LITERATURE

(e.g., Who wrote “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times”? Answer: Michelle Obama.)

Freshman level

1. “Little Toot” is a character in children’s literature. He is not a train. What is he?

2. This fictional young girl lived with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.

3. This English romantic poet died in Greece at the age of 36.

Graduate level

4. This donkey was a friend of Winnie-the-Pooh in books by A.A. Milne.

5. Agatha Christie wrote this murder mystery, the world’s longest-running play.

6. This author of “The Good Earth” was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Ph.D. level

7. Seven years after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, he killed himself with a shotgun.

8. In Italian literature, this character wears a red-and-black mask and a checkered costume.

Answers: 1. Tugboat. 2. Heidi. 3. Lord Byron. 4. Eeyore. 5. “The Mousetrap.” 6. Pearl S. Buck. 7. Ernest Hemingway. 8. Harlequin.

— North America Syndicate