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Which books is said to have contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is sometimes cited among the causes of the American Civil War?

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What is considered the first Australian novel?

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The title of a novel published in 1961 entered the English language as a reference to a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem. What’s the novel?

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1. What kind of book is a Nebula Award given for?

2. Which of these writers often deals with the experience of Indian immigrants in the United States?

3. Which of these literary movements was concerned with clear, direct expression?

4. What is the name for a record of a period in a person’s life?

5. Which historical event does Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities concern?

6. In which century did science fiction become a major type of writing?

7. Whose novel The Time Machine is set in 802,701 CE?

8. What was Charles Dickens’s last novel?

9. What was the first of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels to be published after his death?

10. How many novels did Emily Brontë write?

11. Which of these novels would be considered “dystopian”?

12. Which of these novels was not written in the 19th century?

13. Who wrote Jane Eyre?

14. What was the first book in the Harry Potter series?

15. The novel Death Comes for the Archbishop recounts the story of French Catholic missionaries in the southwestern United States. Who wrote it?

16. What writer of the Harlem Renaissance studied anthropology at Columbia University and did fieldwork in the American South?

17. Who created the amateur detective Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins?

18. Which American writer is considered the originator of the modern detective story?

19. Who wrote the children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are?

20. The title of a novel published in 1961 entered the English language as a reference to a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem. What’s the novel?

21. Who wrote the autobiographical Black Boy?

22. Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?

23. Who wrote Cat’s Cradle?

24. Who wrote The Shining?

25. Who wrote Walden?

26. Who wrote Life on the Mississippi?

27. Who was the author of The Grapes of Wrath?

28. Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?

29. Who wrote Frankenstein?

30. What is a synonym for moist?

31. Who is the protagonist in Crime and Punishment?

32. Who wrote Moll Flanders?

33. Who among these writers was initially known as an interpreter of New Orleans culture but was rediscovered in the late 20th century because of her concerns about the freedom of women?

34. Which books is said to have contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is sometimes cited among the causes of the American Civil War?

35. Who wrote The Bluest Eye and Beloved?

36. What is a synonym for noticeable?

37. Whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was adapted for film as Blade Runner (1982)?

38. What describes the borogoves in “Jabberwocky”?

39. Which of these writers reconstructed in Wide Sargasso Sea the earlier life of the fictional character Antoinette Cosway, who was Mr. Rochester’s mad first wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?

40. Which American novelist was famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age?

41. Mirah Cohen appears in which of these novels by George Eliot?

42. What is considered the first Australian novel?

43. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country, a novel that helped focus global attention on the injustices of apartheid in South Africa?

44. What was Daniel Defoe’s last major work of fiction?

45. Which novelist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?

46. Which novel brought E.M. Forster his first major success?

47. What is an antonym for dismantle?

48. Who wrote Song of Solomon?

49. In which country might you (most likely) attend a Kabuki performance?

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1.

What kind of book is a Nebula Award given for?

2.

Which of these writers often deals with the experience of Indian immigrants in the United States?

3.

Which of these literary movements was concerned with clear, direct expression?

4.

What is the name for a record of a period in a person’s life?

5.

Which historical event does Charles Dickens’s novel A Tale of Two Cities concern?

6.

In which century did science fiction become a major type of writing?

7.

Whose novel The Time Machine is set in 802,701 CE?

8.

What was Charles Dickens’s last novel?

9.

What was the first of J.R.R. Tolkien’s novels to be published after his death?

10.

How many novels did Emily Brontë write?

11.

Which of these novels would be considered “dystopian”?

12.

Which of these novels was not written in the 19th century?

13.

Who wrote Jane Eyre?

14.

What was the first book in the Harry Potter series?

15.

The novel Death Comes for the Archbishop recounts the story of French Catholic missionaries in the southwestern United States. Who wrote it?

16.

What writer of the Harlem Renaissance studied anthropology at Columbia University and did fieldwork in the American South?

17.

Who created the amateur detective Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins?

18.

Which American writer is considered the originator of the modern detective story?

19.

Who wrote the children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are?

20.

The title of a novel published in 1961 entered the English language as a reference to a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem. What’s the novel?

21.

Who wrote the autobiographical Black Boy?

22.

Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?

23.

Who wrote Cat’s Cradle?

24.

Who wrote The Shining?

25.

Who wrote Walden?

26.

Who wrote Life on the Mississippi?

27.

Who was the author of The Grapes of Wrath?

28.

Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans?

29.

Who wrote Frankenstein?

30.

What is a synonym for moist?

31.

Who is the protagonist in Crime and Punishment?

32.

Who wrote Moll Flanders?

33.

Who among these writers was initially known as an interpreter of New Orleans culture but was rediscovered in the late 20th century because of her concerns about the freedom of women?

34.

Which books is said to have contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is sometimes cited among the causes of the American Civil War?

35.

Who wrote The Bluest Eye and Beloved?

36.

What is a synonym for noticeable?

37.

Whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was adapted for film as Blade Runner (1982)?

38.

What describes the borogoves in “Jabberwocky”?

39.

Which of these writers reconstructed in Wide Sargasso Sea the earlier life of the fictional character Antoinette Cosway, who was Mr. Rochester’s mad first wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?

40.

Which American novelist was famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age?

41.

Mirah Cohen appears in which of these novels by George Eliot?

42.

What is considered the first Australian novel?

43.

Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country, a novel that helped focus global attention on the injustices of apartheid in South Africa?

44.

What was Daniel Defoe’s last major work of fiction?

45.

Which novelist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?

46.

Which novel brought E.M. Forster his first major success?

47.

What is an antonym for dismantle?

48.

Who wrote Song of Solomon?

49.

In which country might you (most likely) attend a Kabuki performance?