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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