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Question 1

How many keys you need to have in mind to succeed?

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6

You need to have in mind these 6 keys to succeed:

  1. Love
  2. Epistolary novels
  3. Couples and doubles
  4. Othering, otherness
  5. (Unexpected) friendships
  6. Unconventional love

Question 2

How can we translate "star-crossed lovers" in French?

Amants maudits

"Star-crossed lovers" means amants maudits in French.

Amoureux transis

Époux malheureux

Question 3

Which works could illustrate the theme "Love"?

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

The right answer is: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Legacy by Virginia Woolf. But we can also mention Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith, and Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

Question 4

Which works could illustrate the theme "Epistolary novels"?

William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe and Maurice by E.M Forster

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The right answer is: The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.

A Dry White Season by Andre Brink and Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer

Question 5

Which works could illustrate the theme "Couples and doubles"?

William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe and Roman Fever by Edith Wharton

The right answer is: William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe and Roman Fever by Edith Wharton. We can also think of The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.

The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Legacy by Virginia Woolf

Question 6

Which works could illustrate the theme "Othering, otherness"?

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx and East of Eden by John Steinbeck

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

A Dry White Season by Andre Brink and Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor

The right answer is: A Dry White Season by Andre Brink and Everything that Rises Must Converge by Flannery O’Connor. Most of the short stories written by Sherwood Anderson can also be quote in this theme (Winesburg, Ohio, etc.).

Question 7

Which works could illustrate the theme "(Unexpected) friendships"?

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx and East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Of Mine and Men by John Steinbeck and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The right answer is: Of Mine and Men by John Steinbeck and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Roman Fever by Edith Wharton and Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer

Question 8

Which works could illustrate the theme "Unconventional love"?

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx and Maurice by E.M Forster

The right answer is: Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx and Maurice by E.M Forster. We can also mention Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and Ulysses by James Joyce

The Terrapin by Patricia Highsmith and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald