Literature: Part III (pages 9, 10, 11, and 12)
The novel ‘It’ features a clown on the book’s cover art. Who is the author of the book? → Stephen King. What is the name of the villain clown? → Pennywise
Name the epic poem by John Milton consisting of 12 books → Paradise Lost
In what country did most of Charles Dickens’ stories take place? → England
Which poet wrote ‘Leaves of Grass’? → Walt Whitman
In the story of Camelot, what were the names of the King and the magician? → Arthur and Merlin
What character from the mind of Washington Irving was pursued by a headless horseman? → Ichabod Crane
In the story, ‘A Christmas Carol’, what is Marley forced to drag about as a result of his sinful life? → Chains
What character in Lord of the Rings compares to Merlin in the Legend of King Arthur? → Gandalf
Both Homer and Vergil told about the most beautiful woman in the world being seduced and taken away by a foreign prince. Name the woman and the prince → Helen of Troy and Paris
Whose poem ends with the line, ‘And that has made all the difference’? → Robert Frost’s ‘A Road Not Taken’
Who was the author of the play ‘Pygmalion’? → George Bernard Shaw. What is the name of the main female character of that play? → Eliza Doolittle
Give the name of the author: When Lilacs Last by the Door Yard Bloomed → Walt Whitman
Who was the American author who penned the works ‘To Have and To Have Not’ and ‘A Farewell to Arms’ → Ernest Hemingway
Which 2 conspirators led the attack that killed Julius Caesar? → Brutus and Cassius
The Joad family is the subject to what novel? → The Grapes of Wrath
What is the poetic form that laments death in poem or song → Elegy
Which Irish poet wrote ‘The 2nd Coming’? → William Butler Yeats
John Steinbeck took the title of one of his books from a poem written by his favority Scottish writer that read ‘the best laid schemes - leave us not but grief and pain’. What is the name of the novel → Of Mice and Men. Who was the Scottish poet that he quoted → Robert Burns
In ‘Little Women’, which sister dies at an early age → Becky; who was the author of ‘Little Women’? → Louisa Mae Alcott
Identify the following authors of these works: Of Mice and Men → John Steinbeck. Catcher in the Rye → J.D. Salinger
What literary term describes realistic character or objects or events that stand for abstract qualities or ideas → allegory
Who slept in a polished walnut using blue violet petals as a mattress? → Thumbelina
Which Shakespeare tragedy has Cordelia hanged and the lead character dead of a broken heart → King Lear
Who was the author of ‘The War of the Worlds’ → H.G. Wells. In the book, which world was said to have attacked the Earth → Mars
Which poet penned these lines: ‘Whose wood these are, I think I know’ → Robert Frost. ‘I am the grass, I cover all’ → Carl Sandberg
What was the final title of the book ‘Before this Anger’ written by Alex Haley → Roots
What country was the birthplace and the setting of the writings of Rudyard Kipling → India
Who wrote the novel ‘Les Miserable’ → Victor Hugo
He is the last English king to die in battle at Bosworth Field in 1485. Thanks to William Shakespeare, he is known as an evil hunchback. Which English king was that? → Richard III
In Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’, what was the name of the pig who led the revolution? → Napoleon
What nationality are the writers of children’s classics. Charles Perrault (author of Sleeping Beauty) → French. Hans Christian Anderson (author of Thumbelina) → Danish
Greek mythology said it was a powerful nation, but its residents were so corrupted by greed and power that Zeus destroyed it. The mystery as to whether or not it actually existed or why it disappeared has fired the imagination for centuries. What is the name of that lost island? → Atlantis
What American writer and humorist was praised by William Faulkner as the ‘Father of American Literature’ → Mark Twain
In the Crucible, what ultimately happens to John Proctor → He’s hanged
John Bunyan wrote a book about a man named Christian and his journey toward heaven → Pilgrim’s Progress
Which 2 of Henry David Thoreau’s books were published during his lifetime? → Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Who wrote this statement: ‘If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer’ → Henry David Thoreau
In Romeo and Juliet, what was Romeo’s family name? → Montague
He was the greatest of all Roman poets and the author of the Rome’s national epic, ‘The Aeneid.’ He was closely associated with Rome’s first emperor Octavian Augustus who looms large in his poetry. Who was this poet? → Virgil
What is the name given to the villain of someone in oppositioin to the story’s main character? → Antagonist
Which John Steinbeck novel describes the plight of people uprooted by drought in the 1930’s → Grapes of Wrath
Name 2 of the 4 Shakespeare plays that have the name of a geographical site in the Title → Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, 2 Gentlemen of Verona, Timon of Athens
Who was Sherlock Holmes’ assistant? → Dr. Watson
Identify the war in which this work takes place; ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ → Spanish Civil War; War and Peace → Napoleonic Wars
What name is given to the implied comparison like ‘A heart of stone’ → Metaphor
How does Santiago finally kill the marlin in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ → He harpoons it through the heart
The Iliad tells the story of which war → Trojan War
Identify the authors of these works: Frankenstein → Mary Shelley; Ode to a Nightingale → John Keats
In the comic strip ‘Peanuts’, who is Snoopy’s owner → Charlie Brown
Which novel made Miguel Cervantes famous → Don Quixote
In Les Miserables, Jen Valjean is released from prison after 19 years. For what crime was he imprisoned → He stole a loaf of bread
It is a person, or event, or thing that is chronologically out of place in a piece of literature. What is the term for that definition? → Anachronism
Name the epic poem that tells the Biblical tale of the fall of mankind when Adam and Eve were tempted by Satan to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge and God banished them from the Garden of Eden → Paradise Lost. Who was the author of Paradise Lost? → John Milton
Which was the setting for the ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ → World War II
In 2022, two notebooks were missing for decades, and worth millions were left at the Cambridge University Library. Who wrote the notebooks that were the basis for his book titles, ‘On the Origin of Species.’ → Charles Darwin. The notebooks were part of an international hunt by what global police force → Interpol
Who wrote the books ‘Treasure Island’ and ‘Kidnapped’ → Robert Louis Stevenson
Which Hemingway book featured the running of the bulls → The Sun Also Rises. Which city is famous for the running of the bulls → Pamplona, Spain
The literature of ancient India is in what language → Sanskrit
In ‘A Christmas Carol’, who was Scrooge’s dead partner → Marley
Which 16th century poet and playwright’s most famous work was a tragical history of Dr. Faustus → Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe was one of the most famous playwrights of what era → Elizabethan
Which of Shakespeare’s plays features a character named Puck → A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
What are the names of the characters involved in a love triangle in the ‘Twilight Saga’ → Edward, Bella, and Jacob. Who is the author of the ‘Twilight Saga’ → Stephenie Meyer
What queen was the lover of Sir Lancelot → Guinevere
Which character created by Washington Irving was pursued by the headless horseman → Ichabod Crane
Archaeologists discovered a fresco in the ruins of Pompeii depicting a mythological hunter who fell in love with his own image in a pool of water. Who was the hunter? → Narcissus