Bookworm Challenge

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1.	Samuel Clemens, commonly known as _______, created the characters Tom Sawyer and ________.

Bret Harte, Huckleberry Finn

Bret Harte, Tar-Baby

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain, Daisy Miller

Joel Chandler-Harris, Tar-Baby

I don't know

2.	"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,/ And sorry I could not travel both/ And be one traveler, long I stood/ And looked down one as far as I could/ To where it bent in the undergrowth." What is the name of the poem from which these lines come, and who is the poet?

The Road Not Taken, Emily Dickinson

The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost

The Wood-Pile, Robert Frost

Never May the Fruit Be Plucked, Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Wood-Pile, Ezra Pound

I don't know

3.	Which famous "Doctor" is less commonly known as Theodor Geisel?

Dr. Spock

Dr. Zhivago

Dr. Jekyll

Dr. Seuss

I don't know

4.	Which of the following statements about Virginia Wolfe is NOT true?

She was a skilled proponent of the "stream of consciousness" style of writing.

She was American-born.

She was married, but had a lesbian affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West.

She committed suicide in 1941.

I don't know

5.	Who wrote the following lines?: "in Just-/ spring when the world is mud- /luscious the little/ lame balloonman/ whistles far and wee"

Ezra Pound

e.e. cummings

T.S. Eliot

Emily Dickinson

I don't know

6.	Which of the following statements is NOT true about the famous American playwright Tennessee Williams?

He was born in Mississippi.

He grew up under the guidance of a stable and very supportive father.

His sister suffered from mental imbalances and was eventually given a prefrontal lobotomy.

Many of his plays, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Night of the Iguana" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" were made into excellent movies.

He became drug-dependent and eventually died by choking on the lid of a pill bottle.

His later plays touch on themes of sexuality, violence, incest, and drugs.

I don't know

7.	What do Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thomas De Quincy have in common, besides being 19th century writers?

They were both married to the same woman, at different times.

They shared a summerhouse in Ireland.

They were both opium addicts.

They both hanged themselves.

I don't know

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Bookworm Challenge