At Com Arts

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In which Ayn Rand novel does John Galt say he will stop the motor of the world?

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Atlas Shrugged

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The Maya Angelou title "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is taken from the poem Sympathy by what 20th Century black poet?

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Dunbar

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The monster in the novel Frankenstein could read and especially liked to read about the young Werther character created by what 18th century German author?

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Goethe

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Finish these titles of stories by Ray Bradbury:
Fahrenheit-

Dandelion-

Something Wicked-

When Elephants-

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Fahrenheit 451

Dandelion Wine

Something Wicked This Way Comes

When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed

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What American's 2006 novel Terrorist has nothing to do with his more famous series about the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrome?

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Updike

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What American author married his wife Estelle in 1929, less than 4 months before publication of the novel the Sound and the Fury?

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Faulkner

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Reginald Owen, George C Scott, and Patrick Stewart are among the actors who have all played this curmudgeonly character created by Charles Dickens?

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Scrooge

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His wife goes to the Devil first, he follows later, after a long career in money lending that makes him a rich man. Name this title character of a Washington Irving short story.

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Tom Walker, "The Devil and Tom Walker"

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"You are a lost generation" This statement by Gertrude Stein is used as a preface to the novel The Sun Also Rises. Which American wrote this novel.

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Hemingway

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Which book, written by Truman Capote, examines a notorious multiple murder that occurred in a small town in Kansas?

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In Cold Blood

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Identify the book of children's animal stories written and illustrated by Rudyard Kipling. He also wrote the Jungle Book. This book gives amusing and fanciful answers to such questions as "Why the leopard has spots."

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Just So Stories

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This poem was once titled "Poem of the Body". It received its present name in 1867. Written by Walt Whitman, it appeared in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Identify this poem that celebrates the anatomy and the form of men, women, and children.

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I Sing the Body Electric

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Identify the literary works in which the following characters appear: Simon Legree, Eva, and Topsy.

Montresor and Fortunado. Billy Pilgrim and the aliens from Tralfamadore. Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan.

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Simon Legree, Eva, and Topsy: Uncle Toms Cabin

Montresor and Fortunado: The Cask of

Amontillado

Billy Pilgrim and the aliens from Tralfamadore: Slaughter House 5

Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan: King Lear

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Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"?

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Robert Frost

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Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?

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Charles Dickens

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In which novel is a man shocked to discover a mans footprint on a beach? He first assumed it must belong to a cannibal. Written by Daniel Defoe:

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Robinson Crusoe

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This novel was published in 1726 and consisted of four main parts. It tells the story of an ordinary man who was the lone survivor from a shipwreck; he had interactions with various races and societies in far off places. Written by Swift:

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Gulliver's Travels

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This novel was originally published in forty weekly installments in the antislavery weekly "The National Era". It appeared in book form in March of 1852 and became an instant best-seller. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe:

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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On Gulliver's fourth journey, he is abandoned by his crew on an unknown shore. This land is populated by Houyhnhnms, which are rational thinking horses. Identify the name for the brutish, human-like creatures who work for the horses.

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Yahoos

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There is little symbolism in this play, but the play itself can be seen as symbolic of the McCarthy trials of the 1950s. Identify this play in which John Proctor, a local fireman, is stern, principled, and hates hypocrisy.

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The Crucible

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Identify the authors of the following works of literature: Oliver Twist. On the Road. Of Mice and Men. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Dickens. Kerouac. Steinbeck. Kesey.

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In 1929, a German soldier wrote a novel about the atrocities of war that he experienced during World War I. In this novel, the narrator confronts the full horror of battle, but stays in the fight to the bitter end.

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All Quiet on the Western Front

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Identify the novel whose narrator-protagonist is Jake Barnes. This novel, written by Ernest Hemingway, portrays the so-called Lost Generation. Title includes the name of a heavenly body.

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The Sun Also Rises

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What author who wrote about Josiah Bounderby in a novel, called Hard Times, set in Coketown, also wrote about the Artful Dodger in his novel Oliver Twist?

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Dickens

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Wrote the poems She Walks in Beauty and So We'll Go No More a Roving. Name this English Lord, the poet of Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.

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Lord Byron

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This reclusive poet from Amherst, Massachusetts, wrote Because I could not stop for Death and Success is Counted Sweetest.

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Emily Dickinson

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This author of a biography of Margaret Fuller is best known for her "Battle Hymn of the Republic"

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Howe

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Name the author of Stewart Little and Charlotte's Web

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EB White

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Tim O'Brien's story The Things they Carried and Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American are set in what Asian country that saw a '60s and '70s war?

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Vietnam

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Which man hosts Ned Land and Professor Aronnax as he battles the giant squid with the Nautilus in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea?

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Nemo

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Shortly after this book was published, George Aiken created a popular drama of it. in it, George Shelby fails to rescue the title character, who is beaten to death by Simon Legree. Name this novel about "life among the lowly" by Harriet Beecher Stowe:

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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One of the works characters, Sister Monroe, his Reverend Thomas with her purse in Stamps, Arkansas. Other characters include the author's brother, Bailey, and their mother's abusive boyfriend. Name this autobiography which depicts the youth of Maya Angelou:

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I know why the Caged bird sings

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Percival Wemys Madison is a character in what novel in which Roger captures Samneric and Jack turns against Ralph and Piggy. By William Golding:

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Lord of the Flies

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What female autor satirized Catherine Morland love of Gothic fiction in her novel Northanger Abbey also wrote about Emma and Sense and Sensibility?

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Jane Austen

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Who wrote Casey at Bat, a story about baseball?

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Philip Roth

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Identify the authors of the following works of children's literature: Watership Down; Are You There God? It's Me Margaret; James and the Giant Peach; Wynken, Blynken, and Nod;

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Adams; Blume; Dahl; Field;

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Who wrote the Scarlet Letter?

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Hawthorne

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Van Helsing is a Dutch professor and one of the most advanced scientists of his day. Unlike his comrades, he is not blinded by the limitations of Western medicine, as he knows that traditional science and reason will not affect this novels protagonist. Identify this novel written by Bram Stoker:

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Dracula

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The first one of these sixteen pamphlets written by Thomas Paine was published in 1776, at a time of gloom and uncertainty as the Revolutionary Army faced defeat after retreating from New Jersey. Identify this series of pamphlets that included the words , "These are the times that tries men's souls"

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The American Crisis

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This short story was published in the New Yorker magazine in 1939. In it, the main character envisions himself as a beloved Navy flight commander and a a skilled surgeon. Identify this short story written by James Thunder:

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

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The following events occured in which novel? Orlick has robbed Pumblechook and is in jail; Miss Havisham has died and left most of her fortune to the pockets; and Biddy has taught Joe how to read and write. This novel written by Dickens:

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Great Expectations

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in JD Salingers best known novel, Phoebe asks her brother Holden to tell her one thing he would like to be. What was his response?

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The Catcher in the Rye

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Who wrote Leaves of Grass?

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Walt Whitman

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Female characters in this novel include Helene Kuragina and Natasha Rostova. In its first epilogue, Natasha marries Pierre Bezukhov who had earlier saved a French officer during the Battle of Borodino. Name this novel by Leo Tolstoy set during the Napoleonic Wars.

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War and Peace

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Sandy is the wife of Hank Morgan, the title character of which Mark Twain novel that sees a New England mechanic travel back in time to meet Merlin:

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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

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What American author wrote about Quentin and Holga in After the Fall, the Salem witch trials in the Crucible, and Willy Loam in Death of a Salesman:

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Miller

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Antagonists in this novel include Luzhin, Portiry Petrovich and Svidrigailor. The setting is in a prison in Siberia, along with the city of St. Petersburg. Identify this novel, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in which Raskalnikov is the protagonist:

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Crime and Punishment

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Which Charles Dickens novel features these women: Madame Defarge who encodes the names of French aristocrats she plans to have killed on her knitting: Miss Havisham, who was jilted on her wedding day and teaches her ward Estella to hate men:

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Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations;