This relatively modern school of philosophy, popular in literature since the mid 1900s, broadly embodies the notion of individual freedom of choice within a disordered and inexplicable universe.
What is Existentialism?
100
The divided soul of Voldemort is contained in this inanimate object, allowing him to potentially be immortal.
What is a Horcrux?
100
This play illustrated the fall of Russian aristocracy at the turn of the 20th century.
What is the Cherry Orchard?
100
If you were this poet, you'd take the road less traveled.
Who is Robert Frost?
100
This writing technique was frequently used by the authors of the lost generation; it features a sequence of thoughts which may not appear to have a coherent structure of theme.
What is stream of consciousness?
200
In Albert Camus' novel "The Stranger," Meursault is constantly working at this habit.
What is "smoking"?
200
What is the common wizard name for ordinary, non-magical people?
What is a muggle?
200
This play by Jean-Paul Sartre is a reworking of the Elektra myth.
What is The Flies?
200
You could say that this poet had some serious “Daddy” issues.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
200
This author drank too much and wrote in compact, macho sentences about war, bullfighting, and, in A Moveable Feast, his own days in Paris.
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
300
Kelly Clarkson's miserable hit song "Stronger" derives its equally cliche chorus from this writer's quote "What does not kill me makes me stronger."
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
300
Harry Potter creates this secret society to practice defense against the dark arts in The Order of the Phoenix.
What is Dumbledore’s Army?
300
This Ibsen play was hailed in its time for its feminist leanings.
What is A Doll's House?
300
U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003. He was deemed most popular poet in America by the New York Times.
Who is Billie Collins?
300
This café in Paris was where many of the America authors who became expatriates gathered.
What is Les Deux Magots?
400
This dark comedy ends in the famous quote "Hell is other people!"
What is No Exit?
400
What position does Harry Potter play on Gryffindor’s Quidditch team?
What is Seeker?
400
This play features the transformation of a flower peddling girl into a duchess.
What is Pygmalion?
400
This dead poet was one of many featured in the movie “The Dead Poet's Society.” YAWP!
Who is Walt Whitman?
400
This person was Gertrude Stein’s lover.
Who is Alice B. Tolkas?
500
This French writer declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
500
If Voldemort hadn’t misinterpreted Sybil Trelawney’s prophecy about The Chosen One, this character might have been attacked by Voldemort as a baby.
Who is Neville Longbottom?
500
This controversial play refers to itself as “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.”
What is Angels in America?
500
Jazz, poetry, drug abuse. If you were this writer, you'd just take the road.