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  Angela Carter's short story "The Bloody Chamber" is a re-working of what famed story? see if you know the answer
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  In Angela Carter's Wise Children, which fictional actor is the possible father of the heroines? see if you know the answer
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  The heroine of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus has what interesting physical characteristic? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: very difficult
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  In the book Wise Children by Angela Carter, what are the names of the two twin sisters who are the main characters of the story? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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  In Wise Children by Angela Carter, which one of the Chance sisters narrates the story? see if you know the answer
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  Which naughty act occurs in Angela Carter's re-vision of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, "The Snow Child"?

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Correct: 58 times (22.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 119 times (45.2%)
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  The "panoptic" prison section in Angela Carter's "Nights at the Circus" borrows from what significant literary/cultural theorist?

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Nights at the Circus 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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  What text got Angela Carter in quite a bit of trouble with anti-porn feminists in the 70s?

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  Angela Carter died in 1992. What was the cause?

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  With which literary genre is Angela Carter most significantly associated?

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  What do the women in the panopticon-style Siberian prison of Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus use to communicate with one another?

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Difficulty: difficult
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  In Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, where does Desiderio find the name ALBERTINA recurring?

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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: very difficult
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  What classic fairy tale does Angela Carter re-write in the short stories "The Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and "Tiger's Bride"?

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Difficulty: difficult
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  On which classic fairy tale are Angela Carter's "The Werewolf," "The Company of Wolves," and "Wolf-Alice" based?

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Correct: 141 times (54.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 45 times (17.4%)
Skipped: 72 times (27.9%)
  In Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman, what does Desiderio find strange about the women in the river tribe?

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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 91 times
Correct: 51 times (25.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
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  While traveling with a freak show, Desiderio encounters all of the following BUT:

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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: really really difficult
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  On which fairy tale is Angela Carter's short story Lady in the House of Love loosely based?

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Difficulty: very difficult
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  What destroys the traveling freak show in Angela Carter's The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman?

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Difficulty: very difficult
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  What generates the "eroto-energy" in Doctor Hoffman's laboratory?

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Correct: 36 times (16.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 49 times (22.5%)
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  In which of these novels by Angela Carter does the protagonist reveal the secret of her birth thus: "Hatched; by whom, I do not know. Who laid me is as much a mystery to me, sir, as the nature of my conception, my father and my mother both utterly unknown to me, and, some would say, unknown to nature, what's more"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 123 times
Correct: 70 times (29.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
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  True or False: Novelist Angela Carter was working on a sequel to Jane Eyre at the time of her untimely death in 1992? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 192 times (49.9%)
Difficulty: medium
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  Angela Carter, Thomas Mann, William Golding, Terry Pratchett.

Which word links all four authors? 		see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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