Part 2 — Answer key

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1. You open a school anthology and find the balcony scene between two young lovers in Verona. Which title should appear at the top of the page for this excerpt?
   Romeo and Juliet
2. 'Call me Ishmael' is the opening line of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
   True
3. A friend in your book club describes a novel about five sisters under pressure to marry well, where the sharp-tongued second daughter keeps clashing with a proud gentleman. Which novel are they talking about in this piece of literature trivia?
   Pride and Prejudice
4. You see a literature quiz question about an ancient narrative poem focused on Achilles' anger during the Trojan War. Which work best fits that description?
   The Iliad
5. You are revising political satire for a book trivia night and read about a short novel in which farm animals overthrow their owner to symbolize the Russian Revolution. Which title matches that description?
   Animal Farm
6. In literary terminology, a 'bildungsroman' is a novel focused on solving a crime.
   False
7. Although The Remains of the Day is set largely in England, its author Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan.
   True
8. The Handmaid's Tale, a frequent subject of book trivia, was written by Margaret Atwood, an American novelist.
   False
9. For a literature quiz, you must identify a novel where a child narrator in the Depression-era American South watches her lawyer father defend a Black man in a racially charged trial. Which book fits this description?
   To Kill a Mockingbird
10. Your trivia team is asked which poet wrote the groundbreaking collection Leaves of Grass, known for its free verse and celebration of the self. Which answer should you choose?
    Walt Whitman
11. During a literary trivia game, you are asked to name a landmark work of magical realism about several generations of the Buendía family in the town of Macondo. Which title should you give?
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
12. At a literature quiz night, the host reads this opening line: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.' From which novel does this sentence come?
    Pride and Prejudice
13. In most standard editions, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is narrated exclusively by Victor Frankenstein in the first person.
    False
14. You join a seminar on African American literature, and the instructor mentions a Harlem Renaissance novel about Janie Crawford telling the story of her marriages and search for voice. Who wrote this novel?
    Zora Neale Hurston
15. In a discussion of classic Russian novels, someone describes a former student in a city who murders a pawnbroker with an axe and then struggles with guilt and philosophical justifications. Which novel are they summarizing?
    Crime and Punishment
16. In Homer's Odyssey, the goddess Athena frequently assists both Odysseus and his son Telemachus.
    True
17. You are reviewing narrative techniques for a literature trivia contest. Which of the following scenarios are examples of first-person narration? Select all that apply.
    A memoir-like novel framed as the narrator's own written recollections; A diary presented as the private journal of a character; A story told by 'I' who is also the main character
18. Arrange these plot events from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the order they occur in the play.
    Correct order: Romeo and Juliet first meet at the Capulet feast → The lovers secretly marry → Romeo kills Tybalt → The families discover the bodies in the tomb
19. You are preparing for a modernism exam and see a reference to a novel built largely from interior monologue over the course of a single day in Dublin, following an advertising canvasser. Which work fits this description?
    Ulysses
20. In a course on world fiction, your professor asks for an example of Jorge Luis Borges's short prose, famous in literary trivia for labyrinths and infinite books. Which title should you name?
    The Library of Babel
21. A difficult literature trivia question asks for the original French title of the novel widely known in English as The Stranger by Albert Camus. Which title should you give?
    L'Étranger
22. In a graduate seminar on narrative theory, you are asked which of these characters is most famously discussed as an unreliable narrator in literary criticism. Which answer best fits that question?
    The governess in The Turn of the Screw
23. In basic literature trivia, the term 'sonnet' usually refers to a 14-line poem with a formal rhyme scheme.
    True