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Which Thomas Hardy novel features a heroine named Bathsheba Everdene?
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2725 times (36.2%) |
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2005 times (26.7%) |
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Which Thomas Hardy novel is subtitled: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented?
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12604 times |
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11146 times (67.9%) |
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1458 times (8.9%) |
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What is Farfrae's first name in Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge?
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217 times |
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93 times (21.8%) |
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124 times (29.0%) |
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Which of these novels was written by Thomas Hardy?
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222 times |
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88 times (32.8%) |
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134 times (50.0%) |
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46 times (17.2%) |
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Which of these novels was not written by Thomas Hardy?
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57078 times |
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29631 times (38.7%) |
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27447 times (35.9%) |
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19446 times (25.4%) |
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In Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, which famous British landmark is featured?
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3832 times |
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2033 times (35.4%) |
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1799 times (31.3%) |
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Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles is subtitled....
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234 times |
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97 times (32.4%) |
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137 times (45.8%) |
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65 times (21.7%) |
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Thomas Hardy, poet and novelist, famously wrote about what imaginary county?
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75 times |
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58 times (65.2%) |
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medium |
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17 times (19.1%) |
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14 times (15.7%) |
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Which novel was not written by Thomas Hardy?
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2596 times |
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2334 times (81.7%) |
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262 times (9.2%) |
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261 times (9.1%) |
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In Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, who is nicknamed 'Father Time'?
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136 times |
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59 times (23.3%) |
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77 times (30.4%) |
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Which one of these poets opened their second volume of verse with these lines:
"They say my verse is sad: no wonder;
Its narrow measure spans
Tears of eternity, and sorrow,
not mine, but man’s."
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104 times |
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54 times (28.3%) |
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50 times (26.2%) |
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87 times (45.5%) |
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Which is not by Charles Dickens?
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515 times |
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457 times (73.5%) |
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58 times (9.3%) |
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107 times (17.2%) |
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About which poet did W.H. Auden write in a memorial poem: "O all the instruments agree / The day of his death was a dark cold day"?
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116 times |
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65 times (34.2%) |
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51 times (26.8%) |
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74 times (38.9%) |
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Which of the following authors was NOT both a poet and novelist?
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353 times |
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179 times (34.8%) |
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174 times (33.8%) |
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In Thomas Hardy's book, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, what is Tess's maiden name?
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1185 times |
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659 times (37.2%) |
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526 times (29.7%) |
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Who is Arabella Donn in Jude the Obscure?
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273 times |
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156 times (24.5%) |
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117 times (18.3%) |
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365 times (57.2%) |
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One of the last pieces of writing which Henry James finished before his death was the lengthy preface to Letters from America (1915) by which English poet?
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80 times |
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26 times (19.3%) |
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very difficult |
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54 times (40.0%) |
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Thomas Hardy famously changed the names of many of the actual locales on which the settings of his "Wessex" stories, novels and poetry were based. Which of the following places, however, is identified by its actual name?
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466 times |
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202 times (28.8%) |
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264 times (37.7%) |
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235 times (33.5%) |
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Thomas Hardy's poem "A Cathedral Facade at Midnight" has a ray of moonlight wandering over the figures on the facade of which English cathedral?
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71 times |
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36 times (29.8%) |
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35 times (28.9%) |
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The line "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife" is from:
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104 times |
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58 times (46.0%) |
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46 times (36.5%) |
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22 times (17.5%) |
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Which of the following is NOT a fictional name for the English city of Winchester?
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127 times |
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27 times (14.6%) |
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very difficult |
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100 times (54.1%) |
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58 times (31.4%) |
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Seeing that vampires are all the rage here...
In which great work of literature does the main character refer to "the foul German spectre -- the vampire"?
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301 times |
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139 times (33.8%) |
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"Thus __________ was in most respects but the pole, focus, or nerve-knot of the surrounding country life; differing from the many manufacturing towns which are as foreign bodies set down, like boulders on a plain, in a green world with which they have nothing in common. _____________ lived by agriculture at one remove further from the fountainhead than the adjoining villages—no more. The townsfolk understood every fluctuation in the rustic's condition, for it affected their receipts as much as the labourer's; they entered into the troubles and joys which moved the aristocratic families ten miles round—for the same reason. And even at the dinner-parties of the professional families the subjects of discussion were corn, cattle-disease, sowing and reaping, fencing and planting; while politics were viewed by them less from their own standpoint of burgesses with rights and privileges than from the standpoint of their country neighbours."
What town is described in these words -- and by whom?
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106 times (27.0%) |
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"My previous letters and telegrams have kept you pretty well up to date as to all that has occurred in this most God-forsaken corner of the world. The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul, its vastness, and also its grim charm. When you are once out upon its bosom you have left all traces of modern England behind you, but, on the other hand, you are conscious everywhere of the homes and the work of the prehistoric people."
What is being described here -- and where/ by whom?
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Which musical instrument connects the titles of books by E.B. White, Jackie Kay, Leonora Carrington, Thomas Hardy and John Mortimer?
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119 times |
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93 times (69.9%) |
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26 times (19.5%) |
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Which of these is the name of a character in Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy?
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66 times |
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46 times (52.3%) |
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20 times (22.7%) |
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If J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about two, and Thomas Hardy wrote about one with two on, where were Trollope's?
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104 times |
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43 times (28.3%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
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486 times |
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316 times (42.6%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet:
The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing....
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40 times |
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15 times (22.7%) |
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25 times (37.9%) |
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From The Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon:
Name the quoted poet: "'You ain't ruined,' said she."
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38 times |
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11 times (17.5%) |
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27 times (42.9%) |
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