James Joyce's story "Araby" opens: "North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free." Where does this place the story?

Charles Dickens describes Coketown in Hard Times (1854): "It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever." Which setting is this?

Charles Dickens published Hard Times in 1854 and Great Expectations in 1861. Which period label do readers give his novels?

William Blake's poem "The Chimney Sweeper" (Songs of Experience) attacks the use of small boys to clean chimneys. Where and when did Blake see this practice?

William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1807) remembers daffodils beside a lake he walked past with his sister. Which region does the poem belong to?

Shakespeare was an English playwright, yet he set Romeo and Juliet in Verona, Italy.

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (1813) follows landowning families in rural Hertfordshire, England. Which period of British history is that?

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) sets two households on bleak, windswept high ground with heather and few trees. Which region of England is this?

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter shows a woman punished in public by a strict church-run town. Which place and period does the story use?

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter." Where does Mark Twain set the novel?

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn came out in Britain first and in the United States two months later. In which decade did it first appear?

In Susan Glaspell's one-act play Trifles, Hale says: "Well, women are used to worrying over trifles." The play grew out of an Iowa murder trial Glaspell had reported on. Which country and period is it from?

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) of Amherst, Massachusetts wrote: "This is my letter to the world, / That never wrote to me,". Almost none of her nearly 1,800 poems were printed while she lived. What is her poetry best known for?

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (1845) follows a grieving man visited at midnight by a talking raven that answers every question with one word. Which literary movement is Poe's work most associated with?

Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (1923) shows a speaker who stops his horse beside snowy woods at evening. Which country and region does the poem belong to?

A reader claims that all Anglo-American writing shows one single way of life. Which fact most weakens that claim?

Why is it wrong to file James Joyce under British writers?

Readers often file W. B. Yeats and Robert Louis Stevenson together as "British" writers. Where was each one really from?

A Grade 9 class has read Philippine works, then Afro-Asian works, and now Anglo-American works. What does the third group add for the reader?

A student says Philippine and Anglo-American stories cannot be compared at all, because the countries are so different. Which reply is better?