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What did the book Roots by Alex Haley have to do with civil rights?
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Who was Mr. Lorry in a 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
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Why did John Steinbeck use a pearl to symbolize something in the book The Pearl?
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Which characters in Great Expectations live in Hammersmith?
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What is the importance of Central Park in The Catcher in the Rye?
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What is the theme of 'Paradise Lost'?
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What are the best books ever written?
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Why did Jose Rizal write the novel 'Noli Me Tangere'?
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Who wrote The Prince?
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How is Kafka's Metamorphosis an example of Magical Realism?
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Who is jimmy valentine?
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What story is of a boy who make a journey for a gift saying that the journey was part of the gift?
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Who are the Three Musketeers?
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What is William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' about?
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Who wrote Wuthering Heights?
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What do the protagonists of Fahrenheit 451 and The Scarlet Letter have in common?
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What is the moral of the story of Aladdin in the tale Arabian Nights?
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In Moby Dick what does pasteboard mask mean?
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What is the first word of Dante's inferno?
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Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Who was Tony Weller in the Pickwick Papers?
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The old man and the sea opinions?
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Why isnt animal farm a childrens book?
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What is the meaning behind Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol'?
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Why does Atticus have Mr. Ewell write his name?
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Who does Scrooge fall in love with in 'A Christmas Carol'?
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What are the differences between beowulf the movie and beowulf the book What are the similarities?
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What is the historical context in Jane Eyre?
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In the Mayor of Casterbridge how does Susan react to the auction?
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Who wrote Ben Hur?
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What is the significance of the title Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka?
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What is the best example of literary criticism in the novel 'The Three Musketeers'?
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What is the ocean a metaphor for in 'Moby Dick'?
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Can you suggest something to serve a book club in the theme of Les Miserables?
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What is the theme in 'Sense and Sensibility'?
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Where did grendel fight beowulf mother at?
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What is the Iliad named after?
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How many pages long is Moby Dick?
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Why did Steinbeck choose the title 'Of Mice and Men'?
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What is the name of the headless horseman?
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Who is Doctor Zhivago?
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Why did Ayn Ryan name her book Anthem?
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When was Zora Neale Hurstons book Their eyes were watching god published?
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Where did Scrooge eat?
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What does the shaper do which cause Grendel to hate him and all men?
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Who was Madame Bovary?
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In J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye' what advice does Mr. Antolini give Holden?
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Is Creon or Antigone the tragic hero?
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How is the death of Fagin in the book Oliver Twist justified?
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When did George Orwell write animal farm?
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Why is a 'Christmas Carol' considered children's literature?
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Did Quasimodo live in Notre Dame?
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What are some of the themes in 'Persuasion'?
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Where does the ghost of christmas present take scrooge?
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What inspired Charles Dickens to write 'Great Expectations'?
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Why is Saton's image unique in Paradise Lost?
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Who wrote the 1952 novel The Old Man and The Sea?
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Is the characterization in the old man and the sea protagonist or antagonist?
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Who is Charles Dickens referring to when he mentions Mrs Southcott in 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
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Who wrote the novel catcher in the rye?
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Who is the author of little women?
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What breed was black beauty?
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How was Grendel described in Beowulf?
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How did the North react to the book Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852?
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How did the south react to the publishing of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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When was Oliver Twist written and published?
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What is the theme for the grapes of wrath?
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In the story 'A Christmas Carol' what is Tiny Tim's father's name?
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In what form did the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come appear in?
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In the book white fang why doent kiche bite the indians?
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