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ACE Literature
Based on NAQT and HSAPQ questions, to help with academic bowl
Question | Answer |
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Main character read Amadis of Gaul. Renames a barmaid Ducinea, and tilts at windmills that he believes are dragons. Accompanied by Sancho Panza. | Don Quixote |
Wrote poem where the speaker regards autumn as a blind giant. Also wrote Traps of Faith and The Bow and the Lyre. Formerly ambassador to India, wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude. | Octavio Paz |
Ewing Klipspringer, Michaelis, and Dan Cody are characters in this American novel. Title character is murdered in his tub. Nick Carraway describes the downfall of the main character. | The Great Gatsby |
Wrote Hyperion, as well as La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Wrote "beauty is truth; truth beauty" in "Ode on a Grecian Urn". | John Keats |
Title character lives with her aunt Mrs. Reed. Written in 1847, which ends with the protagonist's marriage to Edward Rochester. | Jane Eyre |
Author of the poem "The Narrow Way". Sister of Charlotte Bronte. Two novels are Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. | Anne Bronte |
Wrote about his friend Jack Chase in White-Jacket. Also wrote Billy Budd and Moby-Dick. | Hermann Melville |
Event took place during a pivotal battle of the Crimean War. Disastrous cavalry action that inspired a Tennyson poem about the 600 that rode into the valley of death. | Charge of the Light Brigade |