Folly & Glory – SEED 2:1
1. In this novel the durability of the human spirit is symbolized by the "Maimed Oak," a painting by one of the minor characters. The novel begins with a telephone call by Volodin who warns a professor against passing on information to the west. Centered on the former mathematician Gleb Nerzhin, the novel's action is set in a Sharashka and in a chapter entitled "Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here" Volodin is captured and sent to the Gulag. For 10 points-- name this Alexander Solzhenitsyn novel which takes its name from Dante's Divine Comedy.
Answer: First Circle OR V kruge pervom
2. This author was a student under George Ashe and later assisted in Dryden's translations of the Satires of Juvenal. He achieved some early stage success with dramas featuring the protagonists Heartwell and Maskwell, but left the stage after the failure of his fifth and by today's standards best comedy. In that work's famous Act IV "proviso" scene, Millamant sets out conditions for her marrying Mirabell. For 10 points-- name this Restoration dramatist of The Old Bachelor, The Double Dealer, and The Way of the World.
Answer: WilliamCongreve
3. This novel opens on the road between Marchiennes and Montsou where the protagonist meets Vincent Maheu and decides to join his cause. The Gregoires and Hennebeaus are at dinner discussing their children’s wedding when the work’s central event begins. The novel culminates with Catherine’s death before she and the protagonist Etienne can be rescued from a mine. For 10 points-- name this novel named for a French Revolutionary calendar month by Emile Zola.
Answer: Germinal
4. This author's unfinished "Essay on Fashionable Literature" provoked the publication of A Defense of Poetry by Percy Shelley, whom he caricatured as Scythrop in his most successful novel. The phrenologist Mr. Cranium is featured in two of his novels, Gryll Grange and Headlong Hall, which like many of his works center on conversation between characters in a country-house. For 10 points-- name this father-in-law of George Meredith and author of Nightmare Abbey.
Answer: Thomas Love Peacock
5. At one point in this novel the title character saves the narrator, his nephew, from the bite of a deadly spider. After returning home from battle, the protagonist exiles his nursemaid Sebastiana to a leper community after he burns down part of his castle. He falls in love with the goat-maid Pamela twice, and sends her gruesome mementos such as halved bats and split Jellyfish. For 10 points-- name this novel about a man blown apart by a cannon shot, which along with The Nonexistent Knight and The Baron in the Trees makes up the fantasy trilogy of Italo Calvino.
Answer: The Cloven Viscount
6. In this play, Petey tells a professional pianist who is staying in his house "don't let them tell you what to do." Conflict is introduced when three characters, Lulu, McCann, and Goldberg, arrive, and by the play's end the protagonist is ready to be taken to the mysterious Monty. As the curtain falls at the end of Act I, the club-footed, blind Stanley beats a toy drum that the landlady Meg has given him for the titular occasion. For 10 points-- name this Harold Pinter play.
Answer: Birthday Party
7. This author of Paul among the Jews published “The Christian Mission” in response to criticism of his adaptation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women. He expressed his guilt over having conceived a child with a notoriously unfaithful woman through a character in Verdi: A Novel of the Opera, but his most famous works are an epic about an Armenian village in Turkey during World War I and a “song” about a girl who has a vision of the Virgin Mary. For 10 points-- name this Czech author, known for his Song of Bernadette and The Forty Days of Musah Dagh.
Answer: Franz Werfel
8. In this novel, the cynic Spandrell murders the leader of a conservative militaristic group called the British Freemen, Everard. Spandrell is member of a social set which includes the unmarried couple Beatric Gilray and Denis Burlap, who is the editor of the Literary World. One of the World's contributors is the literary critic Walter Bidlap, the brother of Elinor who is devastated by the death of her son Little Philip. For 10 points-- name this roman à clef in which Philip Quarles represents the author Aldous Huxley.
Answer: Point Counter Point
9. In a 1921 novel, the death of Timothy leads to a realization by this proprietor of Robyn Hill that an age has passed. Earlier he succeeded in breaking up a relationship between his daughter Fleur and the son of Young Jolyon, Jon. Winifred Dartie, Fleur's paternal aunt, shares details of her father's past that includes the suspicious death of the architect of Robyn Hill, Philip Bosinney, and the subsequent rape of Bosinney's lover and his first wife Irene. For 10 points-- name this Man of Property and character from John Galsworthy's Forsythe Saga.
Answer: Soames Forsythe (PROMPT: Man of Property)
10. This novel opens when the poet Homeless and a man named Berlioz are accosted by a stranger named Woland. Homeless meets one of the title characters while in the care of Dr. Stravinsky, who deems him crazy after he tells him his story of chasing Woland, who is actually Satan, along with a man with a broken pince-nez and a 6 foot tall tomcat named Behemoth through the streets of Moscow. For 10 points-- name this satirical novel about a writer and his lover, a work of Mikhail Bulgakov.
Answer: Master and Margarita OR Master i Margarita
11. In the third through sixth lines of this poem, the poet alludes to one of Jesus' parables, "And that one talent which is death to hide / Lodg'd with me useless" before asking "Doth God exact day-labour." Ending "They also serve who only stand and wait," the date of its completion is unknown, but must have been finished after 1652, when the author was stricken with the titular malady. For 10 points-- name this John Milton sonnet in which he contemplates his loss of vision.
Answer: “On His Blindness”
12. The first two sections are devoted to lamentations, while section four introduces the image of the solitary warbling thrush. Section fourteen welcomes "delicate death" calling it a "dark mother," while section fifteen proposes that the sufferings of the Civil War have been transformed into a vision of men at rest. Sections five and six describe the coffin procession in --for 10 points--, what elegy written after Lincoln's assassination by Walt Whitman.
Answer: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd”
13. Marguerite Yourcenar wrote a 1986 study of this author that was subtitled A Vision of the Void. Twenty years earlier the author produced, wrote, directed, and starred in a film adaptation of one of his short stories from the collection Death in Midsummer. That work is a haunting autobiographical tale of a soldier and his wife and was entitled Patriotism. The author had previously been conscripted into the army and later formed a small private army called the “Shield Society.” For 10 points-- name this author who committed suicide following the conclusion of his tetralogy, Sea of Fertility.
Answer: Yukio Mishima
14. Lecture in American discusses this author's theory of composition while autobiographical works include Wars I Have Seen and Everybody's Autobiography. She recounted her experiences studying neural anatomy at Johns Hopkins in QED. Early works such as Three Lives were written before she finally settled in Paris with lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas. For 10 points-- name this author who wrote the libretto for Virgil Thompson's Four Saints in Three Acts and coined the term “The Lost Generation”.
Answer: Gertrude Stein
15. While at Princeton, this man founded the Triangle Club and later he published his reminiscences in The World Does Move. He drew from his childhood setting in The Gentelman from Indiana, and his Penrod and Seventeen concern adolescence. The story of a wealthy Indiana family is followed by the novel Turmoil and preceded by The Midlander in his Growth Trilogy. For 10 points-- name this American author of The Magnificent Ambersons.
Answer: Booth Tarkington
16. Many of the characters in this novel are obsessed with the Pritikin fad diet, although few can resist the ribs of the Bar-B-Chew Barn. The title character makes an arrangement with Mr. Deutschman for cash to get him across the Mexican border, where he plans to live in a cabin on a beach that he saw in the film Against All Odds. One villain is the title character’s former schoolmate Taylor Figueroa, whose betrayal causes his arrest as an accessory to Jesus Navarro’s shooting of 16 classmates. For 10 points-- name this novel of DBC Pierre.
Answer:Vernon God Little
17. As this novel opens, the narrator and her sister Frieda plant marigolds seeds. Divided into four major sections by the four seasons, the novel ends with the protagonist driven into insanity after Soaphead Church, the town's Spiritual and Psychic reader grants her wish but uses her to kill a mangy dog with poisoned meat. The protagonist is placed in the MacTeer home after her father Cholly rapes her in, --for 10 points--, what Toni Morrison novel that tells of Pecola Breedlove's desire for what she sees as the embodiment of beauty.
Answer: Bluest Eye
18. He becomes the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity for the City of New York, visits Israel on a private pilgrimage, and envisions working in a kibbutz towards the end of the novel in which he appears. He constantly imagines enormous newspaper headlines declaring his moral corruption and experiences possibility for idyllic love with the Monkey, but he abandons her because of her intellectual barbarism. He narrates his story to his psychoanalyst Dr. Spielvogel, and his novel ends with his scream. For Ten Points--identify this sexually frustrated title character of a novel by Philip Roth.
Answer: Alexander Portnoy
19. This character wants to use driftwood to burn out the Union's inevitable path, in order to prevent them from reaching the house. An informer tells him that there were only "a picket post half a mile out on the railroad," but instead of becoming a hero, he is captured in a trap. He imagines the crack of his neck to be a rifle shot and the protruding of his tongue a symptom of thirst before he is ultimately hanged. For 10 points, identify this protagonist of Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
Answer: Peyton Farquhar (accept either!)
20. In this novel, the author uses asterisks to indicate text that interrupts the linear development of the plot. Poems such as Drinkwater's "Moonlit Apples" and Hopkins "The Wreck of the Deutschland" recur throughout the work as Joanna Childe offers elocution lessons. At the novel's high point, the girls are forced to evacuate their surroundings and after escaping, Selina Redwood returns to retrieve a Schiaparelli gown. Centering on the May of Teck Club --for 10 points-- name this 1963 Muriel Spark novel in which the virtue of slim hips is explored.
Answer: TheGirls of Slender Means
21. Early trips to the mint with his assayer father led to the image of gold often repeated in his poems. While serving as secretary to William Butler Yeats he wrote critical essays later compiled into the collection Make It New. "Lume Spento" was his first book of poems and "Personae" included poems such as "The return," but he is better known for "a cryselephantine poem of immeasurable length." For 10 points-name this author, who "Tried to write paradise" according to the conclusion of his Cantos.
Answer: Ezra Pound
22. This poem won its author first prize at the 1914 Juegos Florales contest. In the second section, the narrator claims the addressee will experience a sinking feeling as another sleeper arrives in the tranquil city, and promises they will be reunited. It begins as the narrator takes the addressee from the “icy abyss,” and places him in the warm earth. Later in the work, with the line, “I cannot cry for you; I cannot follow you!” the poet laments her lost love. For 10 points-- name this three-part poem, the first major published work of Gabriela Mistral.
Answer: Sonnets of Death or Sonetos de la Muerte
23. “The pavement stones abound” as the title character “totters over the ground with his cane” in this poem. He is described as having "a Roman nose" and a "cheek...like a rose in the snow" and "the names he loved to hear have been carved for many a year on the tomb." Its subject is Revolutionary War hero Thomas Melville, who was the last man in Boston to wear a cocked hat. Time is described as "a pruning knife" and the subject is hanging "upon the tree in the spring" in --for 10 points--, what poem by Olivier Wendell Holmes.
Answer: “The Last Leaf”
24. In the author’s note to this work he writes about the importance of the play’s “Threnodic essence.” Based on actual events of 1946, the son of the title character returns from school in England and is shocked to learn that his father is shirking ancient custom. Despite his education, Olunde elects to take the place of his father, who in the end strangles himself, symbolizing the death of Yoruba custom. For 10 points—name this work in which Elesin Oba is supposed to commit suicide in homage to his fallen king, a work by Wole Soyinka.
Answer: Death and the King’s Horseman
25. This work opens with the quote "He who follows Me, walks not in Darkness" and its third section is a fifty-nine chapter dialogue between the titular character and his disciple. Once attributed to Charlier de Gerson, the final chapter suggests that one should scrutinize the Eucharist in Curiosity, submit his reason, and complete the titular action. For 10 points-- name this medieval devotion believed to have been written by Thomas a Kempis.
Answer: Imitation of Christ OR De Imitatione Christi
26. While researching this question your author found a piece of homosexual Harry Potter fan fiction with this title. In an 1829 poem of this title, a freedman Elleemon sells his soul to the devil in exchange for a wife but in the end is saved from Hell by St. Basil. In a drama of this name characters such as Ventidius and Dolabella are followed as the story of Antony and Cleopatra is told. For 10 points-- give this three-word title, immortalized by Sting, Rod Stewart and Bryan Adams in the theme song for "The Three Musketeers" and in dramas by Southey and Dryden.
Answer: All for Love
27. While hunting in the forest of Crespo, he is almost attacked and so in turn, he rescues an Indian in Ceylon while watching pearl divers in oyster beds. He saves Aronnax, Ned Land, and Conseil after the Abraham Lincoln is sunk and they salvage gold from shipwrecks, which he uses to help others. He drops his captives on a Norweigen island before being drawn into the maelstrom. For 10 points—name this submarine captain from Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Answer: Captain Nemo
28. Maxy Falk gives a greeting in this play that includes lines that parody Terence's pronouncement on playwriting. It opens in the Pludek home with the family waiting for an expected visitor. Amanda comes with a telegram, and then the scene changes to the Liquidation Office where bureaucratic double-talk abounds. Ending with Hugo given a job at the new "Central Commission for Inauguration and Liquidation" and Peter and Amanda in love, For 10 points-- name this play by Vaclav Havel about the titular festivities.
Answer: The Garden Party or Zahradni slavnost
29. His affair with Aline Bernstein was recounted in her Three Blue Suits and The Journey Down. His home was memorialized in his best-known novel as "Dixieland" and was recently reopened after nearly being destroyed by fire. His editor Edward Aswell published his The Web and The Rock and You Can't Go Home Again after his death, but he is better known for his first novel centering on Eugene Gant. For 10 points-- name this writer whose thousand-page "O Lost" was later condensed into the novels Of Time and the River and Look Homeward, Angel.
Answer: Thomas Wolfe
30. This author reflected on his experiences during the Carlist siege of Bilbao in what may have been the first existentialist novel, Peace in War. Several of his works, including the tale of disillusioned country priest Don Manuel Bueno, and his retelling of the Cain and Abel legend, emphasize the principle of “intrahistoria.”In his most famous novel, the protagonist Augusto Perez rebels against the author by committing suicide. For 10 points—name this foremost writer of the Generation of 98, whose works include Abel Sanchez and Fog.