"L"iterary Leading Ladies

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1. "Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns" was a 1939 novel by which 1929 Nobel Prize winning German author? Oswald von Wolkenstein Hermann Hesse Friedrich Schiller Thomas Mann

2. Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel "Lolita" dealt with the sexual and emotional relationship between a 12 year old girl and who? The town constable The local priest Her step-father Her school teacher

3. Lux is the name of a character from which 1993 novel by American author Jeffrey Eugenides? The Virgin Suicides Middlesex Mommy Dearest The Marriage Plot

4. What is the name of the 2008 Locus Award winning novel by Ursula K. Le Guin? Lavinia Laverne Lily Lilith

5. What is the name of the fantasy novel trilogy by Phillip Pullman that features a lead female character named Lyra? The Nova Trilogy His Dark Materials The Lord of the Rings The New York Trilogy

6. "Lenore" is an 1843 poem by Nathaniel Hawthorne that focuses on the death on a young beautiful woman. True False

7. In Carolyn Parkhurst's 2003 debut novel "The Dogs of Babel". what is the best description of the character named Lorelei? The narrator's nosy neighbor The narrator's dog The narrator's dead mother The narrator's fishing boat

8. Lorena is the name of one of the lead characters in Harper Lee's best-selling novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960). True False

9. Lillian was a nine year old orphan in the 1844 novel "The Chimes", a Christmas-themed novel by which of the following English authors? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Christopher Marlowe Oscar Wilde Charles Dickens

10. The gothic romance "Ligeia" published in 1838 was one of the early short stories by which noted American author? Mark Twain Percy Shelley James Fenimore Cooper Edgar Allan Poe