• 1. 
    The “Bell” “brothers” wrote their books in the parish of Haworth, Yorkshire, England. Who were they?

  • Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë
  • Sarah and Sandra Bernhardt
  • Gertrude and Florence Bell
  • Aphra Behn and Elizabeth Barry
  • 2. 
    This aristocratic Danish “fellow,” who owned a coffee plantation in Kenya, published under three male pseudonyms. Which was the best known?

  • Karen Horney
  • Tove Jansson
  • Aagje Deken
  • Isak Dinesen
  • 3. 
    What is the actual name of science fiction writer “James Tiptree, Jr.”?

  • Alice Bradley Sheldon
  • Octavia E. Butler
  • Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Joanna Russ
  • 4. 
    Which Australian woman writer occasionally published under the name “Brent of Bin Bin”?

  • Kylie Tennant
  • Ethel Turner
  • Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker)
  • Miles Franklin
  • 5. 
    Which British poet contributed to a volume of “posthumous fragments” purporting to have been written by “Margaret Nicholson”?

  • Lord Byron
  • P.B. Shelley
  • William Wordsworth
  • John Keats
  • 6. 
    One of the Founding Fathers of the United States adopted the nom de plume “Silence Dogood” at age 16 in a letter to the editor of The New-England Courant. Who was he?

  • Thomas Jefferson
  • George Washington
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Samuel Adams
  • 7. 
    What Nobel Prize-winning woman writer used the pseudonym “John Sedges”?

  • Toni Morrison
  • Nadine Gordimer
  • Gabriela Mistral
  • Pearl S. Buck
  • 8. 
    What English essayist and novelist published her works as “Vernon Lee”?

  • Jane Austen
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Violet Paget
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • 9. 
    A woman writer who adopted the given name of “George” in her masculine nom de plume had an affair with composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin. Which George was it?

  • George Bush
  • George Eliot
  • George Sand
  • George Santayana
  • 10. 
    “Rrose Sélavy” was a stylish alter ego and sometime pseudonym for which important 20th-century artist and chess player known for his readymade Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2?

  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Pablo Picasso
  • Henri Matisse
  • Norman Rockwell
Report Question
warning
access_time
  Time