Literary Murder

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

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 Death of a Salesman All My Sons The Price After the Fall

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

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

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

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

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

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