Literature Haikus Quiz

Haiku	Title	Author
Confused angsty boy/ Wanders around in New York/ Noted for his hat		J.D. Salinger
An ambitious king/ Haunted by his guilt and ghosts/ Wife can't wash her hands		William Shakespeare
Daughters need husbands/ Girl elopes with unfit man/ Turn around the room?		Jane Austen
Creates life in lab/ Regrets the choices he made/ Monster seeks revenge		Mary Shelley
Entrenched caste system/ Loveless sex is all around/ Everyone on drugs		Alduous Huxley
Rich in Long Island/ A mistress is run over/ Green light on the dock		F. Scott Fitzgerald
Barnyard workers rise/ Leaders slowly hog power/ A utopia?		George Orwell
Two brothers fighting/ Sneaky sister buries one/ She hangs self with scarf		Sophocles
She has three husbands/ Orgasm under pear tree/ Rabies from mad dog!		Zora Neale Hurston
A cryptologist/ An assassin on his heels/ Search for Holy Grail		Dan Brown

Haiku	Title	Author
Boy floats on a raft/ Lessons about prejudice/ Duke and King are cons		Mark Twain
Man talks to a skull/ Unveils murder through a play/ Everyone is dead		William Shakespeare
Girl cries rape in cave/ Race relations uncovered/ Can they still be friends?		E. M. Forster
Naive youths leave home/ Generation off to war/ Boy dies in the end		Erich Maria Remarche
Dancing in the woods/ Allegory for the time/ Man crushed under rocks		Arthur Miller
Girl sees a pot break/ Sisters lover goes to jail/ Never reunite		Ian McEwan
Girl locked in red room/ Crazy woman in attic/ Blind but not to love		Charlotte Bronte
Public scorn for her/ Secret agony for him/ Whose guilt is greater?		Nathaniel Hawthorne
Two men by a tree/ Encounter a man on leash/ Last: They do not move		Samuel Beckett
Man struggles at sea/ Back from war but not home yet/ Suitors after queen		Homer

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	ChicagoGuy88:	Jul 25th, 2012 at 21:31 GMT		2 points
	Oh, how poetic this quiz was...

	Colchester91:	Jul 25th, 2012 at 21:32 GMT		10 points
	I thought Dancing in the woods/ Allegory for the time/ Man crushed under rocks was Lord of the Flies?! Nice quiz :)

	cardiaccodeman:	Jul 25th, 2012 at 21:34 GMT		10 points
	lol at "orgasm under pear tree." i remember my english teacher trying to convey the subtext of that part to us without actually saying anything PG 13 rated.

	rivertam42:	Jul 25th, 2012 at 22:58 GMT		15 points
	"Confused angsty boy"- you don't even need the rest of that haiku.

	WolFox:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 00:10 GMT		-2 points
	Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code is not a cryptologist. He's a symbologist.

	spacecadet712:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 00:57 GMT		2 points
	fun times!! Good ol' Hester Prynne

	gbv:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 01:01 GMT		1 point
	"Naive youths" novelist's last name is spelled wrong.

	DragoonKain:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 02:45 GMT		1 point
	I thought the line Colchester quoted and the "Naive youths leave home" one both fit Lord of the Flies too...

	missquin:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 03:29 GMT		0 points
	I read the first clue out to my Mum, and she said "HOME ALONE 2!"... and I said "Mum, they're books." So she said "WHERES WALLY!"

	laschmela:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 03:47 GMT		3 points
	For "All Quiet on the Western Front" I initially thought "A Separate Peace."

	retrogirl85:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 06:28 GMT		2 points
	ROFL One does sound a bit like Home Alone 2! Also: I read Their Eyes Were Watching God in school, but I have no recollection of an orgasm under a pear tree... How did I miss that?

	Terentius_Varro:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 06:37 GMT		2 points
	At least accept the original titles for the non-English ones.

	Xpider:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 08:42 GMT		1 point
	A gramme is better than a damned spot... Hmm, wait. (Been a long time since I read "Two brothers fighting". Still should've gotten it.) Very good quiz!

	alastor:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 10:08 GMT		1 point
	Please correct Alduous to Aldous!

	Othello:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 16:39 GMT		1 point
	There is no "the" before "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."

	ari18:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 16:50 GMT		4 points
	I was confused by the "Antigone" clue because the brothers don't fight during the play. When the play opens, they are both already dead.

	cirith:	Jul 26th, 2012 at 17:40 GMT		1 point
	Isn't it a vase and not a pot that breaks in Atonement?

	livfred:	Jul 27th, 2012 at 02:54 GMT		2 points
	I thought "Cold Mountain" for "Naive youths leave home..." Nice mix of ever-present titles with new selections.

	Carousel49:	Jul 31st, 2012 at 01:04 GMT		1 point
	Oh my god, the pear tree! I remember writing many a scandalous essay about that one!

	Q_Pheevr:	Aug 1st, 2012 at 20:50 GMT		1 point
	I'd just like to remark that "Remarche" should be Remarque.

	Jinxxeh:	Aug 2nd, 2012 at 20:43 GMT		1 point
	Yeah, I agree that the Antigone one wasn't that good.. I'm trying to think what you could have instead.. Perhaps "girl buries brother/moral argument with king/suicides ensue"?