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This author wrote the dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949.
Difficulty: Easy- George Orwell
- Aldous Huxley
- Ray Bradbury
- H.G. Wells
This young French woman is the daughter of Dr. Manette and becomes the moral center of the novel.
Difficulty: Medium- Miss Pross
- Madame Defarge
- Madame Evrémonde
- Lucie Manette
This is the specific philosophical school Lebezyatnikov represents in the novel, which Dostoevsky satirizes as shallow progressivism.
Difficulty: Hard- Utopian socialism
- Anarcho-communism
- German idealism
- French materialism
This obsessed sea captain commands the Pequod and hunts a legendary white whale.
Difficulty: Easy- Captain Bildad
- Captain Ahab
- Captain Peleg
- Captain Boomer
This character accidentally drinks the poisoned wine meant for Hamlet.
Difficulty: Medium- Ophelia
- Claudius
- Gertrude
- Horatio
Sun Tzu's calculation of military expenses includes the cost of maintaining a hundred thousand soldiers in the field for a single day, denominated in this currency unit.
Difficulty: Hard- A thousand pieces of gold
- Ten thousand bushels of grain
- Five hundred horses
- Two hundred chariots
The color of the light at the end of Daisy's dock that Gatsby gazes at longingly across the bay.
Difficulty: Easy- Red
- Green
- Blue
- White
This Greek hero, one of the largest warriors, carried a massive shield and fought Hector to a draw.
Difficulty: Medium- Diomedes
- Ajax the Great
- Patroclus
- Menelaus
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