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100

Name a work of Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Love and Friendship, etc.

100

What series is J.K. Rowling known for?

Harry Potter

100
The poem we recite every year during Remembrance Day.

What is "In Flanders Fields"?

100

Who wrote "Romeo and Juliet"?

William Shakespeare

100

Who is the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses?

Leopold Bloom

200

Who penned "The Great Gatsby"?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

200

In Stephen King’s 11/22/63, a high school English teacher hurtles back in time to 1963 and attempts to stop what monumental event?

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy

200

What bird was in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems?

The Raven

200

Who wrote "Dracula" and "Frankenstein"?

Bram Stoker

200

Who is the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter?

Hester Prynne

300

One of literature’s steeliest heroines, in her short life, she has overcome a traumatic childhood only to be challenged by secrets, strange noises and mysterious fires in her new home of Thornfield Hall. Hint: her name is the title of the book by Charlotte Bronte.

Jane Eyre

300

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood takes its name from which Shakespeare play?

Timon of Athens

300

Who wrote "The Road Not Taken"?

Robert Frost

300

Sir Walter Scott is known for his historical novels about which country?

Scotland

300

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield worries about how this animal survives the winter in New York.

Central Park Lagoon ducks

400

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between which two lovers?

Catherine and Heathcliff

400

Name That Book: Chronologically, this novel comes first in C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia series.

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

400

One of Emily Dickenson's most iconic poems is titled "Because I could not stop for ____ – (479)".

"death"

400

Name That Poet: Who wrote the Beat classic “Howl”?

Allen Ginsberg

400

The character of Hamlet was the ruler of which country?

Denmark

500

In Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, what food does Oliver famously ask for more of when he says: “Please, Sir, I want some more”?

Gruel

500

Author Zora Neale Hurston was part of which literary movement?

Harlem Renaissance

500

What is the title of the poem by E. E. Cummings that is mostly recited at weddings?

"I carry your heart with me"

500

Name That Author: This writer penned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch.

Donna Tartt

500

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in print with which novel?

A Study in Scarlet

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