Literature: Part 1 (Page 1, 2, 3, and 4)

Who was the British author of ‘Emma’ → Jane Austen

Ernest Hemingway wrote a classic in 1952 that he wanted to turn into a stage play. It finally happened 6 ½ decades later at the University of Pittsburg playhouse. Which novella is it that won a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize? → The Old Man and the Sea

What is the oldest epic poem in any modern European language → Beowulf

Which American is credited with writing the first detective story? → Edgar Allen Poe. What was the title of that story? → Murders in the Rue Morgue

What is the bloodiest of Shakespeare’s plays? → Macbeth

Which war was the setting for the Diary of Anne Frank? → World War II. Who was the name to which Anne Frank addressed most of her diary entries? → Kitty. In what city did Anne Frank write her diary? → Amsterdam. What was Anne Frank’s nationality? → German

In which Shakespeare play would you find Titania, the Fairy queen? → A Midsummer’s Nighs Dream

In the Scarlet Letter, how does Hester support herself financially? → Seamstress

In the Crucible, which was written in the 1950s, it used the 17th century case of witchcraft trials to comment on the 20th century phenomenon of hunting communists as if they were witches. Who wrote the Crucible? → Arthur Miller

Give the nationalities of these writers: Robert Louis Stevenson → Scottish. Albert Camus → French

Which ocean is the set up for the ‘Lord of the Flies’? → Pacific

Who is the author of the short story, ‘The Tell Tale Heart’? → Edgar Allen Poe

Whose theatrical company was called ‘Lord Chamberlain’s Men’? → William Shakespeare

This type of story features a situation which teaches a moral lession usually through the action of animals. For 10 points each, name this type of story and the author best associated with them? → Fables, Aesop

Name these American authors by their 1st novel. Fahrenheit 451 → Ray Bradbury. Tarzan of the Apes → Edgar Rice Burroughs

Who wrote the novel ‘A Separate Peace’? → John Knowles

In the classic novel Moby Dick, what is the name of the following character: the ship’s captain, the narrator of the story, the captain’s first mate, and the man who fashioned his own coffin because he foresees his death? → Captain Ahab, Ishmael, Starbuck, and Queequeg

In a “A Christmas Carol’, who was Scrooge’s dead business partner? → Jacob Marley

Name the authors of the following works: Wuthering Heights → Emily Bronte. Frankenstein → Mary Shelly. Canterbury Tales → Geoffrey Chaucer. Dracula → Bram Stoker

The Pequod began its fateful journey in Nantucket. In what novel is the Pequod featured? → Moby Dick

What famous book written by Joseph Conrad has Marlow and Kurtz as characters? → Heart of Darkness

What well known Shakespeare character speaks the line, “But soft, what line through yonder window breaks, is it the east?’ → Romeo

‘A Tale of Two Cities’ concerns what historic event? → French Revolution

What is the literary device for hints given to the reader to determine a story’s outcome? → Foreshadow

Who wrote ‘Roots, the Saga of an American Family’? → Alex Haley

Name the blind English poet who dictated his epic ‘Paradise Lost’ to secretaries → John Milton

Give the author of the plays: The Crucible → Aurthur Miller. A Streetcar named Desire → Tennessee Williams. Pygmalion → George Bernard Shaw. The Picture of Dorian Gray → Oscar Wilde

(Miscellaneous) In the Batman comics, what is the real name of the character ‘Two Face’? → Harvey Dent

Identify the poet who wrote, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’? → Robert Frost. “Under the spreading Chestnut tree the village smithy stands’? → Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What author is known as the father of English poetry? → Geoffray Chaucer

What is the name of a speech in which a character in a play reveals his thoughts while alone on stage → Soliloquy

In ‘Charlotte’s Web’, what was the name of the pig? → Wilbur

What American poet was famous for his use of split words, creative punctuation, and lack of capital letters? → E.E. Cummings

Which Greek playwright wrote plays such as ‘The Clouds’, ‘The Wasps’, and ‘The Knights’ and is considered to be the Father of Comedy? → Aristophanes

Gustav Flaubert wrote a novel that depicted the middle class and limited the role of women in a male dominated 19th century society. What is the name of this novel with the ever-discontented Emma? → Madame Bovary

What was the pen name of English author Charles Dodgson? → Lewis Carroll

In which work does the hero kill the water monster Grendel and Grendel’s mother? → Beowulf

Identify this Shakespeare play that opens with the following line: ‘When shall we three meet again?’ →Macbeth. ‘Who’s there?’ → Hamlet

In what New York mountain range did Rip Van Winkle sleep for 20 years? → Catskills

Give the nationality of the writer. Edgar Allen Poe→ American. Anna Sewell → English. Victor Hugo → French. Thomas Mann → German

Who was the author of the Harry Potter books? → J.K. Rowling

Of the 8 people who hid in Amsterdam with Anne Frank, who was the only survivor? → Otto Frank

In what city was William Shakespeare born? → Stratford-on-Avon

Who wrote the novella ‘Billy Budd, Sailor’? → Herman Melville

Who wrote ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ ? → Edgar Allen Poe

Name the author: Canterbury Tales → Geoffrey Chaucer. The Godfather → Mario Puzo

Match the author with the literary character: Atticus Finch → Harper Lee. Uriah Heep → Charles Dickens

Name the F. Scott Fitzgerald character who is longing for the married Daisy Buchanan → Jay Gatsby of the Great Gatsby

Who was the Greek warrior son of Peleus and Thetis? → Achilles

Noah Webster was a famous Lexicographer and he is known for what work? → Dictionary

One of the three traditions of poetry is the classical tradition. Name the other 2 traditions → Romantic and Realistic

What do we call the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry? → Rhythm

According to Homer’s Illiad, what nationality of soldiers were hidden inside the Trojan horse? → Greek

Branwell was an unpublished poet while his sisters were published authors? Name 2 of the 3 Bronte sisters → Charlotte, Emily, Anne

Who was the author of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ → Harriet Beecher Stowe. What is the name of the wicked slave owner in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’? → Simon Legree

What do we call a pair of rhyming lines in a poem? → Couplet

Name the author who created the following locations. Oz → L. Frank Baum. Narnia → C.S. Lewis. Minis Tirith → J. R. R. Tolkien. Hogwarts → J. K. Rowling

What term is given as a point of illumination where something not understood becomes completely clear like an ‘Aha’ moment? → Epiphany

In the ‘Adventures of Tom Sawyer’, who was labeled as the juvenile pariah of the village? → Huckleberry Finn

Who was the real name of the character known as the Hunchback of Notre Dame → Quasimodo

Name the following characters from the Peanuts comics. The character with the security blanket → Linus. The piano playing baseball catcher → Schroeder