Brain Bowl Literature Exam Questions & Answers Graded A+
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms - ANSWER-- A historical novel that explored the political
intrigue that followed the collapse of the Han Dynasty
- Black snakes float down from the heavens as a warning in this novel's opening location of Wen-Te Hall.
- One character in this work pretends to be...
Brain Bowl Literature Exam Questions &
Answers Graded A+
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - ANSWER-- A historical novel that explored the
political
intrigue that followed the collapse of the Han Dynasty
- Black snakes float down from the heavens as a warning in this novel's opening
location of Wen-Te Hall.
- One character in this work pretends to be drunk to surprise his enemies. That
character is Chang Fei (chahng fay).
- Ssu-ma Yen ("sue"-mah yen) is the emperor at the end of this work.
- In this work, Liu Pei (LEE-oo-PAY) captures two of the title political entities and
General Cao Cao ("sow" "sow") is portrayed as a villain.
- By Luo Guanzhong (LEW-oh GWAN-zong)
- Describes a tumultuous
period in Chinese history
Death Comes for the Archbishop - ANSWER-- By Willa Cather
- Partially based on historical events
,- Follows bishop Jean Marie Latour and his friend and vicar Joseph Vaillant as they
travel from Ohio to New Mexico to take charge of the newly established diocese there,
which has recently been taken from Mexico.
- They come up against a well-entrenched Spanish-Mexican clergy as well as native
Hopi and Navajo populations, which Cather describes sympathetically.
- Cather explores these cultural clashes and the difficulty Latour and Vaillant encounter
overlaying their new religion on a centuries-old native culture.
- In this work, Jacinto is seen guarding the opening of a ceremonial cave, and Antonio
Jose Martinez had earlier instigated a revolt of the Taos Indians
- Magdalena warns the title character of the evil intentions of her husband Buck Scales
and lives with Kit Carson, and the lifelong friend of the title character is Father Joseph
Vaillant.
- Centers on Father Jean Marie Latour's experiences in New Mexico
The Trial - ANSWER-- The main character of this novel is scolded by his uncle Karl for
flirting with Leni, a woman with webbed fingers.
- In this novel, Frau Grubach is the main character's landlady and cannot help his plight.
- At one point in this work, the main character observes Franz and Willem being
whipped.
- Franz and Willem had earlier arrested the main character of this work.
, - About Joseph K.'s condemnation by the title judicial proceeding
- By Franz Kafka
Ozymandias - ANSWER-- This work was written for a competition with Horace Smith
- Ends by describing the "lone and level sands" that "stretch far away."
- A visage in this poem conveys the frown, wrinkled lip, and "sneer of cold command" of
the title figure, who is also described as "the hand that mocked them and the heart that
fed."
- This poem relates the story of a traveler met in an "antique land" who tells of "two vast
and trunk-less legs of stone" in the desert.
- A pedestal described in this poem reads "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
- Sonnet about a titular "king of kings," written by Percy Bysshe Shelley"
An American Tragedy - ANSWER-- The protagonist of this novel mixes lemonade and
Coca-Cola at a drugstore and later works as a bell-hop.
- Its author was inspired to write it when he read about the execution of Chester E.
Gillette.
- The protagonist's parents were Kansas City street preachers. That character chooses
to buy Hortense a coat rather than help his sister.
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