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Sunday Special - American Lit
(which, incidentally, I flunked...)
1. Against which violent background is Hemmingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls set ?
2. Name the playwright who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, The Sandbox, and adapted Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's for the stage?
3. In which Arthur Miller play do you meet Willy Loman ?
4. Which title is a work by Herman Melville and an opera by Benjamin Britton ?
5. Where are most of Pearl S. Buck's novels set ?
6. Who wrote the 1950 short story, I, Robot ?
7. Who died at age 44 with his novel, The Last Tycoon unfinished ?
8. Who wrote the Leatherstocking tales on frontier life with their hero, Natty Bumpo ?
9. Which Hemingway novel is based on his own experiences as an ambulance driver in World War One ?
10. What character appears in all nine Raymond Chandler novels ?
11. Who wrote The Maltese Falcon ?
12. What was the Surname of the sisters in Little Women ?
13. Whose novels are about social and economic conditions especially of farmers in his native California ?
14. What country is the setting for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea ?
15. What is Frank L. Baum's most famous story ?
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1. The Spanish Civil War
2. Edward Albee
3. Death of A Salesman
4. Billy Budd
5. China
6. Isaac Asimov
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. James Fennimore Cooper
9. A Farewell to Arms
10. Phillip Marlow
11. Dashiel Hammett
12. March
13. John Steinbeck
14. Cuba
15. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(which, incidentally, I flunked...)
1. Against which violent background is Hemmingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls set ?
2. Name the playwright who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, The Sandbox, and adapted Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's for the stage?
3. In which Arthur Miller play do you meet Willy Loman ?
4. Which title is a work by Herman Melville and an opera by Benjamin Britton ?
5. Where are most of Pearl S. Buck's novels set ?
6. Who wrote the 1950 short story, I, Robot ?
7. Who died at age 44 with his novel, The Last Tycoon unfinished ?
8. Who wrote the Leatherstocking tales on frontier life with their hero, Natty Bumpo ?
9. Which Hemingway novel is based on his own experiences as an ambulance driver in World War One ?
10. What character appears in all nine Raymond Chandler novels ?
11. Who wrote The Maltese Falcon ?
12. What was the Surname of the sisters in Little Women ?
13. Whose novels are about social and economic conditions especially of farmers in his native California ?
14. What country is the setting for Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea ?
15. What is Frank L. Baum's most famous story ?
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.
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.
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1. The Spanish Civil War
2. Edward Albee
3. Death of A Salesman
4. Billy Budd
5. China
6. Isaac Asimov
7. F. Scott Fitzgerald
8. James Fennimore Cooper
9. A Farewell to Arms
10. Phillip Marlow
11. Dashiel Hammett
12. March
13. John Steinbeck
14. Cuba
15. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
