Folly & Glory – Playoff V:1
1. This author wrote a version satire on the Dutch war called “Last Instructions to a Painter” and during his lifetime was best known for prose pamphlets such as The Rehearsal Transpros’d. The popularity of his poetry is a result of an essay by Charles Lamb and T.S. Eliot’s coining of the term "dissociation of sensibility" to refer to the shift in English poetry following his age. He described his experiences as tutor to the daughter of Lord Fairfax in "Upon Appleton House" and wrote a number of poems in praise of Cromwell. For 10 points-- name this secretary to Donne and poet of "To His Coy Mistress."
Answer: Andrew Marvell
2. This story tells how Father worked for a man named Thomas Butterwork in Bidwell, Ohio and drank at Ben Head's saloon before marrying Mother and becoming ambitious. They rented ten acres on Grigg's Road for a chicken farm before opening a restaurant at Pickleville. The story ends with Father showing Joe Kane a trick, and the narrator pondering the eternal question that gives the story its name. For 10 points name this work by Sherwood Anderson, in which the chicken loses.
Answer: “Triumph of the Egg”
3. This author, who refused an Orange Award nomination for The House Gun in 1998, penned the short story collections Six Feet of the Country and Not for Publication. In one of this author’s novels, Bamford and Maureen Smales flee from an urban black revolt, while in another the titular heroine obtains a fake passport after the deaths of her parents, Cathy and Lionel. For 10 points-- identify this South African author of July’s People and Burger’s Daughter.
Answer: Nadine Gordimer
4. Currently, the favored critical edition of this poem is Wrenn-Bolton, although many scholars still use the Klaeber edition. The 3,182 lines of this poem contain some 32 digressions from the main plot line, and were composed sometime between the seventh and tenth centuries. For 10 points-- what is this premiere work of Anglo-Saxon literature, featuring the battles between the titular hero and Grendel?
Answer: Beowulf
5. Al Townsend owns a lunch cart and allows some of this novel's characters to camp out on his property in return for protection and a promise to pick his crops. The central characters help Lisa, the daughter of the camp leader London, have a baby and in return they convince the fruit pickers to strike. Ending when Jim is killed and Mac making a rousing speech over the body to urge the workers to win the strike, FTP, identify this John Steinbeck proletarian novel.
Answer: In Dubious Battle
6. In the beginning of the work Pragmatism, William James uses a quote from the Heretics of this author, who illustrated the satirical novels of his friend Hilaire Belloc. Opposition to the Boer War influenced the writing of his first novel Napoleon of Notting Hill and his more famous second novel concerns Gabriel Syme, who becomes a member of the Council of Seven Days. For 10 points-- name this British author of The Man Who Was Thursday and a series of detective novels featuring Father Brown.
Answer: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
7. Thomas Hoby was the first to translate into English this dialogue, which influenced Ben Jonson's character Fastidious Brisk from Every Man Out of His Humor. On the work's second evening, the sickly and cynical Gaspar Pallavicin trades barbs with Emilia that leads to the discussions on the third evening centering on the characteristics of desirable women. Advocating sprezzatura or effortlessness, the work centers on Ludovico da Canossa and Pietro Bembo and their conversations over four evenings at the court of the Duke of Urbino. For 10 points-- name this classic of the Italian renaissance by Baldassare Castiglione.
Answer: Il Cortegiano or Book of The Courtier
8. In this drama, Birdie hopes to restore Lionnet, her old family home and Alexandra travels to Baltimore to summon Horace. Knowing they have to meet with William Marshall in Chicago, Oscar's son Leo discovers the bonds in the safe deposit box, and thinking Horace would not miss them, takes $75,000 to cover Regina's third of the investment. Ending with Oscar dying on the stair landing, For 10 Points-- identify this play concerning the intrigues of the Hubbard family to construct a cotton mill by Lillian Hellman.
Answer: The Little Foxes
9. She is mentioned in the faith chapter, Hebrews 11:31 for by faith she was not killed with those who were disobedient. She has heard what was done to the kings of Sihon and Og of the Ammorites, and asks for a sign from the men she hides under flax stalks, who tell her to tie the scarlet cord in her window. For 10 points-- name this prostitute who first appears in the book of Joshua and who with her family is saved after she lowers the Israeli spies over the wall of Jericho.
Answer: Rahab
10. Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island influenced early works of this author such as Deephaven and The King of Folly Island. Her only attempt at a dramatic novel was "The Tory Lover" while "Play Days" collection was written for young girls. Her strong feelings for her father and her childhood on the Maine coast can be seen in A Country Doctor. For 10 points-- name this regionalist author of Country of the Pointed Firs.
Answer: Sarah Orne Jewett
11. One of the most striking points of this novel is a description of God as being “just like a butterfly caught in the spider’s web.” The setting of the novel is called a “mud swamp” by the novel’s antagonist, who discusses the nature of Christianity with the protagonist before hanging him upside down in a pit of excrement. That villain, Ferreira, insists on torturing all suspected Christians that refused to step on a fumie. The climax comes when the protagonist, a priest named Rodrigues, steps on the image of Christ to save a group of Christians. For 10 points-- name this novel by Endo Shusako, whose title refers to the absence of God’s voice in the face of persecution.
Answer: Silence or Chinmoku
12. The mother of this protagonist is Christina Allaby, who beats her sisters at cards to win the hand of his father, Theobald. An ordained minister, he becomes being entangled in an assault charge and is disowned by his father after being sent to prison. After he is released he goes to narrator Overton who is the trustee of money left him by his Aunt Alethea and later becomes a successful writer. For 10 points-- name this scion of the Pontifex family, the central character in Samuel Bulter's Way of All Flesh.
Answer: Ernest Pontifex (accept either name!)
13. A man with "a beak, and long straight hair, and a beard which is ill grown" is prosecuting one character in this work. Prior to its action a servant on the title character's estate murders another servant and was chained and cast into a ditch by the title character's father. After the servant dies in the ditch, the title character chooses to prosecute his father for murder. For 10 points-- name this Platonic dialogue in which Socrates disproves the title character's notion of piety.
Answer: Euthyphro
14. The main character of this work takes the job of janitor at the school, but his assistants Arthur and Jeremiah trick him into arguments with the teachers. This main character receives a letter from Klamm ordering him to report to the village superintendent, who informs him that his job of land surveyor is unnecessary. Determined to stay in the town, he takes Frieda as his fiancé and attempts to learn more about the enigmatic ways of the town from Olga. Taking place around the abode of Count West-west –For 10 points-- name this unfinished work by Kafka
Answer: The Castle
15. Minor characters in this play include Dr. and Mrs. Bradman. The author wrote the play in five days and it centers on an author who is researching his new novel. The novelist Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth invite a local medium to dinner; after dinner Madame Arcati conjures up the ghost of Condomine's dead wife, Elvira and hilarity ensues. Sharing its title with a phrase used by Shelley to describe his skylark --for 10 points-- name this "improbable farce" by Noel Coward.
Answer: Blithe Spirit
16. "It is the hour of departure, oh deserted one" is both the fourth and last line of this poem that was published in 1924. Its author published it as part of his second collection under a pseudonym he borrowed from a Czech writer and W.S. Merwin is responsible for its most common translation. Water themes pervade the work and the phrase "Todo en ti fue naufragio!" or "In everything you sank!" is repeated numerous times. For 10 points-- name this poem that Pablo Neruda published with twenty love poems.
Answer: La cancion desesperada OR Song of Despair
17. In 1957 Akira Kurosawa adapted this play into the movie Donzoko. At the beginning of the play, a street-walker is reading a book entitled Fatal Love before her pimp hits her over the head with it. Three of the play's characters die: one by suicidal hanging, another due to tuberculosis, and a third in a brawl. The brawl occurs after the wife of the landlord, Kostilyoff, purposefully scalds herself when he orders her back to work. Centering on the dregs of society of whom only one character is possessed of a positive outlook toward the namesake societal caste --for 10 points-- name this drama by Maxim Gorky featuring the tramp, Luka.
Answer: Lower Depths OR Na dne OR A Night's Lodging OR At the Bottom
18. The protagonist is among a party who settles in lodgings on Pulteney Street in the second chapter of this novel that earlier alludes to John Gay's fable 'The Hare and Many Friends.' The protagonist is pursued by John, the brother of her friend Isabella while she is on vacation and John's exaggeration of her wealth garners her an invitation to her future husband's home, from which she is later asked to leave due to curiosity related to her love of gothic literature. For 10 points-- name this posthumously published Jane Austen novel centering on Henry Tilney and Catherine Moreland.
Answer: Northanger Abbey
19. Jean Jaure's Preuves includes reactions of the younger generation to this man, while he is the basis for Anatole France's Monsieur Bergeret in Paris. He causes old friendships to be broken in Proust's Remembrance of Things Passed, while Proust's Jean Santeuil contains a description of his trial. The newspaper L'Aurore under the leadership of Georges Clemenceau published the most famous defense of him, Zola's J'Accuse, For 10 points, name this Jewish army officer infamously falsely accused of treason.
Answer: Alfred Dreyfus
20. This poet's "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" thanks George III for the repeal of the Stamp Act while "To the University of Cambridge, in New-England" admonishes Harvard students to avoid sin. She began writing at twelve, and her elegies such as "On the Death of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield" were well known. Her only volume of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published in England and included "On Being brought from Africa to America." For 10 points--, identify this early American poet, a female slave from Boston.
Answer: Phillis Wheatley
21. Along with Desportes, this author inspired the Samuel Daniel sonnet collection, Delia. After studying Aristotle he wrote a "Treatise on the Art of Poetry" and adopted a modified theory of the unity of action. He wrote the pastoral drama L'Aminta while at the Ferraran court and due to his love for the Duke's sister, Leonora, was imprisoned. The subjects of a Byronic lament and a Goethe drama --for 10 points-- name this Italian Renaissance author chiefly remembered for the Christian epic, Jerusalem Delivered.
Answer: TorquatoTasso
22. Consisting of seventeen irregular four-line stanzas, this poem is pervaded by images of reptiles and fish. An advertisement for the Mosler safe reminds the poet that World War II is not yet commemorated. Scenes evoked in this poem include the construction of a huge garage and news stories from 1960 on desegregation. Augustus Gaudens' sculpture of Colonel Shaw is contrasted with Boston's indifference in, For 10 points--, what elegiac poem by Robert Lowell.
Answer: “For the Union Dead”
23. In this novel, the protagonist’s love interest often sings the lines “Flowers fade and fly, / and flying fill the sky” while burying flowers in her isolated garden. The novel ends as the protagonist becomes a Buddhist priest in response to his lover’s death from tuberculosis. Phoenix, the matriarch of the central family, decides that Precious Virtue is to marry her son Pao-Yu, instead of his lover Black Jade. For 10 points-- name this Qing Dynasty novel written by Cao Xueqin, also called “Story of the Stone.”
Answer: Dream of the Red Chamber or Hung-Lou Meng (Accept “Story of the Stone” on an early buzz)
24. A friend of the poet suggested the use of the phrase “patient minds” in the second to last line of this poem as a correction. The poet says, "The pallor of girls' brows shall be" the pall of the title group whose demise shall be met with "shrill, demented choirs" not prayers or bells. Edited to be titled as a hymn of praise and loyalty by Seigfried Sassoon --for 10 points-- name this poem that was written in a Scottish military hospital in 1917 by Wilfred Owen.
Answer: “Anthem for Doomed Youth”
25. This novel features a steamer race between the Boreas and the Amaranth, which explodes with great loss of life. It details the struggles of the Hawkins family as the country grows westward, and contains such colorful characters as the crooked politician Senator Dilworthy and confidence man Colonel Sellers as well as Ruth Bolton, a young Quaker who attends medical school. Written in respond to a "dinner party challenge," and continued in the sequel "The American Claimant," FTP, identify this collaboration between Charles Warner and Mark Twain which lends its name to a period of American history.
Answer: The Gilded Age