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Answer: "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley)

Huxley's "Brave New World" is a chilling novel written in 1932 which both satirizes the era in which it was written, and creates a prediction for the future of society. Huxley's vision of the future is eerie, as it is not dissimilar to our world today. (Test tube babies, drugs, sex, and frivolity to name just a few) A must read!

Answer: She gets hit by a car

Deeply in love with Humbert and deeply oblivious about his love for her daughter, Charlotte comes across his journal and finds out all about his sinful lust for Lo. Repulsed, she storms out of the house claiming to reveal his pedophilia to the world. However, when she reaches the street in a blind rage, she is struck by a car and dies.

Answer: The colour red

When Jonas and Asher are playing catch with an apple, it "changes" in mid air. The same thing happens with Fiona's hair. In their world there is no colour, so what he was seeing was a glimpse into the past when people could see red.

Answer: They are foster siblings

Heathcliff, a young gypsy boy, was found by Catherine's father on the streets of Liverpool. Seeing that the boy was alone, Mr. Earnshaw adopted him, making him and Catherine brother and sister. However, this doesn't stop them from falling in love.

Answer: The worst thing in the world

When Winston is being tortured in The Ministry of Love, O'Brien tell him:
"You asked me once, what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world." For Winston, that thing was rats.

Answer: Little

Burgess uses Nadsat not only to add flavour to the story, but also to illustrate how easily people are brainwashed. While reading the book, you might sympathize with Alex for being conditioned by the specialists. However, you are simultaneously being conditioned by Burgess to learn a whole new language by constantly repeating strange words until they make sense.

Answer: Joseph Stalin

Napoleon, like Stalin, quietly gains full power over Animal Farm - rapidly changing it from a communist society into a totalitarian. He amends the law in favour of his own desires instead of what's best for the farm as a whole, and establishes a team of Secret Police consisting of blood-thirsty dogs in order to maintain his reign of terror.

Answer: Eight

1. Victor's mother Caroline is the first one to go - dying of Scarlet Fever
2. Victor's younger brother William is strangled to death by the creature
3. Framed for William's murder, Justine is sentenced to death by hanging
4. Henry Clerval is the creature's next victim, and is found dead in Ireland
5. Elizabeth is next, killed by the creature on her and Victor's wedding night
6. After the loss of five loved ones, Victor's father Alphonse dies of grief
7. Victor follows in his father's footsteps, dying on Walton's ship from years lived in horror.
8. Finding his creator's corpse, the creature feels not triumph, but severe loneliness, and throws himself onto Victor's funeral pyre

(Not to mention all of the people who would have had to die for Victor to make his creature)

Answer: Artificially-induced intelligence deteriorates at a rate of time directly proportional to the quantity of the increase

By observing Algernon, Charlie established that his operation was not permanent, but in fact would reverse itself to the point where his genius mind would become the smooth brain of a vegetable.

Answer: Marcellus

Such a well-known line for such an obscure character! Marcellus is not the most important character in the play, but he is possibly the most quoted, all thanks to these few words which have been used in all forms of media over the years. Hamlet can't have all the good ones!