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100
He proposed eating babies
Who is Jonathan Swift?
100
The "Prophet" in "The Prophet's Hair"
Who is Mohammed?
100
A Catholic holy day turned to revolution is described in Yeat's poem by this name.
What is Easter 1916?
100
This is a creepy fairy-tale about industrial capitalism.
What is "Goblin Market"?
100
This movie about India's independence is in theaters now.
What is Midnight's Children?
200
She lived in her famous brother's shadow all her life.
Who is Dorothy Wordsworth?
200
"Ekphrasis" is a writing technique best seen in this poem by Keats.
What is "Ode on an Grecian Urn?"
200
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" fits into this period of literary history.
What is Modernism?
200
This poem's title implies that it is about someone's son.
What is "MacFlecknoe"?
200
Francis Ford Coppola turned "Heart of Darkness" into this movie.
What is "Apocalypse Now"?
300
He proposes not having any kids.
Who is Philip Larkin?
300
She is considered one of the earliest of Western feminists for arguing "How grossly do they insult us who thus advise us only to render ourselves gentle, domestic brutes! For instance, the winning softness so warmly, and frequently, recommended, that governs by obeying."
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
300
This literature takes its name from the event of Charles II being invited back to the English throne in 1660.
What is Restoration?
300
This poem's title refers to a famous museum.
What is "Musée des Beaux Arts"?
300
Johnny Depp played a man who thinks he is this famous lover, whom Byron immortalized in a poem by the same name.
Who is Don Juan?
400
He wrote about the difficult conditions faced by the poor in industrial Britain.
Who is Charles Dickens?
400
He is often called "Scotland's National Bard"
Who is Robert Burns?
400
Dylan Thomas's hometown was destroyed during this event.
What is World War II?
400
Joyce's "Araby" takes its title from this.
What is a "bazaar" or "marketplace"?
400
This Broadway musical and movie is based on the Dickens novel about an orphaned boy.
What is "Oliver!"?
500
She claims to have bought a Persian cat with her first earnings as a writer.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
500
Examples of the Gothic novel written by Charlotte Brontë or her sister Emily Brontë (that we did not read)
What is "Jane Eyre" or "Wuthering Heights"?
500
Her life and work was deeply marked by British colonialism in Dominica.
Who is Jean Rhys?
500
This work's protagonist is described as: "She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at that Time, to whom she was oblig'd to be accountable for her Actions, did in every Thing as her Inclinations or Humours render'd most agreeable to her"
What is "Fantomina" or "Love in a Maze"?
500
What television show used Pope's idea of the mock-epic in an episode about a battle between rival college students?
What is Community?
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