Welcome to the Microplot Quiz!

Below are microplots: thumbnail descriptions of works of literature that are taught in classes at Central. See if you can recognize them! Click the heading for the answers and the classes where you might encounter them.

 

Author/Title

(Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz from "That’s Entertain­ment) William Shakespeare, Hamlet

English @ Central

ENG 220
ENG 462

Author/Title

James Joyce, Ulysses

English @ Central

ENG 458
ENG 489

Author/Title

Homer, The Iliad

English @ Central

ENG 203
ENG 363

Author/Title

Kate Chopin, “Story of an Hour”

English @ Central

ENG 211
ENG 343

Author/Title

Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

English @ Central

ENG 210
ENG 341
ENG 348
ENG 448

Author/Title

Toni Morrison, Beloved

English @ Central

ENG 211
ENG 343
ENG 345
ENG 348
ENG 448

Author/Title

Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon

English @ Central

ENG 211
ENG 388
ENG 488

Author/Title

James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain

English @ Central

ENG 211
ENG 343
ENG 345

Author/Title

Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

English @ Central

ENG 204
ENG 348

Author/Title

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

English @ Central

ENG 204
ENG 388
ENG 488

Author/Title

Angie Thomas -The Hate U Give

English @ Central

ENG 343

Author/Title

John Suckling, “Out Upon It!”

English @ Central

ENG 205
ENG 333
ENG 358
ENG 458

Author/Title

Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

English @ Central

ENG 203
ENG 363

Author/Title

Frederick Douglass, Autobiography

English @ Central

ENG 210
ENG 340
ENG 348
ENG 448

Author/Title

John Milton, Paradise Lost

English @ Central

ENG 205
ENG 451

Author/Title

“Rashomon,” directed by Akira Kurosawa

English @ Central

CINE 201 
CINE 220

Author/Title

August Wilson, Fences

English @ Central

ENG 344

Author/Title

John Donne, “The Flea”

English @ Central

ENG 205
ENG 333
ENG 358
ENG 458

Author/Title

S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”

English @ Central

ENG 206
ENG 339
ENG 477

Author/Title

Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street

English @ Central

ENG 211
ENG 347
ENG 388
ENG 488

Author/Title

Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

English @ Central

ENG 211
ENG 343

Author/Title

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

English @ Central

ENG 215
ENG 358
ENG 458

Author/Title

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

English @ Central

ENG 220
ENG 462

Author/Title

Horacio Castella­nos Moya, Senselessness

English @ Central

ENG 347
ENG 388
ENG 488

Author/Title

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

English @ Central

ENG 220
ENG 461

Author/Title

Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World

English @ Central

ENG 347

Author/Title

Anne Bradstreet, "A Letter to her Husband Absent upon Employ­ment"

English @ Central

ENG 210
ENG 340
ENG 348
ENG 448
ENG 522

Author/Title

Tayeb Saleh, Season of Migration to the North

English @ Central

ENG 204
ENG 388
ENG 388

Author/Title

Maceo Montoya, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza

English @ Central

ENG 347

Author/Title

Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner’s Tale”

English @ Central

ENG 205
ENG 331

Author/Title

Octavia Butler, Kindred

English @ Central

ENG 211
ENG 345

Author/Title

Octavia Butler, Kindred

English @ Central

ENG 215
ENG 343
ENG 345

Author/Title

Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

English @ Central

ENG 344

Author/Title

Herman Melville, Moby Dick

English @ Central

ENG 341
ENG 348
ENG 448