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Masterpieces of Literature

Great Authors

Question: This author's texts are paradigmatic of the Jazz Age, a phrase coined by the author.
Answer: Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Question: This author helped create a space where black women writers could talk about the horrible effects that racism, poverty, and substance abuse can have not only on the adults who experience them but on their children as well.
Answer: Who is Toni Morrison?

Question: This author is both criticized and praised for what many interpret as feminist themes in his/her writing.
Answer: Who is Margaret Atwood?

Question: This author's fiction often focuses on the absurdity of consumerism and corporate culture. The author's fiction typically contains a tragicomic element and is characterized by a satirical tone.
Answer: Who is George Saunders?

Question: In his fiction, this author dwelt on the idea that human nature is fundamentally flawed. Not only would individuals inevitably fall, but the people assigned to judge them are sinners as well.
Answer: Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

Themes

Question: The major theme expressed in the following: "He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: 'I never loved you.' After she had obliterated four years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken. One of them was that, after she was free, they were to go back to Louisville and be married from her house—just as if it were five years ago."
Answer: What is the unalterability of the past?

Question: The major theme of the passage, "My name isn't Offred, I have another name, which nobody uses now because it's forbidden. I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter."
Answer: What is Identity?

Question: The following passage most strongly suggests this theme from The Handmaid's Tale: "Or I would help Rita make the bread, sinking my hands into that soft resistant warmth which is so much like flesh. I hunger to touch something, other than cloth or wood. I hunger to commit the act of touch."
Answer: What is Love and/or emotion?

Question: The major theme of the passage: "The stigma gone, Hester heaved a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit. O exquisite relief! She had not known the weight, until she felt the freedom!"
Answer: What is guilt and blame (as sewn up into the letter A)?

Question: The major theme of the passage, "all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured. 'Here,' they said, 'this is beautiful, and if you are on this day "worthy" you may have it.'"
Answer: What is identification with whiteness?

Character Analysis

Question: This character symbolizes the American Dream to Jay Gatsby.
Answer: Who is Daisy Buchanan?

Question: In The Scarlet Letter this character's name alludes to the Biblical Gospel of Matthew.
Answer: Who is Pearl?

Question: In the Handmaid's tale, Moira represents to the narrator these qualities.
Answer: What are courage and hope?

Question: This is the reason why Cholly turns his rage upon the black women in his life.
Answer: What is his humiliation by white men?

Question: The Misfit's question to Grandmother, "Does it seem right to you, lady, that one is punished a heap and another ain't punished at all?" carries echoes of this Saunder's character.
Answer: Who is Aunt Bernie?

Identification

Question: This novel portrays a dystopian future in which members of the Republic lack freedom and choice. The novel is set in an area based Cambridge, MA because of the region's Puritan background.
Answer: What is The Handmaid's Tale?

Question: This character said, "I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos. I am cute!"
Answer: Who is Maureen Peal?

Question: The themes of justice and judgment, as well as guilt and shame carry the weight of the narrative in this text.
Answer: What is The Scarlet Letter?

Question: A Genesis passage--"And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die--serves as an epilogue to this book.
Answer: What is The Handmaid's Tale?

Question: The pet name "little squirrel" refers to this character.
Answer: Who is Nora?

Plot Details

Question: In The Scarlet Letter, this explodes in the form of an "A."
Answer: What is a meteor?

Question: Soaphead Church asks Pecola to do this.
Answer: What is feed poisoned food to his dog?

Question: Pauline feels like an outcast because of this.
Answer: What is a deformed foot?

Question: During her first visit to Jezebel's, Offred is reunited with this person.
Answer: Who is Moira?

Question: The last chapter narrated by Offred ends with her being taken away by this.
Answer: What is a black van?