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literature	Battlefield Earth	[ "None of these", "Henry Kissinger", "Tom Robbins", "Charles Beaumont" ]	None of these
literature	The Dunwich Horror; The Colour Out of Space; The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath	[ "Lord Dunsany", "Poppy Z. Brite", "C.J. Cherryh", "H.P. Lovecraft" ]	H.P. Lovecraft
literature	The Devils Dictionary	[ "Stephen King", "Ambrose Bierce", "Beelzebub", "Truman Capote" ]	Ambrose Bierce
literature	The Doll Who Ate His Mother	[ "Chucky", "Ramsey Campbell", "Clive Barker", "Jack Kerouac" ]	Ramsey Campbell
literature	Which Scottish poet, born in 1759, wrote the famous song Auld Lang Syne which goes like this:	[ "ould auld acquaintance be forgot,", "ould auld acquaintance be forgot,", "Robert Burns", "Walter Scott", "Oscar Wilde", "Bob Dylan" ]	Robert Burns
literature	How old was the prominent English poet John Keats when he died in 1821?	[ "26 years old", "56 years old", "46 years old", "16 years old" ]	26 years old
literature	Which one of these plays by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is not a comedy?	[ "Macbeth", "A Midsummer Nights Dream", "Loves Labours Lost", "As You Like It" ]	Macbeth
literature	Which one of these poems was written by American Modernist poet T. S. Eliot and describes his feeling of depression and pessimism about society after World War I?	[ "Childe Harold", "The Times They Are a-Changin", "The Hollow Men", "The Road Not Taken" ]	The Hollow Men
literature	This American poet, born in 1874, won the Pulitzer Prize four times and recited his poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.	[ "Robert Nesta Marley", "Robert Louis Stevenson", "Robert Frost", "Robert Burns" ]	Robert Frost
literature	Which Anglo-Scottish poet, author of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, died in Greece where he participated in the fight for the countrys independence?	[ "Oscar Wilde", "George Gordon Byron", "William Blake", "Walt Whitman" ]	George Gordon Byron
literature	Which famous work by American poet Henry W. Longfellow was based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians?	[ "Paul Reveres Ride", "The Evening Star", "The Song of Hiawatha", "Evangeline" ]	The Song of Hiawatha
literature	Which Norwegian band used William Blakes influential poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as lyrics for their 1998 album Themes from William Blakes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?	[ "Immortal", "Isengard", "Ulver", "Dimmu Borgir" ]	Ulver
literature	Which one of these poems from Walt Whitmans masterpiece collection Leaves of Grass was dedicated to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?	[ "O Captain! My Captain!", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric" ]	O Captain! My Captain!
literature	The title of the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard written by which English poet?	[ "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "Edgar Allan Poe", "Alfred Tennyson", "Alexander Pope" ]	Alexander Pope
literature	And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,	[ "nt home and put a bullet through his head.", "Edwin Arlington Robinson", "Randall Jarrell", "John Berryman", "Luke Havergall" ]	Edwin Arlington Robinson
literature	From my mothers sleep, I fell into the State.	[ "hunched in its body till my wet fur froze.", "s miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life...", "en I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.", "Wallace Stevens", "Randall Jarrell", "John Crowe Ransom", "Robinson Jeffers" ]	Randall Jarrell
literature	Success is counted sweetest	[ " comprehend a nectar", "Hilda Doolittle", "Gertrude Stein", "None of these", "Emily Dickinson" ]	Emily Dickinson
literature	A heap of broken images, where the Sun beats...	[ "will show you fear in a handful of dust.", "T.S. Eliot", "Gertrude Stein", "Ezra Pound", "Allen Ginsberg" ]	T.S. Eliot
literature	I spit upon this dreadful bankers grave	[ "ho alas alas", "en will indifference come, I moan rave", " like to scrabble till I got right down", "Philip Booth", "None of these", "John Berryman", "Hart Crane" ]	John Berryman
literature	I saw a man pursuing the horizon;	[ "Stephen Crane", "Walt Whitman", "Denise Levertov", "Robert Lowell" ]	Stephen Crane
literature	I have gone out, a possessed witch,	[ "woman like that is not a woman, quite. ", "have been her kind.", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Sylvia Plath", "Anne Sexton", "Emily Dickinson" ]	Anne Sexton
literature	I was ten when they buried you.	[ " twenty I tried to die", "d get back, back, back to you.", "thought even the bones would do.", "t they pulled me out of the sack,", "d they stuck me together with glue.", "d then I knew what to do.", "made a model of you,", "man in black with a Meinkampf look", "Joyce Carol Oates", "Anne Sexton", "June Jordan", "Sylvia Plath" ]	Sylvia Plath
literature	In which book by Mark Twain is Jim a major character?	[ "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "Puddnhead Wilson" ]	Huckleberry Finn
literature	In which novel does the evil Injun Joe appear?	[ "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", "Letters From the Earth" ]	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
literature	In which work by Mark Twain do we find Adam and Eve writing their diaries?	[ "Innocents Abroad", "The Mysterious Stranger", "Letters from the Earth", "The Gilded Age" ]	Letters from the Earth
literature	Which story features a character named Jim Smiley who was responsible for one of the tallest tales of the Old West?	[ "Roughing It", "Innocents Abroad", "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "At Adams Tomb" ]	The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
literature	Sir Boss is the protagonist of which novel?	[ "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "Letters from the Earth", "Roughing It", "The Prince and the Pauper" ]	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
literature	Aunt Polly is a character from which book?	[ "Roughing it", "Life on the Mississippi", "Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ]	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
literature	In which novel did Mark Twain- Special Travelling Correspondent of the Alta appear?	[ "The Innocents Abroad", "Life on the Mississippi", "The Damned Human Race", "The Gilded Age" ]	The Innocents Abroad
literature	In this novel we find Cal Higbie and Mark Twain celebrating the curious time when the two were millionaires for ten days?	[ "Life on the Mississippi", "Innocents Abroad", "The Gilded Age", "Roughing It" ]	Roughing It
literature	In which novel do the Duke and the King do their best to swindle god-fearin folk?	[ "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "Huckleberry Finn", "A Tramp Abroad", "The Mysterious Stranger" ]	Huckleberry Finn
literature	In which story does Danl Webster appear as a leading character?	[ "The Celebrated Jumping Frog", "The Prince and the Pauper", "Innocents Abroad", "Letters from the Earth" ]	The Celebrated Jumping Frog
literature	This history play by Shakespeare, focusing on a kings Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent reign of terror, contains the following exchange:	[ " beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. ", "t I know none, and therefore am no beast.", "Henry V", "Julius Caesar", "Richard III", "King John" ]	Richard III
literature	This pastoral comedy contains one of Shakespeares most quoted monologues, which opens with the lines, All the worlds a stage,	[ "d all the men and women merely players.", "The Winters Tale", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "As You Like It", "A Midsummer Nights Dream" ]	As You Like It
literature	Dying is an art like everything else. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real.	[ "Gregory Corso", "Anne Sexton", "Emily Dickenson", "Sylvia Plath" ]	Sylvia Plath
literature	I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked	[ "Maye Swenson", "Allen Ginsburg", "Gregory Orr", "Lawrence Ferlenghetti" ]	Allen Ginsburg
literature	Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note	[ "Anne Sexton", "Immamu Amiri Baraka", "Sylvia Plath", "Hart Crane" ]	Immamu Amiri Baraka
literature	Penetrating a Fresh Abyss	[ "David Payne, Jr.", "Robert Haas", "Robert Frost", "Edgar Allan Poe" ]	David Payne, Jr.
literature	This is the way they ring the bells in Bedlam	[ "Theodore Roethke", "Anne Sexton", "T.S. Eliot", "Dylan Thomas" ]	Anne Sexton
literature	Why talk of beauty? What could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter? They did not stop to think--they died instead. Then shall the voice of liberty be mute?	[ "None of these", "Allen Ginsberg", "E. E. Cummings", "Sharon Olds" ]	E. E. Cummings
literature	In the desert I saw a creature naked, bestial. Squatting on the ground he held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I asked Is it good, friend? It is bitter--bitter he replied but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.	[ "Stephen Crane", "William Carlos Williams", "Elizabeth Bishop", "Hilda Doolittle" ]	Stephen Crane
literature	We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together-- headpiece filled with straw--alas! Our dried voices when we whisper together are meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats feet over broken glass in our dry cellar....This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.	[ "T.S. Eliot", "June Jordan", "Robert Penn Warren", "Stephen King" ]	T.S. Eliot
literature	The Book of Nightmares	[ "Galway Kinnel", "Gary Snyder", "David Bottoms", "James Tate" ]	Galway Kinnel
literature	In the novel Twilight, Bellas dad Charlie buys her an old Chevy truck as a homecoming gift. What colour is it?	[ "Blue", "Silver", "Black", "Red" ]	Red
literature	Though it is girls choice, who asks Bella to the spring dance in the book Twilight?	[ "Tyler Crowley", "Mike Newton", "Eric Yorkie", "All of these" ]	All of these
literature	In the book Twilight, Edward says he is 17, but admits he has been 17 for a while. In what year was he actually born?	[ "1917", "1901", "1801", "1918" ]	1901
literature	Bella, the protagonist of the novel Twilight, is tracked by a vampire intent on killing her. What is his name?	[ "Laurent", "George", "John", "James" ]	James
literature	In the novel Twilight, Jasper is the newest member of the Cullen family and the last to adopt their vegetarian diet.	[ "False", "True" ]	True
literature	During his round of questions in the novel Twilight, Edward asks Bella what her favourite gemstone is, to which she immediately answers Topaz, the colour of Edwards eyes. Until recently she would have given a different answer. What did her favourite gemstone use to be?	[ "Ruby", "Onyx", "Amethyst", "Garnet" ]	Garnet
literature	In chapter 6 of the novel Twilight, Mike Newton organises a beach trip to this beach.	[ "First Beach", "Forks Beach", "Forrest Beach", "La Push Beach" ]	First Beach
literature	In the novel Twilight, Carlisle found Edward whilst working in a hospital in Chicago. What was Edward dying of?	[ "Tuberculosis", "Spanish Influenza", "Typhoid Fever", "Scarlet Fever" ]	Spanish Influenza
literature	What game do the Cullens play in the thunderstorm in the novel Twilight?	[ "Basketball", "Football", "Cricket", "Baseball" ]	Baseball
literature	In the novel Twilight, who accompanied Bella, when she went to Phoenix to try escape the tracker?	[ "Esme and Carlisle", "Alice and Jasper", "Edward and Carlisle", "Rosalie and Emmett" ]	Alice and Jasper
literature	What American hero does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow write about in this poem:	[ "rough all our history, to the last,", " the hour of darkness, and peril, and need,", "e people will waken and listen to hear", "e hurrying hoof-beats of that stead", "d the midnight message of?", "Patrick Henry", "Ethan Allen", "Paul Revere", "George Washington" ]	Paul Revere
literature	This poet, who is famous for his use of lowercase letters and word space, wrote the following:	[ "e e cummings", "A. E houseman", "Carl Sandburg", "T. S Elliot" ]	e e cummings
literature	What is the name of this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:	[ " candle burns at both ends;", " will not last the night;", "t ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-", " gives a lovely light!?", "Candlelight", "Friends and Foes", "First Fig", "Before Morning" ]	First Fig
literature	In 2008, EW.com asked readers for their choice for favorite author of the last 25 years. Which author	[ "Nora Roberts", "J. K. Rowling", "John Grisham", "Steven King" ]	J. K. Rowling
literature	Lestat was made into a vampire by Marius.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	In The Vampire Chronicles Akasha was known as the Mother of all Vampires	[ "No", "Yes" ]	Yes
literature	What is the full name of Bastian, the main character in the book The Neverending Story?	[ "Bastian Burrthar Buc", "Bastian Benlazar Buz", "None of these", "Bastian Balzazar Bux" ]	None of these
literature	In Michael Endes novel, The Neverending Story, Bastian stole The Neverending Story from Mr. Smith.	[ "False", "True" ]	False
literature	Atreyu, one of the characters in the book The Neverending Story, is what kind of warrior?	[ "Greenskin warrior", "Orangeskin warrior", "Blueskin warrior", "Purpleskin warrior" ]	Greenskin warrior
literature	What is Ygramuls secrete in the fantasy novel, The Neverending Story?	[ "It is afraid of fire.", "It is an elfs servant.", "If direct sunlight hits it, it dies.", "It has magic poison." ]	It has magic poison.
literature	What kind of dragon is Falkor in Michael Endes novel The Neverending Story?	[ "A Holy dragon", "A Mystic dragon", "A Luck dragon", "A Moon-light dragon" ]	A Luck dragon
literature	Where did Atreyus horse die in the fantasy novel, The Neverending Story?	[ "in the Swamp of Misfortune", "None of these", "in the Swamp of Death", "in the Swamps of Sadness" ]	in the Swamps of Sadness
literature	In the book The Neverending Story, what kind of creature is Engywook?	[ "Goblin", "Gnome", "Elf", "Troll" ]	Gnome
literature	Uyulala, is a character in the novel The Neverending Story, that only speaks in rhymes.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
literature	How many wind giants are there in the book The Neverending Story?	[ "5", "3", "4", "2" ]	4
literature	What name does Bastian give to the Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story?	[ "Moon Child", "none of these.", "Sun Child", "Star Child" ]	Moon Child
literature	This conservative, aristocratic poet and novelist was the pride of both Scotland and England. His martial poetry was an inspiration during war. What author of âWaverlyâ penned the following poem?	[ "und, sound the clarion, fill the fife!", " all the sensual world proclaim,", "e crowded hour of glorious life", " worth an age without a name.", "Rudyard Kipling", "Sir Walter Scott", "Thomas Carlyle", "Thomas DeQuincy" ]	Sir Walter Scott
literature	Who wrote these famous lines and in what poem can they be found?	[ "at is all ye know on earth, ", "d all ye need to know.", "ShellyâOzymandias", "ShellyâTo a Skylark", "KeatsâOde to a Nightingale", "KeatsâOde on a Grecian Urn" ]	KeatsâOde on a Grecian Urn
literature	He was a close friend of Wordsworth. He wrote âKubla Khanâ and the following lines from his most popular poem:	[ "e Mariner, whose eye is bright,", "ose beard with age is hoar,", " gone; and now the Wedding-Guest", "rned from the bridegroomâs door.", "Coleridge", "Keats", "Carlyle", "Sir Walter Scott" ]	Coleridge
literature	He was a close friend of Byron and an incredibly popular singer, songwriter. Which Irish entertainer and poet, who wrote the lyrics to âThe Minstrel Boy,â wrote these lines as well?	[ "e Harp that once through Taraâs halls the soul of music shed,", "w hangs as mute on Taraâs walls as if that soul were fled.", " sleeps the pride of former days, so gloryâs thrill is oâer,", "d hearts that once beat high for praise now feel that pulse no more.", "Thomas Carlyle", "Thomas Peacock", "Thomas Campbell", "Thomas Moore" ]	Thomas Moore
literature	I weep for Adonaisâhe is dead!	[ ", weep for Adonais! Though our tears", "aw not the frost which binds so dear a head!", "at poet wrote these elegiac lines from âAdonaisâ in memoriam to John Keats, who died of T.B. at the tender age of only 24 years?", "William Wordsworth", "Percy Bysshe Shelly", "Lord Byron", "William Blake" ]	Percy Bysshe Shelly
literature	Which of the following books, published in 1903, brought everlasting fame to Jack London?	[ "White Fang", "The Iron Heel", "The Call of the Wild", "The Sea-Wolf" ]	The Call of the Wild
literature	The life of which character, depicted by Jack London, resembles very much the authors life?	[ "Martin Eden", "Dick Forrest", "Humphrey van Weyden", "Wolf Larsen" ]	Martin Eden
literature	Which of the following novels by Jack London tells the story of the intellectual Humphrey van Weyden, who is forced to become a common seaman?	[ "Burning Daylight", "The Sea-Wolf", "The Little Lady of the Big House", "The Iron Hill" ]	The Sea-Wolf
literature	Which novel by Jack London depicts the rise of a fascist-like regime in America?	[ "The Sea-Wolf", "The Iron Heel", "The Valley of the Moon", "The Scarlet Plague" ]	The Iron Heel
literature	What breed is the dog Buck, the protagonist in The Call of the Wild by Jack London?	[ "St. Bernard/Collie mix", "Wolf/Alaskan husky mix", "St. Bernard/Wolf mix", "Alaska Malamute/Alaskan husky mix" ]	St. Bernard/Collie mix
literature	Which of the following tales is not part of the collection Children of the Frost (1902) by Jack London?	[ "The Master of Mystery", "Li-Wan the Fair", "To Build a Fire", "In the Forests of North" ]	To Build a Fire
literature	In 1910 Jack London bought a ranch in Glen Ellen, California, and since then he began to write mostly to finance it.	[ "True", "False" ]	True
literature	Which of the following novels played a decisive role in Jack Londons life according to his own words, and turned him to literature when he was only eight years old?	[ "Henry Adamss Democracy", "John Esten Cookes The Youth of Jefferson", "Ouidas Signa", "Louisa May Alcotts Little Men" ]	Ouidas Signa
literature	The main story in The Little Lady of the Big House (1916) by Jack London focuses on what?	[ "The gold rush", "A love triangle", "The life of a widow", "Human rights" ]	A love triangle
literature	In Song of Susannah, Susannah is pregnant with whose baby?	[ "Roland", "Eddie", "Oy", "Jake" ]	Roland
literature	Song of Susannah takes place mostly in our world, in New York and which other US State?	[ "Maine", "Colorado", "Illinois", "Maryland" ]	Maine
literature	Once born, the child carried by Susannah/Mia was called what?	[ "Stephen", "Arthur", "Mordred", "Galahad" ]	Mordred
literature	Jake and Father Callahan travel to New York of 1999 and store the Wizards Glass known as Black Thirteen in a deposit box under which famous building?	[ "World Trade Center", "Chrysler Building", "Empire State Building", "Trump World Tower" ]	World Trade Center
literature	In Song of Susannah, Roland and Eddie travel to New York of 1977 in an attempt to buy a plot of land from which man?	[ "John Cullum, a retired businessman", "Enrico Balazar, a gangster", "Calvin Tower, a bookstore owner", "Jack Andolini, a gangster" ]	Calvin Tower, a bookstore owner
literature	While in Maine, Roland and Eddie hear that they are near the home of the author Stephen King, a name that interests them because of the link with which book in their possession?	[ "The Stand", "Desperation", "Salems Lot", "Hearts in Atlantis" ]	Salems Lot
literature	When he meets Stephen King, Roland the gunslinger hypnotises him. What does Roland use to hypnotise people?	[ "A bullet", "A pendant in the shape of an eye", "A watch", "A pendulum" ]	A bullet
literature	While he has Stephen King hypnotised, Roland implants an instruction in the authors mind, what is it?	[ "To collect a package from a location in New York City", "To write an epic poem about Susan Delgado", "To read Charlie the Choo-Choo", "To continue writing the Dark Tower series of novels" ]	To continue writing the Dark Tower series of novels
literature	Jake and Father Callahan attempt to rescue Susannah from a restaurant in New York, where she is being held by the soldiers of The Crimson King. What is the name of the restaurant?	[ "The Manhattan Restaurant of The Mind", "The Dixie Pig", "The Tower View", "Mystic Pizza" ]	The Dixie Pig
literature	Susannah had left a scrimshaw ornament behind before she was taken into the restaurant, which gave Jake and Father Callahan hope when they found it. What animal shape had the scrimshaw been carved into?	[ "Bear", "Crow", "Turtle", "Billy-Bumbler" ]	Turtle
literature	Where was Edgar Allan Poe born?	[ "England", "Italy", "Virginia", "Massachusetts" ]	Massachusetts
literature	What was Edgar Allan Poes first poem to be published?	[ "The Raven", "Eldorado", "The Haunted Palace", "A Dream Within A Dream" ]	The Raven
literature	What branch of the military did Edgar Allan Poe enlist in?	[ "Marines", "Air Force", "Coast Guard", "US Army" ]	US Army
literature	What was Edgar Allan Poes only completed novel?	[ "The Balloon Hoax", "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "Eureka: A Pose Poem", "The Philosophy of Composition" ]	The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
literature	What Edgar Allan Poe poem are the following lines from?	[ "me up, in despite of the lion,", " shine on us with her bright eyes.", "me up, through the lair of the lion,", "The Bells", "Lenore", "Eldorado", "Ulalume" ]	Ulalume
literature	Which of the following poems was not written by Edgar Allan Poe?	[ "I Carry Your Heart With Me", "Annabel Lee", "The Raven", "The City In The Sea" ]	I Carry Your Heart With Me
literature	At what age did Edgar Allan Poe die?	[ "60", "30", "80", "40" ]	40

literature

Battlefield Earth

[ "None of these", "Henry Kissinger", "Tom Robbins", "Charles Beaumont" ]

None of these

literature

The Dunwich Horror; The Colour Out of Space; The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

[ "Lord Dunsany", "Poppy Z. Brite", "C.J. Cherryh", "H.P. Lovecraft" ]

H.P. Lovecraft

literature

The Devils Dictionary

[ "Stephen King", "Ambrose Bierce", "Beelzebub", "Truman Capote" ]

Ambrose Bierce

literature

The Doll Who Ate His Mother

[ "Chucky", "Ramsey Campbell", "Clive Barker", "Jack Kerouac" ]

Ramsey Campbell

literature

Which Scottish poet, born in 1759, wrote the famous song Auld Lang Syne which goes like this:

[ "ould auld acquaintance be forgot,", "ould auld acquaintance be forgot,", "Robert Burns", "Walter Scott", "Oscar Wilde", "Bob Dylan" ]

Robert Burns

literature

How old was the prominent English poet John Keats when he died in 1821?

[ "26 years old", "56 years old", "46 years old", "16 years old" ]

26 years old

literature

Which one of these plays by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is not a comedy?

[ "Macbeth", "A Midsummer Nights Dream", "Loves Labours Lost", "As You Like It" ]

Macbeth

literature

Which one of these poems was written by American Modernist poet T. S. Eliot and describes his feeling of depression and pessimism about society after World War I?

[ "Childe Harold", "The Times They Are a-Changin", "The Hollow Men", "The Road Not Taken" ]

The Hollow Men

literature

This American poet, born in 1874, won the Pulitzer Prize four times and recited his poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.

[ "Robert Nesta Marley", "Robert Louis Stevenson", "Robert Frost", "Robert Burns" ]

Robert Frost

literature

Which Anglo-Scottish poet, author of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, died in Greece where he participated in the fight for the countrys independence?

[ "Oscar Wilde", "George Gordon Byron", "William Blake", "Walt Whitman" ]

George Gordon Byron

literature

Which famous work by American poet Henry W. Longfellow was based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians?

[ "Paul Reveres Ride", "The Evening Star", "The Song of Hiawatha", "Evangeline" ]

The Song of Hiawatha

literature

Which Norwegian band used William Blakes influential poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as lyrics for their 1998 album Themes from William Blakes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?

[ "Immortal", "Isengard", "Ulver", "Dimmu Borgir" ]

Ulver

literature

Which one of these poems from Walt Whitmans masterpiece collection Leaves of Grass was dedicated to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?

[ "O Captain! My Captain!", "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking", "Song of Myself", "I Sing the Body Electric" ]

O Captain! My Captain!

literature

The title of the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard written by which English poet?

[ "Percy Bysshe Shelley", "Edgar Allan Poe", "Alfred Tennyson", "Alexander Pope" ]

Alexander Pope

literature

And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,

[ "nt home and put a bullet through his head.", "Edwin Arlington Robinson", "Randall Jarrell", "John Berryman", "Luke Havergall" ]

Edwin Arlington Robinson

literature

From my mothers sleep, I fell into the State.

[ "hunched in its body till my wet fur froze.", "s miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life...", "en I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.", "Wallace Stevens", "Randall Jarrell", "John Crowe Ransom", "Robinson Jeffers" ]

Randall Jarrell

literature

Success is counted sweetest

[ " comprehend a nectar", "Hilda Doolittle", "Gertrude Stein", "None of these", "Emily Dickinson" ]

Emily Dickinson

literature

A heap of broken images, where the Sun beats...

[ "will show you fear in a handful of dust.", "T.S. Eliot", "Gertrude Stein", "Ezra Pound", "Allen Ginsberg" ]

T.S. Eliot

literature

I spit upon this dreadful bankers grave

[ "ho alas alas", "en will indifference come, I moan rave", " like to scrabble till I got right down", "Philip Booth", "None of these", "John Berryman", "Hart Crane" ]

John Berryman

literature

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;

[ "Stephen Crane", "Walt Whitman", "Denise Levertov", "Robert Lowell" ]

Stephen Crane

literature

I have gone out, a possessed witch,

[ "woman like that is not a woman, quite. ", "have been her kind.", "Gwendolyn Brooks", "Sylvia Plath", "Anne Sexton", "Emily Dickinson" ]

Anne Sexton

literature

I was ten when they buried you.

[ " twenty I tried to die", "d get back, back, back to you.", "thought even the bones would do.", "t they pulled me out of the sack,", "d they stuck me together with glue.", "d then I knew what to do.", "made a model of you,", "man in black with a Meinkampf look", "Joyce Carol Oates", "Anne Sexton", "June Jordan", "Sylvia Plath" ]

Sylvia Plath

literature

In which book by Mark Twain is Jim a major character?

[ "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "Puddnhead Wilson" ]

Huckleberry Finn

literature

In which novel does the evil Injun Joe appear?

[ "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg", "Letters From the Earth" ]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

literature

In which work by Mark Twain do we find Adam and Eve writing their diaries?

[ "Innocents Abroad", "The Mysterious Stranger", "Letters from the Earth", "The Gilded Age" ]

Letters from the Earth

literature

Which story features a character named Jim Smiley who was responsible for one of the tallest tales of the Old West?

[ "Roughing It", "Innocents Abroad", "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "At Adams Tomb" ]

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

literature

Sir Boss is the protagonist of which novel?

[ "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "Letters from the Earth", "Roughing It", "The Prince and the Pauper" ]

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court

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Aunt Polly is a character from which book?

[ "Roughing it", "Life on the Mississippi", "Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" ]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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In which novel did Mark Twain- Special Travelling Correspondent of the Alta appear?

[ "The Innocents Abroad", "Life on the Mississippi", "The Damned Human Race", "The Gilded Age" ]

The Innocents Abroad

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In this novel we find Cal Higbie and Mark Twain celebrating the curious time when the two were millionaires for ten days?

[ "Life on the Mississippi", "Innocents Abroad", "The Gilded Age", "Roughing It" ]

Roughing It

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In which novel do the Duke and the King do their best to swindle god-fearin folk?

[ "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court", "Huckleberry Finn", "A Tramp Abroad", "The Mysterious Stranger" ]

Huckleberry Finn

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In which story does Danl Webster appear as a leading character?

[ "The Celebrated Jumping Frog", "The Prince and the Pauper", "Innocents Abroad", "Letters from the Earth" ]

The Celebrated Jumping Frog

literature

This history play by Shakespeare, focusing on a kings Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent reign of terror, contains the following exchange:

[ " beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. ", "t I know none, and therefore am no beast.", "Henry V", "Julius Caesar", "Richard III", "King John" ]

Richard III

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This pastoral comedy contains one of Shakespeares most quoted monologues, which opens with the lines, All the worlds a stage,

[ "d all the men and women merely players.", "The Winters Tale", "The Merry Wives of Windsor", "As You Like It", "A Midsummer Nights Dream" ]

As You Like It

literature

Dying is an art like everything else. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real.

[ "Gregory Corso", "Anne Sexton", "Emily Dickenson", "Sylvia Plath" ]

Sylvia Plath

literature

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked

[ "Maye Swenson", "Allen Ginsburg", "Gregory Orr", "Lawrence Ferlenghetti" ]

Allen Ginsburg

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Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

[ "Anne Sexton", "Immamu Amiri Baraka", "Sylvia Plath", "Hart Crane" ]

Immamu Amiri Baraka

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Penetrating a Fresh Abyss

[ "David Payne, Jr.", "Robert Haas", "Robert Frost", "Edgar Allan Poe" ]

David Payne, Jr.

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This is the way they ring the bells in Bedlam

[ "Theodore Roethke", "Anne Sexton", "T.S. Eliot", "Dylan Thomas" ]

Anne Sexton

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Why talk of beauty? What could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter? They did not stop to think--they died instead. Then shall the voice of liberty be mute?

[ "None of these", "Allen Ginsberg", "E. E. Cummings", "Sharon Olds" ]

E. E. Cummings

literature

In the desert I saw a creature naked, bestial. Squatting on the ground he held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I asked Is it good, friend? It is bitter--bitter he replied but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.

[ "Stephen Crane", "William Carlos Williams", "Elizabeth Bishop", "Hilda Doolittle" ]

Stephen Crane

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We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together-- headpiece filled with straw--alas! Our dried voices when we whisper together are meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats feet over broken glass in our dry cellar....This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.

[ "T.S. Eliot", "June Jordan", "Robert Penn Warren", "Stephen King" ]

T.S. Eliot

literature

The Book of Nightmares

[ "Galway Kinnel", "Gary Snyder", "David Bottoms", "James Tate" ]

Galway Kinnel

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In the novel Twilight, Bellas dad Charlie buys her an old Chevy truck as a homecoming gift. What colour is it?

[ "Blue", "Silver", "Black", "Red" ]

Red

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Though it is girls choice, who asks Bella to the spring dance in the book Twilight?

[ "Tyler Crowley", "Mike Newton", "Eric Yorkie", "All of these" ]

All of these

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In the book Twilight, Edward says he is 17, but admits he has been 17 for a while. In what year was he actually born?

[ "1917", "1901", "1801", "1918" ]

1901

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Bella, the protagonist of the novel Twilight, is tracked by a vampire intent on killing her. What is his name?

[ "Laurent", "George", "John", "James" ]

James

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In the novel Twilight, Jasper is the newest member of the Cullen family and the last to adopt their vegetarian diet.

[ "False", "True" ]

True

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During his round of questions in the novel Twilight, Edward asks Bella what her favourite gemstone is, to which she immediately answers Topaz, the colour of Edwards eyes. Until recently she would have given a different answer. What did her favourite gemstone use to be?

[ "Ruby", "Onyx", "Amethyst", "Garnet" ]

Garnet

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In chapter 6 of the novel Twilight, Mike Newton organises a beach trip to this beach.

[ "First Beach", "Forks Beach", "Forrest Beach", "La Push Beach" ]

First Beach

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In the novel Twilight, Carlisle found Edward whilst working in a hospital in Chicago. What was Edward dying of?

[ "Tuberculosis", "Spanish Influenza", "Typhoid Fever", "Scarlet Fever" ]

Spanish Influenza

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What game do the Cullens play in the thunderstorm in the novel Twilight?

[ "Basketball", "Football", "Cricket", "Baseball" ]

Baseball

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In the novel Twilight, who accompanied Bella, when she went to Phoenix to try escape the tracker?

[ "Esme and Carlisle", "Alice and Jasper", "Edward and Carlisle", "Rosalie and Emmett" ]

Alice and Jasper

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What American hero does Henry Wadsworth Longfellow write about in this poem:

[ "rough all our history, to the last,", " the hour of darkness, and peril, and need,", "e people will waken and listen to hear", "e hurrying hoof-beats of that stead", "d the midnight message of?", "Patrick Henry", "Ethan Allen", "Paul Revere", "George Washington" ]

Paul Revere

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This poet, who is famous for his use of lowercase letters and word space, wrote the following:

[ "e e cummings", "A. E houseman", "Carl Sandburg", "T. S Elliot" ]

e e cummings

literature

What is the name of this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay:

[ " candle burns at both ends;", " will not last the night;", "t ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-", " gives a lovely light!?", "Candlelight", "Friends and Foes", "First Fig", "Before Morning" ]

First Fig

literature

In 2008, EW.com asked readers for their choice for favorite author of the last 25 years. Which author

[ "Nora Roberts", "J. K. Rowling", "John Grisham", "Steven King" ]

J. K. Rowling

literature

Lestat was made into a vampire by Marius.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

literature

In The Vampire Chronicles Akasha was known as the Mother of all Vampires

[ "No", "Yes" ]

Yes

literature

What is the full name of Bastian, the main character in the book The Neverending Story?

[ "Bastian Burrthar Buc", "Bastian Benlazar Buz", "None of these", "Bastian Balzazar Bux" ]

None of these

literature

In Michael Endes novel, The Neverending Story, Bastian stole The Neverending Story from Mr. Smith.

[ "False", "True" ]

False

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Atreyu, one of the characters in the book The Neverending Story, is what kind of warrior?

[ "Greenskin warrior", "Orangeskin warrior", "Blueskin warrior", "Purpleskin warrior" ]

Greenskin warrior

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What is Ygramuls secrete in the fantasy novel, The Neverending Story?

[ "It is afraid of fire.", "It is an elfs servant.", "If direct sunlight hits it, it dies.", "It has magic poison." ]

It has magic poison.

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What kind of dragon is Falkor in Michael Endes novel The Neverending Story?

[ "A Holy dragon", "A Mystic dragon", "A Luck dragon", "A Moon-light dragon" ]

A Luck dragon

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Where did Atreyus horse die in the fantasy novel, The Neverending Story?

[ "in the Swamp of Misfortune", "None of these", "in the Swamp of Death", "in the Swamps of Sadness" ]

in the Swamps of Sadness

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In the book The Neverending Story, what kind of creature is Engywook?

[ "Goblin", "Gnome", "Elf", "Troll" ]

Gnome

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Uyulala, is a character in the novel The Neverending Story, that only speaks in rhymes.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

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How many wind giants are there in the book The Neverending Story?

[ "5", "3", "4", "2" ]

4

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What name does Bastian give to the Childlike Empress in The Neverending Story?

[ "Moon Child", "none of these.", "Sun Child", "Star Child" ]

Moon Child

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This conservative, aristocratic poet and novelist was the pride of both Scotland and England. His martial poetry was an inspiration during war. What author of âWaverlyâ penned the following poem?

[ "und, sound the clarion, fill the fife!", " all the sensual world proclaim,", "e crowded hour of glorious life", " worth an age without a name.", "Rudyard Kipling", "Sir Walter Scott", "Thomas Carlyle", "Thomas DeQuincy" ]

Sir Walter Scott

literature

Who wrote these famous lines and in what poem can they be found?

[ "at is all ye know on earth, ", "d all ye need to know.", "ShellyâOzymandias", "ShellyâTo a Skylark", "KeatsâOde to a Nightingale", "KeatsâOde on a Grecian Urn" ]

KeatsâOde on a Grecian Urn

literature

He was a close friend of Wordsworth. He wrote âKubla Khanâ and the following lines from his most popular poem:

[ "e Mariner, whose eye is bright,", "ose beard with age is hoar,", " gone; and now the Wedding-Guest", "rned from the bridegroomâs door.", "Coleridge", "Keats", "Carlyle", "Sir Walter Scott" ]

Coleridge

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He was a close friend of Byron and an incredibly popular singer, songwriter. Which Irish entertainer and poet, who wrote the lyrics to âThe Minstrel Boy,â wrote these lines as well?

[ "e Harp that once through Taraâs halls the soul of music shed,", "w hangs as mute on Taraâs walls as if that soul were fled.", " sleeps the pride of former days, so gloryâs thrill is oâer,", "d hearts that once beat high for praise now feel that pulse no more.", "Thomas Carlyle", "Thomas Peacock", "Thomas Campbell", "Thomas Moore" ]

Thomas Moore

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I weep for Adonaisâhe is dead!

[ ", weep for Adonais! Though our tears", "aw not the frost which binds so dear a head!", "at poet wrote these elegiac lines from âAdonaisâ in memoriam to John Keats, who died of T.B. at the tender age of only 24 years?", "William Wordsworth", "Percy Bysshe Shelly", "Lord Byron", "William Blake" ]

Percy Bysshe Shelly

literature

Which of the following books, published in 1903, brought everlasting fame to Jack London?

[ "White Fang", "The Iron Heel", "The Call of the Wild", "The Sea-Wolf" ]

The Call of the Wild

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The life of which character, depicted by Jack London, resembles very much the authors life?

[ "Martin Eden", "Dick Forrest", "Humphrey van Weyden", "Wolf Larsen" ]

Martin Eden

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Which of the following novels by Jack London tells the story of the intellectual Humphrey van Weyden, who is forced to become a common seaman?

[ "Burning Daylight", "The Sea-Wolf", "The Little Lady of the Big House", "The Iron Hill" ]

The Sea-Wolf

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Which novel by Jack London depicts the rise of a fascist-like regime in America?

[ "The Sea-Wolf", "The Iron Heel", "The Valley of the Moon", "The Scarlet Plague" ]

The Iron Heel

literature

What breed is the dog Buck, the protagonist in The Call of the Wild by Jack London?

[ "St. Bernard/Collie mix", "Wolf/Alaskan husky mix", "St. Bernard/Wolf mix", "Alaska Malamute/Alaskan husky mix" ]

St. Bernard/Collie mix

literature

Which of the following tales is not part of the collection Children of the Frost (1902) by Jack London?

[ "The Master of Mystery", "Li-Wan the Fair", "To Build a Fire", "In the Forests of North" ]

To Build a Fire

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In 1910 Jack London bought a ranch in Glen Ellen, California, and since then he began to write mostly to finance it.

[ "True", "False" ]

True

literature

Which of the following novels played a decisive role in Jack Londons life according to his own words, and turned him to literature when he was only eight years old?

[ "Henry Adamss Democracy", "John Esten Cookes The Youth of Jefferson", "Ouidas Signa", "Louisa May Alcotts Little Men" ]

Ouidas Signa

literature

The main story in The Little Lady of the Big House (1916) by Jack London focuses on what?

[ "The gold rush", "A love triangle", "The life of a widow", "Human rights" ]

A love triangle

literature

In Song of Susannah, Susannah is pregnant with whose baby?

[ "Roland", "Eddie", "Oy", "Jake" ]

Roland

literature

Song of Susannah takes place mostly in our world, in New York and which other US State?

[ "Maine", "Colorado", "Illinois", "Maryland" ]

Maine

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Once born, the child carried by Susannah/Mia was called what?

[ "Stephen", "Arthur", "Mordred", "Galahad" ]

Mordred

literature

Jake and Father Callahan travel to New York of 1999 and store the Wizards Glass known as Black Thirteen in a deposit box under which famous building?

[ "World Trade Center", "Chrysler Building", "Empire State Building", "Trump World Tower" ]

World Trade Center

literature

In Song of Susannah, Roland and Eddie travel to New York of 1977 in an attempt to buy a plot of land from which man?

[ "John Cullum, a retired businessman", "Enrico Balazar, a gangster", "Calvin Tower, a bookstore owner", "Jack Andolini, a gangster" ]

Calvin Tower, a bookstore owner

literature

While in Maine, Roland and Eddie hear that they are near the home of the author Stephen King, a name that interests them because of the link with which book in their possession?

[ "The Stand", "Desperation", "Salems Lot", "Hearts in Atlantis" ]

Salems Lot

literature

When he meets Stephen King, Roland the gunslinger hypnotises him. What does Roland use to hypnotise people?

[ "A bullet", "A pendant in the shape of an eye", "A watch", "A pendulum" ]

A bullet

literature

While he has Stephen King hypnotised, Roland implants an instruction in the authors mind, what is it?

[ "To collect a package from a location in New York City", "To write an epic poem about Susan Delgado", "To read Charlie the Choo-Choo", "To continue writing the Dark Tower series of novels" ]

To continue writing the Dark Tower series of novels

literature

Jake and Father Callahan attempt to rescue Susannah from a restaurant in New York, where she is being held by the soldiers of The Crimson King. What is the name of the restaurant?

[ "The Manhattan Restaurant of The Mind", "The Dixie Pig", "The Tower View", "Mystic Pizza" ]

The Dixie Pig

literature

Susannah had left a scrimshaw ornament behind before she was taken into the restaurant, which gave Jake and Father Callahan hope when they found it. What animal shape had the scrimshaw been carved into?

[ "Bear", "Crow", "Turtle", "Billy-Bumbler" ]

Turtle

literature

Where was Edgar Allan Poe born?

[ "England", "Italy", "Virginia", "Massachusetts" ]

Massachusetts

literature

What was Edgar Allan Poes first poem to be published?

[ "The Raven", "Eldorado", "The Haunted Palace", "A Dream Within A Dream" ]

The Raven

literature

What branch of the military did Edgar Allan Poe enlist in?

[ "Marines", "Air Force", "Coast Guard", "US Army" ]

US Army

literature

What was Edgar Allan Poes only completed novel?

[ "The Balloon Hoax", "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", "Eureka: A Pose Poem", "The Philosophy of Composition" ]

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

literature

What Edgar Allan Poe poem are the following lines from?

[ "me up, in despite of the lion,", " shine on us with her bright eyes.", "me up, through the lair of the lion,", "The Bells", "Lenore", "Eldorado", "Ulalume" ]

Ulalume

literature

Which of the following poems was not written by Edgar Allan Poe?

[ "I Carry Your Heart With Me", "Annabel Lee", "The Raven", "The City In The Sea" ]

I Carry Your Heart With Me

literature

At what age did Edgar Allan Poe die?

[ "60", "30", "80", "40" ]

40