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100

 What famous writer did Mary Shelley marry?

Percy Shelley

100

Who is the main protagonist in the hunger games?

Katniss Everdeen

100

What are the two families in “Romeo and Juliet”?

The Capulets and the Montagues

100

What are the “FANBOYS”?

 for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

100

How many total syllables are in a Haiku?

17

200

The town of Pepin, Wisconsin is home to a museum honoring what author of the Little House books, most famously "Little House on the Prairie"?

Laura Ingalls Wilder

200

Who ate the infamous cheese in Diary of A Wimpy Kid?

Rowley

200

Who wrote “Wuthering Heights”?

Emily Bronte

200

How many hyphens should be added to this sentence?

“The three year old girl dropped her doll out the bus window.”

2

200

What is a 14-line poem often used to express romantic desire?

Sonnet

300

Which mystery writer was at one point close friends with Harry Houdini?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

300

What romance/drama book, written by Jenny Han, was adapted into a major Amazon Prime TV Show?

The Summer I Turned Pretty

300

What book was originally named “Atticus”?

To Kill a Mockingbird

300

What is the term for a sentence where the subject performs the action of the verb?

an active voice sentence

300

Which famous poet wrote in his autobiography, The Big Sea: “ When I was in the second grade, my grandmother took me to Lawrence to raise me.”?

Langston Hughes

400

What does J.R.R. Tolkien stand for?

John Ronald Reuel Tolkein

400

What is the name of the memoir written by Michelle Obama in 2018?

Becoming

400

In which book does the author himself travel to hell, accompanied by an ancient Roman poet?

Dante's Inferno

400

What is a coordinate clause?

One or two or more clauses that are of equal importance and usually joined by a coordinating conjunction (And, Or, or but.)    

400

Who wrote: "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference."

Robert Frost