literature
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.
a 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
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?
The Thorn Birds
As one of the bestselling books of the 1970's, this novel is set in a sheep station in the Australian Outback. Much of the novel focuses in the ill-fated relationship of Meggie Cleary and Ralph de Bricassart, a priest. Telling the story of three generations of the Cleary clan, what is this novel by Colleen McCullogh that was made into a successful T.V. miniseries?
command line interface
As opposed to using a mouse pinter and a graphical user interface to instruct a computer to perform a task, what is the term given for the mechanism for interacting with a computer by typing text-only commands and pressing the enter key?
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?
arbitration
Beginning with the first letter of the alphabet, what is the term for the form of alternative dispute resolution in which a case is settled outside of the courts by the decision of a third party?
Mexican-American
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.
Big Brother
During a film, this character's face morphs out of a soldier submachine-gunning the audience, and one of his speeches is edited by Tillotson to remove any reference to "Withers." Along with the author of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchal Collectivism, this mustached person founded the ruling Party, and his initials are chanted at the end of the Two (*) Minutes Hate. This enemy of Emmanuel Goldstein, whose face is placed on telescreens and posters, becomes the object of brainwashed adoration after the Ministry of Love tortures Winston Smith. For 10 points, identify this omnipresent totalitarian dictator of Oceania who is "watching you" in George Orwell's 1984.
doctor
Esther Summerson marries a literary character with this profession, Allan Woodcourt, in Bleak House. Another character with this profession warns his brother Peter, the Mayor, that the water supplying the new baths is contaminated. In addition to Thomas Stockmann from An Enemy of the People, another character with this profession is devastated after the death of his wife (*) Leora from the plague. Another character with this job falls in love with the nurse Lara while he works for a battlefield hospital, and in a different novel, one character with this profession takes a potion to transform into Mr. Hyde. For ten points, identify this profession of Arrowsmith, Zhivago, and Jekyll.
Phillip Marlowe
Following in the footsteps of such literary characters as Race Williams and Sam Spade, this hardboiled detective first appeared in the novel The Big Sheep in 1939. Featured in other Raymond Chandler novels, such as The Long Goodbye and Farewell, My Lovely, who is this wisecracking, hard drinking, tough private eye?
Proxy
From the latin word procuratio, which means "care" or "management", what is the term for a person authorized to act, speak, or vote on behalf of another person?
A. E. 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.
Diners
Identify the object of the preopsition in the second prepositional phrase in the following sentence. The tastiest food in any restaurant often can be found in local diners.
As
Identify the subordinating conjunction in the following sentence. The veteran soldier saluted the United States flag as the parade for the World War II participants marched past.
semi-colon
If the following sentence is written as one complete sentence, what punctuation mark is necessary after the word "tonight"? Since we are both going to the dance, let's ask Dad if we can have the car tonight: Mom doesn't need it because she will be staying home.
Joseph Conrad
In "The Hollow Men," T.S. Eliot quotes this author's statement that "Life is very long," which is spoken by Captain Lingard to Peter Willems in his story, An Outcast of the Islands. The title character of another of his novels allows Doramin to shoot him after the death of Dain Waris. In one of his stories, a captain near the Gulf of Siam allows Leggatt to escape after seeing him swim away from the Sephora. This author of (*) "The Secret Sharer" wrote a more famous novella about Kurtz, who is praised as a god in the Belgian Congo and yells "The horror! The horror!" to Charles Marlowe. For ten points, name this author of Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.
William Cuthbert Faulkner
In a novel by this author, Percy Grimm shoots and castrates a character in Gail Hightower's house, and Lucas Burch works in a planning mill before fathering Lena Grove's child. This man described a narrator's sister as "smell[ing] of trees," and wrote about Joanna Burden's murder, which is blamed on Joe Christmas. In another novel by this author, a man who works on a golf course likes it when people call him by his sister's name. This author included Caddy and the mentally handicapped Benjy in a novel in which Harvard student Quentin Compson drowns himself. For 10 points, name this author who set Light in August and The Sound and the Fury in Mississippi.
Vladimir [Vladimirovich] Nabokov
In a novel by this author, an imprisoned king finds an old toy box in a closet and then the door to a secret passage out. That novel by this man consists of a poem beginning "I was the shadow of the waxwing slain," by John Shade, and crazy (*) commentary on it, by Charles Kinbote. In another of his novels, the author of The Enchanted Hunters takes a girl to the Duk Duk Ranch. That lascivious playwright, Clare Quilty, is shot by a man who calls the title girl "light of my life, fire of my loins." For 10 points, name this author who created Humbert Humbert and wrote Pale Fire and Lolita.
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.
Commonwealth of Australia
In one novel by an author from this nation, Peter Holmes commits suicide when Commander Towers decides to scuttle the USS Scorpion. In addition to On the Beach by Nevil Shute, one book set in this country ends with a party held by the cousin of Laura for the unveiling of a statue of the title German explorer. Another novel set in this nation deals with a bet that one character cannot move a (*) glass factory to Bellingen. One author from this nation wrote about a Sudeten industrialist who compiled a list of "essentially skilled workers" from concentration camps. For ten points, name this country home to Patrick White, Peter Carey, and Thomas Keneally, the author of Schindler's Ark.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In one of his most famous works, this Romantic poet writes a cautionary tale in which supernatural forces take control of an ocean vessel when a sailor murders an innocent sea bird. What author's Wedding Guest narrator is compelled to relate this story as penance for his transgression?
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
In one of this author's novels, the narrator V. discovers that Nina Lecerf must have had a love affair with his half-brother. This author of The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, also wrote a novel in which the narrator replaces a professor at Waindell University after Dr. Hagen departs for a more prestigious college. Another of his works includes a 999-line poem by (*) John Shade. This author of Pnin wrote about a character who participates in a play called The Enchanted Hunters, which is directed by Clare Quilty. In that novel, Humbert Humbert is obsessed with nymphets like Dolores Haze. For ten points, name this author of Pale Fire and Lolita.
Paul Thomas Mann
In one of this author's novels, the protagonist accidentally dances during the wrong part after being distracted by his love-interest Ingeborg Holm. This author also wrote a novel about a character who falls in love with Clavdia Chauchat and meets his tuberculosis-infected cousin, Joachim (*) Ziemssen, in the "flatlands." In another one of his works, the protagonist develops passionate feelings for the Polish boy Tadzio in a cholera-infected city. For ten points, identify this author of Tonio Kroger who wrote about Hans Castorp in The Magic Mountain and Gustav von Aschenbach in Death in Venice.
Stephen Crane
In one of this author's poems, the narrator describes "A field where a thousand corpses lie" and urges a maiden to "not weep" "for war is kind." In another work, Scratchy Wilson reconsiders his plan to confront Jack Potter after realizing his married status. This author of (*) "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" also wrote a work in which Mary Johnson's daughter resorts to prostitution after breaking up with Pete, but he is most famous for a work in which the protagonist accompanies the "tattered soldier" in seeing the death of Jim Conklin. For ten points, name this American author who wrote Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and about Henry Fleming in The Red Badge of Courage.
Erich Maria Remarque
In one of this author's works, Josef Schwarz exchanges passports with the narrator before joining the French Foreign Legion, allowing the narrator to travel to America with his wife Ruth. This author of The Night in Lisbon also wrote about Ludwig feeling "pure" love for Genevieve Terhoven in the novel, The Black Obelisk. The protagonist of his most famous novel stabs (*) Gerard Duval and acquires the boots of Kemmerich. In that work, the schoolmaster Kantorek encourages his students to enlist in war. For ten points, identify this author who wrote about Paul Baumer's experiences in World War I in All Quiet on the Western Front.
Geoffrey Chaucer
In one of this author's works, a knight who serves Love tells the poet how he lost his queen in a game of chess against Fortuna. In addition to that poem, which begins by retelling Ovid's story about Ceyx and Alcyone, this author wrote a poem in which Scipio Africanus guides the narrator to Venus's temple. This author of The Book of the Duchess and "The (*) Parlement of Foules" wrote a more famous work which features the story of Arcite and Palamon, as told by a knight, set against the frame narrative of a pilgrimage to the grave of Thomas Becket. For ten points, name this author who included tales from people like the Nun's Priest and the Wife of Bath in his collection, The Canterbury Tales.
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges
In one of this author's works, an Irishman marks a moon-shaped scar on John's forehead before he escapes with "Judas' money." In another of his works, the protagonist develops perfect memory after falling from a horse. This author of "The Form of the Sword" and (*) "Funes, the Memorious" detailed the life of a Chinese spy working for the Germans, Dr. Yu Tsun, who murders Stephen Albert. His most famous story is set in an enormous expanse of hexagonal rooms with books that contain all the characters necessary to create any literary work. For ten points, identify this Argentinian author of "The Garden of Forking Paths" and "The Library of Babel."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
In one of this man's works, the sub-lieutenant Fedotik loses all of his belongings from a fire, and another scene shows Solony challenging and killing Baron Tuzenbach in a duel. Konstantin commits suicide after giving the title animal to Nina in one work, and in another, the title character loves (*) Elena and fails in his attempt to shoot Professor Serebryakov. His most famous work features characters like Trofimov and Gayev, and ends with Lopakhin purchasing Madame Ranevsky's estate and cutting down the title tree. For ten points, name this Russian playwright of The Three Sisters, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard.
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."
The Inferno
In one section of this work, a tree-soul identifying himself as an advisor to Emperor Frederick explains how he is pecked by the Harpies. This poem begins "midway upon the journey of" the main character's life, and he sees Ugolino perpetually chewing on the skull of Ruggieri. Before Phlegyas rows the central character in the City of (*) Dis, he learns the story of Paolo and Francesca. The narrator, who is assisted by Geryon, reads the inscription, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." Virgil guides the narrator through the nine circles of hell in, for ten points, what first section of The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri?
Moliere
In one work by this author, a character pretending to be the Sultan of Turkey marries Lucille, thereby tricking her father Jourdain into thinking that he has entered the nobility. In another work, Argan allows his daughter Angelique to marry Cleante as long as he becomes a doctor. This author of The Bourgeois Gentleman wrote about a character who criticizes a sonnet by (*) Oronte and asks Célimène to run off with him into exile. A play by this author ultimately ends with the marriage of Valere and Mariane after Orgon is convinced that the title character is a religious hypocrite. For ten points, identify this French playwright of The Imaginary Invalid, The Misanthrope, and Tartuffe.
Ray Douglas Bradbury
In one work by this author, a poor family discovers a scythe amid a field of strangely-growing wheat with the inscription, "Who wields me-- wields the world!" In addition to writing The Scythe in his collection The October Country, this author wrote a novel set in Green Town about Tom and his brother (*) Douglas Spaulding's adventures during the summer. Mildred takes too many sleeping pills in his most famous work, whose protagonist kills Captain Beatty, destroys The Hound, and burns books before preserving them. For ten points, identify this author of Dandelion Wine and a work about the fireman Guy Montag, Fahrenheit 451.
Euripides
In one work by this writer, Macaria offers herself for sacrifice in response to the oracle given to King Demophon, after which Iolaus successfully captures Eurystheus. This man also wrote a work in which Polyxena is sacrificed at Achilles' tomb and the Greek herald Talthybius reveals the fates of (*) Hecuba and Andromache. This author of Herakles' Children and The Trojan Women also wrote a play set in Corinth in which one character sends a poisoned robe to Glauce and Creon and kills her own children. For ten points, identify this Greek tragedian who described the jealousy of Jason's wife in his play, Medea.
Prima donna
In opera, this Italian term refers to the principal female singer. what is this two-word term that is also often used in a negative way to describe anyone who is vain and difficult to work with?
Jay Gatsby's parties
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.
Sense and Sensibility
In this novel, Mrs. Smith disowns one character for abandoning Eliza Williams, and that character is later compelled to marry Sophia Grey to keep his wealthy lifestyle. Sir John Middleton loans a family his cottage in Devonshire after they are forced out by Fanny, and the central characters are visited by (*) Lucy Steele. A character living in Barton Park is abandoned by John Willoughby in this novel, but that character, Marianne, eventually marries Colonel Brandon and her sister Elinor marries Edward Ferrars. For ten points, name this work by Jane Austen about the Dashwood family.
Anna Karenina
In this novel, Princess Shcherbatskaya [sher-BAT-skee] has trouble deciding which of two men would be the better suitor, and another scene shows Makhotin's horse, Gladiator, defeating Frou-Frou in a race. Dolly is devastated by the infidelity of (*) Stiva in this work, which begins with the line, "Happy families are all alike." Konstantin Levin confesses his love for Kitty in this novel, and the title character has a long affair with Count Vronsky. For ten points, identify this work whose title female character commits suicide by throwing herself under a train, a novel by Leo Tolstoy.
The Grapes of Wrath
In this novel, a police officer kills one character by crushing his skull with a pick-handle, and that character was arrested due to the outspokenness of Floyd Knowles. Ivy and Sairy Wilson accompany the protagonist of this novel on a trip which Muley Graves refuses to attend. In that trip, (*) Connie Rivers abandons his wife Rose of Sharon. The former preacher Jim Casy is involved in a strike, and his friend Tom becomes a fugitive at the end of this novel after committing a murder. For ten points, name this work in which the Joad family travels to California from Oklahoma during the Great Depression, a novel written by John Steinbeck.
The Master and 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.
Pygmalion
In this play, one character inherits a fortune after a millionaire is convinced that he is the "most original moralist" of England. In an earlier scene, a young lady pays a shilling in Wimpole Street to be able to work in a flower shop; that character later marries (*) Freddy Eynsford Hill. This play begins in Covent Garden, where an interpreter of Indian dialect, Colonel Pickering, accepts a bet with a phonetics professor that the latter can change a cockney-speaking girl into a proper woman. For ten points, identify this play in which Eliza Doolittle betrays Henry Higgins, written by George Bernard Shaw.
Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero
In this work, one character bankrupts the servant Briggs and the landlord Raggles, and that character earlier plays charades as the character of Clytemnestra. Another character in this work flees to India after leaving his godson to a woman who graduated from Miss Pinkerton's Academy. The protagonist pursues relationships with the Marquis of Steyne and Jos after a failed marriage with (*) Rawdon Crawley in this work, whose title is inspired from a line in The Pilgrim's Progress. Dobbin eventually marries the friend of Becky Sharp, Amelia Sedley, in, for ten points, what "novel without a hero" written by William Makepeace Thackeray?
The Handmaid's Tale
In this work, one criminal being persecuted at the Wall wears a bag with blood seeping through that resembles a red smile. Two characters in this novel learn that Janine's child was a "shredder" while attending a "Prayvaganza." Professor Pieixoto describes how this novel's story was presented in the form of thirty cassette tapes. After playing a game of (*) Scrabble, the protagonist of this work learns the phrase, "Don't let the bastards grind you down." That character sleeps with Nick, who tells her to trust the Eyes in the Mayday resistance, and serves Serena Joy and a Commander. For ten points, name this novel concerning Offred, written by Margaret Atwood.
The Three Musketeers
In this work, the Man from Meung gets into a fight with one character after making fun of his mount, and that character's success in defeating Jussac later allows him to join Essart's guards by appointment from the King. Constance helps Queen Anne of Austria in her secret affair with the (*) Duke of Buckingham, who is later killed at the directive of this novel's antagonist, Milady de Winter. Cardinal Richelieu attempts to arrest d'Artagnan in, for ten points, what novel by Alexandre Dumas whose title group consists of the characters Porthos, Athos, and Aramis?
Cry, the Beloved Country
One character in this novel acquires a copy of the Gettysburg Address after discussing with John Harrison and learning that his son is an admirer of Abraham Lincoln. Father Vincent consoles the protagonist about a crime that Johannes Pafuri planned in this work. Theophilus Msimangu sends a letter to the protagonist early in this work, inviting him to take care of his ill sister, (*) Gertrude. James helps renovate the town of Ndotsheni despite the death of his son, Arthur Jarvis. For ten points, identify this South African novel written by Alan Paton in which Stephen Kumalo's son, Absalom, is executed.
Ulysses
One character in this novel imagines the author Jonathan Swift climbing a pole to avoid the mass. That character later composes a poem on a scrap torn from Deasy's letter about cattle disease. The protagonist of this work runs into Bantam Lyons after receiving a letter from Martha Clifford addressed to his pseudonym, Henry Flower. (*) Blazes Boylan has an affair with the central character's wife, Molly, whose soliloquy concludes with the statement "yes I will yes." Buck Mulligan has an argument with Stephen Dedalus in, for ten points, what stream-of-consciousness novel about a day in Leopold Bloom's life, written by James Joyce?
The Tragedy of Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
One character in this play demands that he be covered as well in his father's funeral, and commands, "Now pile your dust upon the quick and dead." Another character in this play mourns how his mother had "followed my poor father's body Like Niobe" before remarking, "frailty, thy name is woman." The central character swaps execution letters before entering England, leading to the deaths of two friends from Wittenberg, (*) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. During his duel with Laertes, the title character kills his uncle Claudius. For ten points, name this Shakespearean tragedy about a Prince of Denmark who asks, "to be or not to be."
A Streetcar Named Desire
One character in this play is kicked out of the Flamingo Hotel due to her immoral behavior. A former English teacher in this work is fired because of an affair with a 17-year-old student, and a character who resides in Elysian Fields Avenue throws a radio out of a window during (*) Mitch's poker game in this work. When the protagonist is taken to an asylum in the last scene of this play, she tells another character that she "always depended on the kindness of strangers." Stanley rapes the sister of Stella Kowalski in, for ten points, what play by Tennessee Williams about a Southern Belle named Blanche Dubois?
Journey to the West
One character in this work attempts to kidnap another by disguising herself first as a village girl, then the girl's mother, then the girl's father, but is killed each time. A mountain in this novel has fires which can only be put out by a fan of banana leaves. One character in this novel urinates on five pillars which are actually fingers, and gets reminded of his birthplace on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruit upon arriving at Vulture Peak. That character, who carries a size-changing golden staff, accompanies Xuanzang, Sandy, and Pigsy on an attempt to retrieve Buddhist texts from India. For 10 points, name this classic Chinese novel in which the simian Sun Wukong goes questing.
The Tale of Genji
One character in this work is exiled to Suma after his secret affair with his brother's concubine is revealed, and that character's mother dies when he reaches three years of age. The title character of this work perfectly dances "The Waves of the Blue Sea" and is frustrated with his wife (*) Aoi. The "Uji" chapters of this work concern Kaoru and Niu, while a chapter preceding it is intentionally left blank to imply the death of the protagonist, who secretly has a child named Reizei with Lady Fujitsubo. For ten points, name this work about the title philandering prince sometimes considered to be the first modern novel, which was written by the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented
One character in this work rejects Mercy Chant since she lacks farming skills despite the suggestions of his brothers Felix and Cuthbert. Later on, that same character asks Izz to be his mistress. The protagonist of this work moves to Sandbourne after sending angry letters to her lover before urging him to marry her sister, Liza-Lu. The title character gives birth to (*) Sorrow and works at Talbothay's dairy, where she meets a man who later abandons her for a new life in Brazil. This novel's protagonist is sent to Winchester prison to be executed for murdering Alec. For ten points, name this novel by Thomas Hardy about Angel Clare and his love for the title character
cats
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.
albatrosses
One of these creatures is poked at with a pipe, but was formerly able to "haunt the storm" and laugh at the boatman, much like a poet. A "clumsy, ashamed" one of these creatures drags its appendages "like oars." That poem about one of these creatures comes between a "Benediction" and an "Elevation" as the second numbered poem in Les Fleurs du mal. After harming one of them, a character learns his lesson, saying "He prayeth best, who (*) loveth best all things both great and small." One of these creatures brings the bad luck of "Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink" after being shot by the Ancient Mariner in a Coleridge poem. For 10 points, name these gigantic birds.
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
One of this author's works depicts Anguish planting her black flag on the speaker's bowed skull and begins by describing "when the low, heavy sky weighs like a lid / on the groaning spirit." In another of his poems, the title "kings of the sky, clumsy, ashamed, / Pathetically let their great white wings / Drag beside them like oars" as sailors capture them. This author of "Litanies of Satan" and "The Albatross" opened one collection with a poem addressing the "hypocrite reader," which hails a type of boredom called ennui. For 10 points, name this French Symbolist poet, who included poems called "Spleen" in his collection Les Fleurs du mal.
Flannery O'Connor
One work by this author features a woman who reminisces about Edgar Teagarden and tells Bobby Lee's companion, "Why you're one of my babies." In a story by this author, Carver's mother violently refuses a penny and wears the same hideous purple and green hat as Julian's racist mother. Upon realizing that a plantation with a "secret panel" is actually in Tennessee, one of this author's characters causes a car accident by kicking (*) Pitty Sing's basket. That character "might have been a good woman if there had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life" and is killed by "The Misfit." For 10 points, name this Southern Gothic writer of "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
"Ozymandias"
One work that shares its title with this poem mentions how "We wonder Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace" and was written by Horace Smith in a competition against this poem's author. The speaker of this poem notices the "hand that mocked" and "the (*) heart that fed" after reading passions "which yet survive". The speaker also describes the "frown/ And wrinkled lip" of an object that is "Half sunk". This work also mentions how "the lone and level sands stretch far away" from a "Colossal wreck". A "traveller from an antique land" mentions "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone" in, for ten points, what work about a "king of kings" by Percy Shelley?
Hesiod
Only two complete works of this Father of Greek Didactic Poetry have survived. In the first, titled Works and Days, he divides time into five ages: Golden, Silver, Bronze, heroic, and the Iron Age, and prescribes a life of honest labor. the other is often cited as the key source for Greek mythology. who is this 8th century B.C. poet who wrote the Theogony, an account of the evolution of the Greek Gods?
Mending Wall
Published in 1914, this poem appeared as the first selection in Robert frost's second collection of poetry titled North of Boston. The Central character in the poem questions why a barrier must be built between his property and his neighbor's property. What is the title of his poem, in which the neighbor responds with the line, "Good fences make good neighbors"?
E-p-i-p-h-a-n-y
Spell the literal term that means a sudden revelation of the true nature of a character or circumstance. Spell epiphany.
g-i-n-g-h-a-m
Spell the word in the following sentence that is the name for a type of checked fabric. Judy picked out a lovely gingham for her new drapes. Spell gingham.
A-e-s-t-h-e-t-i-c-s
Spell the word in the following sentence that is the name for the branch of philosophy that deals with the notion of beauty. The pedants were involved in a furious discussion about the aesthetics of the artist's newesr painting. Spell aesthetics
C-o-a-l-e-s-c-e
Spell the word in the following sentence that means to grow together or fuse. The citizens were able to coalesce and nominate a strong candidate to oppose the incumbent mayor. Spell coalesce
Animosity
The Hatfields and the McCoys, the Sharks and the Jets, and the Montagues and the Capulets all demonstrate this feeling of wrath-like anger and fierce hostility toward the other family or gang. Derived from the Latin word for "spirited", what word means active dislike for a person or toward an idea?
poems
The speaker of Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley mentions how he "strove to resuscitate the dead art" of this practice for three years. Archibald MacLeish wrote that these entities "should be palpable and mute," and "should not mean, but be." Persian (*) ghazals by Hafiz and Rumi were one type of this work, and examples of other Arabic ones include quatrains. Horace wrote about the "art of this," and the "epic" variety of this form was practiced by Homer. For ten points, identify these literary works which come in forms like the villanelle and the sonnet, and may or may not rhyme.
Jonathan Swift
The speaker of one of this author's poems comments that "such gaudy Tulips [are] rais'd from Dung" after entering the dressing room of Celia. This author included the allegory of a spider and a bee in a prolegomenon to a work in which Peter, Jack, and Martin, who each symbolize a branch in Christianity, ultimately split up. This author of The Battle of the Books and (*) A Tale of a Tub also wrote an essay which suggests the usage of children as a rich source of food. The protagonist of his most famous novel meets the Houyhnhnms, Yahoos, and the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput. For ten points, name this satirical author of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels.
Anne Bradstreet
The speaker of one of this poet's works commands the reader to "Take thou the world and all that will" in a poem describing "The Flesh and the Spirit". The speaker of another of her poems "washed [the] face" and "stretched the joints" of the title object, which is an "ill-formed offspring." In yet another work, the speaker was "waken'd with thund'ring noise" in a "silent night" after which she notes how "the world no longer let [her] love". This poet of (*) "The Author to Her Book" wrote that "if two were ever one then surely we" in a poem addressed "To [her] Dear and Loving Husband." For ten points, identify this poet of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.
Words
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.
Matsuo Basho
This 17th-century author gained inspiration for much of his poetry from his "wanderings". One of his most famous poems reads, "an ancient pond/ a frog jumps/ the splash of water." Who is this Japanese poet best known for his Haikus?
Desiderius Erasmus
This Dutch scholar and humanist of the 1500s wrote serious, and sometimes humorous, criticism of kings and churchman of his day. After the accession of King Henry VIII, this critic resided mainly at Cambridge. name the author known for Handbook of a Christian Knight, Adagia, and In Praise of Folly.
committing suicide
This action is carried out by Major Scobie after he witnesses the image of God in his servant Ali in Graham Greene's novel The Heart of the Matter. Clym Yeobright's wife, Eustacia Vye, does this before meeting Wildeve in the end of Hardy's novel The Return of the Native. In Les Miserables, (*) Inspector Javert does this after he allows Jean Valjean to say goodbye to Cosette one last time, and Cleopatra uses the poison of an asp to accomplish it at the end of a Shakespearean tragedy. For ten points, identify this method of death which is committed by Juliet with a dagger after she sees Romeo's body.
lamb
This animal is the subject of the famous poem of William Blake's collection Songs of Innocence. Clearly evoking Jesus, who is referred to repeatedly as this animal in the Bible, what docile ruminant serves as a gentle counterpoint to the fierce subject of Blake's later poem "Tyger, tyger burning bright"?
Günter Wilhelm Grass
This author created a work in which Simon Dach chairs a meeting with several intellectuals after the Thirty Years' War. In another one of this author's novels, Walter Matern knocks out the teeth of his former Jewish friend Eduard Amsel, who is a genius of making scarecrows. This author of The Meeting at Telgte also wrote a novel whose protagonist joins (*) Klepp and Scholl to form the Rhine River Three Band and plays at the Onion Cellar Club. That main character is gifted with a precious instrument on his third birthday and resolves never to grow up. Dog Years and a work centering on Oskar Matzerath were written by, for ten points, what author of The Tin Drum?
Alexander Pope
This author described "The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" and noted that "He best can paint 'em, who shall feel 'em most" in one work. Another of his works asks, "Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" This author of "Eloisa to Abelard" and "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" commented that (*) "a little learning is a dangerous thing" and that "to err is human, to forgive Divine" in another work. In a more famous poem by this man, Umbriel visits the Cave of Spleen before Lord Petre cuts a piece of Belinda's hair without her knowledge. For ten points, name this English author of "An Essay on Man" and the mock epic poem, The Rape of the Lock
Conrad Richter
This author was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction in 1951, for his novel The Town, the third book in this author's Awakening Land trilogy. Who was this American novelist whose works focus on life along the American frontier, as in such novels as The Seas of Grass and The Light in the Forest?
James Fenimore Cooper
This author wrote a novel in which a character who enjoys "fish with dynamite" is the right hand man of a man who almost died by a falling tree and cherishes the view atop "Mount Vision", Judge Marmaduke Temple. In another of his works, Tamenund, the "Sache" of the Delaware, frees his prisoners after witnessing a turtle tattoo. In that work by this author of (*) The Pioneers, Magua kills the son of Chingachgook, Uncas, despite the attempts of Hawkeye to save him. For ten points, name this American author who wrote about Natty Bumppo in The Last of the Mohicans, the second of his Leatherstocking Tales.
Edward Morgan Forster
This author wrote a novel in which the hypnotist Lasker Jones offers advice about same-sex marriage to the protagonist after he spends a night with Alec Scudder. In another work by this author, Charles is sentenced to three years in jail after a falling bookcase kills Leonard Bast. In a third novel by this man, Mrs. Moore is unable to continue exploring the (*) Marabar Caves after receiving an invitation from Fielding's tea party. In that work, Ronny Heaslop decides not to marry Adela Quested after she drops her charges of sexual assault against Dr. Aziz. For ten points, identify this English author of Maurice, Howard's End and A Passage to India.
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
This author wrote a novella in which the protagonist asks Ulises to kill her grandmother, who prostituted the title character to pay off a house she burned down. Besides Innocent Erendira, this author also wrote a work in which Bayardo San Roman chooses not to marry Angela Vicario after she is deflowered by (*) Santiago Nasar. Another work ends with a character understanding Melquiades' prophecy. The protagonist of that work by this author of Chronicle of a Death Foretold has seventeen children named Aureliano and is the founder of the town of Macondo. For ten points, name this author who wrote about Jose Arcadio Buendia in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Edward Franklin Albee III
This author wrote a play in which a character performing calisthenics reveals to his half-buried Grandma that he is the angel of death. In another of his plays, a Western Union representative informs a central character that his son died trying to avoid hitting a porcupine with his car. Yet another of his plays ends with Jerry committing suicide with a knife held by (*) Peter after sitting on a bench in Central Park. In the most famous work by this author of The Sandbox and The Zoo Story, Nick and Honey play games like "Get the Guest" at the house of George and Martha. For ten points, identify this American playwright of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Edgar Allen Poe
This author wrote a poem in which the speaker describes "The skies" as "ashen and sober," and another poem depicted a ruler that has "won usurpingly...the same heritage hath giv'n/Rome to the Caesar." In addition to Ulalame and Tamerlane, he wrote a short story narrated by a man who reads The Mad Tryst to (*) Roderick shortly before the title event occurs. The most famous work of this writer of The Fall of the House of Usher asks if there is "balm in Gilead" and laments the loss of Lenore. For ten points, name this American poet who wrote The Raven.
Chinua Achebe
This author wrote a short story in which Jonathan is robbed of twenty pounds, but disregards it because "Nothing Puzzles God." In addition to Civil Peace, this author wrote a work in which the protagonist befriends Joseph and convinces Clara Okeke to undergo an abortion. In the prequel to that work, a family is exiled for seven years after a gun explosion kills (*) Ezeudo's son. The most famous novel of this author of No Longer at Ease features a character who hangs himself after killing Ikemefuna to avoid trial by Christian missionaries. For ten points, name this Nigerian author who wrote about Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart.
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.
John Keats
This author wrote about a figure "too late for antique vows, / Too, too late for the fond believing lyre," in a work in which the speaker stays that "Yes, I will be thy priest" to the lover of Cupid. Another of his works describes a "heifer lowing at the skies." The speaker of that poem says to a "Bold Lover," "never, never canst thou kiss." In that poem, he says that "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter" while addressing a "Sylvan historian." In that poem, he addresses a "still-unravished bride of quietness" and concludes "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." For 10 points, name this English Romantic poet who wrote Odes "to Psyche" and "on a Grecian Urn."
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.
Holden Caulfield
This character witnesses a man and a woman exchanging mouthfuls of a liquid in a nearby room, compelling him to ask Faith Cavendish out on a date. Earlier, he has a conversation with the mother of Ernest Morrow in which he pretends to be the janitor Rudolf Schmidt. This character is irritated by the poor hygiene of Ackley and (*) Stradlater, the latter of whom also dates his love interest, Jane Gallagher. Maurice later beats up this character, who dislikes "phonies" and is kicked out of Pencey Prep. For ten points, name this brother of Allie, D.B., and Phoebe, the main character of J.D. Salinger's novel, The Catcher in the Rye.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
This novel opens with the following sentence. "many years later, as he faced the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." What is the title of this novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
This novelist garnered a following with his creation of the recurring character John Carter of Mars, in his series of Martian novels. The towns of Tarzana, California, and Tarzan, Texas are named in his honor due to his most famous literary character. Who is this American author who created Tarzan the Ape Man?
Beowulf
This poem asks how one character could "not lament her fate" when "the light broke on her murdered dears" in one of its "four funerals," the last of which is named after the "Last Survivor." In this work, which appears in the Nowell Codex, another character accuses the protagonist of losing a swimming race against Breca. It begins with a description of the death of king (*) Shield Sheafson. Wiglaf fights a dragon alongside this poem's protagonist, to whom Unferth lends his sword Hrunting before he fights the mother of the antagonist. For ten points, identify this Old English epic in which the title Geatish protagonist kills Grendel.
"Because I could not stop for Death"
This poem describes how "dews grew quivering and chill" after the narrator had "passed the fields of grazing grain" and "passed the setting sun." The speaker pauses before a house that seemed "a swelling of the ground" which had a "roof [that] was scarcely visible." The narrator "passed the school, where the children stove" and surmised that the (*) "horses' heads/ Were pointed toward eternity." Along with the title figure, the speaker of this poem rides in a "carriage [that] held but just [themselves]/And Immortality." For ten points, name this Emily Dickinson poem in which the title figure "kindly stopped for [her]."
John Donne
This poet commented that "Who are a little wise, the best fools be" in his poem, "The Triple Fool." The speaker of another of his works mentions how a firmness "makes me end where I begun" and begins with describing how "virtuous men pass mildly away". This author also wrote about how "our two bloods mingled be" after an insect (*) "sucks me first and now sucks thee", and another work mentions how a certain figure is a "slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men". For ten points, name this metaphysical poet of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Flea," and Holy Sonnet X, "Death be not proud."
W.B. Yeats
This poet states that he must lie down "in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart," in "The Circus Animals' Desertion," and he plans to live alone in the "bee-loud glade" in a small cabin of "clay and wattles." In another poem, this author writes the names of "MacDonagh and MacBride and Connolly and Pearse" before repeating, "a terrible (*) beauty is born." Besides commenting that "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity," this poet states that "the falcon cannot hear the falconer" and describes a rough beast slouching "towards Bethlehem to be born." For 10 points, identify this Irish poet who wrote "Easter, 1916," "The Second Coming," and "Sailing to Byzantium."
The Secret life of Bees
This poignant novel written in 2002 features a young white girl from South Carolina who feels responsible for her mother's shooting death. against a backdrop of the Civil Rights years, Lily comes of age in the home of two black sisters. what is this novel by Sue Monk Kidd, the title of which reflects the occupation of the two sisters?
Scotland Yard
This police service is referenced often in popular culture, such as with the fictional Inspector Lestrade of the Sherlock Holmes stories. What is this two-word metonym that refers to the Metropolitan Police Service of London?
box office
This two-word term can be used to quantify the popularity of a professional entertainer or show, or it can refer to a particular place where tickets are sold. What is the two word name of the small enclosure found at the entrance to a theater where tickets are purchased?
obsequious
This word is often used to describe a servant who is required to carry out the wishes of his or her master with a great amount of deference, such as bowing or backing out of a room. Name this four-syllable word beginning with the letter 'o" that describes a fawning or sycophantic manner.
To plant a tree
What is the complete subject of the following sentence? In this day and age of environmental concerns, to plant a tree is an act of hope to create future habitats for forest-dwelling animals.
Subjunctive
What is the mood of the verb in the following sentence? If I were you, I wouldn't go into that dark cave alone.
Tongue-in-Cheek
What phrase referencing a facial expression is used as a figure of speech to imply that a statement is insincere, ironically intended, or a whimsical exaggeration and should not be taken at face value?
Implement
What word when used as a verb means to put into effect or carry out a plan of action, and when used as a noun refers to an instrument, tool, or untensil used in an activity?
golfer
name the predicate nominative in the following sentence. after many years of taking lessons, Max became a scratch golfer and won the club championship.
