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