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What is the name of the dwarf in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers?
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Carson McCullers wrote all of the following except...?
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Which of these authors was once married to someone with the same Christian name as themself?
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Which is NOT by Carson McCullers?
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What was Carson McCullers' first name?
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Of which Southern writer did Graham Greene write: "__________ and perhaps Mr Faulkner are the only writers since the death of D.H. Lawrence with an original poetic sensibility. I prefer __________ to Mr Faulkner because she writes more clearly; I prefer her to D.H. Lawrence because she has no message"?
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What tragedy befell Carson McCullers before she made a name for herself as a writer?
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Which one of these writers wrote the following in answer to a Professor of English's query about one of her stories?
"The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which any answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it.
My tone is not meant to be obnoxious. I am in a state of shock."
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Who said this?
"Life is strange. Stories hardly make it more so; with all they are able to tell and surmise, they make it more believably, more inevitably so."
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65 times |
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20 times (19.2%) |
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45 times (43.3%) |
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The three sections of whose autobiography are entitled "Listening," "Learning to See" and "Finding a Voice"?
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Which one of these novels opens with this sentence?
"In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together."
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76 times (67.9%) |
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Which one of these novels opens with this sentence?
"Hazel Motes sat at a forward angle on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want to jump out of it, and the next down the aisle at the other end of the car."
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34 times (31.8%) |
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Which one of these novels opens with this sentence?
"In sleep she knew she was in her bed, but not the bed she had lain down in a few hours since, and the room was not the same but it was a room she had known somewhere."
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71 times |
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29 times (27.6%) |
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42 times (40.0%) |
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Which one of these novels opens with this sentence?
"The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog."
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73 times |
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54 times (50.9%) |
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19 times (17.9%) |
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