Portal talk:Literature/Literature quiz

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Literature quiz posted November 24, 2006
(1) What is the title of the novel in which an English family tries to abduct a child from its home in Italy so that it can be raised in England? Who is the author?

Your answer: Where Angels Fear To Tread by E. M. Forster

(2) Which female American author has written a short story in which wealthy elderly people are marooned on a tropical desert island so that their grown-up children can inherit their money?

Your answer:

(3) How many survivors are there in the novel whose protagonist is Fletcher J. Fletcher? What is the title of the book?

Your answer:1, Planet for the President, Alister Breaton --Jen in teacups 19:35, 7 December 2006 (UTC)jen_in_teacups

Literature quiz posted November 18, 2006
(1) What novel begins with these two sentences? Who is the author? "It was Sunday. Chance was in the garden."

Your answer: Being There by Jerzy Kosinski. Whycreateanaccount 17:44, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, this one was easy, wasn't it?

(2) Which female American author has written a short story in which wealthy elderly people are marooned on a tropical desert island so that their grown-up children can inherit their money?

Your answer:

(3) Who is the author of the stage play Sufficient Carbohydrate, in which two business executives are vacationing on a Greek island?

Your answer: Dennis Potter. Whycreateanaccount 17:44, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Correct, Whycreateanaccount. Do you know the play or did you Google it?

Literature quiz posted November 11, 2006
(1) What novel begins with this sentence? Who is the first person narrator here? "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

Your answer:The Great Gatsby/ Nick Carraway

Correct. Well done, User:24.223.66.83!

(2) Which female American author has written a short story in which wealthy elderly people are marooned on a tropical desert island so that their grown-up children can inherit their money?

Your answer:

(3) What is the title, and who is the author, of the novel in which the (fictional) Battle of Trafalgar Square of 1952 is mentioned?

Your answer: 'News from Nowhere' by William Morris (1890)

Excellent, User:203.26.59.4! Congratulations!

Literature quiz posted November 2, 2006
(1) What is the title, and who is the author, of the poem that ends with the line, "And that has made all the difference"?

Your answer:Robert Frost, "The Path Less Traveled" 65.26.151.236 01:32, 10 November 2006 (UTC)DS

Actually called "The Road Not Taken", but that's all right.

(2) Which best selling German author of the 19th century wrote novels set in the Wild West long before visiting North America himself?

Your answer: Karl May --Dgrazi 20:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Correct. Well done!

(3) What is the title, and who is the author, of the novel in which the (fictional) Battle of Trafalgar Square of 1952 is mentioned?

Your answer: