blind prophet who knows the cause of the
plague?
4. What does the murderer do to himself at the end of the
play?
1. Sophocles
2. Oedipus
3. Tiresias
4. blinds himself
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Q: Identify the following about Voyages of Sinbad:
1. What birds were capable of carrying off elephants?2. What
being latched on to Sinbads shoulders and wouldnt let go?
3. His third voyage imitates some of the fantastic travels of
what other man, down to
the blinding of a one-eyed giant?4. The sixth and seventh
voyages involve Sinbad delivering gift from the King of
Serendip to Sinbads ruler in what city?
1. rocs
2. the Old Man of the Sea
3. Odysseus
4. Baghdad
Q: Identify the following aboutIlliad:
1. What is the name given to the section of Book II which lists
all the Greek andallied commanders?
2. Who was the leader of the Myrmidons?3. What is the name of
the queen of Troy?
4. Which Greek commander is killed by his wife when he arrives
home?
1. Catalogue of Ships2. Achilles
3. Hecuba
4. Agamemnon
Q: Answer the following aboutA Pligrims Progress:
1. What type of work is it?
2. What is the name of the main character?
3. What is the name of the city to which he is traveling?4. In
what festive event does the main character get caught? The name was
taken as
the title of a novel by William Thackeray.
1. allegory2. Christian
3. Celestial City
4. Vanity Fair
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Q: Identify the following about The Book of 1,000 and 1
Nights:
1. What woman tells the stories in an effort to preserve her
life?2. The servant girl Morgiana helps what poor man retain the
treasure he stole from
theives?
3. Who collects a fortune in diamonds from the nest of a bird?4.
Which charcter is described as living in China?
1. Sheherazade2. Ali Baba
3. Sinbad
4. Aladdin
Q: Identify the following about The Song of Roland:
1. Who is the emperor in the story?
2. Who was Rolands best friend and fellow knight?3. What is the
name of Rolands supernatural horn?
4. The final battle at the Pass at Roncevaux is situated between
France and whatother country?
1. Charlemagne
2. Oliver 3. Oliphant
4. Spain
Q: Identify the following about 1984:
1. Who is the main character?2. What is the name of the woman
who falls in love with him?
3. What was the main characters place of work?
4. Whom did the main character love at the end of the novel?
1. Winston Smith
2. Julia
3. Ministry of Truth4. Big Brother
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Q: Identify the following aboutPride & Prejudice:
1. To which of the Bennett sisters does Mr. Bingly become
attached and lattermarries?
2. In which county is Mr. DArcys estate?
3. Which of the Bennett sisters runs off from Brighton with Mr.
Wickham?4. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is related to which
character?
1. Jane2. Derbyshire
3. Lydia
4. Mr. DArcy
Q: Identify the following aboutA Farewell to Arms:
1. In what country does the action take place at the beginning
of the novel?
2. In what country does the story end?3. What was Frederic
Henrys job as a soldier?
4. Catherine Barkley dreams about dying during what
meteorologicalcircumstances?
5. What is the name of the nurse who falls in love with Frederic
Henry?
6. To What country does Henry escape with the nurse?
1. Italy
2. Switzerland
3. ambulance driver 4. it will be raining
5. Catherine Barkley
6. Switzerland
Q: Identify the following about The Sun Also Rises:
1. In what country does the most of the action take place?
2. What is the name of the main female character, a friend of
Jake Barnes?
3. In what war had the main character been wounded?
4. What was the original title for the work?5. What annual event
in Pamplona, Spain is described in the work?
1. Spain2. Brett Ashley
3. World War I
4. Fiesta!5. the running of the bulls
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Q: Identify the following about The Grapes of Wrath:
1. What is the name of the eldest married daughter of the
Joads?2. What is the term for the migrant workers camps?
3. What is the last name of the man and woman the Joads travel
with towards
California?4. What is the name of the preacher who becomes an
advocate for the migrant
workers and is killed?
1. Rose of Sharon or Rosasharn
2. Hooverville
3. Wilson
4. Jim Casy
Q: Identify the following about Of Mice and Men:
1. The title is take form a poem by which author?2. What animals
does Lennie want to tend when they buy their farm?
3. What was the name of the old handyman whose dog is shot at
the beginning of thestory?
4. Where does Lennie flee to after killing Curleys wife?
1. Robert Burns2. rabbits
3. Candy
4. the river
Q: Answer the following about Tom Sawyer:
1. Tom and Huck were attempting to cure warts with a visit to
what location?
2. What is Becky Thatchers fathers occupation?
3. Who do Tom and Becky find while lost in the cave?4. Who takes
Huck into her home in an attempt to civilize him?
1. the cemetery
2. Judge3. Injun Joe
4. Widow Douglas
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Q: Identify the following about The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn:
1. What is the name of the escaped slave who travels with
Huck?2. Who has been found dead in a boat along the river?
3. Identify one of the two women who attempt to reform Huck.
4. Who delivers the news that the escaped slave has been
freed?
1. Jim
2. Pap Finn3. Miss Watson or the Widow Douglas
4. Tom Sawyer
Q: Identify the following about The Scarlet Letter:
1. In what city does the action take place?
2. Where was Hester required to stand for three hours as part of
her punishment?
3. What was the profession of Roger Chillingworth?4. Who dies at
the end of the novel?
1. Boston
2. the pillory
3. physician
4. Arthur Dimmesdale
Q: Answer the following about Wuthering Heights:
1. In what city did old Mr. Earnshaw find Heathcliff?
2. What is the name of the family with whom Catherine stays when
she is attacked
by a dog?3. What is the name of the housekeeper who acts as
narrator?
4. Who dies after deliberately starving himself?
1. Liverpool
2. Lintons
3. Ellen (or Nelly) Dean
4. Heathcliff
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Q: Answer the following about the novellaDeath in Venice:
1. Who is the author?2. What is the name of the main
character?
3. What is the name of the young Polish boy he becomes
interested in?
4. What disease had broken out in the city?
1. Thomas Mann
2. Gustave von Ashenbach3. Tadzio
4. Cholera
Q: Answer the following about Through the Looking Glass, and
What Alice Found There:
1. Which knight claims Alice as his prisoner and tells her how
to become a queen?
2. What two animals (one real, one mythical) were fighting for
the crown?
3. What two fat little men recited the poem about the Walrus and
the Carpenter?4. In what shape was the land inside the looking
glass?
1. the White Knight
2. the Lion and the Unicorn
3. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
4. a chessboard
Q: Answer the following about Les Miserables:
1. What had Jean Valjean stolen to warrant five years
imprisonment?
2. Who is the police inspector who tracks Valjean?
3. Near what city does most of the action occur?4. The story
begins around the time of the fall of which French ruler?
1. bread2. Monsieur Javert
3. Paris
4. Napoleon
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Q: Identify the main characters in these Dickens works:
1. A boy born in the work house is nearly corrupted by London
thieves2. A boy is orphaned but finds friends through his old nurse
Pegotty and his Aunt
Betsy
3. A boy is raised by his sister and blacksmith husband and
receives an educationthrough the gifts of a mysterious
benefactor
4. An old man receives frightening and enlightening visitations
which change his
attitude to life
1. Oliver Twist
2. David Copperfield
3. Great Expectations4. A Christmas Carol
Q: Identify these creatures which appear in Tolkiens works:
1. The demon-like creature released by the Dwarves of Moria.
2. The large wolf-like creatures used as mounts by some orcs.3.
The large tusked beasts used by the men of the South during the War
of the Ring.
4. The special type of horse, of which Shadowfax was one.
1. Balrog2. Wargs
3. Oliphant or Mumak
4. Mearas
Q: Identify these animals which appear in Medieval
literature:
1. What type of animal is Reynard, a crafty liar?
2. What is the traditional name for a bear in these stories?
This is also the name of
an NHL team.3. What type of animal is Chanticleer?
4. What animal was the King of Beasts who continually believed
Reynards lies?
1. a fox2. Bruin
3. a rooster
4. a lion
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Q: Answer the following about Beatrix Potters stories:
1. What kind of animal was Mrs. Tiggywinkle?2. Which of Peter
Rabbits sisters married Benjamin Bunny when she grew up?
3. What leafy vegetable causes Benjamin Bunnys little bunnies to
fall asleep?
4. Anna Maria and Samuel Whiskers tried to cook what young cat
in a pastry?
1. a hedgehog
2. Flopsy3. lettuce
4. Tom Kitten
Q: Identify the title of plays by Shakespeare as described
below:
1. Which plays title means a storm?
2. Which plays title uses a word for a violent tempered woman,
or a small
insectivore?3. Which plays title is the name of a Roman
ruler?
4. Which plays title means a great deal of fuss regarding a
nonentity?
1. The Tempest
2. The Taming of the Shrew
3. Julius Caesar
4. Much Ado About Nothing
Q: Identify the works by Dickens in which these characters
appear:
1. Agnes Wickfield 1. David Copperfield
2. Mr. Fezziwig 2. A Christmas Carol
3. Mr. Brownlow 3. Oliver Twist
4. Lucie Manette 4. A Tale of Two Cities
Q: Identify the author pf the Pulitzer Prize winning for history
given the year and title:
1. 1932, My Experience in the World War
2. 1940,Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
3. 1954,A Stillness at Appomattox
4. 2001,Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
1. John J. Pershing
2. Carl Sandburg
3. Bruce Catton4. Joseph Ellis
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Q: Identify the Pulitzer Prize winning author given the
following works:
1. 1925, So Big 1. Edna Ferber 2. 1945,A Bell for Adano 2. John
Hersey
3. 1958,A Death in the Family 3. James Agee
4. 1963, The Reivers 4. William Faulkner 5. 1947,All the Kings
Men 5. Robert Penn Warren
6. 1919, The Magnificent Ambersons 6. Booth Tarkington
7. 1999, The Hours 7. Michael Cunningham8. 2000,Interpreter of
Maladies 8. Jhumpa Lahiri
9. 1990, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love 9. Oscar
Hijuelos
10. 1980, The Executioner's Song 10. Norman
Mailer 11. 1970, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford 11. Jean
Stafford
12. 1932, The Good Earth 12. Pearl Buck
13. 1948, Tales of the South Pacific 13. James Michener
14. 1955,A Fable 14. William Faulkner
Q: Identify the Noble Prize in Literature winning author given
the following works:
1. 1934, Six Characters in Search of an Author 1. Luigi
Pirandello
2. 1925,Pygmalion 2. George Bernard Shaw
3. 1969, Waiting for Godot 3. Samuel Becket4. 1976,Humboldts
Gift 4. Saul Bellow
Q: Identify the main character in these works by Jane
Austen:
1. and 2. the sisters ofSense and Sensibility.3. Pride and
Prejudice.
4. Persuasion.
1. and 2. Elinor Dashwood
Marianne Dashwood
3. Elizabeth Bennett
4. Anne Elliott
Q: Identify the countries that are the primary setting of these
Hemingway works:
1. The Old Man and the Sea 1. Cuba
2. Death in the Afternoon 2. Spain
3. A Moveable Feast 3. France4. A Farewell to Arms 4. Italy
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Q: Identify the Shakespearean play with the following
characters:
1. Count Paris and Benvolio 1. Romeo and Juliet
2. Antipholus of Syracuse and Adriana 2. The Comedy of
Errors
3. Touchstone and Orlando 3. As You Like It4. Mistress Quickly
and Bardolph 4. The Merry Wives of Windsor
5. Valentina and Julia 5. Two Gentlemen of Verona
6. Kent and Edgar 6. King Lear
7. Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Viola 7. Twelfth Night
8. Benedick and Dogberry 8. Much Ado About Nothing
9. Alonso and Sebastian 9. The Tempest
10. Count Orsino and Olivia 10. Twelfth Night
11. A Soothsayer and Portia 11. Julius Caesar
12. Bianca and Christopher Sly 12. The Taming of the Shrew
13. Ferdinand and Miranda 13. The Tempest
14. Helena and Bertram 14. Alls Well That Ends Well15. Bassanio
and Jessica 15. The Merchant of Venice
Q: Identify the real name of these authors:
1. Stephen King 1. Richard Bachman
2. George Sands 2. Armandine Lucie Aurore Dupin3. O. Henry 3.
William Sidney Porter
4. Lewis Carroll 4. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
5. Joseph Conrad 5. Jzef Korzeniowski6. George Orwell 6. Eric
Arthur Blair
7. Petrarch 7. Francesco Petrarca
8. Saki 8. Hector H. Munro9. Pablo Neruda 9. Ricardo Reyes
Basoalto
10. Voltaire 10. Francois-Marie Arouet
11. Ellis Bell 11. Emily Bronte12. Isak Dinesen 12. Karen
Blixen
Q: Identify the authors of the following works:
1. Charlottes Web 1. E. B. White
2. The Jungle 2. Upton Sinclair
3. The Maltese Falcon 3. Dashiell Hammett4. Lake Woebegone Days
4. Garrison Keillor
5. The Remains of the Day 5. Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Faust 6. Johann Goethe7. I, Cladius 7. Robert Graves
8. Hunger 8. Knut Hamsun
9. A Rose for Emily 9. William Faulkner
10. The Facts in the case of M. Valdemar10. Edgar Allen Poe
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11. The Red Pony 11. John Steinbeck
12. Hills Like White Elephants 12. Ernest Hemingway
13. The Trial 13. Franz Kafka14. The Idiot 14. Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
15. Madame Bovary 15. Gustav Flaubert
16. Notre Dame de Paris 16. Victor Hugo17. The Picture of Dorian
Gray 17. Oscar Wilde
18. Exodus 18. Leon Uris
19. Anne of Green Gables 19. Lucy Maud Montgomery20. Remembrance
of Things Past 20. Marcel Proust
21. Goblin Market 21. Christina Rossetti
22. Orlando Furioso 22. Ludovico Ariosto
23. Commedia Divina 23. Dante (Aligheri)24. Around the World in
80 Days 24. Jules Verne
25. The Metamorphosis 25. Franz Kafka
26. Les Miserables 26. Victor Hugo
27. Heart of Darkness 27. Joseph Conrad28. Tristram Shandy 28.
Lawrence Sterne
29. A Modest Proposal 29. Jonathan Swift30. Gormenghast 30.
Mervyn Peake
31. The Moon and Sixpence 31. Somerset Maugham
32. Farmer Giles of Ham 32. J.R.R. Tolkien
33. The Voyage of the Dawntreader 33. C.S. Lewis34. Keep the
Aspidistra Flying 34. George Orwell
35. The Razors Edge 35. Somerset Maugham
36. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 36. Carson McCullers37. Native
Son 37. Richard Wright
38. Main Street 38. Sinclair Lewis
39. The Sea Wolf 39. Jack London40. Dragons Teeth 40. Upton
Sinclair
41. The Sea, The Sea 41. Iris Murdoch
42. Fathers and Sons 42. Ivan Turgenev43. The Stranger 43.
Albert Camus
44. This Side of Paradise 44. F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. Eugene Onegin 45. Alexander Pushkin
46. The Phantom of the Opera 46. Gaston Leroux47. One Day in the
Life of Ivan Denisovich 47. Aleksandr Solzhenytsin
48. Voyage to the Center of the Earth 48. Jules Verne
49. The Scarlet Pimpernel 49. Baroness Orczy50. Ligeia 50. Edgar
Allan Poe
51. Young Goodman Brown 51. Nathaniel Hawthorne
52. That Evening Sun 52. William Faulkner 53. The Life You Save
May Be Your Own 53. Flannery OConnor
54. Jos Boys 54. Louisa May Alcott
55. The Robber Bridegroom 55. Eudora Welty
56. The Bluest Eye 56. Toni Morrison
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57. The House of Mirth 57. Edith Wharton
58. Hard Times 58. Charles Dickens
59. Titus Andronicus 59. William Shakespeare60. The Moonstone
60. Wilkie Collins
61. Sense and Sensibility 61. Jane Austen
62. Of Human Bondage 62. Somerset Maugham63. Sons and Lovers 63.
D. H. Lawrence
64. Why Didnt They Ask Evans? 64. Agatha Christie
65. Dombey and Son 65. Charles Dickens66. Foucaults Pendulum 66.
Umberto Eco
67. Cats Cradle 67. Kurt Vonnegut
68. Amerika 68. Franz Kafka
69. Love in the Time of Cholera 69. Gabriel Garcia Marquez70.
Heart of Midlothian 70. Sir Walter Scott
71. The Master Builder 71. Henrik Ibsen
72. Dead Souls 72. Nikolai Gogol
73. Henderson the Rain King 73. Saul Bellow74. Doctor Zhivago
74. Boris Pasternak
75. The Tale of Genji 75. Murasaki Shikibu76. Buddenbrooks 76.
Thomas Mann
77. Five Weeks in a Balloon 77. Jules Verne
78. Toilers of the Sea 78. Victor Hugo
79. Anna Karenina 79. Leo Tolstoy80. Dangerous Liaisons 80.
Pierre Laclos
81. My Antonia 81. Willa Cather
82. All the Kings Men 82. Robert Penn Warren83. Andromeda Strain
83. Michael Crichton
84. The Bell Jar 84. Sylvia Plath
85. Death in Venice 85. Thomas Mann86. Island of the Blue
Dolphins 86. Scott ODell
87. The Bridge to Terabithia 87. Katherine Paterson
88. Ramona the Pest 88. Beverly Cleary89. A Winkle in Time 89.
Madeleine LEngle
90. To Build a Fire 90. Jack London
91. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 91. Ambrose Bierce
92. The Imp of the Perverse 92. Edgar Allen Poe93. Bernice Bobs
Her Hair 93. F. Scott Fitzgerald
94. The Time Machine 94. H.G. Wells
95. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 95. Muriel Spark 96. The
Mysteries of Udolpho 96. Ann Radcliffe
97. Death in the Afternoon 97. Ernest Hemingway
98. Go Down, Moses 98. William Faulkner 99. Travels with Charley
99. John Steinbeck
100. Delta Wedding 100. Eudora Welty
101. Guy Mannering 101. Walter Scott
102. The Rainbow 102. D.H. Lawrence
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103. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 103. James Joyce
104. Just So Stories 104. Rudyard Kipling
105. Cancer Ward 105. Alexander Solzhenitsyn106. The Prisoner of
the Caucasus 106. Alexander Puskin
107. The Magic Mountain 107. Thomas Mann
108. Out of Africa 108. Isak Dinesen109. Carry On, Jeeves 109.
P.G. Wodehouse
110. The Castle 110. Franz Kafka
111. The Overcoat 111. Nicolai Gogol112. A Bend in the River
112. V.S. Naipaul
Q: Identify the books in which the following characters
appear:
1. Dilsey Gibson 1. The Sound and the Fury
2. Captain Gardiner 2. Moby Dick
3. Joe Harper 3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
4. Anselmo 4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
Q: Identify the creators of the following characters:
1. Wackford Sqeers 1. Charles Dickens
2. Harriet Smith 2. Jane Austen
3. Gabriel Oak 3. Thomas Hardy4. Mr. Brocklehurst 4. Charlotte
Bronte
5. Ham Pegotty 5. Charles Dickens
6. Gloriana 6. Edmund Spencer 7. Benvolio 7. William
Shakespeare
8. Sophia Western 8. Henry Fielding
9. Uncas 9. James Fenimore Cooper 10. Tashtego 10. Herman
Melville
11. Benjy Compson 11. William Faulkner
12. Holly Golightly 12. Truman Capote13. Addie Bundren 13.
William Faulkner
14. Beth March 14. Louisa May Alcott
15. Antonia Shimerda 15. Willia Cather
16. Becky Thatcher 16. Mark Twain17. George Wickham 17. Jane
Austen
18. Bertha Mason 18. Charlotte Bronte
19. Dora Spenlow 19. Charles Dickens20. Little Father Time 20.
Thomas Hardy
21. Fedallah 21. Herman Melville
22. Big Daddy Pollitt 22. Tennessee Williams23. Quentin Compson
23. William Faulkner
24. Kino 24. John Steinbeck
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Q: Identify four of the five poets normally referred to as The
Fireside Poets:
1. John Greenleaf Whittier
2. Oliver Wendell Holmes
3. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow4. William Cullen Bryant
5. James Russell Lowell
Q: For what four works did Eugene O'Neill win Pulitzer
Prizes?
Beyond the Horizon
Anna Christie
Strange Interlude
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Q: Identify the playwright who wrote the following:
1. The Seagull 1. Anton Chekov2. The Marriage of Figaro 2.
Pierre de Beaumarchais
3. A Raisin in the Sun 3. Lorriane Hansbury
4. A Dolls House 4. Henrik Ibsen
5. Cyrano de Bergerac 5. Edmond Rostand6. Tartuffe 6.
Moliere
7. Antigone 7. Sophocles
8. The Odd Couple 8. Neil Simon9. RUR 9. Karel Capek
10. The Wasps 10. Aristophanes
11. Coriolanus 11. William Shakespeare
Q: Identify the authors of the following poems:
1. The Vision of the 1. William Blake
Daughters of Albion
2. The Rubiayat 2. Omar Khayyam
3. Ode to Joy 3. Friedrich von Schiller 4. Lyrics of a Lowly
Life 4. Paul Laurence Dunbar
5. Paradise Lost 5. John Milton
6. The Aeneid 6. Virgil7. The Afternoon of a Faun 7. Stephane
Mallarme
8. The Iliad 8. Homer
9. The Wasteland 9. T.S. Eliot10. North of Boston 10. Robert
Frost
11. Hiawatha 11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
12. Ulalume 12. Edgar Allen Poe
13. The Wreck of the Hesperus 13. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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14. When I heard 14. Walt Whitmanthe Learned Astronomer
15. The Barefoot Boy 15. John Greenleaf Whittier16. Piers
Plowman 16. William Langland
17. Songs of Innocence and Experience 17. William Blake
18. Lines Composed a few 18. William WordsworthMiles above
Tintern Abbey
19. The Wild Swans at Coole 19. William Butler Yeats
20. The Courtship of Miles Standish 20. Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow21. O Captain! My Captain! 21. Walt Whitman
22. The Negro Speaks of Rivers 22. Langston Hughes
23. General William Booth 23. Vachel LindsayEnters into
Heaven
24. Grass 24. Carl Sandburg
25. Nothing Gold Can Stay 25. Robert Frost
26. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 26. Walt Whitman
27. The Oven Bird 27. Robert Frost28. Four Quartets 28. T.S.
Eliot
29. When Lilacs Last in the 29. Walt WhitmanDooryard Bloomd
30. Tam OShanter 30. Robert Burns
31. Leben und Leider 31. Rainier Marie Rilke
32. Decameron 32. Giovanni Boccaccio
