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FIFTH CONTEST |
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Remember Mr. Micawber? Who could forget him—either
from the Dickens novel or from the film adaptation in which he was
played by W.C. Fields. So exactly which Dickens story was that?
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In what great
literary works do these Answers below. |
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| 1 | Mr. Micawber | An easy one to start. One of Dickens's most famous characters. | |||||||||
| 2 | Sancho Panza | If you go tilting at windmills, it's good to have this fellow to help you. | |||||||||
| 3 | Molly Bloom | She'll enliven your reading of this complex modern classic yes she will yes. | |||||||||
| 4 | Jake Barnes | His war injury wrecked his love life but not his drinking, fishing and bullfight watching. | |||||||||
| 5 | Michael Henchard | A municipal politician with an evil past that returns to haunt him. | |||||||||
| 6 | Nora Charles | Nick's better half and sometimes helper in solving mysteries. | |||||||||
| 7 | Monsieur Jourdain | We love to laugh at this middle-class fellow with pretensions of nobility. | |||||||||
| 8 | Jim Hawkins | Better known as a friend of Long John Silver. | |||||||||
| 9 | Zaphod Beeblebrox | With a name like this, he's got to be in a bizarre series of sci-fi books, right? | |||||||||
| 10 | Achilles | No, he's not a character on Xena—he's in a really old book. | |||||||||
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The three winners are Susan Wilson of Monroe, Louisiana; Joe Ong of Stanford, Connecticut; and Ellyn Monroe of Burlington, New Jersey. They chose Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, Homer's The Iliad and Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge from the book prizes offered. Answers: 1. David Copperfield 2. Don Quixote 3. Ulyssses 4. The Sun Also Rises 5. The Mayor of Casterbridge 6. The Thin Man 7. The Bourgeois Gentleman 8. Treasure Island 9. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 10. The Iliad |
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