| 1) After a long journey, the ill-fated narrator of this novel arrives at his host's home at a late hour. He's there to settle a real-estate acquisition, and as he notes in his journal, his host is welcoming - but he could use a manicure! Name the narrator and the novel. |
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Walter Hartright, The Woman in White
Jonathan Harker, Dracula
Caleb Williams, Caleb Williams
John Warwick, The House Behind the Cedars
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| 2) Samuel Richardson's Clarissa Harlowe is so good that she provokes the hatred of bad people. Which of the following is not among the reasons for her unpopularity with villains? |
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She's heir to her grandfather's and father's inheritance
She guards her chastity jealously
She has an extraordinary flair for writing letters
Her barouche is the most fashionable in the country
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| 3) True or false: In Macaulay's History of England the House of Lords is depicted as the heroic body responsible for Britain's national progress and prosperity. |
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True
False
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| 4) Name the noble-hearted black prince who is tricked into slavery and leads an unsuccessful uprising among the slaves of Surinam. |
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Rasselas
Oroonoko
Queequeg
Amonhotep
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| 5) In this comic, post-war novel, a young academic must negotiate a minefield of idle professors and foolish rules to triumph at a backwater English college. Name the book's author and title. |
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L.P. Hartley: The Go-Between
Ronald Firbank: Valmouth
Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim
Patrick White: Voss
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| 6) In which novel does the title character, a strong-willed but essentially good young woman, leave Lowood school and the evil Mr Brocklehurst to become governess at Thornfield Hall? |
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Temple
Romola
Villette
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| 7) He's one of American literature's worst villains, a drunken carpetbagger who whips the kindly Uncle Tom to death. Who is he? |
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Colonel Sherburn
Simon Legree
Arthur Dimsdale
Uriah Heep
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| 8) True or False: Hrothgar is the warrior who descends into the sea to battle with and slay the monstrous mother of the terrible Grendel. |
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True
False
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| 9) He was the paper-pushing architect of Nazism's 'Final Solution', the emblem of what Hannah Arendt called 'the banality of evil.' |
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Rudolf Hess
Albert Speer
Adolf Eichmann
Hermann Goring
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| 10) In Homer's Odyssey, the faithful wife of Odysseus keeps a band of suitors at bay while she awaits her husband's return from the Trojan War. What is her name? |
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Cassandra
Clytemnestra
Thetis
Penelope
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