"Dear Kathleen: You will not have forgotten that today is our anniversary and the day we said. The years have gone by at once slowly and fast. In view of the fact that nothing has changed, I shall rely upon you to keep your promise."
What is The Demon Lover?
100
This six-letter word means filthy or foul.
What is sordid?
100
A collection of memories from a specific time period in one's life.
What is a memoir?
100
This WWI vet's graphic and vivid poems exposed the brutal effects of the war.
Who is Siegfried Sassoon?
200
A Haunted House
Who is Virginia Woolf?
200
"The gang met every morning in an impromptu car-park, the site of the last bomb of the first blitz."
What is The Destructors?
200
This eight-letter word means not talkative.
What is taciturn?
200
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction with one another. ("faith unfaithful kept his falsely true")
What is an oxymoron?
200
In this story a snake is the main culprit.
What is Adventures of the Speckled Band?
300
The Demon Lover
Who is Elizabeth Bowen?
300
"That, more or less, is how the story would run, I think, if a woman in Shakespeare's day had had Shakespeare's genius."
What is A Room of One's Own?
300
This eight-letter word means outrageous or horrible.
What is grievous?
300
This literary term means to refer to something else.
What is allusion?
300
This story had to do with the color of hair.
What is The Red-Headed League?
400
Shooting an Elephant
Who is George Orwell?
400
"Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass"
What is The Hollow Men?
400
This ten-letter word means regrettable or unfortunate.
What is lamentable?
400
Formal public speaking.
What is an oratory?
400
Died on April 30, 1945.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
500
The Hollow Men
Who is T.S. Eliot?
500
"By now we are tired of being amazed. We seem to be watching some mad play, one of those plays in which the witches, the Holy Spirit, and the Devil appear."
What is On the Bottom from Survival in Auschwitz?
500
This thirteen-letter word means suddenly.
What is precipitately?
500
When incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead.
What is situational irony?
500
On this date the United States entered into World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor.