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| In this short story, the title character wanders in the Catskills with his dog Wolf. | Rip Van Winkle” |
| This author of "Rip Van Winkle" wrote about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," and also authored the collection Tales of the Alhambra. | Washington Irving |
| Both "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are collected in this book by Irving, written under the pseudonym "Geoffrey Crayon." | The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon |
| Name this play in which the wives of soldiers fighting in the Peloponnesian War withhold sex from their husbands to precipitate peace negotiations | Lysistrata |
| This Greek author and exponent of Old Comedy wrote Lysistrata as well as a satire of Sophists featuring the Thinkery, titled The Clouds. | Aristophanes |
| In this Aristophanes play, the sausage-seller Agoracritus argues with Cleon, whose fellow slave Demosthenes blames him for a beating. | The Knights |
| Name this play in which Nora's blackmail by Krogstad causes unrest in her marriage with Torvald. | A Doll's House |
| A Doll's House was written by this Norwegian playwright, who also wrote The Wild Duck and Peer Gynt. | Henrik Ibsen |
| In this Ibsen play, neither Dr. Stockmann’s brother the Mayor nor the townspeople believe Dr. Stockmann's claims that the bath water is contaminated. | An Enemy of the People |
| This philosopher was the personal tutor of Alexander the Great and the author of Poetics and Politics. His works span the topics of physics, metaphysics, rhetoric, logic, and biology. | Aristotle |
| Headed by Theophrastus after Aristotle, this Athenian building was both a gymnasium and home to Aristotle's Peripatetic school. | Lyceum |
| This work of Aristotle consists of 10 books based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. It attempts to define eudaimona and describes the development of a good character to achieve happiness. | Nicomachean Ethics |
| Name this novel in which the title character rejects the clergyman St. John Rivers and returns to Thornfield Hall. | Jane Eyre |
| Upon first meeting Jane, this character falls off his horse and insults Jane. He later becomes Jane's employer and lover, and loses his eyesight in a fire set by his crazy wife Bertha Mason. | Edward Rochester |
| This author wrote Jane Eyre under the pseudonym Currer Bell and also wrote The Green Dwark, The Professor, and Villette. | Charlotte Brontë |
| Name this novel in which the title character goes on several quests, including one to find Dulcinea del Toboso. He is accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza. | Don Quixote |
| This Spanish author of several Exemplary Novels wrote Don Quixote. | Miguel de Cervantes |
| Contrasting with Sancho Panza's mule, this character is Don Quixote's horse. Don Quixote takes four days to come up with his name. | Rocinante |
| Name this novel in which the title character takes care of his sickly wife Zeena and tries to commit suicide on a sled with his love interest Mattie Silver. | Ethan Frome |
| This author of Ethan Frome wrote about Undine Spragg in The Custom of the Country, and about Newland Archer's relationship with Ellen Olenska in The Age of Innocence. | Edith Wharton |
| This Wharton novel describes Lily Bart and her failed relationships with Lawrence Selden, Simon Rosedale, and Percy Gryce. | The House of Mirth |
| Name this poem whose title characters have headpieces "filled with straw." Its epitaphs reference Kurtz from Heart of Darkness and Guy Fawkes, and it ends with "This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper." | "The Hollow Men" |
| This modernist poem by the author of “The Hollow Men” ends with the mantra “Shantih shantih shantih.” Its first section, “The Burial of the Dead,” opens with the declaration that “April is the cruelest month.” | "The Waste Land” |
| Name this author of “The Hollow Men” and “The Waste Land,” who also wrote “Burnt Norton” and “Little Gidding” as part of his Four Quartets. | Thomas Stearns Eliot |
| Name this novel whose title poem, by John Shade, is annotated by the purported King Charles II of Zembla, Charles Kinbote. | Pale Fire |
| This novel by the author of Pale Fire is narrated by Humbert Humbert, who is obsessed with the title character Dolores Haze. Humbert kills Clare Quilty after she kidnaps her. | Lolita |
| This Russian-American author of a notable translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin wrote Pale Fire and Lolita. | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Name this Florentine author of Discourses on Livy. | Niccolo di Bernardo de Machiavelli |
| After his torture, Machiavelli retired to his estate and wrote this work, his most famous, dedicated to Lorenzo II de Medici. In it he describes the methods by which the title figure may maintain his reputation. | The Prince or Il Principe |
| The Prince was influenced by Machiavelli's experiences with these mercenary warlords of Renaissance Italy, who fought in lieu of professional armies for the Italian city-states. | condottieri |
| Name this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel in which the title shady character throws parties and stares at a green light at the end of a dock. The first edition cover features a pair of creepy-looking eyes. | The Great Gatsby |
| Jay Gatsby is in love with this woman, who is married to Tom. She kills Myrtle Wilson while driving Gatsby's car, indirectly causing Gatsby's death. | Daisy Buchanan |
| This narrator, Daisy's cousin, strikes up a relationship with Jordan Baker, but breaks up with her by the end of the novel, returning to the Midwest. | Nick Carraway |
| Name this novel in which Ralph and Piggy are stranded on a deserted island. | Lord of the Flies |
| : This author of Lord of the Flies wrote about Edmund Talbot's trip to Australia in Rites of Passage. | William Golding |
| The leader of a gang of "hunters," this character was formerly a choirboy and later becomes known as "The Chief." He causes the murders of Piggy and Simon and tries to kill Ralph. | Jack Merridew |
| Name this play in which Madame Ranevsky sells the title estate that Lopakhin wants to have chopped down. | The Cherry Orchard or Vishniovy sad |
| This Russian author of The Cherry Orchard wrote a play in which the title character tries to shoot Yelena's husband Professor Serebryakov, Uncle Vanya. | Anton Chekov |
| In this Chekov play, Irina, the youngest of the title characters, agrees to marry Baron Tuzenbach, who is later shot by Solyony in a duel. | The Three Sisters or Tri sestry |
| Name this author of the short story collection A Universal History of Infamy, as well as the story "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" from his collection Ficciones. | Borges |
| Borges is from this country, home to the author of Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Manuel Puig, and the author of Hopscotch, Julio Cortazar. | Argentina |
| In this Borges story, Tsui Pen writes the title labyrinthine novel, and his grandson Yu Tsun kills Dr. Albert in order to send a message to Imperial German forces. | The Garden of Forking Paths” |
| Name this satirical play in which the nonconformist Alceste falls for the flirtatious and socially aware Célimène. | The Misanthrope |
| The playwright of The Misanthrope also wrote this play banned by the French government. It focuses on the title character's manipulations of Orgon and his family, culminating in his attempt to take their house. | Tartuffe, |
| This comedic playwright of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe also wrote The School for Wives and The Miser. | Moliere |
| Name this novel in which Gregor Samsa awakens to find himself transformed into large insect, and later dies after an apple is lodged in his back. | The Metamorphosis |
| This German author of The Metamorphosis also wrote about Josef K, who is arrested and held without a crime in The Trial. | Franz Kafka |
| Name this author of "Crossing the Bar," as well as a poem whose title creature lies "Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea," "The Kraken." | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| This Tennyson poem set at the Battle of Balaclava begins "Half a league, half a league / Half a league onward, / All in the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred." | The Charge of the Light Brigade” |
| Tennyson also wrote this poem upon the death of Arthur Henry Hallam. It claims "Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all." | In Memoriam, |
| Name this short story subtitled "A Story of Wall Street," whose title character works with Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut as a copyist before he stops working because he would "prefer not to." | Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” |
| “This American author of "Bartleby the Scrivener" and the collection The Piazza Tales wrote a novel in which Captain Ahab captains the Pequod and hunts the title whale, Moby-Dick. | Herman Melville |
| In Melville's novel Billy Budd, Captain Vere sentences Billy to death for murdering this man, the Master-at-Arms of the HMS Bellipotent. | John Claggart |
| Name this novel about Gustav von Aschenbach's trip to the title city, where he becomes fixated on Tadzio and dies amidst a cholera epidemic. | Death in Venice |
| This German author of the short story "Mario and the Magician" wrote about Hans Castorp in the title sanatorium in his The Magic Mountain. | Thomas Mann |
| The musically inclined Hanno dies of typhoid fever in this novel about Johann's title merchant family in Lubeck. | Buddenbrooks |
| Name this play about the turbulent dynamic of the Tyrone family, including James and the morphine addicted Mary. | Long Day's Journey into Night |
| This playwright of The Emperor Jones and Strange Interlude wrote Long Day's Journey into Night. | Eugene O'Neill |
| In this O’Neill play set in Harry Hope's bar, Theodore Hickman confesses to killing his wife Evelyn. It ends with Larry Slade watching Don Parritt jump off a fire escape. | The Iceman Cometh |
| Name this play in which Hamm, who is unable to stand, constantly argues with Clov, who is unable to sit. | Endgame |
| In this play by the author of Endgame, Vladimir and Estragon discuss things like hanging themselves. Lucky and Pozzo also pass by twice and exchange their roles as master and slave. | Waiting for Godot |
| This Irish Absurdist playwright wrote Endgame and Waiting for Godot. | Samuel Beckett |
| Name this novel whose title character, on his deathbed, is visited by a priest and private secretary. His family inquires about the location of his will. | The Death of Artemio Cruz |
| This Mexican author of The Death of Artemio Cruz also created Ixca Cienfuegos in a fictionalization of the history of Mexico City, Where the Air is Clear. | Carlos Fuentes Macias |
| Fuentes's The Old Gringo follows the disappearance of this American author, who wrote An Occurrence at Owl's Creek Bridge and The Devil's Dictionary. | Ambrose Bierce |
| Name this novel in which Paul Baumer becomes alienated from his emotions and family after enlisting in the German Army and experiencing the horrors of war. | All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Nazis burned the works of this German author of All Quiet on the Western Front and executed his sister for "undermining morale." His later works include Arch of Triumph and The Night in Lisbon. | Erich Marie Remarque |
| Name this novel in which David Balfour is unwillingly taken aboard by Captain Hoseason, who intends to sell him into slavery. David becomes acquainted with Alan Breck Stewart, a Jacobite Catholic. | Kidnapped |
| In this novel by the author of Kidnapped, Jim Hawkins meets Long John Silver and falls in trouble with Captain Flint's crew over Billy Bones's riches. | Treasure Island |
| This author of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde wrote Kidnapped and Treasure Island. | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| In this story, Montresor takes out his revenge on Fortunato by keeping him shut in a cellar with the lure of the title alcoholic product. | The Cask of Amontillado |
| This author's struggle with alcoholism inspired The Cask of Amontillado, and his other short stories include The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat. | Edgar Allan Poe |
| This Poe poem chronicles the death of the title beautiful woman from "a kingdom by the sea." The narrator had a love that made angels jealous, and in revenge the angels kill her. | “Annabel Lee” |
| Name this collection of 21 poems whose last section ends "It is the hour of departure, Oh abandoned one.” Its 20th poem contains the line "Tonight I can write the saddest lines." | Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair |
| This Chilean Nobel Laureate poet of Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair also wrote an ode to Conger Chowder in his Elemental Odes. | Pablo Neruda |
| The poems "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" and "The Earth's Name is Juan" can be found in this Neruda collection, which has been set to music by Mikis Theodorakis. | Canto General |
