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1. In this well-known Ernest Hemingway short story, a man with little courage and self-esteem receives no respect from his adulterous wife. While hunting on safari in Africa, the man will not face a lion he has wounded, and his wife mocks him and later sleeps with the professional hunter, who had to finish killing the lion. The next day, the cowardly man finds courage and faces a wounded, angry, charging buffalo and kills it, only to die himself as his wife fires a bullet into the back of his head. Who is this unfortunate man, whose name is also part of the story's title?
2. While a boy, the main character and his younger brother learn the spiritual art of fly fishing from their father, a Presbyterian minister. As young adults, the two look forward to fishing rivers together, and the main character grows to understand how we may never understand the ones we love, but we love them anyway and find comfort in what remains of them after they have died. The novella ends with the main character narrating: "Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by rivers". Who is this main character and narrator of "A River Runs Through It"?
3. The majority of the novel "The Yearling" focuses on the boy Jody Baxter who must lose his innocence to learn how to survive in a world of toil and loss. At one point father and son embark on a thrilling bear hunt with their dogs Rip, Julia, and Perk to track down "ole Slewfoot", who has been killing off the family's livestock. What is the name of Jody's wise father, whom Jody so admires and sees as both a parent and a friend?
4. Part VIII of this American epic poem begins: "Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, / On the shining Big-Sea-Water, / With his fishing-line of cedar, / Of the twisted bark of cedar, / Forth to catch the sturgeon Nahma, / Mishe-Nahma, King of Fishes, / In his birch canoe exulting / All alone went _______". The hero goes on to do battle with a sturgeon that then swallows him. Who is this character whose name Henry Wadsworth Longfellow borrowed from the legends of the pre-colonial Native American founder of the Iroquois Confederacy?
5. Sanger Rainsford is traveling by ship to South America, where he will hunt jaguar for sport, when he falls overboard and finds himself on an island where he himself is now the hunted instead of the hunter. A famous sportsman has grown bored with all of his successful hunting of animals and has moved to this island to hunt shipwrecked human beings. What is the name of this Cossack general from Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game"?
6. This character's name is never mentioned in this lengthy, abstract, and obscure poem, regarded as a perfect representation of the Modernist literary movement and considerd by many to be one of the most important poems of the twentieth century. Throughout the poem he quests for meaning and understanding, structure and order, in a world that has fallen apart. At the end, the reader encounters the famous image of the nameless man on a shore fishing while thunder and rain approach across "the arid plain behind [him]". Thus, the character appears to be an allusion to the Fisher King of Arthurian myth. What is the name of this poem composed by T. S. Eliot?
7. This character, obsessed with revenge, chases the animal that took his leg. Quite charismatic at times, he convinces several men to join him on board the Pequod and then drives his crew to hunt a white whale through terrorizing them. Don't call him Ishmael, but who is this dictatorial captain whose dogged pursuit leads him to his doom?
8. In this medieval verse tale, Bertilak is a wonderful host, allowing the exhausted Gawain to recuperate at his castle before Gawain completes his arduous quest. For entertainment, Bertilak suggests a game; every evening at dinner they shall exchange with each other the best that each acquired that day. Bertilak is quite the hunter and gives to Gawain on three separate nights some venison, a boar, and the pelt of a fox. In return, Gawain, each night, gives to Bertilak kisses he has received from Lady Bertilak. However, on the third night, Bertilak, the hunting host, knows he's being deceived by Gawain because Bertilak is truly which character?
9. "The Bear" by William Faulkner is one of seven shorter works of fiction collected within the book "Go Down, Moses". Old Ben is the bear who wreaks havoc across the countryside and seems immortal and impervious to bullets. Each November, many of the local men attempt to hunt down the bear and destroy it. Isaac McCaslin, a ten-year-old boy at the time he goes on his first hunt for Old Ben, is the main character of the story. However, which character, the son of an Indian chief and a slave, is the experienced hunter who trains Isaac to understand the forest and Old Ben, trains the dog Lion to hunt Old Ben, and dies soon after Old Ben is killed?
10. At the end of Chapter Three of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans", one finds an intense scene revolving around the killing of a deer. The hero Natty Bumppo, or Hawkeye, boasts that he can shoot the deer between the eyes though he cannot see the deer's head and the deer is at an extreme distance from him. However, Chingachgook, an Indian chief and Bumppo's companion, dissuades Bumppo by convincing him that the blast from his rifle will alert others to their presence. Thus, Chingachgook's son must crawl on his belly to within range of his bow, shoot the deer with an arrow, and then dodge the charging buck while simultaneously slicing its neck. What is the name of Chingachgook's son, truly the last of the Mohicans?
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