| Houston Great Books Council Literary Trivia |
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| Who did Mrs. Squeers refer to as "Nickleboy"? Answer |
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Authors Two important authors died on November 22, 1963, but their deaths were overshadowed by the more sensational events of that day. Who were they? Answer |
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Epigraphs Name the books from which these epigraphs have been taken "Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man, Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?" Answer "Optima dies...prima fugit" Answer "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narractive will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." Answer |
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Famous First Lines "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Answer "Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." Answer "Call me Ishmael." Answer "All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Answer "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Answer "The North Carolina Mutual Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o'clock." Answer |
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Famous Last Lines "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known." Answer "It was the devious-cruising Rachel, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan." Answer "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." Answer |
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Literary Icons Name the works in which these icons of literature appear. The green light across the bay A stuffed parrot A madeleine dipped in tea The optometrist's billboard (with eyeglasses) |
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