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  • 1. 
    What was George Orwell’s real name?

  • Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Eric Arthur Blair

  • 2. 
    Which British military hero wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom?

  • T.S. Eliot
  • Winston Churchill
  • T.E. Lawrence
  • Bernard Law Montgomery

  • 3. 
    Whose first book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, appeared in 1937?

  • Theodore Roethke
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • John Steinbeck
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel

  • 4. 
    What name was given to the generation of writers Ernest Hemingway belonged to?

  • the lost generation
  • the beat generation
  • the generation gap
  • the blank generation

  • 5. 
    Which of these writers lived in Germany?

  • P.G. Wodehouse
  • J.W. von Goethe
  • Honoré de Balzac
  • John Steinbeck

  • 6. 
    Which Spanish writer died on the same day as William Shakespeare?

  • Antonio Machado
  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • Luis de Góngora
  • Miguel de Cervantes

  • 7. 
    Which of these authors was the first to use a typewriter?

  • Mark Twain
  • J.K. Rowling
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • William Shakespeare

  • 8. 
    About how many novels did Alexandre Dumas the elder write?

  • 15
  • 275
  • 130
  • 425
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