Great Literature Miscellany

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1. This is a story about love, self-deception, religious feeling, innocence, and experience. Its main character is a carpenter, and in its pages we meet a female Methodist preacher. Middlemarch Adam Bede Fathers and Sons Great Expectations

2. In Sophocle's "Antigone," who, because of his pride, repents too late and must endure the deaths of those closest to him? Oedipus Morpheus Jason Creon

3. This author wrote a novel about three brothers, which serves as a penetrating catalogue of religious, political, psychological, and ethical thought. Ivan Turgenev Charles Dickens Leo Tolstoy Fyodor Dostoevsky

4. Over 200 film adaptations have been made of this Charles Dickens story. Frankenstein A Christmas Carol A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations

5. African novelist Chinua Achebe was so disturbed by this author's one-sided depiction of the African continent, that he wrote his own novels exploring the complexities of African lives. Joseph Conrad H. Rider Haggard Mark Twain Rudyard Kipling

6. Charles Dickens died before completing this novel. A Tale of Two Cities A Christmas Carol The Mystery of Edwin Drood Great Expectations

7. What title character lamented, "I have nothing but grief upon grief to feed on; and I have fed on it. I've lived to be humiliated and insulted...that was the price I had to pay for the little shamefaced joy [my daughters] allowed me...I've given them my life. Today, they won't give me one hour"? Adam Bede King Lear Pere Goriot The Professor

8. What Jane Austen hero is described by the naïve heroine as "strange"? Fitzwilliam Darcy Colonel Brandon Captain Wentworth Henry Tilney

9. Which of the following is not one of Shakespeare's cross-dressing comedies? Much Ado About Nothing All's Well that Ends Well As You Like It Twelfth Night

10. His Captain Vere allows an innocent man to be executed in order to quell a mutiny. Herman Melville Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne Sir Walter Scott

11. His "Island of Dr. Moreau" describes the potential horrors of man playing God. George Orwell H.P. Lovecraft Bram Stoker H.G. Wells

12. He wrote early detective stories as well as tension-filled horror, and his poetry, though loved by the populace, is often underrated by the academics. Edgar Allan Poe H.P. Lovecraft Sir Arthur Conan Doyle H.G. Wells

13. This American humorist had a store of witticisms, and even had several misattribute to him, such as "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Answer: (two words, first and last name)

14. His short stories included a Franklin, a Sailor, a Pardoner, and a Plowman. Geoffrey Chaucer Nathaniel Hawthorne Boccaccio Herman Melville

15. He wrote an epic in order to "justify the ways of God to men." Homer Ovid Alexander Pope John Milton