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In Don DeLillo's "White Noise," who provided the Dylar?
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429 times |
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144 times (15.1%) |
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285 times (29.9%) |
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523 times (54.9%) |
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What forces the family to evacuate their home in White Noise by Don DeLillo?
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281 times |
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245 times (56.1%) |
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medium |
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36 times (8.2%) |
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156 times (35.7%) |
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In Don Delillo's "White Noise," what is on the wall in the hospital with the German-speaking nuns?
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419 times |
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187 times (21.2%) |
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232 times (26.3%) |
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464 times (52.5%) |
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What famous reclusive novelist was the basis for Sky Gilbert's fictional memoir Brother Dumb?
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261 times |
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123 times (24.7%) |
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difficult |
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138 times (27.7%) |
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237 times (47.6%) |
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What language is the protagonist of Don DeLillo's novel White Noise struggling to learn?
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664 times |
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270 times (23.0%) |
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difficult |
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394 times (33.5%) |
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511 times (43.5%) |
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Which great American novelist of the late 20th-century died on 27 January 2009 from lung cancer?
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261 times |
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206 times (70.5%) |
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easy |
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55 times (18.8%) |
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31 times (10.6%) |
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In 2003 renowned literary critic Harold Bloom gave his list of the four most important American novelists at work at that stage. Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo were three of them; who was the other one?
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943 times |
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337 times (27.2%) |
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difficult |
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606 times (48.9%) |
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297 times (24.0%) |
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In the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo, how is the toxic airborne event inaccurately described when it first appears?
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136 times |
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69 times (29.0%) |
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difficult |
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67 times (28.2%) |
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102 times (42.9%) |
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In the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo, Babette says she has only two wishes; one is her wish that she die before Jack, the other is her wish that -
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126 times |
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71 times (30.3%) |
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difficult |
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55 times (23.5%) |
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108 times (46.2%) |
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What fictional (I hope) drug is featured in Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE?
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271 times |
| Correct: |
155 times (30.0%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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116 times (22.4%) |
| Skipped: |
246 times (47.6%) |
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What is the title of the novel by Don DeLillo based on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald?
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473 times |
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227 times (30.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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246 times (33.2%) |
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268 times (36.2%) |
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Which one of these renowned American novelists was a pallbearer at Eudora Welty's funeral in 2001 and remains her literary executor (in fact, he grew up in her neighborhood and attended the same high school as she did)?
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113 times |
| Correct: |
26 times (16.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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87 times (56.1%) |
| Skipped: |
42 times (27.1%) |
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Identify the Don DeLillo novel that contains this quote:
"The largest island in the world," Marvin said. "But you don't know anyone who's ever been there. And the size keeps changing. What's more, listen to this, the location also changes. Because if you look closely at one map and then another, Greenland seems to move. It's in a slightly different part of the ocean. Which is the whole juxt of my argument."
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223 times |
| Correct: |
105 times (17.1%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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118 times (19.2%) |
| Skipped: |
392 times (63.7%) |
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If Camus' was first, and Greene's were third and tenth, while Bellow's was dangling, DeLillo's was falling and Dick's was in a high castle - whose was Thursday?
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125 times |
| Correct: |
64 times (39.3%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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61 times (37.4%) |
| Skipped: |
38 times (23.3%) |
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Which celebrity figure is not a character in Don DeLillo's Underworld?
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| Answered: |
39 times |
| Correct: |
15 times (21.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
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24 times (34.8%) |
| Skipped: |
30 times (43.5%) |
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All of these great American novelists were born in the 1930s. Which one of them is the oldest?
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57 times |
| Correct: |
9 times (11.7%) |
| Difficulty: |
very difficult |
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48 times (62.3%) |
| Skipped: |
20 times (26.0%) |
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All of these great American novelists were born in the 1930s. Which one of them is the youngest?
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| Answered: |
32 times |
| Correct: |
15 times (27.8%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
17 times (31.5%) |
| Skipped: |
22 times (40.7%) |
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Who stated this?
"The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous."
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| Answered: |
43 times |
| Correct: |
16 times (24.6%) |
| Difficulty: |
difficult |
| Incorrect: |
27 times (41.5%) |
| Skipped: |
22 times (33.8%) |
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