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| In this play, flute music accompanies the appearance of the protagonist’s rich older brother. In this play, a mother tells her sons that “attention must be paid” to a man like her husband. One character claims that not being “well liked” will prevent Bernard’s son Charley from being successful. The protagonist of this play nearly drives his Chevrolet off the road on the way to New England. Happy’s brother never recovered from flunking math. Towards the end of this play, the main character recalls how Biff discovered his adultery with a woman he pretends is a “buyer.” For 10 points, Willy Loman commits suicide in what Arthur Miller play? | Death of a Salesman: |
| One of this author’s poems describes an entity that fills the plain and hill “With living hues odours” and blows “Her clarion o’er the dreaming earth”. That poem by him declares “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed” before asking the title entity to “Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is” and ends with the line “If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Another of his poems imagines “two vast and trunkless legs of stone” whose pedestal reads “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”. For 10 points, name this English Romantic poet of “Ode to the West Wind” and “Ozymandias”. | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| One character in this work sees visions of the Norman Conquest, while another character is tricked by his father into paying for everything on a trip to England. In one section of this work, the butterfly-eating mystic Ayesha leads her village on a pilgrimage into the sea. Rekha Merchant and the mountain-climber Alleluia Cone are both lovers of one of this work’s main characters. This work follows Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha, who transform into an angel and a devil, respectively, after a hijacked airplane explodes. For 10 points, name this Salman Rushdie novel, which includes an unflattering depiction of Mohammed and was condemned in a fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini. | The Satanic Verses |
| One of this author’s protagonists is a puppeteer who mourns the loss of his former lover, Drenka. The assimilated Brenda Patimkin has an ill-fated summer fling with Neil Klugman in his breakout novella. Those works are Sabbath’s Theater and Goodbye Columbus. The effect of Merry Levov’s descent into terrorism on her father, The Swede, is narrated by recurring character Nathan Zuckerman in one of his novels. His most famous protagonist narrates to Dr. Spielvogel his exploits with girlfriends nicknamed “The Pilgrim”, “The Pumpkin”, and “The Monkey”. For 10 points, name this Jewish-American author of American Pastoral and Portnoy’s Complaint. | Philip Milton Roth |
| One of his poems begins: “I am old as all the memories / That fill the thousand drawers behind my eyes”. One of his poems describes evil as a pillow to lie on. Another of his poems describes a sailor tapping his pipe on the beak of the title captured sea-bird to mock it. Another of his poems ends with the lines “Hypocrite reader - my likeness, my brother.” Those poems, “The Albatross” and “To the Reader,” are in a collection that opens with the section “Spleen and Ideal”. For 10 points, name this father of French Symbolism, the poet of Les Fleurs du Mal. | Charles Pierre Baudelaire |
| A carpenter-turned-politician in this work is described as having the voice of a lion, but not knowing what to say with it. Mr. Carmichael takes a case pro deo in this novel, in which Mr. Napoleon teaches agriculture and another character receives the life savings of the priest Msimangu. In this novel, the white landowner James Jarvis works to restore the town of Ndotsheni after the murder of his son, Arthur. For 10 points, name this novel, in which Gertrude and her nephew, Absalom, are visited in Johannesburg by her brother, Stephen Kumalo, the most famous by South African author Alan Paton. | Cry, The Beloved Country |
| This work ends with the goddess Hymen presiding over four marriages. Several characters in this play are sons of Sir Rowland de Boys, including the villainous Oliver, who tries to kill his brother through a fixed wrestling match. Speeches in this play, which features the characters Phebe and the shepherd Silvius, include Duke Senior’s reflections on the advantages of the forest, and Jaques declaring, “All the world’s a stage.” For 10 points, name this play, set in the Forest of Arden, where Orlando is instructed in romance by the disguised Rosalind, written by William Shakespeare. | As You Like It |
| . In this novel, the ghost of a baby floating in a “bar’l” down a river in a storm haunts a raft of drunken soldiers. The protagonist retrieves a love note from a Bible in a church pew for Sophia, whose brother Buck joins the rest of the Grangerfords in hating the Shepherdsons. Near the end, that title character finds a companion in Sally Phelps’ household who he’d earlier lost track of in heavy fog. The protagonist flees the alcoholic Pap and later meets two conmen, the Duke and the Dauphin, who sell a character once owned by Widow Douglas, the slave Jim. For 10 points, name this novel about travels down the Mississippi by a namesake friend of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain. | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| One of this author’s protagonists refers to her brother-in-law’s children as “no-neck monsters”. One of this author’s characters attempts to lobotomize Catherine to prevent her from telling the circumstances of Sebastian’s death. This author created a character who complains of “mendacity” when he finds out his family has lied about his spastic colon being cancerous. Besides writing Suddenly Last Summer and creating Big Daddy Pollit, this author created a character who dreams of being carried off by Shep Huntleigh, before being assaulted by Stella’s husband, Stanley Kowalski. For 10 points, name this American playwright of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire. | Tennessee Williams |
| The title character of one of this man’s novels falls for her cousin Charles, but must marry Cruchot des Bonfons to pay off his debts. This author of Eugenie Grandet wrote of Raphael de Valentin’s discovery of a wish-granting piece of shagreen in The Wild Ass’ Skin. The scientist David Sechard is the best friend of Lucien Chardon, a poet who loses his idealism in another novel by this author. In another of his novels, Eugene de Rastignac pursues Delphine de Nucingen, one of the two selfish daughters of the title all-sacrificing father. For 10 points, name this French author who included Lost Illusions and Le Pere Goriot in his Human Comedy. | Honoré de Balzac |
| In one of this author’s novels, the Factory employs Semiotecs, which oppose the System’s Calcutecs. In this author’s most recent novel, a protagonist’s decision to use an emergency escape to avoid a traffic jam alters the nature of reality. This author Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and 1Q84 [One-Q-Eighty-Four] wrote about a Beethoven-obsessed trucker who befriends Nakata, who can talk to cats. A runaway cat sets into motion the plot of another of his novels, in which Toru Okada pursues his wife, Kumiko. For 10 points, name this contemporary Japanese author of Kafka on the Shore and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. | Haruki Murakami |
| This poem compares a vanity table to an altar, and ends with Clarissa advising valuing good humor rather than looks. A Gnome empties a bag of spleen over the head of the heroine of this work, whose lapdog, Shock, and other possessions are usually protected by a troop of Sylphs. This poem begins “What dire offence from amorous causes springs.” During a round of the card-game ombre, the Baron carries out this poem’s title action on Belinda, who is surrounded by spirits like Ariel and Umbriel. For 10 points, this is what mock-epic poem about a stolen strand of hair by Alexander Pope? | The Rape of the Lock |
| In one work, this man wrote, “The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall; / Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds” of the title figures. In that poem, this man asks “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” The speaker of another of this man’s poems sees, “Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, / As under a green sea,” a man dying in a gas attack. This poet described soldiers, “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,” as victims of “the old Lie”. Name, for 10 points, this English First World War poet of “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and “Dulce et Decorum est.” | Wilfred Owen |
| In one scene in this work, an old slave is summoned from the countryside to testify about a murder, while in another, a king accuses a blind soothsayer of being in league with his brother-in-law. A messenger from Corinth brings the news that Polybus has died in this play, while the title character recalls killing an older man at a crossroads. After the suicide of Jocasta, Creon brings in the two daughters of the newly-blind title character. For 10 points, name this play, in which the title king of Thebes realizes that he has killed his father and married his mother, a work by Sophocles. | Oedipus Rex |
| One character in this story is tormented by co-workers who claim he is in an abusive relationship with his seventy-year-old landlady. After consuming too much champagne, the protagonist of this story is robbed on his way home from a party given by a fellow clerk. One character in this story known only as the “important person” is haunted by the ghost of the protagonist, whom he killed by scolding. The title object in this story is made by the one-eyed tailor Petrovich. For 10 points, name this story in which Akaky Akakievich saves up to buy the title piece of clothing, by Nikolai Gogol. | The Overcoat |
| The protagonist of one novel by this author asks her neighbor and future love to retrieve a cat from a telephone pole. That cat belongs to a character who kisses Maria, who later becomes the husband of Frank Shabata. One of this author’s characters becomes a dressmaker in San Francisco after leaving Black Hawk. In one of her novels, Alexandra Bergson tries to manage her family and in another, Jim Burden describes his love for the title Bohemian girl from the Shimerda family. Both of those novels are set in Nebraska. For 10 points, name this author of O Pioneers! and My Antonia. | Willa Sibert Cather |
| In one scene in this novel, Mr. Giles and Mr. Brittles narrate how one of them shot the protagonist. The protagonist of this novel loses his place with the undertaker Mr. Sowerberry after beating Noah Claypole for insulting the memory of his dead mother. The protagonist is later cared for by Rose Maylie and Mr. Brownlow, before being kidnapped by Bill Sikes. The Artful Dodger leads the title character of this novel to join a gang of child pickpockets working for Fagin. For 10 points, name this novel by Charles Dickens about an orphan who is famously punished for asking for more gruel. | Oliver Twist |
| The decadent artist Gloriani appears in two of this author’s novels: the first is about a sculptor who falls for Christina Light, the second about the spiritual awakening of Lambert Strether. This author of Roderick Hudson created a character who is romantically pursued by Caspar Goodwood, but tricked by Madame Merle into marrying Gilbert Osmond. Another character created by this author of The Ambassadors tries to convince Mrs. Grose that she has seen the ghost of Peter Quint. For 10 points, name this American author who wrote about Isabel Archer in Portrait of a Lady and the haunting of children in the Governess’ charge in The Turn of the Screw. | Henry James |
| One opera based on this story contains the mad scene “L’altra notte.” That work, titled for this story’s antagonist, is the only finished opera by Arrigo Boito. The title character of one opera based on this story sings “Salut! demeure chaste et pure” to his young love, who is later inspired by the sight of herself in a mirror to sing the “Jewel Song.” The title character kills Valentin, the brother of Marguerite, in that opera by Gounod, and Berlioz included the Rákóczi March in a “dramatic legend” about the “damnation” of the same character. For 10 points, name this common inspiration for opera composers, a story about a scholar who makes a deal with Mephistopheles. | the Faust legend |
| This author wrote about the title character visiting a resort in Aalsgaard and spotting Hans Hansen dance with his childhood love Ingeborg Holm in Tonio Kroger. In one of his novels, Antoine marries the beer merchant Alois Permaneder and Hanno dies of typhoid. One of this author's protagonists listens to debates between Naphtha and Settembrini while in the Berghof sanatorium. Besides Hans Castorp, this author's most famous protagonist succumbs to a cholera epidemic after developing an illicit passion for the Polish youth Tadzio. For 10 points, name this German author of Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, and Death in Venice. | Thomas Mann |
| In one of this author’s sonnets, he bemoans his lack of achievement upon arriving at the age of twenty-three. In his Sonnet 19, he concludes that “they also serve who only stand and wait”, after considering how his “light is spent”. In addition to “On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity” and “On His Blindness”, this author also wrote a pastoral elegy for the drowning of Edward King in “Lycidas”. This poet’s most famous work attempts to “justify the ways of God to men,” and one character in that work by him declares that it is “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven”. For 10 points, name this poet of Paradise Lost. | John Milton |
| . The last act of this play sees one character enter with an armful of snapdragons, which he then throws like spears. A biologist in this play married his wife because she had a hysterical pregnancy, and that wife is only ever referred to as “Honey.” Two different characters in this play are said to have crashed cars after swerving to avoid hitting a porcupine. The main characters of this work play a number of nightmarish games, including “Get the Guest” and “Hump the Hostess” while drinking heavily after a faculty party. This play’s climax sees Nick told that George and Martha’s son doesn’t actually exist. For 10 points, name this Edward Albee play. | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
| A bathroom shower in this work features a panel with over a hundred options for washing and cosmetics. In this book, the word “leave” is used euphemism for a catatonic episode undergone by the protagonist’s mother, and the narrator uses flowers to cover Rue. Silver parachutes occasionally fall in this book, which introduces supporting characters such as Effie Trinket, the drunk Haymitch Abernathy, and the protagonist’s sister Primrose. For 10 points, Peeta Meelark and Katniss Everdeen are the two tributes from District 12 in what novel by Suzanne Collins about a competition in which teens fight to the death? | The Hunger Games |
| In one of this author’s stories, a character recollects a song about a soldier of the Legion dying in Algiers. In that story by this author, one character repeatedly asks “Billie, will you spell me?”. In another of this author’s stories, Johnnie Scully is accused of cheating in a game of High-Five by a character known as The Swede. In one of his stories, the cook, the correspondent, the oiler, and the captain are stranded in the title craft after a shipwreck. In his most famous novel, Jim Conklin’s heroic death is witnessed by Henry Fleming during the Civil War. For 10 points, name this author of “The Blue Hotel”, “The Open Boat” and The Red Badge of Courage. | Stephen Crane |
| This man used the example of light striking the mineral porphyry to claim that the ideas of redness and whiteness are not actually in that rock. This secretary to the Earl of Shaftesbury argued that mixing one’s labor with natural substances entitles a man to property, and distinguished between primary and secondary qualities. He claimed that estate, with life and liberty, is a right any valid government must protect, in whose absence people may form a new social contract. For 10 points, name this British empiricist author of Two Treatises of Government, whose Essay Concerning Human Understanding proposed a mental blank slate, or “tabula rasa | John Locke |
| One of this author’s poems conjures “in the moist hour” the image of a woman who “housed infinite tenderness” “like a jar”. Another one of this author’s poems demands “give me silence, give me water, hope / Give me the struggle, the iron, the volcanoes”, after declaring “I come to speak for your dead mouths”. One of his poems repeats the refrain “in you everything sank!”, while another opens its twelfth canto with the line “Arise to birth with me, my brother!”. For 10 points, name this author of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair who included “The Heights of Macchu Picchu” in his Canto General, a Chilean poet. | Pablo Neruda |
| The presence of one character in this work is always announced by her obnoxious laugh, and that character ends up marrying a Persian peddler. After purchasing a “potion” from Ali Hakim, the female protagonist falls asleep and enters a dream ballet sequence in which her beloved is killed by Jud. The male lead sings the unaccompanied first lines of this musical’s opening number from offstage while Aunt Eller churns butter. That song is “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin,’” after which the farm girl Laurey is invited to a box social by Curly. For 10 points, name this musical written by Rodgers and Hammerstein and set in the title American territory. | Oklahoma! |
| One character in this novel is repeatedly mocked for describing another as having “fine eyes”. The plot of this novel is set into motion by a new tenant moving into Netherfield Park, which leads to the assertion that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”. In this novel, Charlotte Lucas marries Mr. Collins, who had been earlier rejected by the protagonist, whose sister Lydia elopes with the rakish Wickham, and whose other sister, Jane, married Bingley. For 10 points, name this novel in which Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy need to overcome their ego and distrust by Jane Austen. | Pride and Prejudice |
| This character’s husband is recognizable because his left shoulder is higher than his right. This character constantly fears that her daughter, who throws flowers at her, is insufficiently human and too elf-like. After delivering an Election Day sermon, this character’s lover leaps with her onto a scaffold. Her child is named Pearl and her husband renames himself Roger Chillingworth when he moves to Puritan Boston. For 10 points, name this woman punished for her affair with Arthur Dimmesdale by having the title symbol sown into her dress in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. | Hester Prynne |
| One character in this work, doesn’t know who her parents are, and performs magic tricks and ventriloquism at a party. Another character in this play is called the “perpetual student”, because he completed his university studies. Those characters are Charlotta Ivanovna and Trofimov. Anya and her mother return to Paris at the end of this play, while her adopted sister Varya takes a job as a housekeeper. At the end of this play, Lopakhin buys the family property of Gayev and Lyubov at an auction, and plans to turn it into dachas. For 10 points, name this play, which ends with an axe being used in the title location, written by Anton Chekhov. | The Cherry Orchard |
| In one work by this man, Anna tells Deeley, “You have a wonderful casserole… I mean wife,” while that wife, Kate, later says to Anna, “I remember you dead.” In another play by this playwright of Old Times, Davies hopes to retrieve his identity papers in Sidcup and take the title job. One play by this man depicts the affair between Jerry and Emma told in nine scenes that go backwards in time. Another play by this author of Betrayal features the hitmen Gus and Ben, who are distracted by food orders carried in the title object. For 10 points, name this British playwright, of works like The Caretaker and The Dumb Waiter. | Harold Pinter |
| One of his works describes a boy who "studied Latin like the violin", named Harold Wilson. In that work by him, Mary and Warren discuss taking in Silas, who claims he wants to "ditch the meadow" before discovering that he has died. Another of his poems describes how "leaf subsides to leaf / So Eden sank to grief". Another of his poems describes an object that "bent in the undergrowth", contrasting with an object that "was grassy and wanted" wear. That poem by him opens "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood". For 10 points, name this American poet of "Death of the Hired Man", "Nothing Gold Can Stay", and "The Road Not Taken". | Robert Lee Frost |
| Alisdair MacIntyre wrote that this man’s rule of “double effect” could frame morality without utilitarianism or Kant’s duty-based reasoning. This man wrote that sovereign authority, a cause avenging some wrong, and an aim to advance the good were three criteria for just war. This man, who used the objection-reply-response format for his largest work, was taught by Albertus Magnus. He made arguments called the Five Ways in an unfinished synthesis of Aristotelian philosophy with theology. For 10 points, name this Scholastic medieval thinker who included proofs of God’s existence in his Summa Theologica. | Saint Thomas Aquinas |
| This author wrote a young adult novel about Alex Cold’s journey through the Amazon. Another of this author’s novels concerns a Chinese physician, Tao, and his eventual relationship with the abandoned Eliza Sommers. In one novel by this author of City of Beasts and Daughter of Fortune, the green-haired Rosa is killed by the conservatives and Barrabas is a dog turned into a rug. The protagonists of that work by this author are Clara del Valle and Esteban. For 10 points, name this Chilean author who wrote about the Trueba family in The House of the Spirits. | Isabel Allende |
| This character spots a cloud that looks first like a camel, then “more like a weasel,” and then “more like a whale.” He later claims “there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow” before meeting Osric, and rewrites a letter to ensure that two of his childhood friends get executed in England. J. Alfred Prufrock claims he is “not…nor was meant to be” this man, a student at Wittenberg. Before a duel with poison-tipped swords, he leaps on the grave of a woman whom he told “get thee to a nunnery,” Ophelia, and tries to kill Claudius while feigning madness. For 10 points, name this Prince of Denmark who sees his father’s ghost and asks “To be or not to be”. | Prince Hamlet |
| In one of this author’s novels, the sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff is commemorated by the journalist Paul Pokriefke. In one of his novels, a cat scratches the Adam’s apple of the protagonist, who steals an Iron Cross medal, “The Great Mahlke”. This author of Crabwalk controversially revealed that he had served in the S.S. while talking about his memoir, Peeling the Onion. The most famous protagonist of this author of Cat and Mouse is an “auditory clairvoyant” whose voice can shatter glass named Oskar Matzerath. For 10 points, name this German author whose Danzig trilogy begins with The Tin Drum. | Gunter Wilhelm Grass |
| This author wrote about the sexual awakening of the vicar’s daughter Yvette in The Virgin and the Gypsy. Gerald Crich and Rupert Birkin become romantically involved with the Brangwen sisters in this author’s sequel to his The Rainbow. This author of Women in Love wrote about an aspiring artist who is beloved of Clara Dawes and Miriam Leivers, Paul Morel. His most famous protagonist has an adulterous affair with her groundskeeper, Oliver Mellors. For 10 points, name this English author of Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. | D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence |
| This man penned the line “the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand” in “The Stolen Child”. In another poem, he asks sages to become the singing-masters of his soul, and declares that unless “the Soul claps his hand sing”, “an aged man is but a paltry thing”. In one poem by this man, the speaker says “a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi / Troubles my sight.” This poet wrote an introduction to Tagore’s Gitanjali and wrote the line “That is no country for old men.” In another poem, the title event means that “The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.” For 10 points, name this Irish poet of “Sailing to Byzantium” and “The Second Coming.” | William Butler Yeats [pronounced “Yates”] |
| This book claims that just as monks wrote saints’ biographies on top of classical manuscripts, German philosophers write over French ideas. Its first section notes that after explorers discovered America, the world market could not be sustained by feudalism. Its opening groups “pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot” in a “holy alliance.” It advocates abolishing inheritance and confiscating rebel property in a ten-point program. This book opens with the image of a “spectre …haunting Europe” and endorses the proletariat in their class struggle with the bourgeoisie. For 10 points, name this booklet outlining the political ideology of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx | The Communist Manifesto |
| One play by this author concerns a plot to transform 1839 Wylie into the Bedford Hills Redevelopment Project by Roosevelt Hicks and Harmond Wilkes. 1839 Wylie was previously featured in a play about Aunt Ester, Gem of the Ocean, also by this playwright of Radio Golf. In one of his plays, Boy Willie wants to sell the title object treasured by Berenice in order to buy back land their ancestors had worked on as slaves. His most famous protagonist is a retired baseball player turned garbage man named Troy Maxson. For 10 points, name this African-American playwright who included the plays The Piano Lesson and Fences in his Pittsburgh Cycle. | August Wilson |
| In one story by this author, a blindfolded Maria picks a saucer full of clay in a fortune-telling game. One of this author’s protagonists proves to Haines that Hamlet’s grandson is Shakespeare’s grandfather in a discussion with Buck Mulligan. In one of this author’s short stories, Gretta Conroy recalls her sick lover Michael Furey traveling through the rain to see her. Blazes Boylan has an affair with Molly Bloom in his second novel to feature the character of Stephen Dedalus. For 10 points, name this Irish author of Dubliners, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses. | Joyce |
| This man compares justified modes of living to “new suns” in a work whose preface describes his “convalescence;” that work by this man proposes a demon who tells people they must live their lives over and over, which he termed “eternal recurrence.” He described how meekness became a virtue among Christians in The Genealogy of Morals, which discussed the “slave morality.” One of his title characters comes down from a mountain to hail the rising of the übermensch. For 10 points, name this German philosopher who authored The Gay Science and Thus Spake Zarathustra, which both claimed “God is dead,” before he went mad. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| The protagonist of one story by this author asks if Whirly Wood, Connecticut is near Whirly Wood, Connecticut. One of his stories is a letter from a shell-shocked soldier to a precocious English girl he met in a restaurant after her church choir practice. In another story by this author of “For Esme – With Love and Squalor”, Sybil Carpenter is told of creatures that swim into holes but eat so much fruit that they are trapped by Seymour Glass. This author of “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” created a character who spends time with his sister Phoebe after being expelled from Pencey Prep. For 10 points, name this author who created Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye. | JD Salinger |
| One of his poems concerns a conversation between a boy and the moon, who asks the boy to leave her alone to dance. That is “Romance de la luna, luna”, from his collection, Gypsy Ballads. The title character of one play by this author desperately wants a baby by her husband Juan. The title widow of another play by him institutes an eight-year period of mourning over her house in Andalucía, leading the youngest of her five daughters, Adela, to commit suicide. For 10 points, name this Spanish poet and playwright, whose “rural trilogy” includes Yerma, Blood Wedding, and The House of Bernarda Alba. | Federico García Lorca |
| In one novel by this author, Kim Capran decides to rename herself “Hillela” before becoming first lady of her nation. In another novel by this author of A Sport of Nature, Jacobus finds an unidentified body on the farm belonging to James Mehring. In another novel by her, Rosa must deal with the legacy of her Communist activist father, Lionel. In her most famous novel, a civil war forces the Smales family to stay in the village of their title servant. For 10 points, name this South African author of The Conservationist, Burger’s Daughter, and July’s People. | Nadine Gordimer |
| The first twelve chapters of this work attempt to axiomatize human nature, beginning with Sense and Imagination, after a preface which describes life as a “motion of limbs” and coined the term “body politic.” Its second section writes that differences of strength and craft make men equally able to kill each other; that section, “Of the Commonwealth,” describes the “war of all against all,” a pre-covenant state of nature in which life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” For 10 points, name this work of political philosophy advocating for a single absolute sovereign, by Thomas Hobbes. | Leviathan: |
| One character in this work is a nobleman who became an art collector for appearances but hates art, Count Pococurante. Vanderdendur steals the sheep that Cacambo and the protagonist of this work got while in Eldorado. The protagonist of this work meets an old woman with one buttock who helps him pursue the daughter of the baron of Thunder-ten-tronckh after his tutor is hanged by the Spanish Inquisition. For 10 points, the title character loves Cunegonde and believes Pangloss’ motto that this is “the best of all possible worlds” in what satirical novella by Voltaire? | Candide |
| This poem is set in a place where "each separate dying ember wrought its ghost", and its speaker hears the foot-falls of Seraphim who swing an "unseen censer". The speaker of this poem asks one figure in this poem whether "within the distant Aidenn" he shall clasp a certain "sainted maiden", and later tells his interlocutor to go back to "night's Plutonian shore". The speaker of this poem, who mourns his lost Lenore, hears a tapping at his chamber door at the opening of this poem, before the title creature perches on a bust of Pallas in, for 10 points, what poem about a bird that croaks "Nevermore", by Edgar Allan Poe? | "The Raven" |
| One work by this author follows the romance novelist Joan Foster’s affair with The Royal Porcupine and her career as a poet. This author of Lady Oracle retold the story of The Odyssey from the perspective of Odysseus’ wife in The Penelopiad, and described the trivia game Extinctathon, as played by Snowman, in Oryx and Crake. This writer’s most famous novel describes the dictatorial theocracy of Gilead, which oppresses women like Serena Joy, Moira, and Offred. For 10 points, name this Canadian author of The Handmaid’s Tale. | Margaret Eleanor Atwood |
| One character in this play describes another as the “most original moralist in England” leading to him inheriting a fortune from a wealthy American. At the beginning of the final act of this play, one character bemoans “What have you left me fit for” while throwing slippers at a character based on the playwright’s friend, Henry Sweet. In this play, the housekeeper Mrs. Pearce looks after a character who later leaves the protagonist to marry Freddy Eynsford-Hill after abandoning her career selling flowers. For 10 points, Eliza Doolittle is taught to speak like a lady by phonetics professor Henry Higgins in what Shaw play that was the basis for the musical My Fair Lady? | Pygmalion |
| One character in this work has a letter examined by the handwriting expert Mr. Guest. This work opens with an incident in which a little girl was trampled by a character who later produced a check for one hundred pounds. After the murder of Sir Danvers Carew, the secrets of the employer of Poole are discovered by the lawyer Gabriel Utterson, who uncovers the title character’s experiments. For 10 points, name this work about a scientist who takes a potion, which unleashes the evil side of his personality, by Robert Louis Stevenson. | The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
| One of this author’s protagonists splits a sixpence in half with his best friend, Ann Pornick, who eventually becomes his wife; that protagonist is Arthur Kipps. This author predicted a “Dictatorship of the Air” to be established after World War II in The Shape of Things to Come. “Tripods” spread a toxic gas called “black smoke” in one of his works. One of this author’s protagonists battles Morlocks and rescues Weena. Those novels are about a Martian invasion and a professor who meets the Eloi in the year 802,701 A.D. For 10 points, name this British science fiction writer of The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. | HG Wells |
| In a dystopian novel by this author, the Everhard Manuscript details the rise and fall of the The Oligarchy. One of his protagonists is haunted by the warning of an old-timer not travel alone in bad weather, before dying of cold after feeling to perform the title action. The most famous protagonists of this author of The Iron Heel and “To Build a Fire” are a son of Kiche who is sold to Beauty Smith by Grey Beaver, and a dog who finally becomes free after the death of his last master John Thornton. For 10 points, name this creator of Buck, the author of White Fang and The Call of the Wild. | Jack London |
| Several unseen episodes in this play take place in Mademoiselle Diana’s boudoir, and the invalid Aunt Rina dies soon after her nephew returns from his honeymoon. One scene in this play sees Mrs. Elvsted told that another character’s manuscript has been torn up, which is described as killing a child, while another character secretly burns that manuscript later on. One character in this play points a pair of pistols at Brack, pistols she later gives to her Lovborg. For 10 points, name this play, in which the title character, the wife of the academic Jurgen Tesman, kills herself to escape blackmail, a work by Henrik Ibsen. | Hedda Gabler |
| In this novel, a gypsy fortune teller at a party is revealed to be the male protagonist in disguise; that character does not end up marrying Blanche Ingram, as is expected. While living at Marsh End, the protagonist is cared for by St. John (sin jin) Rivers and his sisters. The title character suspects Grace Poole is responsible for the strange happenings at Thornfield, which are actually the work of the male protagonist’s mad ex-wife who is locked in the house, Bertha Mason. For 10 points, the title character marries Edward Rochester at the end of what novel by Charlotte Bronte? | Jane Eyre |
| One character in this play explains that his throat is too delicate for hanging and that hemlock swells the legs, in a conversation with a character that shares his desire for pea soup. In one scene in this play, the protagonist alternates pretending to be Herakles with his servant. In another scene, a scale weighs which of two characters has spoken the weightiest lines. The play opens with the protagonist preparing with his slave Xanthias to descend into the underworld. For 10 points, name this play by Aristophanes in which Dionysus judges a tragedy contest between Aeschylus and Euripides, and which contains a croaking chorus of the title creatures | The Frogs |
| In one poem, this man compares the title animal to his “surrounded, detached” soul as “It launched forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself.” This man wrote “I know I am solid and sound,” “I know I am deathless,” and “I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,” in another poem, which also includes the line “I loafe and invite my soul.” In that longer work, this man penned such lines as “I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.” For 10 points, name this American poet, who included poems like “A Noiseless Patient Spider” and “Song of Myself” in the collection Leaves of Grass. | Walt Whitman |
| This man was invited by G. Stanley Hall to Clark University for the only lecture he gave in the Americas. He protected Sergei Pankejeff’s identity by referring to him in writing as “Wolf Man.” In one work, he wrote about the “manifest content” and “latent content” of wish-fulfillments. This cocaine user believed that free association could help undo the repression at the root of neuroses, and wrote that the impulsive id, the ego, and the superego make up the mind. For 10 points, name this Austrian who proposed the “Oedipus complex” in his The Interpretation of Dreams and started psychoanalysis. | Freud |
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