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1. The title of George Eliot's novel 'Felix Holt' described him as....
2. The Alicia Silverstone movie 'Clueless' was based on which Jane Austen novel?
3. In which Dickens novel about the civil court system of Victorian England was a character disposed of by 'spontaneous combustion'?
4. In 'Vanity Fair,'Becky Sharp claims that her French family name is....
5. In which whiny poem does Coleridge lament his injured foot, and the fact that it keeps him from accompanying his friends?
6. Which Victorian poet, perhaps inspired by Darwin's theory of Natural Selection, described nature as 'red in tooth and claw'?
7. Who wrote a Utopian novel, the title of which is the backwards spelling of a word that means 'not any place'?
8. The sister of this poet is rumored by some, almost certainly falsely, to have had incestuous desires toward her brother.
9. Anthony Trollope's 'Parliamentary' novels center on which character?
10. The answer to question 9 was also known as...?
11. George Eliot's real name was...?
12. Name the speaker: 'To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a {misfortune;} to lose both looks like carelessness.'
13. Who wrote the 'Just So Stories'?
14. Author? 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
15. Author? 'A thing of beauty is a joy forever...'
16. The plot of George Eliot's 'Adam Bede' revolves around....?
17. Oscar Wilde once said of this Dickens character: 'To refrain from laughing at the death of _________ , one would need a heart of stone.' (paraphrase?)
18. The aftermath of which calamitous European event is the backdrop for Thackeray's 'The History of Henry Esmond'?
19. This performer of Shakespearean plays brought a broader, more 'Romantic' style to the portrayal of the Bard's characters.
20. This Victorian author was wildly popular during his lifetime, but was dismissed as a mere 'journeyman' when his diaries were posthumously published, revealing he had a regular, daily writing 'schedule.'
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