Misc. Literature

The Little Prince [or Le Petit Prince]

A character in this book describes a pill he invented which allows its user to save 53 minutes a week by not having to drink water. A geographer alarms this novel's protagonist by defining "ephemeral" as "in danger of speedy disappearance." This book describes a scientist whose discovery is ignored because of his Turkish costume. This novel's protagonist is told "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly" by a fox who asks to be tamed. The protagonist of this novel (*) meets a king, a drunk, and a lamplighter after leaving his home, where he battles baobabs and tends a proud rose. This book's narrator encounters the title character after his plane crashes in the Sahara. For 10 points, name this novella about a boy from asteroid B-612 by Antoine Saint-Exupery ("sahn ex-oo-per-EE").

Daisy Miller: A Study

A character in this novel asks to be brought a copy of Cherbuliez's Paule Méré, whose plot mirrors that of this work. Another character in this novel talks about a doctor in Schenectady, Mr. Davis, who sought to cure her dyspepsia. Mrs. Costello, the aunt of this novel's protagonist, is shocked that her nephew accompanies the title character from Vevey to the Chateau de (*) Chillon. Mrs. Walker ostracizes the title character because she walks about Rome too much with Italian men like Mr. Giovanelli, and that character eventually contracts malaria after a nighttime visit to the Colosseum. For 10 points, name this novella in which Frederick Winterbourne falls for an innocent American girl traveling in Europe, written by Henry James.

Mrs. Dalloway

A character in this novel goes to war "to save an England which consisted almost entirely of Shakespeare's plays and Miss Isabel Pole in a green dress." Another character in this book constantly fidgets with his horn-handled pocket knife. A soldier in this novel loses his capacity for feeling after the death of his commander Evans but soothes himself by making a hat with his wife (*) Lucrezia. The protagonist of this novel reminisces about time spent at Bourton with Peter Walsh and Sally Seton. This novel begins with the protagonist leaving to buy flowers for the party she hosts that night, where she hears that Septimus Smith has jumped out a window. For 10 points, name this Virginia Woolf novel about one day in the life of Clarissa

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

A character in this novel has a thrilling experience while listening to a radio recording of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony through the window of a suburban house. That character in this novel tries to increase her popularity by hosting a "prom" at her house, where the cook Portia works. In this novel, a man goes by the name Buddy despite being named Karl Marx by his father Doctor Copeland. A man in this novel presents a (*) card to the people he meets that explains how to communicate with him, and that man's Greek best friend is sent to an asylum at this novel's beginning. In this novel, Biff Brannon owns a cafe at which Jake Blount and Mick Kelly befriend the deaf-mute John Singer. For 10 points, name this novel by Carson McCullers.

Death in Venice [or Der Tod in Venedig]

A character in this novel is delighted by a boy's dislike for a Russian family and learns that his name is pronounced with a long "u" sound. In this novel, an unlicensed driver ignores the protagonist's request to be taken to a steamer-landing. The protagonist of this novel imagines himself as Socrates lecturing Phaedrus about love after having a barber paint his cheeks, paralleling the makeup worn by an old man in a wig he had seen earlier. In this (*) novella, an Englishman warns the main character about the cover-up of an outbreak of cholera. After eating ripe strawberries, its protagonist expires on the beach while watching the Polish boy Tadzio. For 10 points, name this novella in which Gustav von Aschenbach dies in an Italian city, a work of Thomas Mann.

Their Eyes Were Watching God

A character in this novel is forbidden from attending the funeral of a yellow mule which her husband had bought from its abusive owner. In this novel, a town gets its first streetlamp thanks to that man, who had been elected mayor after buying 200 acres and opening a store and post office. Interest in this novel was revived by an essay about "looking" for its author by Alice Walker. After kissing Johnny Walker under a flowering pear tree, this novel's protagonist is (*) married off by her grandmother. During a flood following a hurricane in this novel, a man is bitten by a rabid dog. The protagonist of this novel tells Phoebe about her marriages to Logan Killicks, Joe Starks, and Tea Cake. For 10 points, name this novel about Janie Crawford by Zora Neale Hurston.

pigs [or Piggy; or swine; or sows; or boars]

A character named for this sort of animal is lamented as a "true, wise friend" by the sobbing protagonist. A character decides "next time there would be no mercy" after finding one of these animals caught in some creepers but not using his knife fast enough. Chants like "cut her throat! spill her blood!" accompany a ritual centered on this kind of animal. The taunt "sucks to your ass-mar" is shouted at a character (*) nicknamed for this sort of animal whom Roger crushes at Castle Rock with a boulder. The head of one of these animals claims to be the "Beast" during Simon's hallucination and is impaled on a stick by Jack. For 10 points, a fat, bespectacled schoolboy is nicknamed for what sort of animal in William Golding's The Lord of the Flies?

a salesman [or a travelling salesman; or a shoe salesman]

A character with this profession has his car pulled out of a ravine by Sonny's mule. Another character with this job tells the story of a popular man who died in his "green velvet slippers" on a train-ride as an example of a person who was "well liked," not just "liked." R. J. Bowman, a man of this profession, dies of a heart attack at the end of a Eudora Welty story. Flute music heralds scenes in which a person with this job imagines talking to a man who got rich in (*) Africa, his brother Ben. That character with this job angers his son by having an affair with The Woman in Boston and crashes his car to provide life insurance money for Linda, Biff, and Happy. For 10 points, name this profession practiced by Willy Loman in an Arthur Miller play about his death.

Ewell [pronounced "you"-ull; but accept phonetic pronunciations]

A child named Little Chuck Little almost pulls a knife on a member of this family who constantly has lice in his hair and only attends the first day of Caroline Fisher's first grade class before becoming delinquent. The oldest child of this family grows red geraniums outside her home and saves nickels to purchase ice cream for her siblings. After one member of this family is humiliated at a trial, he terrorizes the widow Helen. The sheriff (*) Heck Tate puts in his report that the head of this family "fell on his own knife" after attacking a child. It is strongly implied that Mayella, a member of this family, is beaten by her father for trying to seduce Tom Robinson. For 10 points, Bob is the drunken patriarch of what disgraceful family in To Kill a Mockingbird?

travelogues [or similar answers like travel literature or travel narratives; or journey texts]

A dream of the prophet Muhammed inspired the writing of a text in this genre by Evliya Çelebi (CHELL-eh-bee). The work of Odoric of Pordenone was incompetently plagiarized for a text in this genre attributed to the knight John Mandeville. The author of a text in this genre served as a judge in the Maldives and in the court of Muhammad ibn Tughluq. The Yam system and the carrying of paiza tablets by administrators are described in a text in this genre (*) narrated to Rustichello da Pisa in a Genoese prison. This genre of the Rihla of Ibn Battuta is shared by a text entitled The Million which describes the summer palace at Xanadu. For 10 points, the Silk Road and the court of Kublai Khan are described in a text of what genre by Marco Polo?

Walden Pond

A hundred men of "Hyperborean extraction" come to work at this location, from which they ship their product off to places like Bombay and Charleston. A chapter about the "Former Inhabitants" of this place includes Hugh Quoil, a drunkard who fought at Waterloo and occupied Lyman's tenement. While staying at this location, an author wrote the travelogue A Week on the (*) Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The chapter "Where I Lived and What I Lived For" describes the author's residence at this place. That author built a cabin and planted his own bean-field during the two years, two months, and two days he spent living at this location, a experience described in a book subtitled "Life in the Woods." For 10 points, name this pond that titles a book by Henry David Thoreau.

Brooklyn [prompt on New York or the United States of America before "New York" is read]

A literary character from this area, Dylan Ebdus, gives his friend Mingus Rude a magic ring so that he can become the superhero "Aeroman." A famous poet edited this area's Eagle newspaper. This area is the setting of The Fortress of Solitude and other works by writer Jonathan Lethem. In a poem titled for it, the speaker claims "[this area], of ample hills, was mine" and admits "I am he who knew what it was to be evil." The speaker notes "distance (*) avails not, and place avails not" in a poem that mentions people traveling to this area "attired in the usual costumes." People traveling to this area "furnish [their] parts toward the soul" in a poem beginning "Flood-tide below me!" For 10 points, name this New York borough travelled to by ferry in a Walt Whitman poem.

The Importance of Being Earnest

A minister in this play claims to have completely refuted the heretical views of the Anabaptists in four unpublished sermons. That minister goes on a walk with a governess who assigns her charge the hated subject of German. Two characters in this play devour a plate of cucumber sandwiches before Aunt Augusta's arrival in the first act, and in the second, they eat muffins while discussing their upcoming (*) re-baptisms. In this play, Cecily Cardew and Gwendolyn Fairfax meet at a country house owned by a man found in a handbag as a baby, and another man comes to the house under the pretense of visiting his infirm cousin Bunbury. For 10 points, name this Oscar Wilde play in which Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief both pretend to have a certain desirable name.

Cry, the Beloved Country

A narrator of this novel praises Ernest Oppenheimer for proposing that mines be built after gold is discovered at Odendaalsrust. The main character of this novel laughs until he is sore after children in a tiny village are given gifts of milk by a farm owner. This novel ends after the protagonist prays on a hilltop at dawn as he waits for his son to be executed. In this book, a trial that ends with the acquittal of the two accomplices (*) Matthew and Johannes Paffuri is taken up pro deo by Mr. Carmichael. At the opening of this novel, Theophilus Msimangu sends his fellow priest Stephen a letter asking him to come to Johannesburg. For 10 points, name this novel in which Absalom Kumalo is sentenced to death for killing Arthur Jarvis, written by Alan Paton.

Sir Walter Scott

A novel by this author contains the short story "Wandering Willie's Tale" within it and is named for a Jacobite who kidnaps his nephew Darsie Latimer in order to help restore Prince Charles Edward to the throne. William Thackeray wrote a sequel to one of this writer's books in which the title character defeats Brian de Bois-Guilbert and Reginald Front-de-Beuf while disguised as a (*) disinherited knight. In that book by this author of Redgauntlet, the title character besieges Torquilstone to rescue Isaac the Jew and his daughter Rebecca. The title character of that novel by this author joins Richard I in the 3rd Crusade after his father Cedric disowns him for falling in love with his ward, the lady Rowena. For 10 points, name this author of Ivanhoe.

French

A novel written in this language follows a girl who is raised to be a prostitute by her mother and grandmother, and was written by an author whose first four novels were published under her husband's name. In a novel in this language, the narrator visits Biskra, where he sees his wife's scissors get stolen by one of the Arab boys whom he finds himself attracted to. Another author writing in this language wrote the trilogy The Roads to Freedom as well as a play in which an unnamed valet does not have (*) any eyelids. That play in this language climaxes with a man stroking a bronze mantelpiece and stating "Hell is other people!" The Immoralist and No Exit are written in, for 10 points, what language used by Colette, Andre Gide, and Jean-Paul Sartre?

Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht]

A play by this author features a ceremony in which the protagonist sells a telescope to the Venice arsenal. That play by this author ends with Andrea smuggling a Discourse which the blind title character had written and hidden in a globe while under house arrest. A character created by this author tells fortunes by drawing black crosses from a helmet. In a play by this author, a girl obsesses over Yvette's red boots and is (*) shot off a roof for beating a drum to warn a town of approaching troops. This author of Galileo tried to prevent audience identification with characters in his "epic theater." In one of his plays, Swiss Cheese and Katrin are children of the title canteen wagon owner. For 10 points, name this playwright of Mother Courage and Her Children.

Phillis Wheatley

A poem by this author imagines a "splendid city, crown'd with endless day, whose twice six gates on radiant hinges ring" where the addressee, the painter "S.M.," will no longer paint "Damon" or "Aurora." One of this author's poems advises Christians to remember that certain people "may be refined and join th' angelic train." One of this author's poems states "Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side" and begins "Celestial (*) choir! enthron'd in realms of light." This poet addressed a "happy saint" in an elegy on George Whitefield's death and opened another poem with the line "mercy brought me from my pagan land." For 10 points, name this author of "To His Excellency George Washington" and "On Being Brought from Africa to America," an early female African-American poet.

American Revolution [or Revolutionary War]

A poem lamenting the treatment of veterans of this war describes a soldier who "feeds on praise, lost in the abyss of want." A poem set during this war describes the "bleating of the flock and the twitter of birds" before imagining "one [who] was safe and asleep in his bed" but would be dead the next day. Another poem which describes this war begins "By the (*) rude bridge that arched the flood" and describes the flag flown by "embattled farmers." Philip Freneau is called the poet of this war. "Hardly a man is still alive" who remembers a night during this war on which the title character of a poem uses a light in the North Church tower as a signal. For 10 points, name this war whose opening is the setting of Emerson's "Concord Hymn" and Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride."

infinity [or infinitely many; accept obvious equivalents such as unending, numberless, or forever]

A troglodyte destined to live this many years is nicknamed "Argos" by a Roman soldier who encounters him outside of an abandoned city. A Scottish Bible seller gives a short story's narrator a book with this many pages, which he later hides in the National Library. Although the inquisitors search for "Vindications," the Purifiers destroy items from a collection of this many items, which includes The (*) Combed Thunderclap and The Plastic Cramp. This many scenes are visible from a point in Carlos Daneri's cellar called "The Aleph." The Library of Babel contains this many hexagonal rooms, and this many possible outcomes appear in Ts'ui Pen's "The Garden of Forking Paths." For 10 points, many Jorge Luis Borges stories feature what concept of indefinite largeness?

robots [or Rossum's Universal Robots; or R.U.R.]

After examining one of these characters by stabbing him in the hand, a doctor explains to the protagonist that a new species of flowers is sterile. A man is electrocuted on a fence while trying to buy these characters off with half a billion dollars. One of these characters is named Sulla because a man "thought Marius and Sulla were lovers." A representative of the League of Humanity arrives on an island to advocate for these characters. A year (*) after these characters kill Dr. Gall and Harry Domin, Alquist dubs two of them the new Adam and Eve. These beings seek the formula for their creation after they revolt and destroy humanity. For 10 points, name these beings made by Rossum's Universal in a Karel Čapek play, which coined the name for these artificial automatons.

Sense and Sensibility

At a party in this novel, a pregnant woman socializes with the guests while her husband hides behind a newspaper. A letter rejecting a woman in this novel is accompanied by a lock of the woman's hair that the sender had cut and kissed. A couple in this novel meet when the man helps the woman up after she slips and falls in the rain. A man in this novel is disinherited by his aunt for seducing the fifteen-year old (*) Eliza Williams. In this novel, Robert, the brother of the proprietress of the Norland estate, marries the gold-digger Lucy Steele. A woman in this novel ends up with the older Colonel Brandon instead of the charming John Willoughby. For 10 points, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood personify the two title traits of what novel by Jane Austen?

Main Street

At this novel's end, the protagonist gives birth to a baby girl who she decides will go to Vassar one day. Vida Sherwin and Guy Pollock elect this novel's protagonist as part of a group that eventually puts on a performance of The Girl of Kankakee after Bernard Shaw is deemed to be too "highbrow." This novel's protagonist spends two years in Washington D.C. after the failure of her work with women's groups like the (*) Jolly Seventeen and the Thanatopsis Club. This novel's opening is set in Minneapolis, where the main character's future husband Will courts her before they resettle in Gopher Prairie. Carol Kennicott tries to change the humdrum townspeople in, for 10 points, what novel by Sinclair Lewis named for a small-town road?

book burning [or obvious equivalents indicating destroying books; or being a fireman until "firemen" is read; prompt on burning alone; prompt on censorship; do not accept or prompt on "fire fighting"]

Benjamin Franklin is said to have begun this practice in 1790 in a rulebook that is shown to the protagonist by Stoneman and Black. When her property undergoes this action, an old woman quotes the words "Play the man, Master Ridley" before dying because she refuses to leave. A character whose job involves this action is given a "green bullet" two-way radio by a professor, after which he turns off the TV (*) walls of his parlour and reads "Dover Beach" to his wife's friends. Captain Beatty leads an organization for this activity that employs the robotic "Mechanical Hound." A novel centered on it opens by stating "It was a pleasure to" perform this action. For 10 points, Guy Montag and the firemen engage in what censorship activity in Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451?

Mexican-American [or Chicano or Chicana until "Chicano" is read; prompt on Latino, Latina, or Hispanic]

Characters created by an author of this ethnicity include Darius, who claims that fat clouds are God, and Alicia, whose father claims the mice she sees are imaginary. In another novel, a character of this ethnicity learns about a god who became a golden carp and later buries his mentor's magical owl. A character of this ethnicity is offered a dollar for a kiss by a "bum man" while walking around in high heels, then is abandoned by (*) Sally and raped at a carnival. The author of Bless Me, Ultima shares this ethnicity with the author of a novel consisting of poem-like vignettes about Esperanza, who lives in The House on Mango Street. For 10 points, identify this ethnicity of Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros, two authors of Chicano literature.

English

Critic William Boyd wrote that an author "skillfully hijacked" this language to write a novel in which Mene contemplates his war-torn village Dukana. The novel Sozaboy is written in a "rotten" form of this language, which was also used to narrate Mugo's leadership of a concentration camp hunger strike in the novel A Grain of Wheat. The essay collection Decolonizing the Mind discusses its author's (*) abandonment of this language. For describing Africa as a mere "foil to Europe," Chinua Achebe called the author of a novel in this language a "thoroughgoing racist" in his essay "An Image of Africa," and missionaries speaking it come to Umuofia during Okonkwo's exile in Things Fall Apart. For 10 points, name this language colonially imposed on Nigerian and Kenyan writers.

A. E. Housman [or Alfred Edward Housman]

Hugh MacDiarmid wrote "another" version of this author's epitaph for mercenaries who fought on "the day when heaven was falling." A poem by this author describes a "king who reigned in the East" whose enemies "poured strychnine in his cup." One of this poet's speakers replies "Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man" to critics complaining that his verse "gives a chap the belly-ache." In one of his poems, the speaker remembers being (*) advised to "give crowns and pounds and guineas, but not your heart away" when he was "one and twenty." A poem by this author of "Terence, This is Stupid Stuff" recalls a time the addressee "won [his] town the race." For 10 points, name this poet who collected "To an Athlete Dying Young" in A Shropshire Lad.

George Bernard Shaw

In a play by this author, a man translates a passage of Euripides with the title character's name substituted for the word "loveliness." In one of his plays, the ruffian Bill Walker apologizes for hitting Jenny Hill after a wrestler kneels on his head and prays for him. Lady Britomart's ex-husband passes his company to the foundling scholar (*) Adolphus Cusins in a play by this author in which Andrew Undershaft perturbs his daughter by donating money made in arms manufacturing to the Salvation Army. Another play by this author opens with Colonel Pickering making a bet that Professor Higgins can't make the flower girl Eliza Doolittle speak like a duchess. For 10 points, name this Irish playwright of Major Barbara and Pygmalion.

assassination of Abraham Lincoln [or obvious equivalents indicating the death of Abraham Lincoln; prompt on the U.S. Civil War]

In a poem about this event, the speaker answers "Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes" to the question "what shall I hang on these walls?" Another poem tells this event's subject that "For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning." A poem about this event addresses an "orb sailing the heaven" and describes a "shy and hidden bird" who sings a "carol of death"; that poem inspired by this event notes "the great (*) star early droop'd in the western sky." A poem's title character, who stands for this event's victim, is told "our fearful trip is done" before the speaker sees him fallen on the deck. For 10 points, name this murder lamented in "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd" and "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman.

Arthur Rimbaud [or Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud]

In a poem by this author, a boy hears the "crackle of small lice dying" as "two charming older sisters" pick through his hair. This poet wrote "I sat Beauty on my lap...and I roughed her up" in a poem beginning "A while back, if I remember right, my life was one long party." The speaker of a poem by this author exclaims "I long for Europe with its aged old parapets!" and recalls how some men were nailed to stakes by "gaudy redskins." In a poem by this author, a (*) dialogue between a Hellish Husband and a Foolish Virgin and a section titled "Alchemy of the Word" make up two "Deliriums." One of his poems is narrated by the title drifting vessel. For 10 points, name this French poet of "The Drunken Boat" and A Season in Hell who had a turbulent affair with Paul Verlaine.

John Donne

In a poem, this author compares himself to a "usurp'd town" and tells the addressee that he is "betroth'd unto your enemy" before declaring "Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain." A poem by this man begins by describing how "virtuous men pass mildly away" before telling the addressee that "thy firmness makes my circle just" in a metaphor comparing their souls to a pair of "stiff twin (*) compasses." This author of "Batter my heart, three-person'd God" declares that his addressee is "slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men," in a poem concluding "one short sleep past, we wake eternally." For 10 points, name this author of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" whose Holy Sonnets include "Death be not Proud."

Dubliners

In a story from this collection, Kathleen's mother refuses to let her daughter participate in her third concert until she is paid in full. In another story in this book, a man who drinks with Ignatius Gallaher becomes frustrated after his reading of Byron's poetry causes his child to cry. This collection begins with a youth learning of the death of Father (*) Flynn. Stories in this collection include "A Mother" and one about Little Chandler, "A Little Cloud." The last story in this collection is set at the Morkan sisters' annual dance, and ends with an image of snow falling on the grave of Michael Furey's grave, a youthful love of Gabriel Conroy's wife. "The Sisters" and "The Dead" bookend, for 10 points, what short story collection by James Joyce?

Yiddish

In a story in this language, a philosopher who studies Spinoza in an attic on Market Street is nursed back to health by Old Dobbe. In a story in this language, the protagonist is told that there is no God but only a "thick mire" by the "Spirit of Evil." An author used this language to write about a man who "strikes it rich" when he receives a cow from two women whom he finds lost in the woods. In a story in this language, a baker's dying wife Elka reveals that her six children aren't (*) his, prompting him to urinate in his bread dough. This language was used to write "Gimpel the Fool," as well as stories about Tevye the Milkman. For 10 points, name this language used by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Sholem Aleichem, as well as other Ashkenazi Jewish writers.

diary [or diaries; or memoirs; or "Diary of a Madman"; or Diary of a Young Girl]

In a story titled for this literary form, the protagonist steals letters written between the dogs Meggy and Fidel. In a work in this form, the narrator expresses a desire to have a girlfriend after her request to touch the breasts of her friend Jacque is rejected. In a story titled for this literary form, a newspaper article about a vacancy on the Spanish throne leads the narrator to think he is Ferdinand VIII. Poprishchin (*) creates one of these works "of a madman" in a story by Nikolai Gogol. A work in this form is given the name "Kitty" by its author, who obsesses over Peter van Pels while living in the Secret Annex. For 10 points, identify this type of book, one of which was written in Amsterdam by Anne Frank.

The Tale of Genji [or Genji Monogatari]

In his study Seeds in the Heart, Donald Keene suggests that a chapter of this work was ordered destroyed since it told its readers to "flee the world." A poem called "Song of Unending Sorrow" is referred to repeatedly by this book, whose chapter "The Mayfly" describes the third daughter of the Eighth Prince becoming a nun after she decides not to throw herself into a river. This book's protagonist is caught sleeping with "The Lady of the Misty Moon" while in the house of the (*) Minister to the Left, and that protagonist is implied to have died during a blank chapter called "Vanished into the Clouds." This novel's title character is called "Shining" and is unfaithful to his wife Lady Aoi. For 10 points, name this novel about Heian court life by Lady Murasaki.

Jay Gatsby's parties [or party scenes from The Great Gatsby]

In preparation for these events, five crates of oranges and lemons arrive at their location every Friday. After leaving one of these events, two men crash into a ditch when the wheel of their car comes off. During one of these events, a character exclaims "this fella's a regular Belasco!" while examining books in a library; that character is nicknamed for his (*) owl-eyed spectacles. A cheating golf champion named Jordan Baker is told "amazing things" at one of these events. Music like "Jazz History of the World" plays at these events, which occur in a mansion that lies across the bay from a green dock light in West Egg. For 10 points, name these events attended by Nick Carraway and hosted by the title character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

Ulysses [or Odysseus]

In the first line of a poem, this character cries "Courage!" and claims that "this mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." This character then arrives in a "land in which it seemed always afternoon." Describing his son, this character concludes, "He works his work, I mine." In the opening of another poem, this character notes that "I am become a name" and regrets having to "mete and dole unequal laws unto a savage race." In that poem, this character decides "to (*) sail beyond the sunset," even though he is not "that strength that in old days moved earth and heaven." For 10 points, identify this unnamed leader in Tennyson's "The Lotos-eaters" who also narrates a dramatic monologue ending with his resolution to "strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

The Scarlet Letter

In the prefatory section of this novel, a man unties a package held together with "faded red tape," which contains a manuscript authorized by Governor Shirley and written by Jonathan Pue. One character in this novel, who is described as "well stricken in years," gained knowledge of "native herbs" during his year long captivity with Indians and is constantly referred to as "The Leech." This novel begins with a section called "The (*) Custom House." A character in this novel dies after giving his sermon on Election Day because he was driven to insanity by Arthur Dimmesdale. In this novel, Roger Chillingworth leaves his inheritance to the child Pearl. For 10 points, name this novel about the consequences of Hester Prynne's adultery, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

July's People

In this novel, a menstruating woman thinks about the passage of her life while washing her clothes in a river. Two characters in this novel have sex after becoming intoxicated by eating a warthog. A man in this novel uses the word "boy" in reference to himself, which annoys a woman he used to work for. Towards this novel's end, a gun is stolen while its owners listen to a gumba-gumba. A Life magazine photograph described in this novel depicts a (*) servant girl carrying the protagonist's schoolbooks. A yellow bakkie is owned by the central family of this novel, whose members include Maureen and Bamford. For 10 points, name this novel about the Smales family's time in their black servant's village, written by Nadine Gordimer.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented

In this novel, a sleepwalker carries his wife across a river and lays her in a stone sarcophagus in the ruins of a Cistercian (sis-TUR-shan) abbey. This novel's protagonist describes the "blighted star" they live on to her brother Abraham just before accidentally killing their family horse Prince. At Talbothay's dairy, this novel's protagonist befriends the milkmaids Izz, Retty, and Marian, who all love a man who leaves (*) Wessex to explore farming options in Brazil. After a police chase concludes at Stonehenge, this novel ends with a gentleman farmer and his sister-in-law watching for the black flag that signals the execution of a woman who murders Alec, the father of her illegitimate baby Sorrow. For 10 points, name this Thomas Hardy novel about a woman who marries Angel Clare.

The Master and Margarita [or Master i Margarita]

In this novel, some office workers can't stop singing after they are hypnotized by a pince-nez-wearing "choirmaster." A subplot of this novel ends with a headache-stricken man revealing to Levi that he had stabbed a traitorous character. In this novel, a servant turns her neighbor into a pig after putting on some magical cream, then flies to Apartment No. 50 for a party on (*) Walpurgis Night. In this novel's first chapter, a streetcar decapitates a chairman of MASSOLIT named Berlioz. In this novel, the pistol-toting cat Behemoth is part of the retinue of Professor Woland, who restores a manuscript about Pontius Pilate written by the first title character. For 10 points, name this novel in which the devil visits Moscow, a work titled for an author and his lover by Mikhail Bulgakov.

Waiting for Godot [or En attendant Godot]

In this play, a joke about an Englishman in a brothel is interrupted when a character yells "STOP IT!" and flees the stage. After the repeated question "You want to get rid of him?" is answered, a character in this play begins to cry, then kicks the shins of a character who tries to wipe his tears. Two boys who appear in this play may be brothers who tend the sheep and goats of the title character. In this play, a discussion of the "public works of Puncher and Wattmann" opens an (*) incoherent monologue that begins after the command "think!" This play's set features a single tree, and its characters, including Pozzo and his slave Lucky, all wear bowler hats. For 10 points, name this play about Vladimir and Estragon, who hope to see the title character, written by Samuel Beckett.

John Yossarian [prompt on John]

On Thanksgiving Day, this atheist chooses not to sleep with a friend of Dori Duz, and instead has a debate with her, claiming that the God in whom he does not believe is actually sadistic. This man is arrested after the brutal murder of the maid Michaela. The novel in which this character appears begins by stating "It was love at first sight" to describe this man's relationship with Chaplain Tappman. When this character realizes that (*) Orr is alive, he plans an escape to Sweden. This man's training lieutenant commander is obsessed with throwing parades and is named Lieutenant Scheisskopf. This B-25 Bombardier is stationed on the island of Pianosa and cannot get out of flying missions. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

cats [or neko; or I Am a Cat; or Cheshire Cat]

One of these animals learns of Avalon Coldmoon's marriage before getting drunk and drowning in a barrel of water. That one of these animals belongs to the amateur painter and teacher Mr. Sneaze. Though he's lost his memory, Satoru Nakata can communicate with these animals in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, and one of these animals narrates a (*) Natsume Soseki novel. Another of these animals is unaffected by the pepper in the Duchess's kitchen and escapes being beheaded during a croquet game featuring live flamingos in a queen's garden. That one of these animals talks to the protagonist from a tree branch and can disappear except for its grin. For 10 points, identify these animals, whose literary manifestations include the Cheshire one in Alice in Wonderland.

The Cantos [accept The Pisan Cantos before "pregha"]

The first Bollingen Prize was controversially awarded for the partial completion of this literary work, whose 36th section opens with a translation of Guido Cavalcanti's Donna mi pregha. This poem, whose first section is a free verse adaptation of the underworld visit in the Odyssey, features a section in which Robert Browning is told "there can be but one Sordello!" In the "Fifth Decad" of this poem, its author delivers an invective against usury. The later sections of this poem incorporate (*) Chinese ideograms. "Rock-Drill," and "Pisan" are portions of this poem, which was partly inspired by the author's fascism and arrest in Genoa. For 10 points, name this multi-part poem by Ezra Pound, whose name comes from the Italian for "songs."

Jews [or Hebrews; or Jewry; or anything indicating adherents of Judaism]

The first play published by an Englishwoman is a 1613 "Tragedy" of a queen of this group by Elizabeth Cary. One of these people disguises himself as a French lute player to kill his blackmailer and the courtesan Bellarmina with poisoned flowers. That member of this group claims "As for myself, I walk abroad a-nights and kill sick people groaning under walls." Calymath is saved from the plans of one of them when Governor Ferneze opens a (*) trap door. A member of this religious group buys the slave Ithamore, whom he sends to poison the residents of a nunnery, and dies in a boiling cauldron. For 10 points, name this religious group which Barrabas belongs to in a Christopher Marlowe play set in Malta and which also includes The Merchant of Venice's moneylender Shylock.

Republic of Poland

The post-World War II era of this country is depicted in a novel set largely at the Hotel Monopole, Ashes and Diamonds. A novel from this country features the character of Longinus, who vows to not have sex until he kills three people at once; that novel was followed up with Fire in the Steppe. The practice of Ketman by authors from this country such as "Alpha, the Moralist" is described in The Captive Mind, a book from here. This country's invasion by (*) Napoleon is depicted in its national epic, whose title translates as Mister Thaddeus. An author from this country wrote about Lygia's love for Marcus Vinicius in a novel set during Nero's reign. The author of With Fire and Sword and Quo Vadis?, Henryk Sienkiewicz, is from, for 10 points, what Eastern European country?

The Tin Drum [or Die Blechtrommel]

The protagonist of this novel gives sticks to a statue of Jesus and later smashes the statue when it does nothing with them. The mother of this novel's protagonist dies shortly after witnessing a man using a horse's head as bait while trying to fish for eels. Before becoming an engraver of gravestones in Dusseldorf, this novel's protagonist leads a gang called "The Dusters." The protagonist of this novel writes his (*) memoirs from an asylum after he finds a bloody finger in the field and confesses to Sister Dorothea's murder. This novel centers on a character who can shatter glass with his voice, and it is the first part of its author's "Danzig Trilogy." For 10 points, name this novel in which Oskar Matzerath refuses to grow up, written by Gunter Grass.

Siddhartha

The protagonist of this novel leaves a group after hypnotizing its leader, who had taught him exercises such as standing in a thorn bush without bleeding. After having a dream in which he throws away a dead songbird, the protagonist of this novel leaves his home and contemplates killing himself by jumping from a coconut tree. A spoiled boy in this novel steals a boat from his father, with whom he is forced to live with after his mother is killed by a snake-bite. The (*) title character of this novel abandons his work as a merchant and his relationship with the courtesan Kamala to work as a ferryman with Vasudeva. As a young man, this novel's protagonist hears the Buddha speak with his friend Govinda. For 10 points, name this novel set in India by Herman Hesse.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The protagonist of this novel resorts to shooting nine angry challengers with his revolver after his rival strips him of his lasso. The protagonist of this novel repaires a well to cause water to flow again into the Valley of Holiness. The novel's hero's nostalgia for a telephone operator leads him to name his child Hello-Central, and he gets called "The Boss" after using explosives to cause a rival (*) magician's tower to crumble. Five hundred warriors on bicycles are dispatched by Clarence to save this novel's hero after he goes undercover as a commoner with the King. Its protagonist successfully predicts an eclipse after he wakes up in the custody of Sir Kay. For 10 points, name this Mark Twain novel in which Hank Morgan travels back in time to Camelot.

"Kubla Khan"

The speaker of this poem compares its setting to a "savage place" haunted by a "woman wailing for her demon-lover," and it analogizes some huge flying rock fragments to "chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." This poem's speaker imagines himself with "flashing eyes" and "floating hair" as a consequence of his eating honeydew and drinking "the (*) milk of Paradise." This poem's final section describes its speaker's vision of an Abyssinian maid playing on a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora, and it begins with a description of a site where "Alph, the sacred river ran, through caverns measureless to man." A "stately-pleasure dome" is decreed in Xanadu in, for 10 points, what poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge named for a Mongol ruler?

Sylvia Plath's father [or Daddy; or Otto Plath]

The speaker tells this figure that the "thick air is murderous. I would breathe water" at the end of the poem "Full Fathom Five." This figure is told "all by yourself, you are pithy and historical as the Roman Forum" in the poem "The Colossus." A picture of this person depicts him standing at a blackboard with a "cleft in [the] chin instead of [the] foot." This person is described as "Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, (*) ghastly statue with one gray toe" in a poem titled for him that opens with the line "You do not do, you do not do." That poem tells this person that there's "a stake in your fat black heart" before proclaiming "you bastard, I'm through." For 10 points, identify this person compared to "a man in black with a Meinkampf look" in a Sylvia Plath poem.

words [accept The Garden of Words; Words, Words, Words; In the Beginning was the word; portmanteau words; or loanwords]

These things partly title a Makoto Shinkai film in which a student's rainy encounters with a mysterious woman in a garden at Shinjuku Gyoen help the latter regain her selfconfidence. Three chimpanzees named Kafka, Milton, and Swift appear in a David Ives play whose title repeats the name of these things three times. Hapax legomenon is the name for one of these things that only appear once in a given sample. When Polonius asks Hamlet "What do you read my lord?", Hamlet only (*) repeats this word three times. The Gospel of John opens by stating "In the beginning was [this]," and notes that it "was God." A portmanteau is one of these that has been formed from combining two different ones. For 10 points, name these linguistic units, which are sometimes "loaned" from other languages.

Milan Kundera

This author described Caliban pretending to be a Pakistani waiter and Stalin being cheered by crowds in the Luxembourg Gardens in a novel published in 2015, The Festival of Insignificance. A novel by this author describes an island inhabited by nudist children, which Tamina escapes before drowning. One of his books features seven sections including "The Angels," "Litost," and "Lost Letters." In a novel by this author, an artist (*) photographs another woman wearing her grandfather's bowler hat. In that novel, a couple dies in a car crash shortly after putting down the dog Karenin. Sabina, Tomas, and Tereza feature in that novel by this author. For 10 points, name this author of The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Pablo Neruda [or Ricardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto]

This author wrote "Abraham should come with his axe and his wooden plate" in a poem addressed to an American soldier. This poet often wrote in green ink, which he considered the color of hope. This poet wrote "we pour oil, essential child of the olive, onto its halved hemispheres" in a poem describing a tomato as a "star of earth" in a collection whose poems praise (*) everyday foods like maize and tuna. He included the section "Let the Woodcutter Awaken" in a work that commands "Look on me from the depths of the earth, tiller of fields, weaver, reticent shepherd." This author of Elemental Odes proclaimed "arise to birth with me, my brother!" in "The Heights of Macchu Picchu." For 10 points, name this author of Canto General (HEH-neh-rall), a Chilean poet.

Gwendolyn Brooks

This author wrote "I'll go out in the frosty dark and sing most terribly" in a poem whose speaker refuses to sing a "May song." This author described "two who are Mostly Good, two who have lived their day" in a poem in which "plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood" is used for the "casual affair" of dinner. This author of "The Crazy Woman" fictionalized her youth in the (*) Bronzeville neighborhood in her poetry collection Annie Allen. This one-time Poet Laureate of Illinois wrote the collection The Bean Eaters, which includes a poem set at the Golden Shovel in which the title figures "skip school," "jazz June," and "die soon." For 10 points, name this first African-American author to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, the author of "We Real Cool."

Caliban

This character exclaims "Thinketh! He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon" in a poem which describes the making of the sun and moon by a creator who is "ill at ease." This character greets his white master with the Swahili word for freedom, uhuru, in a play by Aimé Césaire (ay-mee si-ZAIR). This character believes that two men who give him "celestial liquor" are gods and plots with them against his lord, who freed a character this figure's mother imprisoned in a (*) "cloven pine." This colleague of Stephano and Trinculo meditates on the god Setebos in a Robert Browning poem. This son of the Algerian sorceress Sycorax attempts to rape Miranda, the daughter of the Milanese magician he serves. For 10 points, name this slave of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

Lolita Haze [or Dolores; or Lol; or Dolly; prompt on Haze]

This character is confused for multiple siblings by a gay French teacher whom the protagonist plays chess with. The narrator slaps this character for lying about getting soda with a friend and altering the license plate number he recorded of the red convertible which was following them. The preface explains that this character died in childbirth after marrying Dick Schiller. A man's (*) diary entries about this character prompt Charlotte to run into the road and get hit by a car. This character is taken to a ranch owned by the playwright of The Enchanted Hunters, Clare Quilty. The narrator calls this character "light of my life, fire of my loins." For 10 points, name this "nymphet" loved by Humbert Humbert in the Vladimir Nabokov novel she titles.

Don Quixote

This character is convinced that he is flying through the air when he is blindfolded and put on a wooden horse stuffed with firecrackers. This character encounters a man who had cut out his friend's heart during a vision he has while hanging from a rope in Montesinos's Cave. After attempting to free some galley slaves, this character meets a wild man driven mad by Luscinda's marriage, Cardenio. This character's library is (*) burned by a barber and the priest Dr. Perez. He fights Samson Carrasco in the guises of the Knight of the Wood and the Knight of the White Moon, and he searches for his idealized love Dulcinea. For 10 points, name this "ingenious gentleman" who tilts at windmills and adventures with Sancho Panza in a Miguel de Cervantes novel.

The Handmaid's Tale

This novel's frame story includes Professors Crescent Moon and Gopal Chatterjee hearing its text from a man who discovered it along the "Underground Frailroad." The protagonist of this novel recalls once believing that Jews were killed in kitchens when thinking about a documentary whose interviewee was the mistress of a man who ran a concentration camp. A Latin phrase meaning "Don't let the bastards grind you down" is discovered by this novel's protagonist, who is referred to as a (*) "two-legged womb" and is invited to play a game of Scrabble with the Commander. Serena Joy tries to get this novel's protagonist pregnant by having her meet with Nick. The Republic of Gilead is the setting of, for 10 points, what novel about Offred by Margaret Atwood?

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero

This novel's last chapter offers a "fake" happy ending by stating "Grow green again, tender little parasite, round the rugged old oak to which you cling," before really ending by asking "which of us is happy in this world?" A character in this novel shouts "Vive la France!" as she flings an autographed copy of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary out of her carriage. That woman in this novel sells her carriage to her brother-in-law Jos while trying to flee (*) Brussels, which occurs after she has an affair with George Osborne, a soldier who dies at Waterloo. This novel opens by describing two students at Ms. Pinkerton's Academy, Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. For 10 points, a location in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress provides the title of what novel by William M. Thackeray?

Night [or La Nuit]

This novel's narrator recalls seeing two Yemeni children strangling each other for coins thrown by a French tourist. After being beaten in a warehouse, the protagonist of this novel is comforted by a French girl who pretends not to speak German. Characters in this novel include Mrs. Schachter, who is bound and gagged for constantly shouting that she sees fire, and Juliek, a young violinist who plays Beethoven. In this novel, the narrator's teacher (*) Moshe the Beadle attempts to warn the citizens of Sighet. The question "Where is God?" reappears in this novel, in which the narrator's father dies when they are forced on a death march through the snow to Buchenwald after the Soviet army approaches Auschwitz. For 10 points, name this Holocaust memoir by Elie Wiesel.

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress

While on the run, a character in this novel overturns a table and grabs his bloodstained hat from a salesman who tries to sell him an "invaluable composition" for removing stains. That character in this novel accidentally hangs himself when he imagines seeing the eyes of his girlfriend, which causes him to slip from a roof. A character in this novel ties a rock to a handkerchief and tries to drown his dog Bull's Eye. Charley Bates steals Mr. Brownlow's handkerchief in this novel with the assistance of (*) Jack Dawkins, who is known as The Artful Dodger. In this novel, Bill Sikes mercilessly beats his girlfriend Nancy to death. For 10 points, name this novel by Charles Dickens in which the title character joins Fagin's band of thieves.

Slaughterhouse-Five [or the prison from Slaughterhouse-Five or similar answers; prompt on "Dresden"]

While visiting this place, Howard W. Campbell Jr. tries to recruit men for the Free American Corps. This building's residents work at a factory spooning malt syrup into bottles. A character whispers the address of this building while being rescued by Austrian ski instructors from a plane crash that kills a barbershop quartet on their way to an optometrists' convention. After this building's (*) destruction, the theft of a teacup prompts the execution by firing squad of Edgar Derby. The protagonist revisits this building while being kept with Montana Wildhack in a Tralfamadorian zoo by becoming "unstuck in time." For 10 points, name this building where Billy Pilgrim is imprisoned before its destruction during the bombing of Dresden in a namesake Kurt Vonnegut novel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

n a story by this author, Prince Florizel of Bohemia meets a young man distributing free cream tarts and subsequently joins the "Suicide Club." In another of his stories, the Hawaiian man Keawe (kay-AH-way) acquires a bottle containing a wish-granting imp that must always be resold at a loss. One of this author's protagonists falls asleep in a barrel of apples, where he overhears men plotting a mutiny. This author depicted the aftermath of the (*) Jacobite rising in a novel in which Uncle Ebenezer tries to kill David by making him climb a treacherous tower. In another of his novels, Billy Bones's visit to the Admiral Benbow Inn prompts Squire Trelawney and Jim Hawkins to set sail for the title location. For 10 points, name this author of Kidnapped and Treasure Island.