| 1) In James Joyce's Ulysses, Molly Bloom plays around behind the back of her husband Leopold. Who's the lucky man? |
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Paddy Dignam
Buck Mulligan
Blazes Boylan
Stephen Daedalus
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| 2) In this sexy take-off on Samuel Richardson's Pamela, a young servant learns virtue through carnality - lots and lots of it. What is the book and who wrote it? |
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Fanny Hill: John Cleland
Jonathan Wild: Henry Fielding
Fable of the Bees: Bernard Mandeville
Evelina: Frances Burney
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| 3) Which of the following is not one of the evil women created by Henry James? |
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Kate Croy
Madame Merle
Olive Chancellor
Verena Tarrant
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| 4) After a string of unhappy adulterous affairs, Emma Bovary decides to take her own life. How does this incurable romantic end it all? |
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She drowns herself
She takes poison
She jumps from a cliff
She inhales gas
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| 5) She may be from the sticks, but she sure knows how to claw her way to stardom in Chicago and New York - especially when it involves stepping on the downwardly mobile George Hurstwood. Name the character and her creator. |
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Eliza Pontifex: Samuel Butler
Emmeline Grangerford: Mark Twain
Isabel Archer: Henry James
Carrie Meeber: Theodore Dreiser
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| 6) Lady Chatterley is one of D. H. Lawrence's most memorable (and sexy) creations. What is her lover's name? |
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Willie Struthers
Tom Brangwen
Oliver Mellors
Paul Morel
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| 7) True or False: In Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft, an opponent of marriage and advocate of women's equality, acknowledges her intellectual debt to Edmund Burke |
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True
False
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| 8) The heroine of Kate Chopin's The Awakening is ultimately destroyed by the cultural and sexual constraints of upper-middle-class life. Where is this novella set? |
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New York
Mississippi
California
Louisiana
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| 9) Liberated from convention, she lives out of wedlock with Jude Fawley. But when tragedy strikes, she abandons him. What is the name of Thomas Hardy's character? |
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Tess Clare
Susan Henchard
Sue Bridehead
Grace Melbury
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| 10) She's one of the most willful characters ever created, a woman as obsessed with Heathcliff as he is with her. Name the character and the book. |
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Becky Sharp, Vanity Fair
Catherine Earnshaw, Wuthering Heights
Dorothea Brooke, Middlemarch
Hester Prynne, The Scarlet Letter
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