LOL. Yes, yes. Along with "The Lady or the Tiger?"
I was also instructed to read Only Cowgirls Sing the Blues The Crying of Lot 49 and Lolita. The choice of Lolita--(well-written, clever, extremely deviant) is interesting, because Nabokov wasn't American, so why was it assigned for American Lit???
These are the things I ponder late at night.