American Literature

Moby Dick

A Parsi servant in this work predicts that two hearses driving across the sea will serve as an omen for another character's death. In addition to Fedallah, other men in this book include the tiny Pip and the gigantic Daggoo. One character in this novel keeps a strange coffin in the shape of a canoe, and another character nails a golden coin to the mast of a ship. The Rachel saves the narrator of this novel, who began his life as a schoolteacher. That narrator meets the the harpooner Queequeg before setting sail on the Pequod. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by Ishmael, in which Captain Ahab is destroyed by the titular white whale, by Herman Melville.

Theodore Dreiser

In one novel by this author, Letty Gerald draws Lester Kane's attention away from the title character, who bears a daughter Vesta after the Senator George Brander dies. This author created a character who moves in with her sister Minnie and her husband Sven Hanson in Chicago. This author of Jennie Gerhardt described Charles Drouet's relationship with Caroline Meeber in one work, while in another of his works, the protagonist allows Roberta Alden to drown in a lake. The creator of Clyde Griffiths, for 10 points, name this author of Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy.

Harlem

In one novel titled for this location, a gun received from Billy Biasse protects the protagonist from a gambler who threatens to turn him in to the police as an army deserter, Zeddy Plummer. That novel concludes with the prostitute Felice and longshoreman Jake Brown choosing to leave for Chicago. A poem titled for this location proposes festering like a sore and sagging like a heavy load as possible answers to the question "What happens to a dream deferred?". The titular "Home" of a Claude McKay novel, For 10 points, name this location which titles a poem by Langston Hughes.

Wystan Hugh Auden

In one of this author's poems, a speaker says to "plunge your hands in water...stare in the basin / And wonder what you've missed." Another of his poems states that "Accurate scholarship" can tell us "What huge imago made / A psychopathic god." One of his poems say to "prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone." This author of "As I Walked Out One Evening" wrote that "We must love one another or die," and used the line "Stop all the clocks" to start his "Funeral Blues." For 10 points, name this English poet of The Age of Anxiety, who sat in a "dive" and reacted to the outbreak of World War II in his poem "September 1, 1939."

Edith Wharton

In one of this author's unfinished works, Ushant, the Duke of Tintagel, marries Nan St. George. In another of her novels, the protagonist ultimately divorces Raymond De Chelles to re-marry Elmer Moffatt. In addition to writing The Buccaneers and about Undine Spragg in The (*) Custom of the Country, this author wrote a novel in which Mattie Silver and the protagonist try to commit suicide via sled-ride into a tree. May Welland's husband Newland Archer has an affair with Ellen Olenska in a work by, for ten points, what author of Ethan Frome and The Age of Innocence?

John Hoyer Updike

In one of this man's three reinterpretations of The Scarlet Letter, Dale Kohler attempts to use computers to prove the existence of God. Another of his novels, written in present tense, contains a character who takes a job as a gardener for Mrs. Horace Smith after the intervention of the golfing minister Jack Eccles and tries not to turn out like Marty Tothero, his former (*)) coach. This author ofRoger's Version also created a character who accidentally drowns her daughter Rebecca June after her husband leaves her to resume his affair with Ruth Leonard. He wrote a series of novels in which former high school basketball star Harry Angstrom is "at Rest" and "Rich". For 10 points, name this American author of the Rabbit novels.

Saul Bellow

In one of this man's works, a red-headed man has lost his leg after being run over by a train as a child. In another of his novels, Romilayu fails to assist the title character in clearing the frogs from the Arnewi's water. One his work's protagonists has lovers Thea Fenchel and Stella Chesney and states "I am an American, (*) Chicago born." The title character of another of his novels has an affair with Ramona after Madeleine leaves him for Valentine Gersbach. For ten points, identify this author of Henderson the Rain King, The Adventures of Augie March, and Herzog.

Edward Albee

In one play by this man, Grandma dies on a beach after a Young Man exercising nearby reveals that he is the angel of death, and in another, a character named A reminisces while B takes care of A,and C tries to get A to deal with legal matters. Two characters created by this author of The Sandbox got married because of a "hysterical pregnancy," while another couple he created has a (*)) fictional son who "dies" in a car wreck after swerving to avoid a porcupine. A play by this man includes acts entitled"Walpurgisnacht," in which characters play "get the guest," and "Fun and Games," in which Nick andHoney drink with George and Martha. For 10 points, name this American playwright of Three Tall Women and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Allen Ginsberg

In one poem by this author, a passenger on Charon's ferry disembarks and watches "the boat disappear on the black waters of the Lethe". In another poem, he claims to be "talking to myself again" and admits to the title country "I've given you all and now I'm nothing." A "lonely old grubber" asks "Are you my angel?" and "What price bananas?" in a poem by this author of (*))"America"; that poem's speaker poses the question "which way is your beard pointing tonight?" to WaltWhitman. This author repeated the mantra "Holy!" and reassured Carl Solomon "I'm with you in Rockland" in a poem that opens by declaring "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness". For 10 points, name this Beat poet of "A Supermarket in California" and "Howl".

Anne Bradstreet

In one poem by this author, the narrator determines to "Raise up thy thoughts above the sky that dunghill mists away may fly" and concludes by stating "The world no longer let me love, my hope and treasure lies above". That poem also contains the lines "Adieu, adieu, all's vanity" and "My pleasant things in ashes lie". Another poem by this author claims "My love is such that rivers cannot quench" and begins "If ever two were one, then surely we". The author of "Verses Upon the Burning of Our House" and "To My Dear and Loving Husband", For 10 points, name this colonial American poet.

Edward Estlin Cummings

In one poem, this author wrote "i carry your heart with me" and "i am never without it." In another work, this poet described characters who "went down to the beach (to play one day)" before remarking that "it's always ourselves we find in the sea." An autobiographical novel by this man focuses on his imprisonment in La Ferté-Macé during the First World War. This poet of (*) "Maggie and Molly and Millie and May" wrote about a character "whose warmest heart recoiled at war" and about a place "with up so floating many bells down." For ten points, identify this author of The Enormous Room, "i sing of Olaf, glad and big" and "anyone lived in a pretty how town."

Sound and the Fury

In one scene from this novel, one character feels someone's heartbeat as he says the name of her beloved. The last section of this novel features a picture of an eye embedded within the text, and at its end, one character breaks into tears because a carriage turns the wrong way. One character hunts down a man with a red tie, and this novel begins outside a golf course. T.P. and (*)) Luster act as guardians to an autistic character in this novel, who, with his brothers, observes his sister's "muddy quarters". A Harvard student in this novel commits suicide after his sister, Caddy, becomes pregnant with the child of Dalton Ames. For 10 points, identify this novel about the Compson brothers by William Faulkner.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

In one section of this work, "Icicles filled the long window with barbaric glass." In another section of this poem, the narrator is torn between the "beauty of inflections" and the "beauty of innuendoes" represented by a whistle and the time just after. This poem asks "the thin men of Haddam," "Why do you imagine golden birds?" when the title creature "walks around the feet Of the women about you." It opens by saying that the title animal is the "only moving thing" among "twenty snowy mountains." For 10 points, name this Wallace Stevens poem which gives a certain number of viewpoints for examining the title bird.

Leaves of Grass

In one section of this work, a boy watches mockingbirds by the Paumanok; in another, this work's author describes a "flood-tide below me." This collection reads, "the ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won," and includes the poems (*)) "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" and "O Captain! My Captain," a poem about Abraham Lincoln. For 10 points, "Song of Myself" is a part of what poetry collection, written by Walt Whitman?

Tennessee Williams

In the stage directions of a play by this author, a main character is described as having the "power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens." Another play by this man starts with a former track star injuring his ankle; that character created by this author drinks until he hears a "click." Later in that play by this author, "Mendacity" is discussed by (*) Big Daddy and Brick. A character in another play by this man is involved with the poker player Mitch and loses the estate Belle Rêve. In that play by this man, Stella and Stanley Kowalski are visited by Blanche Dubois. For 10 points, name this American author of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Slaughterhouse 5

In this book, the protagonist's obese wife rushes to the hospital to see him but dies of carbon monoxide poisoning along the way. In this book, the stealing of a teapot leads to high school teacher Edgar Derby being shot, after which a bird says "Poo-tee-weet?" In the autobiographical first chapter of this novel, its author responds to a woman exclaiming that "you were just babies in the war" by reading up on the Children's Crusade. The protagonist of this novel is put in a zoo by Tralfamadorian aliens after surviving the fire-bombing of Dresden. For 10 points, name this novel about a man who has become "unstuck in time," Billy Pilgrim, by Kurt Vonnegut.

Go Tell it on the Mountain

In this novel, Elizabeth regrets telling her late partner that she was pregnant. After looking at a stain on the ceiling, the main character of this novel wonders if anyone has remembered his birthday. One character in this novel has two sons named Royal, both of whom are dead. That character, (*) Gabriel, is spiritually reborn at the age of 21 and becomes a preacher. Throughout this novel, Florence keeps Deborah's letter to use as ammunition against her brother. For 10 points, name this James Baldwin novel centering on John Grimes.

The Awakening

In this novel, Victor's singing of the song "Ah! Si tu savais!" causes a woman to shatter a wine glass as she demands him to stop. That event in this novel occurs during a party held before the protagonist moves into the "pigeon house." Other characters in this novel include the piano-playing Mademoiselle (*) Reisz and the constantly pregnant Adele Ratignolle. The protagonist of this novel has an affair with Alcee Arobin while her husband Leonce is away on business. After Robert Lebrun leaves her again, the protagonist of this novel drowns herself by walking into the Gulf of Mexico. For 10 points, name this novel about Edna Pontellier by Kate Chopin.

The Scarlet Letter

In this novel, a character convinces Master Brackett to let him into a cell and claims to have learned medicine from an Indian in exchange for his alchemical knowledge. Town gossip links that man to the Overbury affair, and he is present when a child states that her mother plucked her from a rosebush. Another character in this novel says that she would have gladly signed her name in the (*)) Black Man's book had her daughter been taken from her at the governor's mansion; that woman stands on a scaffold with Pearl and Arthur Dimmesdale. For 10 points, name this novel in which Hester Prynne is ostracized by her Puritan community for adultery, by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Nathaniel West

A W.H. Auden essay about this author dubs the inability to consciously turn wishes into desires his namesake "disease". One of this man's characters left Des Moines after an incident involving Romola Martin and has unusually large hands. That character, who is attacked by a mob after stomping on Adore Loomis, competes for Faye Greener with a set painter who wants to paint The Burning of (*)) Los Angeles. This creator of Homer Simpson and Tod Hackett also wrote a novel whose Christ-obsessed narrator is shot by Peter Doyle after spending most of the book being mocked by his editor Shrike and answering letters from "Desperate" and "Sick-of-it-all". For 10 points, name this author of The Day of the Locust and Miss Lonelyhearts.

James Fenimore Cooper

A book by this author was one of the first sea novels and sees the sailors Dick Fid and Scipio Africanus encounter the title pirate The Red Rover. Judge Marmaduke Temple is a character in a novel by this man set by Lake Otsego. A possibly satirical attack on this man's clichés was written by Mark Twain and describes his (*) "Literary Offenses." In his most famous novel, the Munro family are aided by Uncas and Chingachgook [chin-GATCH-gook], who are friends with a man whose epithets include Hawkeye and The Deerslayer. Natty Bumppo and The Leatherstocking Tales are creations of, for 10 points, what American author ofThe Last of the Mohicans?

Thomas Pynchon

A character in this man's first novel finds the remains of a Jesuit's attempts to convert rats to Catholicism while hunting alligators. That first novel by this man is about eternal Schlemil Benny Profane, who works for Yoyodyne. In a novella by this man the Peter Pinguid Society is part of the W.A.S.T.E postal network, which is found out actually to be part of Pierce Inverarity's (*) "Tristero" conspiracy by Oedipa Maas. His most famous novel depicts the search for a Schwarzgerat V2 rocket and the effects of Imipolex G on Tyrone Slothrop, and begins "A screaming came across the sky." For 10 points, name this reclusive author of V., The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.

A Raisin in the Sun

A character in this play is described as having "murder in her eyes" after seeing her husband give her son fifty cents. Act 2 of this play begins with some Nigerian music being played by a woman who then shows off her new Afro. Lena's husband dies before the start of this play, but over half of his estate is scammed away by Willy. George Murchison and Joseph (*) Asagai court Beneatha in this play, in which Karl Lindner tries to get Ruth and Walter not to spend an insurance check on a house in a white neighborhood of Chicago. A line from "A Dream Deferred" titles—for 10 points—what 1959 play about the Younger family, by Lorraine Hansberry?

A Raisin in the Sun

A character in this play performs a dance while yelling "OCOMOGOSIAY," causing another character to call himself "Flaming Spear." Karl Lindner attempts to bribe the main characters of this play. Asagai asks Benethea to move to Nigeria with him in this play, and Willy Harris absconds with an (*) investment meant for a liquor store. The central family in this play moves to Clybourne Park after receiving ten thousand dollars of insurance money, and this play takes its title from a poem that asks "What happens to a dream deferred?" For 10 points, name this play about the Younger family written by Lorraine Hansberry.

The Crucible

A character in this play reveals an affair with the lines "God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat," and later yells "I have given you my soul; leave me my name!" when asked to sign a document. Thomas Putnam argues over money and land deeds in the play, whose key props include a doll with a needle in it. In this play, a man asks for rocks to be piled on him by exclaiming "More weight!" Girls are seen with the slave Tituba in the woods prior to this play, in which Giles Corey dies and John Proctor is led to the gallows. For 10 points, name this allegory for Joe McCarthy's anti-Communist scares, an Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials.

Death of a Salesman

A character in this play tells a story about an eighty-four-year-old colleague who wears greenvelvet slippers and dies peacefully on a train. That character "hears but is not aware of" a recurring flute melody during this play. Dave Seligman represents the good old days in a conversation the main character of this play has with Howard Wagner. Another character in this play gives up on going to(*)) UVA and quits summer school after he discovers his father having an affair in Boston, and Biff also fails to form a sporting goods business with his brother Happy. The title character of this play intentionally crashes his car in order to give his family the life insurance money. For 10 points, name this play by Arthur Miller about the suicide of Willy Loman.

The Bell Jar

A character this novel is asked to hold a paper rose and smile while having her picture taken, but she bursts into tears. A disastrous date in this novel ends with the "country club gentleman" Marco attempting to rape the protagonist. A spoiled batch of crab salad causes an outbreak of food poisoning in this novel, whose protagonist befriends Doreen after winning a scholarship donated by Philomena Guinea and has a tumultuous relationship with (*)) Buddy Willard. It opens with the protagonist musing "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs", before leaving for an internship at Ladies' Day in New York. For 10 points, name this novel about the suicidal writer Esther Greenwood, a thinly-disguised version of its author, Sylvia Plath.

Cat's Cradle

A former Christian in this novel is fired from building a doghouse when he tells the owner that God will explain blueprints to her. A xylophone virtuoso in this novel tries to make herself ugly to stop being an erotic symbol according to an index of P. Castle's manuscript. In this novel, Hazel lists people who are Hoosiers, which the narrator gives as an example of a (*)) granfalloon or false karass. Asa Breed describes the military's struggles with mud to this novel's narrator for his research on Dr. Hoenikker. In this novel, Bokononists press their bare feet together as a religious ritual, and Papa Monzano commits suicide by ingesting ice-nine. For 10 points, name this novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

Firemen

A member of this profession advises stuffing people full of "facts" to give them a sense of motion without moving. Transported by Salamanders, they program an eight-legged morphine-injecting machine, the Mechanical Hound. A dandelion fails to rub off on the chin of one of these people, who meets Clarisse McClellan. A ventilation grill hides one member's contraband, which must be destroyed within 24 hours. Phoenix helmets with the numbers 451, and kerosene hoses are used by this profession, whose members include Captain Beatty and Guy Montag. For 10 points, name this profession that specializes in burning books, featured in Fahrenheit 451.

James Baldwin

A novel by this author features communal singing of songs like "This May Be My Last Time," "Standing in the Need of Prayer," and "Somebody Needs You, Lord." In that novel by this author, after Roy is stabbed, he's beaten with a belt for telling his father Gabriel not to slap his mother. A "Letter to my Nephew" by this author inspired Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. One of his protagonists speaks in tongues on the "Threshing Floor" of the Temple of Fire Baptized Church on his fourteenth birthday, and is named John (*) Grimes. For 10 points, name this black American author of The Fire Next Time and Go Tell it On the Mountain.

The Road Not Taken

According to an essay by David Orr, "Everyone Loves" this poem but "Everyone Gets [it] Wrong." A friendship with Edward Thomas inspired this poem, which is written in four stanzas of iambic tetrameter. The narrator of this poem, the first in Mountain Interval, "doubted if [he] should ever come back" because he knows "how (*) way leads on to way." Later, that narrator of this poem says he will be explaining his decision "with a sigh / Somewhere ages and ages hence" though he was "sorry [he] could not travel both" of the "two roads diverged in a yellow wood." For 10 points, identify this poem in which the narrator "took the one less traveled by," a work of Robert Frost.

Portnoy's Complaint

In this novel, a woman runs scalding water over the utensils used by her black maid, who eats lunch"alone like a leper." A boy in this novel is berated for supposedly eating French fries with Melvin Weiner after he lies about having diarrhea. A man in this novel recalls bathing with his frequently-constipated father, an insurance salesman. This novel ends with the question, "Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?"While in Connecticut, its protagonist pretends to be married to his (*)) sexually adventurous girlfriend, who he nicknames "The Monkey". The title character describes his adolescent obsession with masturbation and his overbearing mother Sophie to his psychiatrist, Dr. Spielvogel. For 10 points, name this novel about the title "nice Jewish boy", by Philip Roth.

The Lottery

In this short story, Clyde Dunbar is unable to attend the central event due to a broken leg.This story sees Old Man Warner say "Next thing you know they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves," after Mr. Adams tells him that some towns are considering giving up the titular event. One character arrives late once she realizes the date is June 27th, and is later told to "Be a good sport" by Mrs. Delacroix after she accuses Mr. Summers of being unfair. That character, Tessie Hutchinson, is the victim of a town ritual. For 10 points, name this Shirley Jackson short story in which townspeople draw slips of paper from a black box to determine a scapegoat.

Long Day's Journey into NIght

Near the end of this play, three male characters unconsciously raise their glasses at the same time. Characters in this play covers up their family members' drinking by adding water to a decanter of whiskey. The patriarch of a family in this play is an actor famous for only one role, whose wife showed promise as a pianist and once lived in a Catholic convent. That character from this play believes her son purposefully infected (*) Eugene with measles. In this play, Edmund is diagnosed with tuberculosis, and his mother Mary is addicted to morphine. For 10 points, name this play about the Tyrone family, a late work by Eugene O'Neill.

Kurt Vonnegut

Norman Mushari uses the philanthropy of one of this author's characters to try to prove him insane. Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension was written by a character in this author's novel (*)) Breakfast of Champions. Besides Eliot Rosewater and Kilgore Trout, he created a character who goes to Tralfamadore and saw the firebombing of Dresden. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Billy Pilgrim in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

One character in this novel takes first pick of cakes from his Aunt Chloe, and later rides after this novel's title character to hand him a dollar. Two women in this novel hide in a man's attic and pretend to be ghosts, and those women later meet Madame de Thoux, the sister of George Harris. Another character in this novel is chased by Marks and Loker across the Ohio River, which had frozen over. George Shelby helps Cassy and Emmeline escape from slavery in this novel, and the titular character saves Eva St. Claire from a river. For 10 points, name this novel in which Simon Legree mistreats the title slave, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The Great Gatsby

One character in this novel was prevented from inheriting $25,000 by his mentor's mistress Ella Kaye. Its epigraph describes a "gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover" and is attributed to the fictional poet Thomas Parke d'Invilliers. Its distinctive cover was painted by Francis Cugat. Musical pieces that appear in this work include Tostoff's "The Jazz History of the World" and the song (*)) "Ain't We Got Fun", the latter of which is played by Ewing Klipspringer. Its narrator, who engages in a relationship with Jordan Baker, is riding in a blue coupe when Myrtle Wilson is struck and killed by a yellow Rolls-Royce. Nick Carraway narrates, for 10 points, which novel about a West Egg millionaire who loves Daisy Buchanan, a work of F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Slaughterhouse 5

One character in this novel, who invites people to visit him in Wyoming, is Wild Bob. After returning from war, this novel's protagonist finishes optometry school before having two children, one of which becomes a Green Beret [buh-RAY]. After a plane crash in Vermont, the protagonist of this novel loses his wife before having brain surgery. The protagonist of this novel describes his travels through time, including time spent in a zoo on Tralfamadore [tral-FA-muh-dor]. Name this novel set against the backdrop of the firebombing of Dresden, written by Kurt Vonnegut.

Glass Menagerie

One character in this play shouts, "Go then! Go to the moon -- you selfish dreamer!" after earlier remembering a past obsession with jonquils. Another character in this play explains, "Nowadays the world is lit by lightning!" and works at a shoe warehouse but is nicknamed "Shakespeare." Yet another character in this play skips (*) typing classes to wander through the zoo. That character in this play, who used to be called "Blue Roses," is heartbroken when her high school crush Jim admits he is engaged after breaking a miniature unicorn, one of the title collection of figurines. For 10 points, name this play about Tom, Amanda, and Laura Wingfield, a work by Tennessee Williams.

The Sound and the Fury

One character in this work delivers phony checks to his mother, who immediately burns them. Another character in this work picks a fight with the hostess' son at a party and is a Harvard student who commits suicide by drowning himself. The narrator of this work is castrated for embracing a schoolgirl, thinking that it was his sister Caddy. This novel begins with Luster and Benjy walking along the golf course, which was once a large plantation. For 10 points, name this work about the Compson family, a novel by William Faulkner.

The Turn of the Screw

One character in this work sneaks onto the lawn at midnight and proclaims, "When I'm bad, I AM bad!" Edmund Wilson highlighted the "ambiguity" of this work, which features a character who "said things" to those he liked, resulting in his expulsion from school. The narrator of this novel sees a hatless red-headed man on the tower; that man was "much too (*)) free with everyone," according to the housekeeper. Mrs. Grose takes a girl back to her uncle after the narrator catches her at the lake, meeting "a horror," her predecessor at Bly. For 10 points, identify this novella in which the governess fails to save little Miles from Peter Quint, a ghost story by Henry James.

Little Women

One character purchases a bottle of cologne for her mother as a Christmas gift. Another of this work's characters serves as governess for the daughters of Mrs. Kirke, and is later married to a man who starts a school for boys at Plumfield, Professor Friedrich Bhaer. The wealthy Mr. Laurence gifts a piano to a character in this work who contracts scarlet fever, and this work's protagonists give their breakfast to the Hummel family at the suggestion of Marmee. For 10 points, name this novel featuring Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, written by Louisa May Alcott.

Catch-22

One episode in this work concerns the purchase of seven cent eggs that are resold at five cents, creating a one-and-a-half cent profit. In this novel, a computer program with a sense of humor promotes Major Major Major to the rank of Major. The titular condition notes that you'd have to be (*)) crazy to fly bombing missions, so Yossarian can't claim to be insane and must keep flying. Set on the island of Pianosa during World War II, name this novel by Joseph Heller.

To Kill a Mockingbird

The garbage collector of the central town in this novel is Zeebo, who is the only one that can read at the First Purchase church. When a first grader pours an excessive amount of molasses on his dinner while at the central family's house, the narrator of this novel mocks him. Carved soap figurines, old coins, and a pocket watch are among items found in a (*) tree hole by the central characters, who later find those objects to be gifts of Boo. When it is discovered that one character has a limp left hand, the rape accusations of Mayella Ewell fall flat; however, Tom Robinson is still found guilty despite the efforts of his lawyer Atticus. For ten points, name this novel narrated by Scout Finch about prejudice in the town of Maycomb, Alabama by Harper Lee.

Langston Hughes

The narrator of one of this man's poems declares that "[she's] still climbin'" although life "ain't been no crystalstair." In another poem, this poet writes that "[he] is the darker brother" but will "eat well, and grow strong." This poet of "Mother to Son" and "I, Too, Sing America" describes hearing a man sing "'Ain't got nobody in thisworld'" before he "stopped playing and went to bed" in a work that titles his collection The Weary Blues. In another poem, this man states that he "bathed in the Euphrates" and that "[his] soul has grown deep like" the title bodies of water. For 10 points, name this poet of the Harlem Renaissance who wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."

Herman Melville

The title character of one of this author's novels is engaged to Lucy Tartan and murders Glen Stanley. In one of this author's novellas, a falling tarp reveals the corpse of slavemaster Alexandro Aranda on the San Dominick as Babo chases (*) Benito Cereno. Nippers, Turkey, and Ginger Nut work with the title character of one of his short stories who responds to requests with "I would prefer not to." This author of "Bartleby the Scrivener" wrote a novel featuring the First Mate Starbuck and beginning "Call me Ishmael." For ten points, identify this American author who described Captain Ahab's hunt for the title whale in Moby-Dick.

Sylvia Plath

This author referred to the title location as the "morgue between Paris and Rome" in one poem. The narrator ofanother of this author's poems claims to be an arrow flying towards "the red / Eye, the cauldron of morning." In another poem, this author warned "Herr God, Herr Lucifer / Beware / ... I eat men like air." This author of "Lady Lazarus" admitted "I may be a bit of a Jew" while addressing "a man in black with a Meinkampf look," "Daddy." Inher only novel, this author wrote of Esther Greenwood's psychotherapy after an attempted suicide with sleeping pills.For 10 points, name this American author of the collection Ariel and The Bell Jar.

Emily Dickinson

This author used the metaphor of an "undiscovered continent" to refer to the mind, and wrote several letters to an unidentified "Master." This poet asked "if my Verse is alive" in a letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson. This poet complained that "They shut me up in Prose" and (*) "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" in separate poems, and this poet asked "Who are you?" after declaring "I'm Nobody!" This poet claimed to have "heard a Fly buzz - when I died," and in one poem she described riding in a carriage with the title concept. For 10 points, name this author of "Because I could not stop for Death", the reclusive "Belle of Amherst."

Walt Whitman

This author wrote "the expression of the face balks account" in a poem recalling a farmer with five sons and a slave auction. He included "In Paths Untrodden" in his Calamus poems, and equated a list starting with "Upper arm, arm-pit, elbow-socket" to the Soul after "engirth[ing]" other people in "I Sing the Body Electric." This man sounds a "barbaric yawp" over the world's rooftops in a 52-section poem ending "I stop somewhere waiting for you," and wrote of a man "fallen cold and dead" on a boat in "O Captain! My Captain!", his lament for President Lincoln's death. For 10 points, name this non-straight American poet who included "Song of Myself" in Leaves of Grass.

James Weldon Johnson

This author wrote a poem whose speaker encourages a "heart-broken husband" and a"left-lonesome daughter" to "weep no more" and describes God sending a "tall, bright angel" toYamacraw in Savannah to retrieve Sister Caroline. This man coined the term "Red Summer" for aspate of violence in 1919 and wrote a poem which describes standing "where the white gleam of our star is cast" and advocates doing the title action "till earth and Heaven (*)) ring". A character created by this author of "Go Down, Death" and God's Trombones stops playing ragtime music after watching a lynching turn into a burning-at-the-stake, choosing instead to pass as white. For 10 points, name this author of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" and Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.

Kate Chopin

This author wrote a short story in which Mrs. Sommers pays a dollar and ninety-eight cents for an eight-and-a-half sized item. In addition writing "A Pair of Silk Stockings," this author wrote a story in which Louise repeats the word "free" after Josephine tells her that Brently Mallard died from a railroad accident. The protagonist from this author's most famous novel bursts into tears at (*) Mademoiselle Reisz's piano recital before returning to Grand Isle, where she had met Robert Lebrun, and drowning herself in the Gulf of Mexico. For ten points, identify this American author of "The Story of an Hour" who wrote about Edna Pontellier in The Awakening.

Flannery O'Connor

This author wrote a story in which the protagonist claims his mother is an "angel of Gawd" to a hitchhiker, who responds by saying "my old woman is a flea bag." In that story, the protagonist marries Lucynell, but abandons her at a restaurant on their honeymoon. That story ends with Tom Shiftlet driving into a rainstorm after reading the title (*)) phrase on a billboard. This author also wrote a story in which a car accident is caused by a cat named Pitty Sing on a trip to Florida. That story by this author ends with an entire family, including a grandmother, being slain by an escaped criminal called the Misfit. For 10 points, name this Southern Gothic author of such stories as "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find".

Robert Frost

This author wrote a work in which the speaker has "passed by the watchman on his beat / and dropped my eyes", while another of his poems mentions that Mary "sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table" before telling Warren "Silas is back." This author of "Acquainted with the Night" and (*) "Death of the Hired Man" wrote another poem in which the narrator "look[ed] down one [path] as far as [he] could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth." That poem claims that the speaker's decision "made all the difference" after "two roads diverged in a yellow wood". For ten points, name this American poet of "The Road Not Taken."

Emma Lazarus

This author wrote about a genocide in Nordhausen in the play Dance to Death,which was later published in the poetry collection Songs of a Semite. This poet of "By the Waters of Babylon" asserts, "We stand and gaze around with tearful awe" at the titular "consecrated spot" in a poem written in response to Longfellow called "In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport." For 10 points, name this Jewish poet who wrote about a figure who was "not like the brazen giant of Greek fame" in her poem asking Europe for its "huddled masses," "The New Colossus."

Jack London

This author wrote an unfinished novel about a murderers' agency which turns on its founder, The Assassination Bureau, Limited, and Professor Smith survives an outbreak that begins in 2013 in his "The Scarlet Plague." This author also wrote a novel in which the Everhard Manuscript depicts America's fall to an oligarchical regime, called The Iron Heel. He depicted Humphrey van Weyden's adventures aboard the ship Ghost, a man suffering from extreme cold on the Yukon trail, and an animal who kills Yeehat Indians after pulling a sled. For 10 points, name this American author of "To Build a Fire" and The Sea-Wolf, who wrote of the dog Buck in The Call of the Wild.

Henry James

This author wrote of an American sculptor who fell for the daughter of a Cavaliere [ka-vah-lee-EHR-ay], but died on his way to see her in Interlaken [in-ter-LAH-ken]. In another novel, he wrote of a protégé [PROE-teh-jay] of Olive Chancellor who is conscripted into the women's rights movement, but Verena falls for Basil. This author of Roderick Ransom and The Bostonians penned a novella concerning the pursuit by Giovanelli [jyoe-vah-NEL-lee] and Winterbourne of an American tourist. Name this author of The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller.

Henry David Thoreau

This author's review of a work of technological utopianism by John Adolphus Etzler served as the basis for his essay "Paradise (to be) Regained". He described Mount Wachusett as "the observatory of the state" in one work, and he claimed that "the preservation of the world" lies in "wildness" in another. In one of his works, the section "Higher Laws" is preceded by an episode involving a visit to John Farmer's hut. That work by this man opens with the chapters "Economy" and (*)) "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For". He asserted "that government is best which governs least" in a work that was partly inspired by his refusal to pay a poll tax that indirectly supported slavery. For 10 points, name this American author of "Civil Disobedience" and Walden.

Mark Twain

This author's works include one in which Mr. and Mrs. Richards worry about a bag of gold, entitled The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. This author described Jim Smiley's escapades with a "Celebrated Jumping Frog," and wrote about the adventures of "The Boss" Morgan among the Knights of the Round Table in A (*)) Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Name this author, who famously wrote about a boy who escapes from "Pap" by rafting down the Mississippi with Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the creator of Tom Sawyer.

Ethan Frome

This character recalls how he found another's lost gold locket in some moss during a picnic at Shadow Pond. This character imagines the sentence "We never got away—how should you?" written on every stone in his family's graveyard. In the first chapter, this character watches a woman in a cherry scarf dancing through the window of a church basement, then drives her home. A cat walking on the (*)) table ends an intimate supper that this character has with his love interest after another woman goes to Bettsbridge for the night to see a doctor. This character steers for the "big elm" in a failed suicide attempt after his wife Zeena tries to send Mattie Silver away. For 10 points, name this resident of Starkfield, a sled crash victim who titles a novel by Edith Wharton.

Daisy Buchanan

This character's voice is described as a "deathless song" and as "full of money" by different characters. A boxmaker named Biloxi collapsed at this woman's wedding; before the wedding, she threw away a string of pearls worth thousands of dollars. This woman tells her lover that he "always looks so cool" and when speaking of her daughter Pam, declares that the best thing a girl can be is a "beautiful little fool." Seeing silk shirts, this woman bursts into tears. A green light shines from her house in East Egg. This woman drives the car that hits Myrtle Wilson, the mistress of her husband Tom. For 10 points, identify this cousin of Nick Carraway and love interest of Jay Gatsby.

Langston Hughes

This man declared "Let the rain kiss you" in the opening to his poem "April Rain Song." The speaker of one of this writer's poems is told to "Go home and write / a page tonight" in "Theme for English B," while another of his poems takes place "down on Lennox Avenue," where a (*) "drowsy syncopated tune" is the title "Weary Blues." Lorraine Hansberry took the title of her play A Raisin in the Sun from this man's poem about a "dream deferred." For 10 points, name this poet who says "my soul has grown deep like" the title objects in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," a member of the Harlem Renaissance.

Walt Whitman

This man instructs readers to "love the earth and sun and the animals" and "argue not concerning God" in his work "This Is What You Shall Do." He mentions mechanics, "young fellows," and other musically inclined persons in "I Hear America Singing," and writes of the "flood-tide below me" in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." One character in a work by this man "has no pulse nor will" because he has "fallen cold and dead;" in another poem, this man claims to "sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." For 10 points, name this American poet, famous for works such as "O Captain! My Captain!" and "Song of Myself."

Ezra Pound

This man made the most recent complete English translation of the Book of Odes, a.k.a. the Classic of Poetry. Throughout his life, this poet translated works by Guido Cavalcanti and Confucius. In a "translation" by him, the speaker married "My Lord you" at fourteen, when her hair was "still cut straight across [her] forehead." This "translator" of "The River (*) Merchant's Wife" described the desire to "resuscitate the dead art of poetry" in "Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." He exhorted "Make it new!" and described "petals on a wet black bough" in a two-line Imagist poem. For 10 points, name this Fascist American poet who wrote "In a Station of the Metro" and The Cantos.

Howl

This poem describes women as a "shrew of fate" that "does nothing but sit on her ass / and snip the intellectual golden threads of the craftsman's loom." The speaker of this poem references a vision of "Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs illuminated." This poem is dedicated to a man who "presented [himself] on the granite steps of the madhouse" after throwing potato salad at people. The narrator of this poem makes frequent references to a "heavy judger of men!" named Moloch and repeatedly reassures Carl Solomon that "I'm with you in Rockland." For 10 points, name this poem that begins with the line "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," written by Allen Ginsberg.

Thanatopsis

This poem lists "patriarchs of the infant world" and "hoary seers of ages past" as inhabitants ofa place whose "solemn decorations" include "the venerable woods," "rivers that move in majesty,"and "hills rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun." This poem urges the reader to "go forth under theopen sky, and list to Nature's teachings" when certain (*)) thoughts "come like a blight." It was published by the North American Review when its author was only seventeen, though this poem was later expanded to include an exhortation to "go not, like the quarry slave at night" but to "approach thy gravelike one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him" and lie "down to pleasant dreams." For 10 points, name this "meditation on death" by William Cullen Bryant.

Stephen Crane

This poet concluded "alas, we all are babes" after declaring "tradition, thou art for sucklingchildren" in one poem. In another poem, this man's "pen could mash" the "many red devils" thatrun from his heart. Those poems appear in a collection titled for a group who, with "clang of spearand shield," "came from the sea." This author set several stories in Whilomville, New York. In anovel by this author of the collection The (*)) Black Riders, a "tattered solider" begs for companionshipfrom "the youth," who is moved by the death of Jim Conklin; in that novel, the solider who leads the 304thNew York to victory is wounded by a rifle blow to the head. For 10 points, name this author who createdHenry Fleming in The Red Badge of Courage.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

This poet de-romanticized Arthurian legend in his narrative poem Merlin. The speaker of one of this man's poems proclaims "Out of a grave I come to tell you this" and asserts "if you listen she wil lcall" after describing how "the vines cling crimson on the wall". Another of his poems describes"Romance, now on the town, and Art, a vagrant" and tells of a character who "loved the (*)) Medici, albeit he had never seen one". In addition to writing a poem whose title character is told "Go to the western gate" and a poem about a "child of scorn", this man penned a poem about a man who, despite being "richer than a king", went home one summer night and shot himself. For 10 points, name this poet of "Luke Havergal", "Miniver Cheevy", and "Richard Cory".

Wallace Stevens

This poet described "casual flocks of pigeons" that "sink, downward to darkness" in a poem that describes "silent Palestine" as "Dominion of the blood and sepulchre" and begins with a woman enjoying "complacencies of the peignoir." An object envisioned by this man "did not give of bird or bush, like nothing else in Tennessee" after it was placed upon a (*)) hill. This author of "Sunday Morning" and "Anecdote of the Jar" wrote a poem whose narrator knows "noble accents and lucid ,inescapable rhythms" and notes that "Among twenty snowy mountains, the only moving thing was the eye of" the title creature. For 10 points, name this poet who called for "the roller of big cigars" in "The Emperorof Ice-Cream" and wrote "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird".

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

This poet wrote asking "Is my verse alive?" to Thomas Higginson, and wrote a series of "Master" poems addressed to a "lover for all eternity." In one poem, this writer described "a House that seemed / A Swelling in the Ground" along a long, slow journey, and the title of another poem claims, "There is no frigate like a book." Another poem by this woman, a frequent user of "slant rhyme," describes "The Stillness in the Air" when she died, and ends "I could not see to see." For 10 points, name this woman whose wrote "I heard a Fly buzz" and "Because I could not stop for Death" while living in Massachusetts as a recluse.

Robert Frost

This poet wrote that "My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make." In one poem, he described stars being emulated by "Fireflies in the Garden." He claimed that he likes to think "some boy's been swinging" the title trees of one poem. He opened another poem "The land was ours before we were the land's." He read that poem, (*) "The Gift Outright," at Kennedy's inauguration. He claimed that "Spring is the mischief in me" in a poem that states "Good fences make good neighbors." For 10 points, name this American poet of "Mending Wall" and "The Road Not Taken."

The Lady or the Tiger

This story describes a "barleycorn" of a king whose "florid", "untrammeled" ideas had only been sharpened by progressive Latin neighbors. The author of this story also wrote "The Griffin and the Minor Canon." At its conclusion, one character in this story silently signals to the right. One title character experiences sleepless nights after she discovers the secrets of the doors, debating what to tell her death-sentenced lover. This story's last line is, "And so I leave it with all of you. Which came out of the opened door?" then the title phrase. For 10 points, name this short story by Frank R. Stockton about a choice between a ferocious feline and a beautiful woman.

Henry James

The decadent artist Gloriani appears in two of this author's novels: the first is about a sculptor who falls for Christina Light, the second about the spiritual awakening of Lambert Strether. This author of Roderick Hudson created a character who is romantically pursued by Caspar Goodwood, but tricked by Madame Merle into marrying Gilbert Osmond. Another character created by this author of The Ambassadors tries to convince Mrs. Grose that she has seen the ghost of Peter Quint. For 10 points, name this American author who wrote about Isabel Archer in Portrait of a Lady and the haunting of children in the Governess' charge in The Turn of the Screw.

Howl

The final part of this poem extols the "crazy shepherds of rebellion" and "vast lamb of the middle class" before mentioning a character who, in a dream, walks "dripping from a sea-journey." This poem exclaims "Old men weeping in the parks!" after asking "what sphinx of cement or aluminum bashed open their skulls," and the narrator later tells (*) Carl Solomon that he's with him in Rockland. This poem describes "angelheaded hipsters" dragging themselves through the streets. For ten points, identify this poem beginning "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," written by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

Flannery O'Connor

A group of children become terrified of a hermaphrodite in this author's story "The Temple of the Holy Ghost". Tom Shiftlet marries the deaf-mute Lucynell in another work by this author, who also wrote about the Hopewells in (*)) "Good Country People". One of this author's characters says that another character "would have been a good woman, if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." That character appears in a story in which the central family goes to Red Sammy's diner before being killed by the Misfit. For 10 points, name this Southern Gothic writer of "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find".

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

A house in this play was previously owned by Jack Straw and Peter Ochello. After one character in this play tells another "I love you," the latter character says "Wouldn't it be funny if that were true?" One character in this play requires a crutch after injuring himself running hurdles; later, that character admits that he is fed up with everybody's (*) "mendacity" and learned that his friend Skipper had gay feelings for him. At the end of this play, Maggie lies that she is having a baby with Brick to help secure the inheritance of the cancer-stricken Big Daddy. For 10 points, name this play by Tennessee Williams about the Pollitt family.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr

A short story by this author is interrupted by sounds like a car crash, a twenty-one gun salute, and "somebody hitting a milk bottle with a ball peen hammer." The protagonist of that short story by this author selects a ballerina to be his "empress," and is shot by Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, in an effort to make everyone equal. In a novel by this author of (*) "Harrison Bergeron," the protagonist is mated with Montana Wildhack by Tralfamadorian aliens. In that novel of his, Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time" during World War Two and survives the firebombing of Dresden. For 10 points, name this author of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Kate Chopin

Calixta agrees to marry Bobinôt after Clarisse removes Alcée from the title ball in a short story by this author. In another story, Armand is shocked by letters from his mother after his wife walks into the bayou with their child. (*)) Adèle Ratignolle is contrasted with a woman who has an affair with Robert Lebrun and drowns herself in the sea; that woman is Edna Pontellier. For10 points, name this author of "Désirée's Baby" and The Awakening.

Kate Chopin

Calixta agrees to marry Bobinôt after Clarisse removes Alcée from the title ball in a shortstory by this author. In another story, Armand is shocked by letters from his mother after hiswife walks into the bayou with their child. (*)) Adèle Ratignolle is contrasted with a woman whohas an affair with Robert Lebrun and drowns herself in the sea; that woman is Edna Pontellier. For10 points, name this author of "Désirée's Baby" and The Awakening.

Daddy

Imagery in this poem includes "[a] ghastly statue with one gray toe" and a "cleft in your chin instead of your foot." The speaker of this poem thinks "I may well be a Jew" and remembers "barely daring to breathe or Achoo." This poem mentions a vampire who drank the speaker's blood for seven years, a reference to the author's marriage to (*) Ted Hughes. This poem opens "you do not do, you do not do," and it describes a "man in black with a Meinkampf look." The speaker of this poem tells the title figure "you bastard, I'm through" after comparing him to a Nazi. For 10 points, name this poem by Sylvia Plath.

Jack London

In a dystopian novel by this author, the Everhard Manuscript details the rise and fall of The Oligarchy. One of his protagonists is haunted by the warning of an old-timer not travel alone in bad weather, before dying of cold after feeling to perform the title action. The most famous protagonists of this author of The Iron Heel and "To Build a Fire" are a son of Kiche who is sold to Beauty Smith by Grey Beaver, and a dog who finally becomes free after the death of his last master John Thornton. For 10 points, name this creator of Buck, the author of White Fang and The Call of the Wild.

Willa Cather

In a novel by this author, a construction engineer gives his wife Winifred pearl earrings for Christmas and resumes an affair with Hilda Burgoyne. A novel by this author switches to first person in order to retell Tom Outland's exploration of a cliff city in New Mexico. This author of Alexander's Bridge and The Professor's House wrote about the siblings Oscar, Lou, and Alexandra going to buy a hammock from Crazy (*) Ivar after their father, John Bergson, dies. The narrator of a novel by this author, Jim Burden, takes a train to Nebraska with a Bohemian family, the Shimerdas. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Ántonia.

The Emporer of Ice Cream

In a novel that shares its title with this poem, Dario founds the Edinburgh Fascist Club after immigrating from Sicily to Scotland. Critics argue that a subject of this poem who "embroidered fantails" is a lower-class woman who did her own needlework. Elizabeth Bishop argued that it referred to a practice common among Cuban factory workers. Boys are commanded to "Bring (*)) flowers in last month's newspapers" in this poem, which mentions the "horny feet" of a corpse that "protrude" from under a sheet. This poem from Harmonium opens, "Call the roller of big cigars" and bids him to fill "kitchen cups" with "concupiscent curds". For 10 points, name this Wallace Stevens poem about a man preparing sweets.

Edward Albee

In a play by this author, Grandma is taken by an angel of death after being abandoned in a sandbox. In another play by this author, a character owns two cats and two parrots, and another character later reveals that he tried to kill his landlady's dog with rat poison. That play by this author ends with (*) Jerry killing himself in front of Peter. In an act this author titled "The Exorcism," one of his characters kills his imaginary son with a car accident. In that play by this man, the couple Nick and Honey play games like "Get the Guests" and "Bringing up Baby" with George and Martha. For 10 points, name this author of The Zoo Story and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Phillip Roth

In a short novel by this author, the protagonist is impressed with a "sporting goods tree" and a fridge filled with fruit at his girlfriend's house. One of his characters yells at a girl called TheMonkey for dressing like a prostitute. He wrote a novel set at Athena College, where a professor Hasan affair with janitor Faunia Farley and is accused of racism, but is secretly a black man posing as a white man. The novels (*)) I Married a Communist and Operation Shylock featured his recurring character Nathan Zuckerman. This author wrote a novel structured as a monologue about sexual adventures delivered by the title character to his psychoanalyst. For 10 points, name this Jewish author of The Human Stain and Portnoy's Complaint.

The Red Badge of Courage

One character in this novel hears his companions called "mule drivers" and "mud diggers." The protagonist abandons a "tattered soldier" after a battle and allows an injury from being hit with a rifle to be mistaken for a bullet wound, the title (*)) mark he longs for. Jim Conklin dies refusing help in, for 10 points, this novel about Union soldier Henry Fleming, a work by Stephen Crane.

Beloved

One character in this book works toward entering Oberlin College by studying under Miss Bodwin. Another character in this novel calls his heart a tobacco tin and fears a beautiful woman who walks fully dressed out of a stream. Characters in this novel include a man referenced as (*) "schoolteacher" who worked at Sweet Home and a granddaughter of Baby Suggs named Denver. Paul D abandons Sethe in this novel after learning about the mercy killing she performed on her daughter when faced with being returned to slavery. 124 Bluestone Road is visited by the title spirit in, for 10 points, what novel by Toni Morrison?

The Sun Also Rises

One character in this novel alleges a love affair between Jefferson Davis and Ulysses S. Grant and claims that "Lincoln just freed the slaves on a bet." That character goes on a five day fishing trip with the protagonist where they meet an Englishman named Harris. Montoya introduces the narrator and his friends to a 19-year-old that (*) Mike Campbell's fiance later runs off with. Characters in this novel travel to Pamplona to see the runnings of the bulls. Near the end of this novel, Pedro Romero gets beat up by Robert Cohn. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by Jake Barnes, the first novel by Ernest Hemingway.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

One character in this book sets off four differently colored fires and repeats four nonsense words before repairing a leak in a well. A baby in this book is named "Hello-Central" by the protagonist's wife Sandy, and this book's protagonist uses a lightning rod to (*) blow up a rival's tower. The protagonist of this book becomes known as "the Boss" and early in the book escapes execution by predicting a solar eclipse. After receiving a crowbar blow to the head in this book, Hank Morgan wakes up in 6th century England. For 10 points, name this satirical Mark Twain novel in which an American time-travels back to medieval Camelot.

Ernest Hemingway

One of this author's characters recites the Lord's Prayer with every noun replaced by the word nada. Another character asks "the American" to "please please please please please stop talking," in an argument about abortion. This author of "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" wrote a novel in which the protagonist escapes "battle police" after surviving the Battle of Caporetto. That work ends with Catherine Barkley dying in childbirth and her lover Frederic Henry walking out into the rain. This man also wrote of Santiago catching a giant marlin that gets eaten by sharks. For 10 points, name this author of "Hills Like White Elephants," A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea.

William Faulkner

One of this author's characters says that "motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not." Another of his characters breaks a leg when Vernon Tull's bridge collapses. The first section of one of his novels is narrated by a boy whose sister "smelled like trees." A chapter in one of his novels is just (*)) Vardaman saying "my mother is a fish." Another of his novels features the mentally handicapped Benjy, who reminisces about his sister Caddy, and whose brother, Quentin Compson, commits suicide. For 10 points, name this Mississippian author of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.

Ernest Hemingway

One of this author's protagonists dines on pork and beans, spaghetti, bread, and catchup while camping by the fire-devastated town of Seney, Michigan. In another short story by this author, Max orders a roast pork tenderloin with applesauce and is at Henry's Lunch Room with Al to murder Ole Andreson. This author of "Big Two-Hearted River" and "The Killers" created Lady Brett Ashley, whose love affair with Jake Barnes cannot be consummated, and Pedro Romero, who kills a bull in Pamplona. For 10 points, name this creator of Nick Adams, an American who set The Sun Also Rises in Spain and depicted the fisherman Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea.

Herman Melville

One of this author's protagonists used to work at a Dead Letter office, but starves to death in prison because he "would prefer not to" eat. This author wrote a novel in which Captain Vere is forced to execute the killer of John Claggart and a short story about (*)) "Bartleby the Scrivener." Queequeg is among the crew of the Pequod lost in Captain Ahab's hunt for a white whale in a work by, for 10 points, what author of Billy Budd and Moby Dick?

Robert Frost

One of this author's speakers says, "I'd like to get away from earth awhile/And then come back to it and begin over." This poet wrote, "Then leaf subsides to leaf/And Eden sank to grief" in a poem beginning, "Nature's first hue is gold." This author declared, "I think I know enough of hate/To say that for destruction (*) ice/is also great/And would suffice." In a poem set on the "darkest evening of the year", he wrote about a speaker who has "miles to go before I sleep." Another poem by this author says "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" and "Good fences make good neighbors." For 10 points, name this New England poet of "The Road Not Taken."

Howl

One part of this poem was inspired by the author's vision of a hotel facade while he was under the influence of the cactus peyote. People dance barefoot on broken glass and smash German jazz records in one part of this poem, and in the next part, "the incomprehensible prison" is compared with (*) Moloch. The third and final part of this poem features the refrain "I'm with you in Rockland", while the first line of the footnote to this poem consists solely of the word "Holy!" For ten points, name this poem that begins with the phrase "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", by Allen Ginsberg.

William Carlos Williams

One poem by this man claims "it is difficult / to get the news out of poems," and he wrote that "they enter the world naked" when describing bushes "By the road to the contagious hospital" in his collection Spring and All. This author of (*) "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" and an epic poem about Paterson, New Jersey wrote about stealing some food "you were probably / saving / for breakfast" that was "so sweet / and so cold." The title object of another of his poems is "glazed with rain" and "so much depends / upon" it. For 10 points, name this American poet of "This Is Just to Say" and "The Red Wheelbarrow."

The Beat Generation

Prominent members of this group who took part in the Six Gallery Reading include Gary Snyder and Wally Hedrick. One member published "I am Waiting" and "Junkman's Obbligato" in his collection A Coney Island of the Mind after founding the City Lights bookstore. Another poet of this movement penned the lines "Holy the Fifth International!" and "Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness!" in a poem dedicated to Carl Solomon, which begins "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness." For 10 points, identify this anti-establishment movement, which included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Kerouac, and the poet of Howl, Allen Ginsberg.

The Most Dangerous Game

The protagonist of this story is recognized because he wrote a book about snow leopards. After it is decided that one character will "furnish a repast for the hounds", the narrator of this story reflects that he has never slept in a better bed. This story's protagonist constructs a Burmese tiger pit and a Malay man-catcher, impales Ivan with a knife, then jumps off a cliff from (*) Ship-Trap Island and sneaks back into the chateau. After he falls off a yacht, Rainsford plays a game of cat-and-mouse with General Zaroff in this story. For 10 points, name this frequently anthologized story by Richard Connell, whose title refers to hunting men.

Howl

The second part of this poem describes a figure "whose love is endless oil and stone" and "whose name is the Mind!". The third section of this poem tells of a place "where the faculties of the skull no longer admit the worms of the senses". This poem was judged to be not obscene when its publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, was put on trial. "Mohammedan angels staggering on tenement roofs" appear in this poem dedicated to Columbia Psychiatric Institute patient Carl Solomon, whom the poet repeatedly tells "I'm with you in Rockland." Name this poem that describes Moloch, and opens "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness", written by Allen Ginsberg.

Catcher in the Rye

When the protagonist of this work checks in to the Edmont Hotel, he doesn't have sex with his prostitute, but pays her most of the money anyway. The protagonist writes depressed poetry on his brother Allie's baseball glove, before running around New York City in angst against the (*)) "phonies." He describes his frustration with his former teacher, who touched his hair, in the book-long psychiatry session that frames this story. Mr. Antolini and Phoebe are significant in the life of the protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Name this novel by J.D. Salinger.