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The Great Literary Quiz!
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1
In 1897 Baum wrote
Mother Goose in Prose
; next came this counterpart's verses, the best-selling children's book of 1899.
Aesop's Fables
Father Owl
Father Goose
Where the Wild ThingsAre
2
In the Petrarchan type of these, an octave is followed by a stanza of 6 lines.
Elegies
Tributes
Sonnets
Haiku
3
He completed a sci-fi trilogy in 1945, a few years before taking us to Narnia.
Jules Verne
J.R.R. Tolkien
Ray Bradbury
C.S. Lewis
4
Travel writer Robert; he could have had Childe Harold take a pilgrimage on his
Road to Oxiana
.
Wordsworth
Keats
Shelley
Byron
5
Mr. Lockwood becomes Mr. Heathcliff's tenant at Thrushcross Grange in Chapter 1 of this novel.
The Old Curiosity Shop
The House of the Spirits
Wuthering Heights
Uncle Tom's Cabin
6
A barbecue takes place at Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes family plantation, in Chapter 6 of this novel.
All Quiet On The Western Front
Gone With The Wind
North and South
Interview With A Vampire
7
From the Greek for "to sing", Keats wrote several, including one
on Melancholy
.
An homage
A soliloquy
An ode
A ballad
8
This adjective describes a genre of Spanish prose that depicts the adventures of roguish heroes.
Anecdotal
Tiparillo
Scallawag
Picaresque
9
The Hamlet
is the first in his trilogy of novels about the depraved Snopes family of Mississippi.
William Faulkner
Flannery O'Connor
John Grisham
John Kennedy O'Toole
10
After moving to Hollywood, Baum grew award-winning dahlias and these, Japan's national flower.
Lilacs
Chrysanthemums
Daisies
Pansies
11
The 1874 novel
His Natural Life
by this Aussie author named Marcus was still a good read in 2001.
Sagan
Clarke
Tolkien
Asimov
12
Nathalia wrote
The Sunken Garden
; Stephen stayed above ground with
The Red Badge of Courage
.
Filmore
Wright
Crane
Hodges
13
We're guessing she was all grins when she won a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for her novel
A Thousand Acres
.
Carol Shields
Jane Smiley
Isabel Allende
Margaret Edson
14
Baum moved to this city in 1891 and enjoyed the world's Colombian Exposition held there 2 years later.
Los Angeles
St. Louis
Chicago
New York City
15
The term "stream of" this first appeared in William James' 1890 textbook
The Principles of Psychology
.
Sagacity
Familiarity
Relativity
Consciousness
16
Each July, Sauk Centre, Minnesota has a week-long festival honoring this native son.
Robert Bly
Sinclair Lewis
Garrison Keillor
F. Scott Fitzgerald
17
In a novel by Sir Walter Scott, this title character and his father Cedric are held captive in Torquilstone Castle.
The Lord of the Isles
Peveril of the Peak
Rob Roy
Wilfred of Ivanhoe
18
A poem or ballad, like Walter Scott's
Of the Last Minstrel
.
A lay
A villanelle
A lyric
A chanson
19
There's a hidden staircase in this mysterious house that inspired a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
The House of Usher
Howard's End
The House of the Seven Gables
Tintern Abbey
20
Frank's dad, Benjamin Ward Baum, made his fortune in this, like TV's Clampett family.
Oil
Gold
Textiles
Real Estate
21
His novel
The Pioneers
has been called the "finest detailed portrait of frontier life in American literature".
James Fenimore Cooper
Nathanael Hawthorne
Mark Twain
John Dos Passos
22
L. Frank Baum is best remembered for writing this classic children's book published in 1900.
The Wizard of Oz
The Little Prince
Peter Pan
The Secret Garden
23
Last name of Edward, who wrote
A Venetian Lover
, and of the better-known author of
Firestarter
.
Barker
King
Lear
Turow
24
"Go tell it on the mountain" that he finished the novel while in Switzerland in 1952.
Jack Kerouac
James Baldwin
Tom Wolfe
Henry Miller
25
In a Thomas Love Peacock novel, Headlong Hall is Squire Headlong's country home in this U.K. principality.
Ireland
Scotland
Isle of Man
Wales
26
Tom Dudzick's Over the Tavern plays are set in this city in NY state; Part III takes place during the Blizzard of '77.
Yonkers
Rochester
Buffalo
Albany
27
This author of more than 120 books was most famous for his stories of
Ragged Dick
and
Tattered Tom
.
Jack London
T.S. Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Horatio Alger
28
Johan Borgen's 'Lillelord' trilogy depicts life in this Scandinavian country from 1917 through WWII.
Norway
Finland
Denmark
Sweden
29
The first novel in the Salterton trilogy concerns an amateur production of this "stormy" Shakespeare play.
The Tempest
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Hamlet
30
Poet Robert, who wrote
The Ruling Passion
, or prose writer Tom, who kept his
Common Sense
.
Parish
Phillips
Paine
Walsh