Penchiclidyne

Name ___________________________________-

Name____________________________________

Due in class on Tues. Sept. 17

Find the answers to these questions. You may work by yourself or with a partner. Do keyword searches on the internet. After you find and record the answer please also list the website address at which you found the info.

1. Name two novels by Ernest Hemingway. When were they were published?

- (1926) the Torrents of Spring

- (1926) the Sun Also Rises

- (1929) A Farewell to Arms

2. Who wrote Lord of the Flies? Briefly describe the setting and theme.

- Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding

Brief: In Lord of the Flies, British schoolboys are stranded on a tropical island. In an attempt to recreate the culture they left behind, they elect Ralph to lead, with the intellectual Piggy as counselor. But Jack wants to lead, too, and one-by-one, he lures the boys from civility and reason to the savage survivalism of primeval hunters. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives us a glimpse of the savagery that underlies even the most civilized human beings (http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/lord-of-the-flies/lord-of-the-flies-at-a-glance)

3. Who wrote the book 1984?

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian[1] novel by George Orwell published in 1949

4. Name two plays by Arthur Miller. Give a one-sentence description of each.

- All My Sons (1947)

- Death of a Salesman (1949),

5. Name a nature writer from the school of American Romanticism.

The nature writer from the school of American Romanticism is Ken Weber. Ken devised the term 'Romanticism' from 'romance'

6. Who wrote the novel Jane Eyre? The novel uses the motifs of an old manor, a Byronic hero, the madwoman in the attic, and "the vampire." What is the name for these kinds of motifs?

Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels are English literature standards. She wrote Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Be.

7. What year was Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice first published? What year was it first published under her name instead of "Anonymous"?

- Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England.

- These four were anonymous. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion appeared together under Miss Austen's name in 1818, after her death.

8. What is the devastating natural disaster in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?

A: A hurricane

9. Who is the one man Buck will not steal from in Jack London's Call of the Wild? Why won't he steal from him?

Thornton - he is loyal to Thornton. They have a bond and are a "pack”

10. How many chairs did Henry David Thoreau have in his house on Walden Pond and what was each one for?

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up. It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

11. Name three classic American novels that were banned and the date they were first banned.

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, was banned in 1939. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, was banned in

...