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1. A fictional character in "David Copperfield", a book by Charles Dickens, could be described as being "oily", a "sycophant", "manipulative" and with false humility. In fact he often states that he is 'umble. He despised David and caused financial problems for his own employer. Who was this person?

Answer: Uriah Heep

Uriah Heep was definitely an unsavory character, as are each of the other characters mentioned here, to varying degrees of unpleasantness.

Many think that Dickens wrote "David Copperfield" almost as an autobiography of his own life and the character of Uriah Heep is believed by some scholars to be a representation of children's author Hans Christian Andersen, at least in looks and mannerisms, a man whom Dickens met shortly before he wrote this novel.

Heep's crooked behavior and scheming ways are believed to be based on another man, Thomas Powell, who was a forger and a thief. He was an ingratiating personage within the Dickens household and had stolen �10,000 from his employer.

2. A man was falsely accused of murdering Dr. Robinson in Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer". Another man actually did kill the doctor in a graveyard one night while they were grave-robbing for him. The accused man drank a bit too much, and as a result of being him being tipsy the actual killer was able to convince the other man of his "guilt". What is the name of this falsely-accused character?

Answer: Muff Potter

Muff Potter was a notorious but likeable drunkard who liked to fish. Framed into thinking by Injun Joe that he had killed the doctor, he was finally exonerated in court by Tom Sawyer's testimony.

Good luck for Muff Potter! It seems that Tom Sawyer and his good friend, Huck Finn, were lurking in the graveyard that night and saw it all! Injun Joe escaped from the courtroom and Tom was very worried for some time that he would face retribution until Injun Joe was later found dead in a cave.

3. This young boy's sister, "Scout", was almost murdered while she was on her way home from a Halloween pageant. A man named Bob Ewell attacked her and her brother, breaking his arm in the process. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is the name of the novel, but what is Scout's brother's name?

Answer: Jem

Jem Finch, a character in the novel, was a quiet boy, but one with a great moral compass. His father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer in a sleepy southern town, had helped to instill in his children the concept of doing the right thing in situations, even when it was unpopular.

Jem was attempting to protect his younger sister when his arm was broken, and that is how the story begins, with his sister remembering the time when it happened.

4. An Agatha Christie character that she learned to loathe so much that she eventually "killed him off", at least in her stories, was a Belgian detective. The author had developed him in quite a few stories, and had eventually made him into such an insufferable character that even she couldn't stand him anymore! Which character was this, that last appeared in the story "Curtain"?

Answer: Hercule Poirot

In her many novels that feature the diminutive detective from Belgium, Agatha Christie takes her readers from his solving a case in England with "The Mysterious Affair at Styles", all the way to his demise in "Curtain", where he again visited Styles prior to his death.

5. "Little Women", a novel written by Louisa May Alcott, was a critical success and was originally published in two volumes. Which major character of the story was loosely based on the author's life, with her sisters being represented by some of the other female characters?

Answer: Jo March

As the story began the March family was temporarily split, with their father off serving as a chaplain during the U.S. Civil War. Jo, the protagonist of the story, manages to write a book that gets published, but is very frustrated with having to edit it afterwards.

The girls, along with their mother, struggle to live as close to a normal life as their genteel poverty will allow, while hoping for their father's safe return. He is able to do so on Christmas Day, one year after the story begins.

6. Tara. Twelve Oaks. Pittypat. Ashley. Author - Atlanta native Margaret Mitchell Who was the vain, self-centered and manipulative protagonist of this romantic classic reminiscent of the Old South and its fading aristocratic lifestyle?

Answer: Scarlett O'Hara

Scarlett O'Hara was indeed a person whose self interest superseded that of all those around her. The setting for the novel was during the time of the U.S. Civil War and many conflicts of both a personal nature and war-related horrors are reflected throughout the story.

7. By what other name was the character Sleeping Beauty known, as written by the Grimm Brothers?

Answer: Little Briar Rose

Little Briar Rose, as related by the Brothers Grimm, had other names in different stories. Various folk tales by a number of authors were responsible for this often composite tale. Some versions were two or more stories strung together as folk tales often are.

Different names for this character are Briar Rose, Aurore/Aurora, Talia, and Rosebud, among others.

8. This character, a creation of Dorothy L. Sayers, was an amateur British gentleman type of detective; solving mysteries for his own amusement. Who was this man, whose family motto, as displayed under its coat of arms, was "As my Whimsy takes me."

Answer: Lord Peter Wimsey

Prior to becoming an amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey had served during the first World War. He was wounded during an artillery attack and had suffered "shell shock" (today referred to as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Later in life he began a hobby of investigating various crimes and enjoyed much success while doing so.

9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presented us with the skills of a detective named Sherlock Holmes. Who was his friend and assistant, who had previously served as a soldier in Afghanistan, that appeared in so many of the stories?

Answer: Dr. John Watson

Dr. John Watson is known as Sherlock Holmes's best friend and confidant. As the stories begin, he is recently invalided home from Afghanistan, where he served as an Army captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Watson served as a foil to Holmes, although he possessed a good deal of intelligence of his own.

10. In these eight stories by author Beverly Cleary, a young girl with a very active imagination had lots of fun just being a kid. Who was this character, that her sister viewed as a "pest"?

Answer: Ramona Quimby

Ramona first appeared as a character in "Beezus and Ramona". The Ramona stories became an extension of Beverly Cleary's earlier Henry Huggins series. Beezus, Ramona's older sister often viewed her younger sibling as an annoyance, as evidenced in the second story of the series; "Ramona the Pest".

Source: Author logcrawler

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