ONE THOUSAND LITERARY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. Who wrote the poem beginning “Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas to-night"? 2. What and where is Orchard House? 3. Who was William Ellery Channing? 4. What writers have immortalized Greylock Mountain? 5. What and where is Ponkapog? 6. Who said: Great deeds cannot die: They with the sun and moon renew their light 7. Who wrote "The Red Badge of Courage"? 8. For what is Griff House noted? 9. What was the Bread-and-Cheese Club? 10. Who wrote the first anti-slavery book published in America? 11. What writer resides in a double cottage the parts of which are known respectively as the bungalow" and "the barracks"? 12. What poet selected his own burial-place and designed his own sepulcher? 13. Who wrote "Oldtown Folks," said to be the most authentic description of early New England life? 14. Who was the originator of the first circulating library? 15. What American writer's home is covered with ivy grown from a cutting brought from Melrose Abbey, Scotland? 16. For what is St. Giles's Church, Cripplegate, London, famous? 17. Where do we find the following heroines of fiction: Becky Sharp; Dora; Minnehaha; Gloria Quayle; Hester Prynne? 18. What and where is Old Trail Town? 19. Who wrote "My Ragpicker"? 20. Who has been called the "Broad Highwayman," and from what was the term derived? 21. Who is the author of "The Virginian"? 22. Who was "the poet of the blue-grass country"? 23. Who said, "Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables' is the most valuable contribution to New England history that has yet been made "? 24. Who was the author of the following lines: 'T is not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cup of budding flowers, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things QUESTIONS 25. Who wrote "Pickwick Papers Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 3 29. What English poet was three times married? 30. For what is Kilcolman notable? 31. Who was called "the Jean Ingelow of America "? 32. What historian established a naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland? 33. What and where was Woodland Hall? 34. Where was Holmes's famous "long walk," mentioned in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"? 35. What and where was Hogarth Lane? 36. For what is Walpole House notable? 37. Tell the circumstances leading to the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner." 38. Who wrote "The Book of Joyous Children "? 39. What American novelist is the grandson of the famous actress, Frances Anne Kemble, Fanny Kemble "? 66 40. Whom did Whittier term "the Cadmus of the blind"? 41. Who wrote the "Battle Hymn of the Republic "? 42. What famous historian graduated from Harvard College when but eighteen years of age? 43. What celebrated English statesman said of the Constitution of the United States: 66 As far as I can see, the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at one time by the brain and purpose of man"? 44. What poet owned a famous dog called "Boatswain"? 45. For what is Avonmouth noted? 46. Where do we find the following characters of fiction: Maggie Tulliver; Lizzie Hexam; Wackford Squeers; Mary Ashburton; Little Annie; Little Nell; Elsie Venner; Freckles; Rebecca? 47. For what is Tabard Inn famed? 48. What and where was "Crazy Castle"? 49. Who was called "the wizard of the North "? 50. Who was called "the Ettrick shepherd"? 51. Who said: "If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human liberty and human happiness"? 52. What speech is referred to as the most eloquent oration in the English language"? 53. Who was the founder of the Nationalist Clubs in the United States? 54. Who was termed "the tenth Muse "? 55. Who wrote "Zig-zag Journeys "? 56. Who was known as "Gail Hamilton "? 57. Who wrote "The Hoosier Schoolmaster "? 58. Who wrote "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse"? 59. What and where is "Slabsides "? 60. Who was the author of the following lines: Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true: 61. What led to William Cullen Bryant's writing "To a Waterfowl"? 62. Name the author of the poem, "Woodman, Spare That Tree," and tell the circumstances that led to the writing. 63. Who wrote: "If one write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his home in the wilderness, the world will make a beaten path to his door "? 64. Who wrote "The Old Oaken Bucket "? 65. To whom was Longfellow's beautiful poem, Santa Filomena," a tribute? 66 |