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Where did Henry David Thoreau stay for two years that prompted him to write 'Walden'?
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Toronto
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Walden Pond
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In 'Moby-Dick,' by Herman Melville, what is the species of whale Captain Ahab is hunting?
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Sperm whale
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Where did Henry David Thoreau stay for two years that prompted him to write 'Walden'?
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In 'Moby-Dick,' by Herman Melville, what is the species of whale Captain Ahab is hunting?
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In Mark Twain's 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' two con artists try to convince Huck and Jim that they are what?
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The main action of James Fenimore Cooper's 'Last of the Mohicans' takes place during which conflict?
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In 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,' Douglass reminisces about his life as what?
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Which of these is NOT the title of a work penned by Edgar Allan Poe?
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In the Henry James novel "Portrait of a Lady,' Isabel is proposed to by how many others before marrying Osmond?
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'Leaves of Grass' is a collection of poems by great American poet Walt Whitman. How many poems were in the first edition, and how many were in the last?
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What kind of dog is Buck, the main character of 'Call of the Wild,' by Jack London?
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In Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter,' what does the titular letter stand for?
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In Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451,' what poem does Guy Montag read aloud to Mildred's friends, to their horror and confusion?
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'On the Road,' by Jack Kerouac, was first written on what?