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The protagonist of this novel is angered at Luzhin’s reason for choosing his sister to marry. Name this novel in which Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta die.

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Dostoevsky wrote this novel centring on Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, whose father was killed by Smerdyakov.

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This Roman poet’s sixth Satire considers husbands who set guards on their wives, and asks “Who watches the watchmen?”

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Volumes containing ancient and modern ideas square off at a library in this Anglo-Irish writer’s satire The Battle of the Books.

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The philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz is satirized in this 18th-century French author’s novel Candide.

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In a novel by this author, “Pistorius the eccentric musician” claims that both “God” and “Satan” are contained within the deity Abraxas. The protagonist of another novel by this author searches for wisdom after encountering the Buddha. Name this German author of The Glass Bead Game and Siddhartha.

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In a poetic epic by this author, a grouchy giant head explains that it was severed from its body by the evil Chernomor. This author also wrote a poem in which Olga Larina’s flirtatious behavior provokes a duel between the title character and Vladimir Llnesky. Name this Russian author of the 1832 verse novel Eugene Onegin.

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This man decried the “brawlers of the auction-mart” in a sonnet describing the “sale by auction of Keats’ love letters.” The title character is saddened by the death of a sparrow in this man’s children’s story “The Happy Prince,” and the discovery that Miss Prism had misplaced Lady Bracknell’s nephew when he was a baby resolves his best-known play. What Irish-born author wrote The Importance of Being Earnest?

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This poem begins just before Good Friday in the year 1300. Name this first section of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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This author, who included the story “A Simple Heart” in his collection Three Tales, also wrote a novel in which the pharmacist Homais schemed to undermine the provincial doctor Charles. What author was charged with obscenity for depicting a bored French housewife affairs in Madame Bovary.

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A German Enlightenment author of this surname titled an essay on the “Limits of Poetry and Painting” for Laocoon. A British Nobel-winning author of this surname penned The Golden Notebook.

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The typist Miss Burstner is kissed by this novel’s protagonist, who eventually cries the words “Like a dog!” as he is stabbed to death. A priest in this novel discusses a man who waits outside a gate in a parable called “Before the Law.” Josef K. is arrested for an unknown crime in what novel by Franz Kafka?

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A play by this author ends with the death of the sacrificial “carrier” Eman, The royal servant Elesin fails to carry out a ritual demanded by Yoruba culture in Death and the King’s Horseman, a play written by what Nobel Prize-winning author from Nigeria?

World Literature

Question 1 of 1

Time Left

The protagonist of this novel is angered at Luzhin’s reason for choosing his sister to marry. Name this novel in which Alyona Ivanovna and her sister Lizaveta die.

Select the correct answer(s).

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Dostoevsky wrote this novel centring on Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, whose father was killed by Smerdyakov.

Select the correct answer(s).

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This Roman poet’s sixth Satire considers husbands who set guards on their wives, and asks “Who watches the watchmen?”

Select the correct answer(s).

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Volumes containing ancient and modern ideas square off at a library in this Anglo-Irish writer’s satire The Battle of the Books.

Select the correct answer(s).

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The philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz is satirized in this 18th-century French author’s novel Candide.

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This poem begins just before Good Friday in the year 1300. Name this first section of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

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This author, who included the story “A Simple Heart” in his collection Three Tales, also wrote a novel in which the pharmacist Homais schemed to undermine the provincial doctor Charles. What author was charged with obscenity for depicting a bored French housewife affairs in Madame Bovary.

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A German Enlightenment author of this surname titled an essay on the “Limits of Poetry and Painting” for Laocoon. A British Nobel-winning author of this surname penned The Golden Notebook.

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A play by this author ends with the death of the sacrificial “carrier” Eman, The royal servant Elesin fails to carry out a ritual demanded by Yoruba culture in Death and the King’s Horseman, a play written by what Nobel Prize-winning author from Nigeria?

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