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Crawford's first name.
What is Jack?
"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a holiday novel, not nearly as well known as "A Christmas Carol," by this British author.
Who is Charles Dickens?
A category of writing that is created from an author's imagination and is not based on real life.
What is fiction?
The name of the dancing clown in Stephen King's famed horror novel "It."
Who is Pennywise?
This British author wrote the classic 1964 children's novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
Who is Roald Dahl?
What we find out about Crawford's home life in Chapter 5.
What is his wife's illness?
This color is the "badge of courage" in Stephen Crane's famous Civil War novel?
What is red?
This literary term is intended to be both critical and humorous while poking fun at an institution or idea.
What is satire?
The ladies of Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" meet to play this game with plum blossom and chrysanthemum tiles.
What is Mahjong?
The word "pentameter" indicates that there are this many feet within a given line.
What is five?
Dr. Lector compares this outdated form of studying the brain to modern behavioral science.
What is Phrenology?
It is a truth universally acknowledged that this Jane Austen novel anagrams to CUPID AND JEEP RIDER?
What is Pride and Prejudice?
An account of someone's life written by someone else.
What is a biography?
The Shakespeare comedy that inspired "Kiss Me Kate" and "10 Things I Hate About You".
What is "The Taming of the Shrew"?
This Pulitzer Prize winning novel is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama.
What Clarice's reservations about Mr. Yow reveal about her character.
What is her mistrust of men?
Henry David Thoreau wrote about life in the woods in Massachusetts in this iconic 1854 work of nonfiction literature.
What is Walden?
Provides commentary on political events, systems, and theories through a narrative tone.
What is political fiction?
Mr. C. Hillegass, an employee at the Nebraska Book Company in 1958, started this series of study guides in his basement with his wife.
What is CliffsNotes?
Dwalin, Smaug's Delight, and Thorin Oakenshield are sandwiches at a Houston cafe named for this 1937 novel.
What is the Hobbit?
One of the major themes conveyed through the treatment of Clarice Starling.
What is gender?
James Joyce’s 1922 novel “Ulysses” follows Leopold Bloom, the hero of the tale who is from this country.
What is Ireland?
Offers a bleak and frightening version of the future.
What is dystopian?
Indian author Vikas Swarup wrote a 2005 novel titled "[BLANK]" involving a game show that was (loosely) adapted into a 2008 British film that later won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
What is Slumdog Millionaire?
The international publishing group Random House merged with this "aviary" publisher in 2013 resulting in a new, merged publishing conglomerate.
What is Penguin Group?