World Literature

Question 1

Christian missionaries in feudal Japan are forced under torture to renounce their faith.

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Silence

Question 2

This book was credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 3

In this book, Jennet Stearne works to overturn the Parliamentary Witchcraft Act of 1604.

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The Last Witchfinder

Question 4

This book is about brothers Subhash and Udayan, and the very different lives they live.

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The Lowland

Question 5

Jassim's and Salwa's marriage and lives collapse in post 9/11 America.

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Once in a Promised Land

Question 6

A day in the life of Leopold Bloom.

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Ulysses

Question 7

Jack and Mabel are lonely, childless homesteaders in 1920 Alaska when they meet a strange girl.

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The Snow Child

Question 8

This book is set in the Republic of Gilead, a dictatorship formed within the former USA.

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The Handmaid's Tale

Question 9

This is the tale of Mattis, a mentally disabled man cared for by his lonely older sister, Hege.

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The Birds

Question 10

Arkady and Bazarov return from university embracing a new philosophy called "Nihilism."

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Fathers and Sons

Question 11

Frodo is poisoned by Shilob in this Tolkien classic.

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The Return of the King

Question 12

"Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out."

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I, Claudius

Question 13

John Bulero lives one hundred billion years into the future and sees the end of the universe.

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Macrolife: a Mobile Utopia

Question 14

“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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The Great Gatsby

Question 15

Landon Carter marries the preacher's daughter, Jamie, who is dying of cancer.

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A Walk to Remember

Question 16

"Swede" Levov's daughter, Meradith, bombs a post office in protest of the Vietnam War.

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American Pastoral

Question 17

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

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1984

Question 18

A blind French girl crosses paths with a German boy in occupied France during WWII.

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All the Light We Cannot See

Question 19

Oskar Eriksson befriends the girl next door who just happens to be a vampire.

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Let the Right One In

Question 20

Pasha Shahed is in love with his neighbor, Zari, who later attempts to assassinate the king.

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Rooftops of Tehran

Question 21

H. P. Lovecraft's tale of a seaside town with human/amphibian hybrid inhabitants.

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The Shadow Over Innsmouth

Question 22

Dr. Laszlo Kreizler uses revolutionary methods to track down a serial killer in 1896 New York.

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The Alienist

Question 23

Dr. Amin Jaafari learns that his wife is responsible for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

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The Attack

Question 24

A fictional biography of Cicero, told through the narration of his secretary Tiro.

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Imperium

Question 25

"Call me Ishmael."

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Moby Dick

Question 26

The son of Emperor Kiritsubo is demoted to a commoner in this Japanese classic.

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The Tale of Genji

Question 27

Windle Poons dies, but Death is on holiday in this Terry Pratchett comedy.

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Reaper Man

Question 28

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee."

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Macbeth

Question 29

This novel is subtitled, "or the Modern Prometheus."

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Frankenstein

Question 30

"I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul."

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A Tale of Two Cities

World Literature

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World Literature

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