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Set in the days just before World War I, this novel interweaves events from these characters lives with biographies of real life contemporaries such as Eugene Debs. For 1. 0 points, name this first book of the U. S. A. Trilogy by John dos Passos. The 4. 2nd Parallel prompt on USA Trilogy before this novel is readHe was many things a high school principal, a songwriter for Broadway musicals, a consul in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and a lawyer. At the age of 4. 1, in 1. For 1. 0 points, name this NAACP leader who created the aforementioned Autobiography of an Ex Coloured Man and Gods Trombones. He achieved a wide audience with his Lanny Budd series, eleven contemporary historical novels beginning with Worlds End, that revolve around an antifascist hero. He also wrote about the controversial Sacco and Vanzetti trial in his 1. Boston, as well as the Teapot Dome Scandal in his 1. Oil He is most famous for his sixth novel, inspired by one of his newspaper assignments and published at his own expense after several publishers rejected it. FTP, name this American naturalist author of The Jungle. Privately published in 1. Johnston Smith, it was first published under the authors real name in 1. Set in Rum Alley, a slum district, it tells of Jimmie Johnson and his sister, the ill treated children of a brutal father and drunken mother. FTP, identify this Stephen Crane story in which the girl drowns herself after becoming a prostitute. Maggie A Girl of the Streets. Flu season is at our doorsteps and already taking a toll with many communities reporting roughly double the amount of hospitalizations compared to the same time. A drama critic for The New York Times from 1. Marc Connelly, was Dulcy. His plays with Connelly included Beggar on Horseback and Merton of the Movies, one of the first satires on Hollywood. Among his other collaborations were Of Thee I Sing, with Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin, and Dinner at Eight with Edna Ferber. FTP, identify this member of the Algonquin Round Table, many of whose most famous plays, including The Man Who Came to Dinner and You Cant Take it With You, were in collaboration with Moss Hart. It is narrated by Amasa Delano, the captain of a seal hunting ship who encounters off the coast of Chile a slave ship whose human cargo has revolted. Although it takes Delano some time to unravel the situation, eventually he saves the title character, who is the captain of the slaver, and his remaining crew, and the leaders of the insurrection are slaughtered. FTP, identify this short story published in Putnams Monthly Magazine in 1. The Piazza Tales, written by Herman Melville. It describes both Amory Blaine, protagonist of the novel This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jake Barnes, hero of the novel The Son Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. A mechanic working on Gertrude Steins car inspired a hotel proprietor to coin the phrase. For 1. 0 points, what term describes young people who came of age between World War One and the Great Depression There was one passenger in the coach, a small, dark haired person in a glossy buff calico dress. She was so slender and so stiffly starched that she slid from space to space on the leather cushions, though she braced herself against the middle seat with her feet and extended her cotton gloved hands on each side. Mr. Jeremiah Cobb drives the stagecoach in which we first meet the title character of, for 1. Kate Wiggin novel Rebecca of Sonnybrook Farm. Its author said of it, Its the whole story. Its all my politics. Its title sacrifice is described as many deeds of war to the land vaguely realizing westward, and describes that land such as she was, such as she would become. Written in 1. January 2. John Kennedys inauguration. FTP name the poem which begins The land was ours before we were the lands, written by Robert Frost. So let me dish you this comedy about a family I knew when I was growing up. So begins this not very comic novel, in which the events of Fantastic Four 1. Annihilus on Reed and Sue Richards, is used to parallel the disintegration of the Hood and Williams families. It is memorably set in 1. Connecticut, and ends with an apocalyptic key party. FTP name this 1. Rick Moody, about a famous weekend blizzard, adapted into a 1. Ang Lee. The first title object is a converted female boarding school, in which everything is bolted to the floor. The second is in Vienna and was originally called the Gasthaus Freud. The third is the headquarters for a rape crisis center its only six guests ever are an Arizona family lost in a snowstorm. FTP, name this John Irving novel, more about life in Vienna and New York than about room service in Concord. Born in 1. 88. 6 in Philadelphia, he urged African Americans to seek inspiration and take pride in their cultural heritage. Edjing Mix For Windows 7 on this page. He felt that race relations could be made better through literature and art and that African Americans could gain confidence and acceptance by setting high standards for themselves. FTP, name this man who virtually started the Harlem Renaissance, author of The New Negro. Thirteen years after its first appearance, it was made into an opera by Louis Gruenberg with a libretto by Kathleen de Jaffa. The main character flees his palace and, while wandering in the jungle, hallucinates that he is being sold at an auction before being shot to death with silver bullets. FTP, identify this 1. West Indies ruled by a former Pullman porter, a work of Eugene ONeill. In the 1. 95. 0s, he began a series of Contemporary Chronicles which includes Chosen Country and Centurys Ebb. The author of such plays as Airways, Inc. The Garbage Man, he began a trilogy about the Spotswood family in 1. The Grand Design, Number One, and Adventures of a Young Man. FTP, name this novelist of the District of Columbia trilogy whose other works include Three Soldiers and Manhattan Transfer. This melodramas title refers to a song sung by German soldiers returning from World War I, which is sung by the main character when he is blackmailed by Count Teck de Bancovis. He kills Teck and the play ends with him explaining his actions to his American in laws and departing for Germany. FTP, name this 1. Kurt Muller, designed to rouse American sentiment against Hitler, written by Lillian Hellman. This Columbia educated dramatist would author plays such as Dark Age, The Strange Mushroom, Fatherly Love and many plays for children, although his greatest success was possibly The Little Nymph. He collaborated with Vivian Darkbloom on The Lady Who Loved Lightning, which was the unnamed play seen in Wace by Humbert Humbert and Lolita. For ten points, name this character who is murdered by Humbert later in the novel Lolita. Clare Quilty Prompt on CueThis work, which received the National Book Award, is composed of a title novella and five short stories, which include You Cant Tell a Man by the Song He Sings and The Conversion of the Jews. The novella concerns itself with a materialistic, Jewish, suburban family, and characters include Brenda Patimkin and the narrator Neil Klugman. FTP, what is this 1. Philip Roth An African fantasy, Les Blancs and this authors autobiography, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, were completed by her husband Robert Nemiroff. Boston College Bc Uis. An earlier play, The Sign in Sidney Brusteins Window, was a drama of political questioning and affirmation set in Greenwich Village. FTP, who is this playwright best known for her 1. Younger family, A Raisin in the Sun The narrative in this work is in a spiral structure that repeats most of the books events several times from only slightly different perspectives. A repeated refrain alludes to Franois Villons Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis bah LOD day DOM doo TOM zha DEE, but the question has been changed to Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear Other important characters include Aarfy, Clevinger, Appleby, and Natelys s kid sister.