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The character Reginald Bunthorne in Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera Patience (1881) is thought to have been a caricature of which writer?
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Which author wrote a novel about someone who never dies?
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Who wrote this couplet?
"The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other milk."
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Which Southern writer once quipped that any fiction coming out of the South was invariably liable to be called "grotesque," unless it actually was grotesque, in which case it would be called "photographic realism"?
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Fill in the missing name in this excerpt from John Updike's Bech A Book:
"_________, it happened, was Bech's favorite American author, in whom he felt united the strengths that were later to go the separate ways of Dreiser and James. Throughout dinner, back at the hotel, he lectured Petrescu about him. 'No one,' Bech said, ... 'more courageously faced our native terror. He went for it right between its wide-set little pig eyes, and it shattered his genius like a lance.' ...
'You do not consider,' Petrescu said, 'that Hawthorne also went between the eyes? And the laconic Ambroce Bierce?' ...
'Hawthorne blinked,' Bech pronounced, 'and Bierce squinted.'"
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According to 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Thomas E. Woods Jr., who among the following opposed the Spanish-American War?
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In what book will you find the following immortal lyrics:
Forward, Foster's Children!
Smash apart your foes...
Faith our shield and Armor!
Strike them down by rows!
Make no peace with sinners!
God is on our side!
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