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Funtime Open Thread 8/23/11: Back to School!

With the start of a new school year, it is time to get back to our bookish roots. For tonight’s pop quiz, I will be asking you to correctly identify a selection of literary classics by their protagonists. Partial credit will be given for incorrect answers that make me laugh.

  1. Billy Pilgrim
  2. Valentine Michael Smith
  3. Jo March
  4. Denver
  5. Hester Prynne
  6. Henry Fleming
  7. Holden Caulfield
  8. Scout Finch
  9. Jose Arcadio Buendia
  10. Leopold Bloom

*Extra Credit – Name a book you were assigned to read in class that you remember enjoying despite yourself.

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1. Slaughterhouse Five
2.
3. Little Women
4.
5. The Scarlet Letter (I only know this because of Easy A)
6.
7. Catcher in the Rye
8. To Kill A Mockingbird
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude
10. Ulysses

Book I accidentally enjoyed in school: Flowers for Algernon. Book that stuck with me: A Farewell to Arms.

Wow, I totally thought I was going to know more of these.

1. Slaughterhouse Five
2.
3. Little Women
4.
5. The Scarlet Letter
6.
7. Catcher in the Rye
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9.
10. Gah! I’m positive I read this book, because Leopold Bloom sounds so familiar. None of the other protagonists ring a bell.

EC – Despite myself? I guess The Odyssey. Really didn’t think it was gonna be my thing.

Holy crap, this is a hard one.

1. Slaughterhouse Five
2. ???
3. Little Women, Little Men and Jo’s Boys
4. ???
5. The Scarlet Letter
6. Is this a James Joyce dude?
7. The Catcher in the Rye
8. To Kill a Mockingbird
9. I should know this.
10. This one, too.

Extra Credit: I liked English poetry a lot more than I thought I would. Especially William Blake and the Romantics. Does that count? I also really dug Greek dramas.

I discovered just yesterday that I actually love Blake’s poetry, too (he is how we started off a 200-level British Lit survey class – woo for last semester of undergrad)! I usually lean more towards literature than poetry in the realm of English Studies, but something about his poetry is just wonderful. Also, Greek dramas ftw!

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