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The speaker of T.S. Eliot’s poet wonders “Is it perfume from a dress/ That makes me so digress?” Name this poem whose speaker knows “the voices dying with a dying fall” and imagines himself “pinned and wriggling on the wall.”

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This poem described fields of “yellow-spear’d wheat, every grain in its shroud.” The speaker recalls a “great star” that “droop’d” in the night sky as a coffin traveled westward. Later editions of the collection Leaves of Grass contained what Walt Whitman poem in which Abraham Lincoln’s death is brought to mind by the appearance of a flower.

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A 2015 article in The New York Times described the “puzzling controversy” surrounding the release of this author’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman.

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This man wrote that he left America because he doubted he could “survive the fury of the color problem here” in “The Discovery of What It Means To Be an American.” That essay appears in Nobody Knows My Name; in a previous non-fiction book, he attacked the sentimentality of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in “Everybody’s Protest Novel.” What author of Notes of a Native Son wrote such novels as Go Tell It on the Mountain?

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The novel’s protagonist decides to “junk” her thesis after noticing that a word in Finnegans Wake is exactly 100 letters long. Buddy Willard leaves a sanatorium for a for tuberculosis patients to go skiing with this novel’s protagonist, who quickly breaks her leg. Dr. Nolan works at a mental hospital where this novel’s suicidal protagonist is treated. Esther Greenwood narrates what only novel by Sylvia Plath?

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The title author of the posthumous Every Tongue Got to Confess wrote the anthropology book Tell My Horse, and discussed the folk religion of “hoodoo” in Mules and Men. She depicted the farmer Logan Killicks, the power-hungry Joe Starks, and the drifter Tea Cake in 1937 novel set in Florida. Name this author who wrote about Janie Crawford’s search for fulfillment in Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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This fictional Chicago native is “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.” Name this former Yale football star who marries a debutante from Louisville.

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Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy appear in this novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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This Southern Gothic author set “A Rose for Emily” in the town of Jefferson, which is also depicted in his novel As I Lay Dying.

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This author’s “The Eyes of the Panther” is the last of his tales about “civilians” in a book that also includes tales of “soldiers”; that book, In the Midst of Life, features a story about a man named Peyton Farquhar who is condemned to death by hanging. Name this author of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.”

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This author of Mexico City Blues wrote about exploring his French ancestry in Satori in Paris, and his best-known novel features such characters as Old Bull Lee and Carlo Marx. Name this Beat author who depicted himself as Sal Paradise in On the Road.

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Perry Smith and Dick Hickock both make confessions accusing the other of murder in this book, which is based on real events. Name this work of creative non-fiction that describes the murder of the Clutter family. It was published eight years after its author’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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The speaker of T.S. Eliot’s poet wonders “Is it perfume from a dress/ That makes me so digress?” Name this poem whose speaker knows “the voices dying with a dying fall” and imagines himself “pinned and wriggling on the wall.”

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A 2015 article in The New York Times described the “puzzling controversy” surrounding the release of this author’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman.

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This fictional Chicago native is “one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.” Name this former Yale football star who marries a debutante from Louisville.

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Tom Buchanan and his wife Daisy appear in this novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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This Southern Gothic author set “A Rose for Emily” in the town of Jefferson, which is also depicted in his novel As I Lay Dying.

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This author of Mexico City Blues wrote about exploring his French ancestry in Satori in Paris, and his best-known novel features such characters as Old Bull Lee and Carlo Marx. Name this Beat author who depicted himself as Sal Paradise in On the Road.

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Perry Smith and Dick Hickock both make confessions accusing the other of murder in this book, which is based on real events. Name this work of creative non-fiction that describes the murder of the Clutter family. It was published eight years after its author’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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In Cold Blood was written by this author, whose childhood friendship with Harper Lee inspired the character of Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.

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