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Camus - -Algerian author who wrote The Stranger, "The Rebel," and The
Plague.
-Chaucer - -Author who wrote The Book of the Duchess, Canterbury Tales,
and House of Fame.
-Paradise Lost - -Name this epic poem by John Milton that ends with with
the first humans being exiled from the Garden of Eden.
-Milton - -This author was an English poet who wrote Paradise Lost and
Areopagitica.
-Faulkner - -This American author wrote about a woman's murder in "A Rose
for Emily." Name this man who wrote As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the
Fury
-Apollo - -This Greek god killed the Python. He is known as the Greek god of
music, light, and prophecy, and his twin sister is Artemis.
-Artemis - -This Greek goddess turned Actaeon into a stag and wields a
silver bow. Name this twin sister of Apollo and the goddess of the moon and
of the hunt.
-Atalanta - -This huntress lost in a footrace by being distracted by golden
apples. Name this only female Argonaut.
-Hercules - -Name this child of Zeus who slew the Nemean Lion and
captured Cerberus in his 12 labors.
-Dionysus - -This Greek god was reborn from Zeus's thigh. Name the Greek
god of wine and revelry.
-Athena - -This daughter of Metis was born from Zeus's head. Name this
Greek god of wisdom and war.
-Zeus - -This Greek god forced his father, Cronus, to vomit up his siblings.
Name this Greek thunder god, who is the leader of the Greek gods.
-Poseidon - -This Greek god is known as the Earthshaker. Name this Greek
god of the sea who wields a trident.
, -Hades - -This Greek god's wife is Persephone. Name this Greek god of the
underworld.
-Aristotle - -This man was the tutor of Alexander the Great. Name this Greek
philosopher who wrote Poetics.
-Plato - -This man wrote The Republic and The Allegory of the Cave. Name
this ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates
-Euripides - -This man was an ancient Greek author. He wrote about Jason's
wife in Medea and also wrote The Bacchae.
-Aristophanes - -In one of this man's plays, animals chant,"Brekekekex koax
koax." Name this Greek playwright of The Birds, The Frogs, and The Wasps.
-Fitzgerald - -This man wrote the Beautiful and the Damned. He also wrote
about Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby.
-Dostoyevsky - -Name this author who wrote The Brothers Karamazov and
told about Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment.
-Flaubert - -Name this French author of Sentimental Education and Madame
Bovary.
-Grass - -Name this German author whose Danzig Trilogy contains his most
famous work, The Tin Drum.
-Frost - -Name this author of "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" who
wrote in "Mending Wall" that "good fences make good neighbors."
-Hawthorne - -Identify this author of the collection Twice-Told Tales who
wrote of Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter.
-The Scarlet Letter - -Name this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which
Hester Prynne is branded with a red emblem.
-Les Miserables - -Name this massive French novel centering on Inspector
Javert and the escaped conflict Jean Valjean, by Victor Hugo.
-Hugo - -Name this French novelist who wrote about the thief Jean Valjean
in Les Miserables and about Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
-Dos Passos - -Name this author of The 42nd Parallel, 1919 and The Big
Money, which make up his U.S.A Trilogy.
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