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The Great Gatsby

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald

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In this novel by John Knowles, Gene Forrester looks back on his days at a New Hampshire boarding school.
What is A Separate Peace?
100

A young girl becomes increasingly aware of the hypocrisy and prejudice in her small southern town in the coming-of-age story by Harper Lee.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

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These three sisters published their novels under the names Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell.

Who are Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte?

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are considered to be this type of novel.

What is a dystopian novel.

200

Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, The Pearl

Who is John Steinbeck?

200
These two sisters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility approach life and love in opposite ways
Who are Elinor and Marianne Dashwood?
200
A disillusioned teen is fed up with all the "phoniness" in the world in this novel often assigned by English teachers.
What is The Catcher in the Rye?
200
This banned book was first published in 1922 by the owner of the famous Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris.
What is Ulysses by James Joyce.
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Captain John Yossarian in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and Clyde Griffiths in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser are considered this type of literary character.
What is an anti-hero.
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Gone with the Wind

Who is Margaret Mitchell?

300

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Heathcliff is hopelessly in love with this woman.

Who is Cathy Earnshaw?

300
This novel by Ayn Rand is set in the professional world of architecture.
What is The Fountainhead?
300
This novel set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi is the first major work by William Faulkner.
What is The Sound and the Fury?
300

Virginia Woolf wrote her masterpiece, To the Lighthouse, in this literary style.

What is stream of consciousness?

400

The Canterbury Tales

Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?

400
These two expatriates experience marital difficulties in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
Who are Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes?
400
In this novel, the penniless Lily Bart, needs to find a husband to secure her place in society.
What is The House of Mirth?
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In The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand based her main character, Howard Roark, on this famous architect.
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
400

Robert Heinlein, who wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, is known as a pioneer in this literary genre.

What is science fiction?

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Jude the Obscure, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Far from the Madding Crowd.
Who is Thomas Hardy?
500

Two sisters from Little Women. One dreams of becoming a writer, the other an artist.

What is the Joad family?

500

Winston Smith is arrested by the Thought Police in this dystopian novel.

What is 1984?

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This novel, the author's only published work until recently, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
500
The Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams, which lampoons modern society is a fine example of this literary form.
What is a parody?