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Book	Characters	Answer	% Correct
Hamlet	Claudius, Polonius	Shakespeare	98%
Othello	Moors, Iago, Venice, Desdemona, Cassio	Shakespeare	94%
Iliad	Trojan, Nestor, Menelaus	Homer	92%
Ulysses (book)	Bloomsday, buck mulligan	Joyce	92%
Pride and Prejudice	Elizabeth Bennett, 2005 film	Austen	90%
Moby-Dick	Ahab, Pequod (boat)	Melville	90%
1984	Winston Smith, Julia, doublethink	Orwell	88%
A Midsummer Night's Dream	Theseus, Hippolyta, Lysandre, Helena	Shakespeare	88%
MacBeth	Scot curse folio 1623 duncan malcolm	Shakespeare	88%
War and Peace	French invasion of Russia,	Tolstoy	88%
The Divine Comedy	Afterlife, hell purgatory, paradise	Dante	86%
David Copperfield	autobiography, abuse, blunderstone	Dickens	86%
Romeo and Juliet	Mercutio, Paris	Shakespeare	86%
King Lear	Daughters, tragedy	Shakespeare	86%
Jane Eyre	Lives with uncle, lowood, thornfield	Charlotte Brontë	84%
A Tale of Two Cities	London, Paris, Manette, Lucie	Dickens	84%
The Three Musketeers	Athos, Porthos, Aramis	Dumas	84%
Odyssey	Trojan War sequel	Homer	84%
Little Women	March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy	May Alcott	84%
The Catcher in the Rye	Holden Caulfied, Pencey Prep	Salinger	84%
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	Hannibal, (St.P), Huck	Twain	84%
Don Quixote	Benegali LaMancha hidalgo	Cervantes	82%
The Canterbury Tales	Middle English	Chaucer	82%
Inferno	Hell, Virgil, purgatory	Dante	82%
Robinson Cruse	Friday, Selkirk (irl)	Defoe	82%
Crime and Punishment	Siberia, poverty, sonya, law student	Dostoyevsky	82%
The Great Gatsby	Daisy Buchanan West/east egg, Tom B.	Fitzgerald	82%
The Merchant of Venice	Jewish moneylender, Shylock, Portia	Shakespeare	82%
Wuthering Hights	Victorian ideals, Lockwood,ellis bell,	Emily Brontë	80%
Les Misérables	Valjean, 1862, Frencg	Hugo	80%
The Grapes of Wrath	Joads, Oklahoma, Dust Bowl, CA	Steinbeck	80%
Treasure Island	Jim, Long John Silver, Bristol, Bones	Stevenson	80%
For whom the bell tolls	Robert Jordan, Guerilla, Segovia	Hemingway	78%
Brave New World	World State, Social Hierachy, NM, bernard	Huxley	78%
The Satanic Verses	Farishta (Bollywood), Chamcin (voiceover)	Rushdie	78%
The Handmaid's Tale	Offred, Gilead, Theonomy, Bilhah	Atwood	76%
Frankenstein	North Pole, Waltons, Naples, Genevan	Shelley	76%
The Count of Monte Cristo	Dantes treason, merchant sailor, villefort	Dumas	73%
The Jungle Book	Mowgli, Seoni, animal behavior, India	Kipling	73%
Paradise Lost	Adam and eve poem Blake illus.	Milton	73%
The Tempest	Prospero, Miranda, Milan, island	Shakespeare	73%
Heart of Darkness	Marlow, Kurtz, River Thames	Conrad	71%
The Scarlet Letter	Hester Prynne, F. Dimmesdale, Chillingsworth	Hawthorne	71%
Catch-22	Yossarian, Pianosa, WWII	Heller	71%
Candide	Leibniz optimism, prof. pangloss	Voltaire	71%
Slaughterhouse-Five	WWII Billy Pilgrim, firebombing of Dresden	Vonnegut	71%
Dubliners	Collection of 15 short stories	Joyce	65%
Twelfth Night	Viola, Sebastian, Shipwreck, Cesario, Olivia	Shakespeare	65%
A Streetcar Named Desire	Belle Velle, Dubois, New Orleans	Williams	65%
A Doll's House	Nora Helmer, Torvald, Norway	Ibsen	63%
Anna Karenina	Count Vronsky, Steppan, train	Tolstoy	63%
Great Expectations	Pip, Magwitch, Miss Havisham, Salis house	Dickens	61%
Lord of the Flies	plane stranded island, Ralph, Piggy, Conch	Golding	61%
The Sun Also Rises	Pamplona bulls, Barnes, WWI, Lady Ashley	Hemingway	61%
The Stranger	Meursault, Cardona	Camus	59%
Faust	Heinrich Faust, Gretchen, Marlowe	Goethe	59%
Aeneid	Poem. Aeneas, Trojan	Virgil	59%
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	White Rabbit, the hatter, Fish-footman	Carroll	57%
Pygmalion	Higgins, Mrs. Eynsford-Hill, statue	Shaw	57%
The Last of the Mohicans	French/Indian, Munro, Uncas, Lenape	Cooper	55%
Oliver Twist	Fagin, born in a workshop, Mr. Sowerberry	Dickens	55%
The Brothers Karamazov	God, free will, Alexei, Ivan, Dimitri	Dostoyevsky	55%
The Waste Land	april is the cruelest, sanskrit	Eliot	55%
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Buendia familia, Macondo, Ash Wed	Garcia Marquez	55%
The Crucible	McCarthyism, Salem	Miller	55%
Ivanhoe	12th C England outlaws, Jews/Christians	Scott	55%
Oedipus	Jocasta, Polybus	Sophocles	55%
The Idiot	Prince Lev Myshkin, Execution, epilepsy	Dostoyevsky	53%
Lolita	Dolores Haze, Humbert Humbert, Annabel	Nabokov	51%
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Esmeralda, Quasimodo, Phoebus, Gringoire	Hugo	49%
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Sailor, antarctica, albatross	Coleridge	47%
The Call of the Wild	Yukon, Gold Rush, dog Buck, Santa Clara	London	47%
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Uncle Tom, Eliza, Eva, Simon Legree	Stowe	47%
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Stephen Daedulus, rebels, catholic	Joyce	45%
Leaves of Grass	Body, Material World, sexual controversy	Whitman	45%
Things Fall Apart	Europeans, Okonkwo, Igbo, Wrestler	Achebe	43%
The Charge of the Light Brigade	Crimean War, Balaclava, Poet Laureate	Tennyson	43%
Vanity Fair	Becky Sharp, Emily Sedley, puppet show	Thackeray	43%
The Sound and the Fury	Jefferson MS, Benjy, Quentin Compson	Faulkner	41%
Ode on a Grecian Urn	Ancient World, Lovers, designs	Keats	41%
Song of Solomon	Macon "Milkman" Dead III, Michigan,	Morrison	39%
The Red Badge of Courage	Deserter, Fleming, Conklin	Crane	37%
The Glass Menagerie	Wingfield, histrionic mom, memory	Williams	37%
The Tyger	Lamb, Anvil, Devil	Blake	35%
O Pioneers!	Bergsons, Nebraska, farmland, Sweden	Cather	35%
Antigone	Ismene, Thebes, Creon, Haemon,	Sophocles	33%
Rip van Winkle	Dutch-USA, 20 sleep, American Revolution	Irving	31%
Don Juan	16 cantos, easily seduced,Cadiz	Lord Byron	31%
All the King's Men	Willie Stark, populist, Jack Burden	Warren	31%
The House of the Seven Gables	New England, Hepzibah Pyncheon	Hawthorne	27%
The Seagull	Trigorin, Nina, Arkadina, Sorrin's estate	Chekov	22%
Our Town	Grover's Corner, NH Stage man	Wilder	22%
City of God	Pagan Rome, Earthly City, original sin	Augustine	12%
Beowulf (translator)	Grendel, geats, grendel's mother, dragon	Heaney	12%
The Gift of the Magi	Jim, Della, Watch, hair	Henry	12%
Ode to Joy	LvB 9th, Elysium, Thalia, Macron	Schiller	12%

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