Loaded Questions 5/19/22 - Literature
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1. Rotten potatoes and spilled wine are found in the title location of what 1956 novel by James Baldwin?
2. Gloria Naylor wrote about "The Women of" (1982) and "The Men of" (1999) of what location?
3. Hiram Walker has photographic memory and can essentially teleport living in the Antebellum South in what 2019 novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates?
4. The first African-American Poet Laureate, who wrote the poetry collections "Thomas and Beulah" and who edited the Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, which was criticized by Helen Vendler?
5. What farmer gets married to O-Lan, as seen in the first line of Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth"?
6. Alfred Hitchcock developed three works by Daphne du Maurier into movies: Rebecca and what two other works?
7. Norman's Woe is a reef where the title action happens in what 1842 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
8. What Ovid work is a poem in three books, whose first two sections are for men and the third for women? Ovid was partly exiled because of this work.
9. "Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned" is a line from "The Mourning Bride", a 1679 play by what British Restoration poet and author?
10. What word that means "the emotion that follows humor and accompanied by laughter" is found in Ecclesiastes 7:4, and subsequently, the title of a 1905 novel about the sociality Lily Bart?
11. A young boy Mickey is whisked off and helps make a "morning cake" in what 1970 children's book by Maurice Sendak?
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1. Rotten potatoes and spilled wine are found in the title location of what 1956 novel by James Baldwin? Giovanni’s Room
2. Gloria Naylor wrote about "The Women of" (1982) and "The Men of" (1999) of what location? Brewster Place
3. Hiram Walker has photographic memory and can essentially teleport living in the Antebellum South in what 2019 novel by Ta-Nehisi Coates? The Water Dancer
4. The first African-American Poet Laureate, who wrote the poetry collections "Thomas and Beulah" and who edited the Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry, which was criticized by Helen Vendler? Rita Dove
5. What farmer gets married to O-Lan, as seen in the first line of Pearl Buck's "The Good Earth"? Wang Lung
6. Alfred Hitchcock developed three works by Daphne du Maurier into movies: Rebecca and what two other works? Jamaica Inn, The Birds
7. Norman's Woe is a reef where the title action happens in what 1842 poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? The Wreck of the Hesperus
8. What Ovid work is a poem in three books, whose first two sections are for men and the third for women? Ovid was partly exiled because of this work. Ars Amatoria / The Art of Love
9. "Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury, like a woman scorned" is a line from "The Mourning Bride", a 1679 play by what British Restoration poet and author? William Congreve
10. What word that means "the emotion that follows humor and accompanied by laughter" is found in Ecclesiastes 7:4, and subsequently, the title of a 1905 novel about the sociality Lily Bart? Mirth
11. A young boy Mickey is whisked off and helps make a "morning cake" in what 1970 children's book by Maurice Sendak? In the Night Kitchen