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(400 is a Spoiler)
100
This dystopian novel/series features protagonist Katniss, who must battle other children and teens in a kill or be killed competition. Name the title of the series and its author.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
100
In the TV show MASH, Hawkeye notes that "military intelligence" is a contradiction in terms. This is a figure of speech. Which of the following is the correct figure of speech to identify contradictory terms? 1. Synecdoche 2. Metonymy 3. Oxymoron
3. Oxymoron
100
This author from South Asia lived for over ten years in hiding under the protection of the British Secret Service because of a fatwa declared over the representation of Islam in one of his novels.
Salmon Rushdie
100
A teenage girl moves to Forks, Washington and falls in love with a centenarian vampire in a popular book series.
Bella Swan & Edward Cullen
100
This very popular children’s book features a female pig who likes to change her clothes and go to museums.
Olivia
200
This author has been credited with rejuvenating young people's interest in reading with her very popular fantasy series.
J.K. Rowling
200
Caesar's statement, Veni, Vidi, Vici--I came, I saw, I conquered--is a classic example of what kind of structure?
Parallel structure
200
This South African novel became a best seller again 55 years after its first publication, when it was picked for Oprah’s Book Club in 2003.
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
200
A very special girl goes to Sunnydale High School and unleashes the dark side of the vampire with a soul in the television series by Joss Whedon.
Buffy (Summers) the Vampire Slayer and Angel (Angelus)
200
This dystopian novel follows a boy named Jonas, who has been chosen to serve as the “Receiver of Memory.”
The Giver
300
Robert Frost's poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a crucial element in this novel that changed the face of young adult literature when published in 1967.
The Outsiders (by S. E. Hinton)
300
In the four modes of discourse, narration tells a story, argument takes a stand, description obviously describes. What is the fourth mode and what is its function?
Exposition: to explain
300
This play by Shakespeare has been rewritten or revisited by several Caribbean writers, including Edward Brathwaite, Derek Walcott, George Lamming, and Aimé Césaire.
The Tempest
300
In the book by Bram Stoker, this married woman is finally released from her bond with an evil vampire after he crumbles to dust.
Count Dracula and Wilhelmina (Mina)
300
This children’s book by Mo Willems features a bird being denied his wish to operate a motor vehicle.
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus  
400
his 1974 novel by Robert Cormier has been called "the quintessential young adult tragedy."
the Chocolate War
400
When faced with spelling demons, writers may use a device to remember the correct spelling as in "i before e except after c." This is called what kind of device?
mnemonic [FYI: named after the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne]
400
This Nigerian playwright, novelist, and poet was the first black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wole Soyinka
400
This famous comedy duo meets Dracula and Frankenstein in a 1948 film starring Bela Lugosi.
Abbott and Costello
400
This novel describes the death of a girl whose rope swing breaks as a she swings over a creek.
Bridge to Terabithia
500
This actress, famous for her role as Hermione in the Harry Potter series, recently appeared in this film based on a young adult novel of the same title. Name the actress and the film title.
Emma Watson; The Perks of Being a Wallflower
500
This scholar-philospher, who lived 384-322 BC in Greece is considered the leading authority on rhetoric. In his The Art of Rhetoric, he laid out five major aspects of creating a persuasive speech or essay.
Aristotle
500
This Haitian author of Breath Eyes Memory and the Farming of Bones writes all of her work in English.
Edwidge Danticat
500
This 1978 film tells the story of Dracula’s dog, a hell hound intent on drinking the blood of the California’s canines. What is the name of the film? A. Zoltan, Hound of Dracula B. Farkas, Dracula’s Best Friend C. Bolhas Come Home D. Cudar, Canine from Hell
Zoltan, Hound of Dracula
500
This science fiction/fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle begins with the line “It was a dark and stormy night.”
A Wrinkle in Time