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Which novel features the slogan 'Big Brother Is Watching You' on large posters?
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1984
Who wrote the novel that Roman Polanski's film 'Tess' is based on?
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thomas hardy
Which month did poet William Wordsworth rhyme with 'truly', as its first syllable was accented back then?
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july
Which author, known for his French-Canadian ancestry and American birth, was originally named Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac?
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jack kerouac
In which novel do the characters Mr. Brownlow, Fagin, and Bill Sikes appear?
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oliver twist
Who is the author of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', which is a sequel to 'Tom Sawyer'?
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mark twain
What is the name of the work by Chaucer where only 23 out of 31 pilgrims tell their stories?
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canterbury tales
What time of day is the destination in the title of Eugene O'Neill's play 'Long Day's Journey into'?
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night
Who is the author of the novel 'The Great American Novel' published a few years after his famous work 'Portnoy's Complaint'?
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philip roth
Which author was 4 years old when his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri in 1839?
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mark twain
In which James Dickey book does Lewis Medlock lead a group of men on a canoe trip?
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deliverance
Who is the author of the play 'The Glass Menagerie'?
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tennessee williams
Which title character in a Shakespeare play orders the murder of Lady Macduff?
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macbeth
What landscape did Ole E. Rolvaag write a 'Saga Of' and Laura Ingalls Wilder set a 'Little House' on?
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prairie
Who authored the book titled 'A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty' under the pseudonym 'Diedrich Knickerbocker'?
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washington irving
In which H.G. Wells novel does the character Weena, an Eloi girl, become the companion of the time traveler?
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time machine
Which author, known for writing 'Around the World in Eighty Days,' also wrote librettos for operettas?
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jules verne
Which author wrote 'Lonesome Traveler', 'Big Sur', and 'Mexico City Blues' in addition to 'On The Road'?
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jack kerouac
What novel features Chapter XX titled 'Lorna Begins Her Story' and Chapter XXI titled 'Lorna Ends Her Story'?
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lorna doone
What is the name of the Austrian capital that serves as the setting for Shakespeare's play 'Measure for Measure', depicted as a hub of immorality?
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vienna
Which American author lived in a cabin he built on the shore of Walden Pond from 1845 to 1847?
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henry david thoreau
In Longfellow's epic poem, who was raised by his grandmother Nokomis, the daughter of the moon?
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hiawatha
What is the meaning of the Latin phrase inscribed on the prioress's brooch in the Canterbury Tales?
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love
Who wrote the novel 'Jane Eyre' under the pseudonym Currer Bell?
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charlotte brontë
Which author features Jo and Meg March from 'Little Women' in their book 'Little Men'?
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louisa may alcott
Who is the author of 'Tropic of Capricorn' and 'The Air-Conditioned Nightmare'?
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henry miller
Who is the author of the 1914 collection 'Trees and Other Poems,' which includes the poem 'Martin'?
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joyce kilmer
Which author, known for writing 'The Fountainhead', graduated from the University of Petrograd in 1924?
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ayn rand
In the Patricia Highsmith novel 'Strangers on a Train,' what crime do the characters propose to exchange?
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murder
Which author published both 'Kidnapped' and 'The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' in the year 1886?
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robert louis stevenson
In Sir Philip Sidney's sonnets, which celestial body is addressed with the line, 'With how sad steps...thou climb'st the skies!'?
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moon
Which author wrote the line 'So rested he by the tumtum tree, and stood awhile in thought' in the poem 'Jabberwocky'?
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lewis carroll
Who authored the best-selling nonfiction book 'Aunt Erma's Cope Book' in 1979?
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erma bombeck
Which playwright wrote 'The Glass Menagerie,' in which Julie Harris starred in a Broadway revival in 1994?
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tennessee williams
Which NYC bridge did Hart Crane symbolize America with in his poem 'The Bridge'?
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brooklyn bridge
In Maeve Binchy's novel 'Tara Road,' a woman from which country swaps houses with a woman in Connecticut?
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ireland
Which man is courted in Longfellow's poem that includes sections named 'John Alden' and 'Priscilla'?
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myles standish
Which J.M. Barrie play, known for its subtitle 'The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up', is produced every Christmas in London?
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peter pan
Who is the author whose father was the Transcendentalist philosopher and teacher Bronson Alcott?
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louisa may alcott
Which Shakespearean character says the line 'Goodnight, goodnight! Parting is such sweet sorrow'?
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juliet
Who wrote the lines, 'Hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat, player with railroads...'?
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carl sandburg
Which character begins their story with the line 'You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?
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huckleberry finn
In which novel is the character Mowgli raised by a mother wolf?
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jungle book
Which playwright reinterpreted the story of Caesar and Cleopatra in 1899 using modern allusions?
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george bernard shaw
In the title of the play by M. Anderson based on the Sacco & Vanzetti case, which season comes before the word 'Set'?
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winter
Who, along with the Mad Hatter, hosts the Mad Tea Party in 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'?
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march hare
What color are the eggs and ham that Sam-I-Am offered?
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green
Which ex-reporter for the Atlanta Journal took nearly 10 years to write the novel 'Gone With The Wind'?
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margaret mitchell
In an 1884 novel by Mark Twain, which title character accompanies the runaway slave Jim on a raft down the Mississippi River?
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huckleberry finn
Which word is common in Frank Herbert titles released in 1965, 1969, 1976, 1981, and 1985?
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dune
Which poem by Longfellow was based on Henry Rowe Schoolcraft's books on North American Indian tribes?
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hiawatha
Which author's apartment house is adjacent to the Gone With the Wind Movie Museum?
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margaret mitchell
Which author wrote both the children's story 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and the James Bond novels?
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ian fleming
In 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', who is the character adopted by the widow Douglas?
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huckleberry finn
What is the missing word in the title of the play Shelagh Delaney wrote as a teenager, 'A Taste Of _____'?
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honey
Which poet wrote the poems 'Lenore' and 'The Raven', where young men mourn the deaths of their beloveds?
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edgar allan poe
Whose birthplace and museum are located near the Brig O'Doon, a bridge featured in the poem 'Tam O'Shanter'?
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robert burns
Which bird is featured in the title of Edgar Allan Poe's last volume of poetry published in 1845, accompanied by 'and Other Poems'?
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raven
In which New England town, set about 150 years after the Witch Trials, does 'The House of the Seven Gables' take place?
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salem, massachusetts
In an Aesop fable, which animal decided the grapes it couldn't reach must be sour?
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fox