Literary Murder

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Raskolnikov, a student who commits murder, is a character in a novel by what author? Hugo Camus Tolstoi Dostoevsky

2. The haunting quality of the victim's eye is a motive for murder in which short story by Poe? Murders in the Rue Morgue The Tell-Tale Heart Hop-Frog The Cask of Amontillado

3. 'Lord of the Flies' deals with the murderous impulses of what group? The Elderly Children Pacifists The Very Religious

4. This play by Arthur Miller deals with fatal criminal negligence by one of the characters After the Fall Death of a Salesman All My Sons The Price

5. An accidental killing by an individual of limited intelligence is a key part of a novel by what author? John Steinbeck Jack London Ernest Hemingway Sinclair Lewis

6. In Agatha Christie's short story, 'Witness for the Prosecution', who is the murderer? The defendant The defendant's girl friend The defendant's wife The defendant's attorney

7. Which play by Eugene O'Neill involves the murder of a man by his wife? Long Day's Journey Into Night Anna Christie Mourning Becomes Electra Strange Interlude

8. In Oscar Wilde's 'Picture of Dorian Gray', whom does Dorian kill? His girl friend The artist who painted the picture His romantic rival The cabaret singer

9. Which author describes a social climbing young man whose murder of a woman is largely based on his quest for status and prestige? Theodore Dreiser Herman Melville Nathaniel Hawthorne Thomas Wolfe

10. The killing of Tybalt and Mercutio are key events in which one of Shakespeare's plays? Romeo and Juliet Macbeth Julius Caesar Othello