Loaded Questions 3/27/23 - Literature
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Hey everyone! Hope your day is going well! I’m currently sitting in an office building with a broken HVAC, and it is 80 degrees. Nonetheless, we all need a steady stream of questions even during the LL offseason, so here are 11 questions about literature. Hope you have a great week ahead!
1. The lyrics of the 1903 musical comedy "In Dahomey", the first all-Black Broadway musical, were written by what Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote "We Wear the Mask" and "Sympathy"?
2. Judith Shakespeare is a thought experiment created in what 1929 essay by Virginia Woolf?
3. Botticelli, Byron, and Bronte are all featured in the 1990 work "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson", a work by what American feminist?
4. "The Chosen", "The Promise", and "My Name is Asher Lev" are all novels by what American Jewish author who was also a rabbi?
5. Published in 1968, Kingsley Amis (under the pseudonym Robert Markham) published what book, the first James Bond book after the death of Ian Fleming?
6. What IRA member and Irish author who died in 1964 at age 41 is best known for the autobiographical works "Borstal Boy" and "Confessions of an Irish Rebel"?
7. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a 1842 short story that was the first murder mystery based on a real murder, named "The Mystery of" whom?
8. "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" is the first line of what Walt Whitman poem included in "Leaves of Grass"?
9. First published in full by Lady Charlotte Guest, what work of 12th century Welsh mythology includes figures like Rhiannon and Pryderi?
10. Named after an 1803 work of German origin, what 1889 novel by Leo Tolstoy features Pozdnyshev describing the murder of his wife after he learns about her affair with a violinist?
11. What literary term is given to the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things? Examples can be leaves dancing or rocks seeming indifferent.
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1. The lyrics of the 1903 musical comedy "In Dahomey", the first all-African-American Broadway musical, were written by what Harlem Renaissance poet who wrote "We Wear the Mask" and "Sympathy"?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
2. Judith Shakespeare is a thought experiment created in what 1929 essay by Virginia Woolf?
A Room of One’s Own
3. Botticelli, Byron, and Bronte are all featured in the 1990 work "Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson", a work by what American feminist?
Camille Paglia
4. "The Chosen", "The Promise", and "My Name is Asher Lev" are all novels by what American Jewish author who was also a rabbi?
Chaim Potok
5. Published in 1968, Kingsley Amis (under the pseudonym Robert Markham) published what book, the first James Bond book after the death of Ian Fleming?
Colonel Sun
6. What IRA member and Irish author who died in 1964 at age 41 is best known for the autobiographical works "Borstal Boy" and "Confessions of an Irish Rebel"?
Brendan Behan
7. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a 1842 short story that was the first murder mystery based on a real murder, named "The Mystery of" whom?
Marie Roget
8. "Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face!" is the first line of what Walt Whitman poem included in "Leaves of Grass"?
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
9. First published in full by Lady Charlotte Guest, what work of 12th century Welsh mythology includes figures like Rhiannon and Pryderi?
Maninogion
10. Named after an 1803 work of German origin, what 1889 novel by Leo Tolstoy features Pozdnyshev describing the murder of his wife after he learns about her affair with a violinist?
The Kreutzer Sonata
11. What literary term is given to the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things? Examples can be leaves dancing or rocks seeming indifferent.
Pathetic fallacy