Literature - Scholar Bowl

Question 1

Play written by Lillian Hellman, is set on a plantation in 1900 and focuses on modern capitalism and industrialism.

Accepted Answer

The Little Foxes

Question 2

This Japanese author converted to Catholicism at the age of 11, and majored in French literature.

Accepted Answer

Endo Shusaku

Question 3

Mystery Novel by Raymond Chandler, features Carmen who is being blackmailed.

Accepted Answer

The Big Sleep

Question 4

This novel is a famous work of the Irish author, Oscar Wilde.

Accepted Answer

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Question 5

Who translated the Old and New Testaments in the first complete English versions publishing them by printing press?

Accepted Answer

William Tyndale

Question 6

Villian in Shakespeare&#x27;s Romeo and Juliet

Accepted Answer

Tybalt

Question 7

Which Latin American author had works based off Cuban independence?

Accepted Answer

José Martí

Question 8

Toni Morrison was the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature and won a Pulitzer for her novel Beloved.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

1 of 3 surviving "Theban plays" that features Oedipus’s two sons, Polyneices and Eteocles, fighting for Thebes.

Accepted Answer

Antigone

Question 10

What classical play has each character based off an animal archetype.

Accepted Answer

Volpone

Question 11

Which African American author won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer for her novel The Color Purple?

Accepted Answer

Alice Walker

Question 12

Bleak House, a novel written in 1853 about inheritance, was written by which author?

Accepted Answer

Charles Dickens

Question 13

Who wrote the russian short story, The Nose?

Accepted Answer

Nikolai Gogol

Question 14

Ernest Hemingway wrote short stories like “The Gift of the Magi,” and “The Ransom of Red Chief,".

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

Which American author wrote their breakout novel, "White Noise"?

Accepted Answer

Don DeLillo

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