Quizbowl Literature
The narrator of this work becomes obsessed with a piece of coral embedded in glass during a trip to an antiques store. The narrator of this book reads about "Oligarchical Collectivism" and the creation of the "three great super-states" in a book procured from a coworker who initiated him into the secret "Brotherhood." O'Brien turns on the narrator in this book and tortures him with rats in "Room 101," causing him to renounce his lover Julia In the final scene in this work the narrator realizes he finally "loves Big Brother." This George Orwell novel is about Winston Smith's rebellion in dystopian England.
1984
The main character of this play denies eating macaroons in the first act. The card that the syphilitic Dr. Rank sends this work's protagonist is overshadowed by another letter, and Kristine Linde is a childhood friend of the protagonis.. The bank employee Krogstad tries to blackmail the protagonist of this work regarding her forging of a loan. This play ends with Torvald forgiving his wife and begging her to reconsider her decision to leave the family. For 10 points, name this play about Nora Helmer, a work by Henrik Ibsen.
A Doll's House
This novel's protagonist is challenged to a drink "by the corpse of Bacchus." This novel's protagonist leaves his lover's dead body, which was "like saying goodbye to a statue," and walks back to the hotel in the rain in its ending, which was rewritten 47 times. This novel's main female character is accused of having no shame by her former friend Helen Ferguson, who works with Lieutenant (*) Rinaldi. Its main female character dies in Switzerland after its protagonist flees the Battle of Caporetto. The Italian Campaign of World War I is the setting of—for 10 points—what novel about the nurse Catherine Barkley and ambulance driver Frederic Henry by Ernest Hemingway?
A Farewell to Arms
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet.", A group of characters in this work are called "rude mechanicals" who perform Pyramus and Thisbe, Nick Bottom is given an ass's head before appearing in Pyramus and Thisbe at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta as a consequence of a dispute between Oberon and Titania, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (composer). Shakespeare play featuring the fairies Puck and Oberon.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A character in this play considers getting an abortion to protect "the part [of her family] that's already living," but changes her mind when she moves into a new home. Another character in this play criticizes Beneatha's decision to "mutilate" her hair by straightening it. In this play, Walter's plans to invest in a (*) liquor store are foiled when Willy steals ten-thousand dollars worth of life insurance money. The central family in this play rejects Karl Lindler's offer to buy back their house in Clybourne Park. The black Younger family's integration into a white neighborhood in Chicago is chronicled in, for 10 points, what play by Lorraine Hansberry?
A Raison in the Sun
This play's stage directions describe ambient music from a nearby club as a "blue piano." A character in this play attempts to hide her age by blocking out the light from a paper lantern. That character dances to the "Varsouviana" after confronting her husband Allan Grey about his homosexual affair. In this play, a game of poker is interrupted when Mitch's friend throws a radio out of a window. This play ends after a character admits that she has "always depended on the kindness of strangers" as she is taken to a mental hospital. This play is about Blanche's stay in Stella and Stanley Kowalski's home, written by Tennessee Williams.
A Streetcar Named Desire
This novel describes crowds of people gathering around puddles of spilt wine to drink off the street. A character in this novel uses herknitting to plot the deaths of a family. Its protagonist works under a man who decides not to propose to a doctor's daughter after hearing JarvisLorry's advice. In this novel, Gaspard leaves a note signed by "Jacques" after he kills the Marquis of St. (*) Évremonde for running over his child. It ends with the thought "it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done." The barrister Sydney Carton takes the place of Charles Darnay in—for 10 points—what Charles Dickens novel that begins "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
A Tale of Two Cities
This work contains a simile comparing the builders of a city to bees, and one character in this work is thrown across a river while tied to a spear; that character is Camilla. This work describes how Sinon convinces the Greeks to accept the Trojan Horse. This work opens "I sing of arms and the man" and ends with the death of the (*) Rutulian Turnus, leaving the way open for the protagonist to become king of Latium; that protagonist had earlier fled the destruction of Troy and caused Dido to commit suicide. For 10 points, name this work about the title son of Anchises and Venus and ancestor of the Romans, an epic written by Vergil.
Aeneid
This novel originated as the verse play Proud Flesh, in which the main character was named Talos after a "brutal, blank-eyed 'iron groom'" from the Fairie Queene. That character begins the novel by stopping at a soda fountain and talking to "Old Leather-Face" about his jailed son; he is later contrasted as "the man of fact" against a "man of idea." After picking up a hitchhiker, this novel's narrator formulates a theory of the (*) "Great Twitch" and studies his ancestor Cass Mastern. He digs up blackmail evidence against Judge Irwin, causing Irwin to commit suicide before he realizes Irwin was his father. In this novel, Anne Stanton's affair with "the Boss" is revealed, causing Adam to shoot him. For 10 points, name this novel narrated by Jack Burden about the Huey-Long-inspired politician Willie Stark, by Robert Penn Warren.
All the King's Men
One character in this novel writes an unsuccessful book, so he joins the pan-Slav movement. Another character breaks his horse Frou-Frou's back in a race against Gladiator. A major character in this story consults a French clairvoyant named Landau, who told him not to file fir divorce. Princess (*) Kitty Scherbatsky eventually marries Constantin Levin in this novel that depicts Stiva Oblonsky's cheating on his wife Dolly. This novel begins "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." For ten points, name this Leo Tolstoy novel about the title woman who kills herself by jumping in front of a train.
Anna Karenina
After being threatened with torture, a guard in this play asks a king whether his pain lies in his soul or in his ears. In this play, a man is accused of taking bribes after he recounts how birds screamed and clawed at each other so he could not make out their language. A chorus in this play declares, "Wonders are many, and none are more wonderful than man," prior to the arrest of the protagonist. In this play, Haemon lunges at his father then stabs himself after discovering his bride has hanged herself in a cave. This play's title character defies Creon's edict that no one shall give proper burial rites to her brother Polynices. This is a Sophocles play about the daughter of Oedipus.
Antigone
One character in this work runs through the forest tacking his hastily-scrawled love poems to trees, hoping that passersby will see his beloved's "virtue witnessed everywhere". One of Duke Senior's courtiers, Jaques (JAY-kwess) makes a speech which ends "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything." That monologue tells of the "seven ages of man", and begins with the line "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players." Featuring the marriage of Touchstone to Audrey and the love of Orlando dressing up as a boy, Ganymede, identify this play in which Rosalind marries Orlando alongside three other newlywed couples, a work by Shakespeare.
As You Like It
This text is said to be about man's war "with a hostile world" and his "inevitable overthrow in Time" in another essay. This work's title character exclaims "Fate will unwind as it must," suggesting that the version of this text in the Nowell Codex was modified by a (*) Christian writer. In "The Monsters and the Critics," J.R.R. Tolkien defended literary readings of this poem. This text's opening sentence hwaet! (rhymes with "cat"), was translated as "So!" by an Irish poet in 1999. Seamus Heaney once translated, for 10 points, what poem, in which the title character battles Grendel and a dragon?
Beowulf
One section of this text differentiates between a "field" and the one who knows that field. This text ends with a chapter on action through renunciation. This text centers on three ways of being, or gunas: sattva, rajas, and tamas. This text, whose eighteen chapters are named for types of (*) yoga, begins with one character hesitating to fight and kill his friends and relatives. This dialogue is the most famous section of an epic recounting the war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. Arjuna is advised by Krishna in—for 10 points—what central section of the Mahabharata?
Bhagavad Gita
After a romantic scene in this novel, one character pushes a woman's clothes through a ventilator after calling her an "impudent strumpet." Mitsima teaches one of this novel's characters how to work with clay, and that character watches Three Weeks in a Helicopter and is reminded of Linda and Popé's relationship. After being impregnated by the Director of (*) Hatcheries and Conditioning, one woman in this novel is relocated from New Mexico, where her son often quotes Shakespeare, by Lenina Crowne and Bernard Marx. In this novel, Mustapha Mond helps run a society where people undergo Bokanovsky's Process and take the drug soma. For 10 points, name this dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World
This book's main character asks an old man if his country prays to God, to which the old man replies "no we have nothing to ask him." The protagonist of this book rides in a coach pulled by six flying sheep to meet a country's king, and at one point is almost eaten by a tribe of cannibals that mistakes him for a Jesuit. After the protagonist of this novella loses the riches he acquired in El Dorado, he proclaims that we "must cultivate our gardens." When this novella's protagonist learns that Baron Thunder-ten-Tronckh's daughter has become ugly, he finally rejects the Leibnizian optimism of Doctor Pangloss. A woman named Cunegonde is beloved by the title character of this novella by Voltaire?
Candide
Holman's Department Store (flagpole skating record), Lee Chong and Dora Flood and marine biologist Doc are characters, Sweet Thursday is the sequel, by John Steinbeck
Cannery Row
In this novel, a 107-year-old brothel owner asserts "It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees." This novel opens with the line "It was love at first sight" in reference to a character's admiration of a chaplain. A character in this novel paradoxically manages to make a profit by buying (*) eggs for seven cents each and then selling them for five. In this novel, a part-time accomplice of Milo Minderbinder is frustrated by an absurd rule which makes it impossible to be discharged from flying bombing missions. For 10 points, name this novel about Yossarian's attempts to avoid dying in World War II, by Joseph Heller.
Catch 22
A character in this novel nicknamed "Gunpowder" ironically shouts at the protagonist to "please stop shouting." A man in this novel claims he is "going to America" before shooting himself in front of a policeman. In this novel, the fiancé of the protagonist's sister tries to frame a woman for theft by slipping a banknote into her pocket. The main character of this novel (*) gives money to the family of a man who is killed by a carriage, Marmeladov, whose daughter Sonya had become a prostitute to support him. For 10 points, name this novel in which Porfiry Petrovich investigates Raskolnikov's murder of a pawnbroker, a work of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Crime and Punishment
This character is targeted by a man whose assistant is the one-legged Tungay, Mr. Creakle. Early in this character's life, he is sent to stay with Mrs. Gummidge in an upturned boat. While working for Doctor Strong, this character learns shorthand, aided by Traddles. This character sometimes known as "Trot" is sent to Salem House for biting Edward (*) Murdstone, where he befriends Steerforth. A landlord of this character is named Micawber. This character's first wife dies after a miscarriage and is named Dora Spenlow, but then he marries Wickfield's daughter, Agnes, who was pursued by Uriah Heep. For 10 points, name this title character of a semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens.
David Copperfield
In this play, a character swears to "stay in this city and beat this racket" before his mother reveals that she finished paying off her mortgage. A waiter in this play is asked for directions to a seed store by a man who is later seen madly planting those seeds in his front yard. That man is told that "the jungle is dark but full of diamonds" by a hallucination of his brother (*) Ben. In this play, a character flunks math after he discovers that his father is having an affair with "the Woman." This play's title character kills himself in a car crash in order to get life insurance money for his son Biff. For 10 points, name this Arthur Miller play about the demise of Willy Loman.
Death of a Salesman
This poem mocks the premature death of John Keats by describing him as a "very fiery particle" which "let itself be snuffed out by an Article." A section of this poem that appeared in 1823 is the source of the phrase "for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction." This poem's second stanza lists Burgoyne, Vernon, and "the butcher Cumberland" as "evil and good" after proclaiming "I want a hero: an uncommon want." The title character of this poem is (*) captured and sold in a slave market in Constantinople, and later meets the Muslim girl Leila in Saint Petersburg. The sixteen completed cantos of this poem describe a hero who gets Haydee pregnant before she is abandoned. For 10 points, name this satirical poem by Lord Byron about an easily-seduced libertine.
Don Juan
In this novel, the beautiful shepherdess Marcela explains that she had no obligation to love the late Grisóstomo simply because he was in love with her. In this novel, a man gets sick from drinking a magical "healing" balsam not long before being tossed up and down in a blanket. The title character of this novel attacks a barber because he thinks his basin is the (*) Helmet of Mambrino. A priest and a barber burn the library of chivalric romances owned by this novel's title character, who dedicates his adventures to his lady Dulcinea. For 10 points, name this novel in which the title caballero andante attacks windmills alongside his squire Sancho Panza, by Miguel de Cervantes.
Don Quixote
The cook/Chinese servant Lee tells a story about his Chinese relatives learning Hebrew to study the Bible, This work opens with a long description of the Salinas Valley. Another character in this work drops out of Stanford after his twin brother shows him their mother, Cathy Ames, working in a brothel. Those brothers, Aron and Caleb, like their father Adam and his brother Charles, represent the Biblical Abel and Cain. The tragic history of the Trask family by John Steinbeck
East of Eden
One character in this novel says goodbye to another by saying he is "not made for the bitter, sour-tasting, rootless life of people like me." In this novel, one character approaches his future wife hiding in a rye field and tells her that he doesn't bite, and another thinks "Raphael isn't worth a copper penny" and duels a man who used to love Princess R. In this novel, a character that (*) dissects frogs kisses Fenichka and later dies after contracting typhus while performing an autopsy. Nikolai struggles to understand his son Arkady and his "nihilist" friend in this novel. For 10 points, name this novel about Arkady Kirsanov and Evgeny Bazarov by Ivan Turgenev.
Fathers and Sons
A friend of this character tells Marthe her husband has died after leaving a box of jewelry at another woman's house. Advisors to this character include Valdes and Cornelius, and in one scene, this character declares, "If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves." When this character cuts his arm, over the wound, the Latin words "Homo, fuge!" appear. He's not Rabbit, but this character's love interest drowns her child and is named Gretchen, and a poodle follows him home and turns into Mephistopheles. This character titles works by Thomas Mann, Christopher Marlowe, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a man who makes a deal with the devil.
Faust
In Pale Fire, Charles Kinbote considers this novel to be a "monstrous extension" of Angus MacDiarmid's Striking and Picturesque Delineations. Marshall McLuhan structured his War and Peace in the Global Village around the "ten thunders" of this novel. The opening sentence of this novel references the phrase "commodius vicus" from Giambattista VICO'S The New Science, the structure of which heavily influenced this novel. Henry Morton Robinson and another thinker pointed out the similarities between this novel and The Skin of Our Teeth. Sections of this novel were published in the journal Transitions under the name (*)) Work in Progress, and Joseph Campbell co-authored a "Skeleton Key" to this novel. This novel centers on "Howth Castle and Environs," "Here Comes Everybody," "Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker," and other names initialized "HCE." It ends with a sentence fragment that loops back around to its opening, "riverrun, past Eve and Adam's..." For 10 points, name this extremely demanding final novel by James Joyce.
Finnegans Wake
This novel relates a story of prisoners beaten with flails before being thrown off a cliff by their captor. The protagonist of this novel is enamored of the abstract philosophy of the Russian journalist Karkov and is horrified to discover that the underground leader El Sordo has been beheaded. The main character receives his orders from General Golz and is encouraged by (*)) Pilar to begin a relationship with Maria. Towards the end of this novel the elderly Anselmo is killed in an operation that is nearly ruined when the guerrilla leader Pablo steals the detonators being used to blow up a bridge. For 10 points, name this novel about Robert Jordan fighting in the Spanish Civil War, written by Ernest Hemingway.
For Whom The Bell Tolls
One character in this work is punished with "The Tickler." The person who cared for that character is eventually severely brain damaged. A house in this work has all of the clocks stopped at the time its owner was left at the altar; that is Satis House. The protagonist of this work is scared into (*) stealing food and a metal file for a convict he meets. That convict ends up being the benefactor of the protagonist of this novel, who eventually goes abroad to be a merchant. For ten points, name this novel by Charles Dickens about an English orphan who lives with Mrs. Havisham and becomes a gentleman, Pip.
Great Expectations
"conscience does make cowards of us all," "to sleep, perchance to dream," "frailty, thy name is woman," title character dies after killing Laertes and Claudius, "too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew," tells Ophelia to "get thee to a nunnery," ghost tells him to revenge his fathers death Prince of Denmark who asks, "to be, or not to be." by Shakespeare
Hamlet
In this novel, a Russian assistant to the protagonist is called "Harlequin" because of his multicolored clothing. Another character of this work is included in the first epigraph of T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men, which proclaims, "he dead." Another character paints a dark portrait of his fiancé and ends a report with the line, (*) "Exterminate all the Brutes!" A boat anchored on the Thames River serves as the setting for this work, and that boat is named Nellie. Because of the natives in this novel, Chinua Achebe called its author a racist. This novel's climax occurs as dying ivory trader Kurtz whispers the words, "The horror, the horror" to Charlie Marlow. For 10 points, name this frame story by Joseph Conrad about a voyage up the Congo.
Heart of Darkness
This work was translated in 1990 by Robert Fagles and in 2011 by Stephen Mitchell. The image of an attacking lion is used in several similes in this work, and it describes the Cosmos and a warring city in a nine-part ekphrasis on a shield. This work notably ends with the pyre-burial of a slain enemy, and its Catalogue of Ships describes the origins of several troops. This work opens in medias res with the line "Rage--Goddess, sing the rage of Achilles," subsequently describing Achilles's killing of Hector. This work is usually paired with one in which Odysseus struggles to venture home.This epic is written by Homer about the Trojan War.
Iliad
In this novel, one man confesses he limps because his legs are out of practice and is named Brother Tarp. The protagonist of this novel meets a man who impregnated both his wife and daughter while traveling with Mr. Norton before going to the Golden Day. In this novel, one character must grab for coins on an electrified carpet after giving a speech which lands him at a college run by Dr. Bledsoe. This character who has 1,369 lights in his room competes in a battle royal and works for Liberty Paints before joining the Brotherhood, which is opposed by Ras the Exhorter This novel is about an unnamed black man, the magnum opus of Ralph Ellison.
Invisible Man
When this character has a guitar hurled at his head, he miraculously catches it and sings a ballad about Canute failing to part the ocean. This character is resurrected after being stabbed by Roger de Backbite at the Siege of Chalons. In a different appearance, this character seals a pledge by giving a prior an ivory box, while his rival gives up a gold chain. He travels to Ashby-de-la-Zouch disguised as a (*)) Palmer. This subject of a Thackeray novella titled for two of his love interests engages in a series of fights under the name "Desdichado," erroneously referencing his being disinherited by Cedric the Saxon. Many Victorian readers wished that he had married the Jewish woman Rebecca instead of the Christian woman Rowena. For 10 points, name this title character of a Walter Scott novel
Ivanhoe
In this novel, Mr. Lloyd and Maria Temple help clear the protagonist of a lying charge. Acharacter in this novel meets her employer after his horse slips on some ice and later commissions agravestone for a friend that bears the inscription "Resurgam." The protagonist of this novel is sent tothe "red room" at Gateshead by Mrs. Reed, who later sends her to Mr. Brocklehurst's Lowood School, where she meets Helen Burns. After refusing to go to India with her cousin St. John Rivers, theprotagonist of this novel returns to the place where she had been hired by Mrs. Fairfax to tutor AdeleVarens. In this novel, Bertha Mason burns down Thornfield Hall. For 10 points, name this novel by Charlotte Bronte about a governess who loves Edward Rochester.
Jane Eyre
One character in this work laments, "O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason" in a speech which also declares "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones." In this play, a statue with a hundred wounds spouting blood is dreamt by Calpurnia. A character claiming, "The fault...is in our stars, not ourselves" persuades another to murder the title character, who is warned by a soothsayer to beware the Ides of March. For 10 points, name this play in which Cassius and Brutus plot the assassination of the title ruler, a tragedy by William Shakespeare. by Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
"Out, vile jelly," "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.", a man disguised as Tom o'Bedlam, character who banishes Cordelia and divides his kingdom amongst his daughters Regan and Goneril, "Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!", other characters are Kent, and his court fool and Edmund frames Edgar
King Lear
In the introduction to this poem, the author writes that it is set in a land with "ten miles of fertile ground" that were "inclosed within a wall." In a psychoanalytic reading of this poem, Robert Graves suggests that the author wrote this poem as a "serene refuge" to separate himself from a "woman wailing for her demon-lover." This poem's speaker asks "Could I revive within me / Her symphony and song?" after having a vision of an (*) "Abyssinian maid" and the dulcimer that "she played." This poem, which describes a "sunless sea" and measureless "caverns," is incomplete due to the "Person from Porlock." It begins with the title character in a "stately pleasure-dome" in Xanadu. For 10 points, name this poem titled for an Emperor of China by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Kubla Khan
Azelma is the name of the younger daughter of a family in this novel that abuses an orphan. In the beginning of this novel, the Bishop of Digne lives in a hospital instead of the episcopal palace he is entitled to. Earlier in this novel, the Thenardiers get free labor from a girl that is sent to them by her mother (*)) Fantine; that girl ends up falling in love with and later marrying Marius. That girl, Cosette, is raised by a man with the pseudonym of Father Madeleine, who himself is pursued by Javert when he is found to be the ex-convict Jean Valjean. For 10 points, name this novel, which was written by Victor Hugo.
Les Miserables
A girl in this novel becomes a governess for the well-to-do King family. This novel's tenth chapter recounts the meetings of a book clubinspired by The Pickwick Papers. At the end, one of its protagonists starts an experimental boys' school with Professor Bhaer. In this novel's firstchapter, its main characters reminisce about a charades-like game based on John Bunyan's (*) Pilgrim's Progress. Mr. Laurence gives one of its title characters a piano. In this novel, the Hummels are given Christmas breakfast by a family led by Marmee, whose daughter Beth dies of scarlet fever. Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are the title girls of—for 10 points—what Louisa May Alcott novel?
Little Women
The narrator of this novel uses the term "McFate" to refer to strange coincidences like the recurring appearance of the number 342. In this novel, a man briefly fantasizes about drowning his wife in Hourglass Lake. That man fixates on the death by typhus of his childhood love, (*)Annabel Leigh. The narrator of this novel is followed by a pornographer and playwright named Clare Quilty. In this novel, a woman is hit by a car shortly after finding out that her husband is in love with her daughter, Dolores Haze. For 10 points, name this novel about Humbert Humbert's pedophilic obsession with the title "nymphet," written by Vladimir Nabokov.
Lolita
A character in this play reflects that she had two dreams: to become a nun, and to become a professional pianist. Symbols in this play include whiskey which is continually becoming more dilute, and a constantly blaring foghorn. A penny-pinching character in this play was typecast as a Shakespearean actor, so he can't find a job. The servant Cathleen and the quack Doc Hardy are minor characters in this work. Every time one character goes upstairs, she injects morphine. At this play's end, Edmund announces he has tuberculosis to his mother, Mary Tyrone. For 10 points, name this semi-autobiographical play by Eugene O'Neill.
Long Day's Journey Into Night
An unnamed character in this novel who has a "mulberry-marked face" disappears following a forest fire. After one character is killed in this novel, his body is surrounded by glowing fish, while in another scene, Johnny and Percival have their sandcastles destroyed by Roger and Maurice. The discovery that the(*) beast in this novel is actually a dead parachutist is made by the innocent boy Simon. The conch is used to call votes in, for 10 points, what novel by William Golding, where Ralph and Jack struggle for power on a deserted island?
Lord of the Flies
"Life's but a walking shadow", "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.", He could only be vanquished once Birnam wood came to Dunsinane, This character is told he will be killed by someone not "of woman born" by three witches after he murders King Duncan, (Lady Macbeth) "Out, damned spot!", "screw your courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail.", She tells the spirits, "Unsex me here," and claims that she would be willing to dash out a baby's brains, but she later sleepwalks, howling, "Out, out, damned spot" as she tries to wash the blood off her hands. by Shakespeare
Macbeth
A character in this poem plays the drum to mask the noise of a man being dismembered in a dance hall where he was planning to seduce a female servant. The protagonist of this poem preserves a forest fire by firing a canopy of arrows to prevent rain from extinguishing the flames. This poem contains a digression in which a woman asks for a hundred sons to be born to her and her husband, in order to trick the god of death into restoring the life of that husband. In its shortest section, a man refuses to abandon a (*)) dog that he met on a journey to a mountain where he will die and ascend to heaven. A woman in this poem is divinely granted lengths of cloth faster than her enemies force her to disrobe, during a dice game over which a man wagers his kingdom. Gazing at its reflection in a pool of oil, the protagonist of this text manages to shoot the eye of a moving fish, in an episode that ends with him and his four brothers all marrying Draupadi. For 10 points, name this epic poem about the battle between the Kauravas and Pandavas, including Arjuna.
Mahabharata
In the opening of this book, Father Mapple provides a sermon about Jonah; that sermon is attended by one of the harpooners, whose coffin ironically ends up saving another character's life. The main human character of this book offers a gold doubloon to whoever finds the title character first. One character in this book, named Queequeg, is one of the many people on the crew of the Pequod. This novel's first words, "Call me Ishmael", reveal the name of the only person on that crew to survive the book. This is a Herman Melville novel about Captain Ahab's unsuccessful fight with a titular white whale.
Moby Dick
A character in this play has a recurring nightmare in which he kills the same man over and over. An important location in this play has a portico described as an "incongruous white mask". Various characters in this play imagine either sexless children or sexual natives inhabiting the Blessed Islands. In the first scene of this play, a character is theorized to be the son of Marie Brantôme by the gardener Seth Beckwith. Characters including Everett Hills, Josiah Bordon, and Amos Ames form a sort of (*) Greek chorus in this play, which is divided into three parts titled Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted. It centers on Christine and Captain Brant's murder of Ezra, which is then avenged by Lavinia and Orin. For 10 points, name this adaptation of the Oresteia about the Mannon family, a play cycle by Eugene O'Neill.
Mourning Becomes Electra
One character in this play says "remember that I am an ass" and is named Dogberry, Borachio is paid to have sex with Margaret in this play as part of Don John's scheme to end Claudio and Hero's relationship, Balthasar sings "men were deceivers ever" and to convert all "sounds of woe into Hey Nonny, Nonny", Shakespeare comedy in which Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero amidst the "merry war" of Beatrice and Benedick.
Much Ado About Nothing
This novel's narrator lends a good horse-collar to another character and grows angry when Ambrosch returns a worn-out one. In this novel, a former worker at the Gardener Hotel makes a fortune in the Yukon, making possible a life in San Francisco for that woman, Tiny Soderball. The protagonist of this novel is moved by Marguerite and Armand's drama in the play Camille, which he sees with longtime acquaintance (*) Lena Lingard, who urges him to visit a woman abandoned by Larry Donovan. After twenty years, this novel's narrator returns to Black Hawk to visit the eldest Shimerda daughter, who is now married to Anton Cuzak. For 10 points, identify this novel about Jim Burden's friendship with a Bohemian woman in Nebraska, by Willa Cather.
My Antonia
The title character of this work is given a quiz about his bed after a staying with Nausicaa and the Phaeacians. This work's characters sacrifice Helios' cattle to give thanks for successfully avoiding a monster named Scylla and a whirlpool called Charybdis; later, the sorceress Circe turns half of those men into pigs. Meanwhile, angered by Penelope's suitors, Telemachus investigates his father's return to Ithaca. This epic poem is by Homer about a hero's return from the Trojan War.
Odyssey
The title character of this play takes it upon himself to "drive pollution from this land" after a scene in which a procession of citizens offers wool-wrapped sticks to stop a plague. This play is followed by one in which the title character dies "at Colonus." An oracle in this play reveals that a plague will only stop once the murderer of (*) Laius is banished. This play ends with Creon offering the title character shelter after Jocasta hangs herself, causing the protagonist to use the pins from her dress to put out his own eyes. This is a Sophocles tragedy, in which the title character kills his father and marries his mother.
Oedipus Rex
Protagonists leave a town called Weed, "Guys like us are the loneliest guys in the world," "glove fulla Vaseline," game of horse shoes, an old sheep dog is shot, Characters include Crooks, Candy, Slim, Carlson and Lennie and George by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men
One character in this novel uses the name Morris Boulter when he joins a gang, and another character is sent to a penal colony for stealing a snuffbox. One character in this work accidentally hangs himself while hallucinating about the girlfriend he murdered and is named Bill(*) Sikes. In this novel, Saffron Hill is the headquarters of a gang of pickpockets led by Fagin, a member of which is nicknamed "the Artful Dodger." For 10 points, name this novel by Charles Dickens whose title orphan begs a workhouse manager, "Please, sir, I want some more."
Oliver Twist
One character in this novel is shot because he is thought to be a chicken thief, and some others are identified by Ash Wednesday crosses on their foreheads. An Italian music teacher in this novel kills himself after losing the love of both Rebeca and her adoptive sister and is named Pietro Crespi. Presumably as a result of (*) incest, one character in this novel is born with a pig's tail. One man in this novel dreams of a city of mirrors, and a band of gypsies arrives annually in this novel, including Melquíades. For 10 points, name this novel about seven generations of the Buendía family living in Macondo, a work of Gabriel Garcia Márquez.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
"the beast with two backs," Brabantio's daughter, that husband of Emilia calls jealousy "the green-ey'd monster" and is infuriated by Cassio's promotion, "Moor of Venice," Desdemona is murdered after being accused of cheating, strawberry handkerchief/cloth, other characters Cassio, Bianca, Roderigo, Lodovico, and Emilia. by Shakespeare
Othello
The second act of this play is titled "Love and Marriage"; the title of the third act is left open to the audience. One character in this play laments, "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?", and when asked which day of her life she wants to relive, she goes back to see her twelfth birthday. A chorus led by Simon Stimson sings "Blessed Be The Tie That Binds" at a wedding finishing this play's second act. The conversations of the Webb and Gibbs families are intertwined in this play, set on a stage without scenery in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. This play is about George and Emily, narrated by the Stage Manager, and written by Thornton Wilder.
Our Town
This work was originally written in ten books, but a "Revised and Augmented" version was written in twelve books. Two characters in this book are described as walking "hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow." One character in this work builds a city named Pandemonium and then declares that it is "Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven." According to the first book of this work, the author's purpose is to "justify the ways of God to man." This is a 17th-century epic poem by John Milton that tells the story of Adam and Eve's expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
Paradise Lost
In the second part of this work, the innkeeper Gaius explains the symbolic meaning of supper and compares "hard texts" to nuts. A character who is exposed by the protagonist of this work is the son of Say-Well and Mrs. Talk-About-The-Right Things. In the first part of this work, the protagonist is asked, "Whence came you, and whither are you bound?" by (*) Apollyon while in the Slough [rhymes with "cow"] of Despond, where the protagonist sinks in the mire under his doubts and sins until he is pulled up by the character Help and led to the Wicket Gate. This work's title refers to Christian's journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. For 10 points, name this very early English allegorical novel by John Bunyan.
Pilgrim's Progress
This work's protagonist corrects her opinion of an unpleasant character after meeting the servant Mrs. Reynolds. In this work, Caroline praises the shy Georgiana for her piano skills in an attempt to woo her love interest. In this novel, Lady Catherine de Bourgh is idolized by the "silly man" Mr. Collins, who shocks everyone by his betrothal to Charlotte Lucas shortly after proposing to her friend. This novel sees Wickham elope with Lydia for her money, and begins by declaring "a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" before introducing Bingley. This novel ends with Elizabeth Bennet's marriage to Mr. Darcy, by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
In this play, the refined taste of a mother, who decorates her house entirely in the style of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, is given as evidence by its author that her son is a bachelor because women his age cannot compare to her. A character in this play defines middle class morality as "an excuse for never giving me anything." After being instructed to talk only of the weather and health, a character in this play elucidates her theory that her aunt, who supposedly died of the flu, had been "done in." A man in this play receives five pounds in exchange for his (*) daughter after promising to squander it right away. After starting a fight by throwing a man's slippers at him, a character in this play says her new status as a lady leaves her only fit to sell herself. At the end of this play, its protagonist opens a flower shop with her husband Freddy Eynsford-Hill. For 10 points, Eliza Doolittle learns English from the phoneticist Henry Higgins in what George Bernard Shaw play?
Pygmalion
the "mysterious letters" alif and lam are found in part of this work. This work claims that at the end of the world, believers will be forced into Jahannam (JAH-hah-nahm) before they are allowed to enter paradise. It is believed to be housed in the Guarded Tablet. It discusses the birth of Jesus in the section titled "Mary." "The Cow" is another of the 114 suras (SIR-uhs) of this work. It is complemented by the hadiths in Sharia (SHAR-ee-uh) law. For 10 points, name this text, revealed by Gabriel to Mohammed, that is the holy book of Islam.
Qur'an
"Prince of Cats," One character in this play becomes depressed after learning that Rosaline has taken a vow of celibacy, while another says "ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man" after he is mortally wounded by Tybalt, name this Shakespeare play which ends with the suicide of the title "star-crossed lovers.", Queen Man speech, Balthasar, Benvolio, Friar Lawrence, Mercutio. by Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
A character in this novel criticizes her suitor for his lackluster reading of William Cowper ["COO-per"]. A character in this novel gives a horse named Queen Mab to his love interest, but later rejects her by returning a lock of hair she had given him. A character in this novel who marries Sophia Grey is disowned for seducing (*) Eliza Williams. The main characters of this novel live with the Middletons after being evicted by Fanny. At the end of this novel, Edward Ferrars marries Elinor and Colonel Brandon marries Marianne, who was previously abandoned by John Willoughby. For 10 points, name the first novel by Jane Austen about the Dashwood sisters.
Sense and Sensibility
The author of this work praises Lot's wife for looking back at the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and likens himself to a pillar of salt. This novel's protagonist finds a diamond and a partial denture in an impresario's coat after a performance of Cinderella. In this novel, a character wearing nothing but a heart-shaped locket engraved with the serenity prayer is abducted to a (*) zoo surrounded by cyanide. That woman, Montana Wildhack, repeatedly mates with the husband of Valencia Merble. The protagonist witnesses the firebombing of Dresden and is taken to Tralfamadore in, for 10 points, what novel by Kurt Vonnegut in which Billy Pilgrim becomes "unstuck in time?"
Slaughterhouse Five
In one part of this novel, the protagonist takes clothes and goods from a house floating down a river with a dead man in it. A man in this novel pretends to be a preacher from London named Harvey Wilks in order to get the gold from Peter Wilks's will. In another scene in this novel, the protagonist brings a Bible to Sophia, allowing her to run away with Harney, triggering a fight between the (*) Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons. This novel's protagonist fakes his death to run away from his father and runs into a worker for his tutor, Miss Watson. For 10 points, name this novel whose title character helps the slave Jim escape while floating down the Mississippi River, a novel by Mark Twain.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
One character in this work is saved by Hans and Pete when, after being told to jump off a cliff, heactually tries to do so. In another scene of this work, Matthewson loses sixteen hundred dollars by bettingagainst the protagonist's strength. After departing from Seattle, one character steals the protagonist's foodaboard the (*)) Narwhal; that character, Dave, as well as a one-eyed character named Solleks, were positioned toinstruct the protagonist when he began working for Francois and Perrault. The protagonist of this novel later killsseveral Yeehat Indians when he sees that his master, Thornton, is dead. For 10 points, name this novel about the sleddog Buck written by Jack London.
The Call of the Wild
The narrator and "host" of this book, Harry Bailey, offers a free meal to the best storyteller among his group of travelers in the beginning of this work. One character in this book tells a story about "what women want most". It is generally accepted that the first two stories in this collection are told by the Knight and the Miller, but the order of the rest of the 22 stories in this collection is a point of scholarly debate. This is loosely based on the Decameron by Boccaccio. This work in which the aforementioned pilgrims travel to the shrine of Thomas Becket in the title location is a work by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Canterbury Tales
At one point in this novel, the central character contrasts his life with statues of Eskimos that are on display. Near the end of this novel, the protagonist takes his sister to the Central Park Zoo where he watches her ride the carousel. Some of the protagonist's more interesting exploits in this novel include being beaten by a pimp named Maurice and waking up to find a former English teacher, Mr. Antolini patting his head. Beginning with the central character's expulsion from Pencey Prep is, for 10 points, what novel following the experiences of Holden Caufield by J.D. Salinger?
The Catcher in the Rye
One character in this novel spends his time in prison writing a Treatise on the Prospects for a General Monarchy in Italy. During the Roman Carnival, the protagonist buys the freedom of the shepherd Peppino for the bandit Luigi Vampa. The truth of Ali Pasha being betrayed to the Turks causes (*) Fernand to kill himself and his son Albert to challenge the protagonist to a duel. Under the alias "Sinbad the Sailor", the protagonist gives a diamond to Monsieur Morrel, the owner of the ship Pharaon. After meeting Abbe Faria while imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantes seeks revenge in, for 10 points, what novel by Alexandre Dumas?
The Count of Monte Cristo
After complaining about a man who "preach nothin' but golden candlesticks," a character in this play struggles to remember the Ten Commandments. A girl in this play pretends to be frightened by a yellow bird while in court, and Mary Warren gifts a (*) poppet to Elizabeth later found to have a needle in it. Giles Corey dies in this play crying for "more weight!" as he is crushed with rocks. Abigail Williams instigates the main events of this play after accusing the slave Tituba of helping her and others to cavort with the Devil. For 10 points, name this Arthur Miller play in which John Proctor fights against the Salem Witch Hunt.
The Crucible
The narrator of this work notes that though it is sunset in Jerusalem, it is midnight on the Ganges River. One section of this work describes positioning three mirrors, and the tears of some characters in this work freeze before leaving their eye sockets in Cocytus. This work, which was written in terza rima, opens with the presence of a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf in a dark wood. In the last section of this work, an ideal woman named Beatrice guides the narrator, but he is earlier led through a gate marked "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here" by Virgil. This work is made up of Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, a poem by Dante Alighieri.
The Divine Comedy
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 Glass Menagerie
Story of a turtle crossing the road, a waitress sells a poor family two pieces of candy for a penny, Connie Rivers abandons his wife who breastfeeds a starving man and is called the rose of Sharon, Jim Casey is killed during a strike, other characters are Noah, Floyd Knowles and Tom ,Joad family's travels from Oklahoma to California by John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath
One character in this novel supports a dubious story by showing the narrator a medal from his military service in Montenegro. A golfer in this novel has an incurable habit of dishonesty, a trait the narrator finds attractive. After his wife is run over, a garage owner in this novel hunts the title character and eventually shoots him in a pool. That character earlier hosts a party in which he invites much of West Egg, including his love interest, Daisy Buchanan. This is an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel narrated by Nick Carraway that details the exploits of his neighbor in West Egg.
The Great Gatsby
In this novel, the corrupt businessman Phil Connor rapes Ona, who dies in childbirth; later,Ona's first child, Antanas, drowns in a puddle of mud in a busy street. This novel ends withthe Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis (*)) Rudkis's prospects improving through socialism, but thelasting effect of this novel was its impact on the Chicago meatpacking industry. For 10 points, namethis work of muckraking literature by Upton Sinclair.
The Jungle
The protagonist of this novel mocks book-reading while arguing against predestination in a speech that repeats his claim to be a racially-pure "man without a cross." In this novel, a massacre begins when a man hits a baby after its mother wraps it in a colorful shawl. A comic relief character in this novel, the zealous singing master David, is wounded when characters escape a cavern behind a waterfall. In this novel, "La Longue Carabine" thwarts the (*) burning of three prisoners tied to trees. This novel opens with Duncan Heyward leading Cora and Alice to Fort William Henry, and climaxes with a cliffside battle in which Uncas dies. For 10 points, name this novel in which Hawkeye's friend Chingachgook becomes the title character, a work of James Fenimore Cooper.
The Last of the Mohicans
Two women in this play dress up as a law clerk and Balthazar and ask their husbands for their wedding rings in exchange for their services, Antonio is sued for "a pound of flesh" by the Jewish moneylender Shylock, "Hath not a Jew eyes?" (Monkey?) by Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Early in this play, two characters display their characteristic humors by insultingly calling a man"Mephistophilus" and "a Banbury cheese". Upon being denied a loan, one character in this playdelivers the line "Why, then, the world's mine oyster". In two comic scenes, this play's centralcharacter hides in a basket of dirty laundry and is tricked into dressing as (*)) Herne the Hunter. In itsclimactic scene, Caius and Slender are fooled into abducting boys, while Fenton marries Anne. This playwas supposedly written in two weeks at the whim of Queen Elizabeth, who wanted to see its centralcharacter "in love". In this Shakespeare play Falstaff fails to carry out affairswith the title characters, Mistresses Page and Ford.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Characters are Juana and Kito, 'throw the title object into the sea,' scorpion, by John Steinbeck
The Pearl
In this work, a thousand sprites use their wings to "twitch" the diamond in acharacter's ear to aid Crispissa. One man sacrifices in fire "three garters, half a pairof gloves/ and all the trophies of his former loves". The third canto of this poemdescribes a game of (+) Ombre, after which Clarissa hands the aforementioned man aweapon. The central character, based on Arabella Fermor, is guarded by sylphs. The victim throws snuff in the (*)) Baron's nose and demands the return of a stolen object, which then ascends into the heavens, after Umbriel's intervention to Sir Plume in the Cave of Spleen. This poem opens "What dire offence from am'rous causes springs/ What mighty contests rise from trivial things". For ten points, name this mock epic about Belinda's haircut by Alexander Pope.
The Rape of the Lock
This novel was originally intended to end with the protagonist discovering that "the world was a world for him," but its author then added a man's dream of "an existence of soft and eternal peace" and the scene of a "golden ray of sun" shining through "leaden rain clouds." This novel opens with the image of "the cold pass[ing] reluctantly from the earth" as "retiring fogs" reveal a group of men "stretched across the hills." The protagonist of this novel watches a squirrel run away after he throws a pine cone at it, leading him to conclude that his decision to retreat in battle was the right one. The protagonist of this novel becomes a flag-bearer after the death of the Christ-like figure Jim Conklin. The title of this novel refers to a mark that the protagonist, Henry Fleming, wants to receive to emulate his injured comrades. For 10 points, name this Civil War novel by Stephen Crane.
The Red Badge of Courage
In one part of this poem, the title character bites his arm and sucks out blood in order to make clear that an object is approaching. Another character dooms souls based on her own preferences and contrasts Death, who appropriately sends souls to Heaven or Hell. This poem ends with the title character saying "He prayeth best, who loveth best" (*) and vanishing to leave the wedding guest alone. Due to the fog, the title character of this poem accidently shoots an albatross and is forced to wear the dead bird on his neck as punishment. For 10 points, name this long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about the cautionary tale of an old sailor.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In the prefatory section of this novel, a man unties a package held together with "faded red tape," which contains a manuscript authorized by Governor Shirley and written by Jonathan Pue. One character in this novel, who is described as "well stricken in years," gained knowledge of "native herbs" during his year long captivity with Indians and is constantly referred to as "The Leech." This novel begins with a section called "The Custom House." A character in this novel dies after giving his sermon on Election Day because he was driven to insanity by Arthur Dimmesdale. In this novel, Roger Chillingworth leaves his inheritance to the child Pearl. This novel isabout the consequences of Hester Prynne's adultery, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Scarlet Letter
A character in this novel frequently laments the smell of honeysuckle and dislikes his brother-in-law Herbert Head. That character thinks about convincing his father that he committed incest with his sister. This novel features a flashback to Damuddy's funeral and a depiction of Reverend Shegog's Easter sermon. This novel opens with a character looking for lost golf balls with (*) Luster, and a character in it slaps his sister for getting her drawers muddy. That sister loses her virginity to Dalton Ames in this novel, and Quentin drowns himself at the end of its second section. For 10 points, name this William Faulkner novel about the Compson family.
The Sound and the Fury
When asked how he went bankrupt, a cantankerous character in this novel quips: "Gradually, and then suddenly." A woman in this novel is awaiting a divorce from a man whose revolver she used to unload every night. After his magazine fails, a writer in this novel moves to Paris with the social climber Frances Clyne. At the end of this novel, a woman laments: "we could have had such a damned good time together," to which the protagonist replies: "Yes... Isn't it (*) pretty to think so?" In this novel, whose epigraph quotes Gertrude Stein's declaration that "you are all a lost generation," Robert Cohn beats up the matador Pedro Romero the night before a bullfight in Pamplona. For 10 points, name this novel in which Lady Brett Ashley eludes Jake Barnes, by Ernest Hemingway.
The Sun Also Rises
In this play, a character's father is impersonated by a random Pedant from the street, leading to a near-arrest. Two men in this play disguise themselves as a music teacher and a Latin instructor in order to compete for time alone with a girl. At the end of this play, the title character starts a speech with the line "Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow", and calls her (*) husband "thy lord, thy life, thy keeper." Gremio and Lucentio are suitors in this play, and its plot is spurred by Baptista requiring his eldest daughter to be married before his youngest daughter Bianca. This Shakespeare play is about Petruchio's subduing of the title strong woman, Katherina.
The Taming of The Shrew
"Let your indulgence set me free.", "we are such stuff as dreams are made on.", in this play involves the drunken butler Stephano, who plots with Trinculo and Sycorax's son Caliban to overthrow Prospero, a sorcerer who has been exiled with his daughter Miranda, "Full fathom five thy father lies.", "we are such stuff as dreams are made on," and celebrates the marriage of Ferdinand to his daughter Miranda. The air spirit Ariel and the native Caliban are servants to Prospero, who conjures up the title storm. by Shakespeare
The Tempest
This work's protagonist is referred to as "St. Ottery" by a perennially filthy woman with a "Scots curl" in a Joyce Carol Oates story titled for the "accursed inhabitants" of this work's setting. A girl turns "common and almost ugly" before rejecting this work's protagonist. A boy in this work denies stealing letters at school, instead claiming to have "said things" to "those [he] liked." This work's protagonist sees a (*) red-headed "gentleman" who is described as "much too free" by Mrs. Grose. At the end of this work, Miles deems Peter Quint a "devil" before dying in the governess's arms. For 10 points, name this supernatural novella by Henry James.
The Turn of the Screw
This poem was drastically cut down from an early version called "He Do the Police in Different Voices." Its last section asks "Who is the third who walks always beside you?" This poem is dedicated to "il miglior fabbro," an epithet taken from Dante. This poem, whose second section is repeatedly punctuated by the all-caps line (*) "HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME," was heavily reshaped by Ezra Pound. This poem's five sections include "The Burial of the Dead," "The Fire Sermon," and "What the Thunder Said," which ends with the Sanskrit words "Shantih shantih shantih." The line "April is the cruellest month" begins—for 10 points—what poem by T.S. Eliot?
The Waste Land
A character in this novel calls some men women because he "knows how to kill a man's spirit." A character in this book dies after running toward his father and crying, "They have killed me!", and another in it tells the story of a tortoise attending a feast of the birds. The protagonist of this novel despises his flute-playing (*) father and beats his wife during the Week of Peace. The protagonist of this book begins a seven-year exile after killing his adopted son Ikemefuna, and ultimately hangs himself after the introduction of Christianity to Umuofia. For 10 points, name this novel about Okonkwo, written by Chinua Achebe.
Things Fall Apart
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.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Journey/trip across America with his poodle (Rocinante), DOGS is often an answer, Thanksgiving in Texas, by John Steinbeck
Travels with Charley:
In the beginning of this work, a drunk old man has a stroke after beating a stranger missing two fingers in a fight. That same drunkard soon dies from a second stroke after a visit from a blind man named Pew. In this novel the main character hides in an apple barrel aboard a ship and Cap'n (*) Flint is the pet bird of a man pretending to be a ship cook. That man, also known as Barbeque, leads a mutiny against Captain Smollett once the ship is anchored. For 10 points, name this novel by Robert Louis Stevenson where Jim Hawkins helps repel pirate mutineers.
Treasure Island
A letter written to "M, O, A, I.", "dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?", "If music be the food of love, play on.", However, Olivia actually falls in love with a character who disguises herself as the man Cesario after a shipwreck off the Illyrian coast. This William Shakespeare comedy contains the marriage of Viola and Duke Orsino.
Twelfth Night
Each chapter of this novel is associated with a symbol, color, and time of day in a chart its authormade for his friend Stuart Gilbert. In this novel, a concert manager has an affair with a womanwhose husband conducts his own affair under the pseudonym "Henry Flower". That husband in thisnovel fantasizes about Gerty McDowell on a beach in a scene that climaxes as (*)) fireworks explode inthe background. This novel ends with Blazes Boylan's lover reminiscing about wearing a rose "like theAndalusian girls" and being kissed "under the Moorish Wall" before she declares "yes I said yes I willYes." This novel takes place entirely on June 16, 1904, and follows a journey through Dublin taken by Leopold Bloom. For 10 points, name this novel by James Joyce.
Ulysses
After gathering supplies, two characters in this novel hide in an attic garret and pretend to be ghosts. In this novel, Mrs. Bird, who has just lost a child, chastises her husband for new legislation in the Senate and encourages him to hide a girl and her child in John Van Trompe's house. In this novel, Cassy reunites with her daughter in Canada after Eliza jumps onto (*)) ice blocks to cross the frozen Ohio river. Another character in this novel is sold by Eva St. Clare's mother to Simon Legree, who whips the title slave to death. For 10 points, identify this novel written by the "little lady who started this great war," Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This novel's last chapter offers a "fake" happy ending by stating "Grow green again, tender little parasite, round the rugged old oak to which you cling," before really ending by asking "which of us is happy in this world?" A character in this novel shouts "Vive la France!" as she flings an autographed copy of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary out of her carriage. That woman in this novel sells her carriage to her brother-in-law Jos while trying to flee Brussels, which occurs after she has an affair with George Osborne, a soldier who dies at Waterloo. This novel opens by describing two students at Ms. Pinkerton's Academy, Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp. A location in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress provides the title of what novel by William M. Thackeray?
Vanity Fair
In a prisoner-of-war camp, this novel's protagonist meets an optimistic, honest peasant named after the philosopher Plato. This novel's protagonist learns numerology from the Freemasons, and "discovers" that his antagonist's name stands for 666. This novel begins with almost a full page of dialogue in (*) French and includes numerous tangents about its author's disagreements with Great Man history. After breaking off her engagement to Andrei Bolkonsky, Natasha Rostova ends up married to this novel's protagonist. For 10 points, name this massive novel in which Pierre Bezukhov plans to kill Napoleon, by Leo Tolstoy.
War and Peace
One character in this play describes a sixteen-year-old who made bar-goers laugh by ordering "bergin and water," and discusses his fear that everyone will become the same through rearrangement of "chromozones." In this play, a gun shoots out an umbrella and a "slim-hipped" character goes to vomit in the bathroom before the second act, entitled "Walpurgisnacht." In this play, Honey and her biologist husband Nick play games such as "Hump the Hostess" and "Bringing Up Baby" at the house of an academic couple whose alleged child never existed. For 10 points, name this play in which George's wife Martha often sings the title question, by Edward Albee.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
A character in this work prepares to kill a man he has locked out of a house, but that man enters through a window and beats the first one. Another character in this work escapes from her husband and moves to London; that character is Isabella. The title (*) setting of this work is about four miles from Thrushcross Grange. Near the beginning of this work, Mr. Lockwood has a nightmare in which he sees the ghost of Catherine trying to enter the house, and the next day learns the history of that house from Nelly Dean. For ten points, name this book about Heathcliff, written by Emily Bronte.
Wuthering Heights
