Contemporary and Popular Literature
What is the name of the protagonist in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye?
Pecola Breedlove
What is the original ship for the novel Heated Rivalry, which was recently adapted into the HBO series of the same name?
Stucky – Steve/Bucky from Marvel
What is the name of the author who wrote the popular children's novels A Series of Unfortunate Events?
Lemony Snicket
His famous frame tale was planned to include 4 different tales told by 27 different pilgrims en route to Canterbury Cathedral from London.
Geoffrey Chaucer
America’s best-selling novel is NOT Gone with the Wind, but is also set in the American South.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Carmilla, famous for its sapphic representation, includes a vampire named Carmilla who preys onto the novel’s narrator—what is her name?
Laura
While published too early to be a YA title, this novel is the most widely taught dystopian novel in the secondary school curriculum.
1984 by George Orwell
What are the two years of Frankenstein?
1818 and 1831
What is the name of the first novel published by Stephen King?
Carrie (1974)
His most well known comic drama ends with three heterosexual marriages, but while it was playing in London in 1895, he was being tried and eventually jailed for two years because of Victorian disdain for his homosexual orientation.
Oscar Wilde
This children’s picture book was criticized and banned in some school districts for promoting childhood obesity, even though its insect protagonist healthy devours greens and fruits.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
What play is this Shakespeare quote from? “Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”
Twelfth Night
The Hacienda is the first book from this Mexican-American author?
Isabel Cañas
Her Modernist novel has a character who lived for decades as a man and then decades as a woman, and has settings that span the Globe, and has a main character who knew both Queen Elizabeth I and the age of airplanes.
Virginia Woolf
What is the name of Percy Jackson's sword in Greek?
Anaklusmos (translated to Riptide).
Abraham Lincoln described this novelist as “the little lady who started the big war.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe