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1. It was a dark and stormy night. Unfortunately, that doesn't prevent Cassius from walking out into the street, pretending to be a god. Cassius then insults Casca for being both afraid of the lightning and for hesitating to join his conspiracy. Meanwhile, Calpurnia is dreaming about the foretold death of her husband.
In which Shakespearean play do these events occur?
2. It was a dark and stormy night when the title character of this novel went walking in the garden, trying to escape from affairs at Thornfield. She is ambushed by her master, and, during a climactic dialogue, learns that he is planning to marry not Blanche Ingram, but herself. At the end of the scene, the great chestnut tree in the garden is portentously struck by lightning and falls.
Mr. Rochester proposes to the title character of which nineteenth-century novel on a dark and stormy night?
3. It was a dark and stormy night when a hurricane blew into southern Florida, forcing many of the residents of the area to evacuate or band together for shelter. Amidst lightning and thunder in the darkness, Tea Cake, Janie, and the rest of the southern Floridan black community appear helpless, in symbolic representation of their lives before the storm.
In which novel, by Zora Neale Hurston, does that storm change Janie Crawford's life?
4. It was a dark and stormy night, and most of the characters were hiding inside. Then lightning strikes, and a great boom is heard. When morning comes, Boxer is crushed to discover that the windmill, which he had slaved over, has fallen in the storm. Napoleon insists that it was not the thin walls that were the problem, but instead treacherous efforts by the exiled Snowball.
In which politically-minded novella is Snowball taken as a scapegoat for the fallen windmill?
5. It was a dark and stormy night in London. The protagonist is about to turn in, when he hears a stranger enter his house. The storm had welcomed the arrival of a convict, who had been taken to Australia, made a fortune, and returned to London to properly thank the boy who had helped him survive in the marshes years before.
Abel Magwitch returns to see Pip in which classic bildrungsroman novel by Charles Dickens?
6. It was a dark and stormy night at an opium den, when James Vane took out a gun and nearly shot the title character of this novel for causing the suicide of his sister Sibyl. The protagonist insists that it couldn't have been him, because that happened years ago, and he still looks to be a spritely youth. Selling his soul for beauty saves his life- for mere hours.
In which novel does the storm ultimately beckon the suicide of a character wreaked with guilt for killing Basil Hallward?
7. It was a dark and stormy night, and three witches were determining when they would meet again, finally deciding to reconvene "upon the heath" to meet with the title character, and, incidentally, his friend Banquo.
"When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
In which Shakesperean play does that opening line appear?
8. It was a dark and stormy night when the executioner exacted his revenge upon the murderer of Constance Bonacieux, a woman who had also escaped from prison as an already-convicted felon and caused the death of the Duke of Buckingham. D'Artagnan and Athos can watch only the shadows of the execution of Milady de Winter, illuminated by lightning in the distance.
In which nineteenth-century French novel does D'Artagnan finally gain revenge upon the enemy who had killed his love?
9. It is a dark and stormy night, and an unnamed character (though most likely it's Jonathan Harker) wanders around Munich. After entering a forest, he walks toward a graveyard, where a female spirit is awakened. She is struck by lightning, but the protagonist gets attacked by a wolf- which proceeds to act very un-wolf-like and protects the man. At the end of the story, the protagonist receives a letter from his title host.
This short story, published in 1914, was originally part of a longer novel (probably the first chapter, actually). Which novel begins with Jonathan Harker encountering blood-thirsty wolves and worse monsters?
10. It was a dark and stormy night, but the protagonist of this novel certainly wasn't thinking about that as he walked out of hospital into the pouring rain. He returns to his hotel at the end of the novel, thinking about the loss of his wife, formerly an English nurse in World War I.
Which novel details the stormy, tragic love of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley?
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