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[a:Anne Tyler|457|Anne Tyler|http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208899219p2/457.jpg]'s novel <i>[b:Digging to America|698|Digging to America|Anne Tyler|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1157224077s/698.jpg|3140490]</i>, tells the story of the intertwining lives of 2 families after they both adopt daughters from the same country. What country do the 2 little girls come from? Anne Tyler's novel Digging to America, tells the story of the intertwining lives of 2 families after they both adopt daughters from the same country. What country do the 2 little girls come from?
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  Which of the following authors has not won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 91 times (18.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 210 times (41.8%)
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  What langauge did novelist Anne Tyler study in grad school?
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Answered: 118 times
Correct: 57 times (30.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 61 times (32.4%)
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  Which of Anne Tyler's novels received the Pulitzer Prize?
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Answered: 340 times
Correct: 132 times (28.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 208 times (44.6%)
Skipped: 126 times (27.0%)
  In which city are most of Anne Tyler's novels set?
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Correct: 434 times (45.7%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 206 times (21.7%)
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  Who wrote the book "Breathing Lessons"? see if you know the answer
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  From which country does Maryam Yazdan originate in Anne Tyler's novel, Digging to America? see if you know the answer
Answered: 111 times
Correct: 49 times (30.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 62 times (38.8%)
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  Barnaby Rudge, the protagonist of Anne Tyler's A Patchwork Planet, had been to a reform school because he broke into people's houses and did what? see if you know the answer
Answered: 106 times
Correct: 43 times (23.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 63 times (33.7%)
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  Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle begins with what line?

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Difficulty: difficult
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  "Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant" was written by... see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: medium
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  In which Anne Tyler novel does this first line appear?

"Anyone in the neighborhood could tell you how Michael and Pauline first met." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 74 times
Correct: 37 times (31.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
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Skipped: 45 times (37.8%)
  About whom did John Updike declare: "This writer is not merely good, she is wickedly good"? see if you know the answer
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Correct: 29 times (24.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 49 times (41.2%)
Skipped: 41 times (34.5%)
  Of whom did A.L. Rowse say: "I could go on reading her forever"? see if you know the answer
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Difficulty: difficult
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  Finish this statement by Nick Hornby: "My favourite writer, and the best line-and-length novelist in the world, is _________" see if you know the answer
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Correct: 26 times (20.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 58 times (45.0%)
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  Of whom did Lord David Cecil declare that her "unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels are the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the last seventy five years"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 74 times
Correct: 37 times (33.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 37 times (33.9%)
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  Who made this statement about Anne Tyler's work?

"If I could have written the last sentence of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant I'd have been happy the rest of my life." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 118 times
Correct: 24 times (15.6%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 94 times (61.0%)
Skipped: 36 times (23.4%)
  Which one of her novels has Anne Tyler claimed to be her favourite one?
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Answered: 111 times
Correct: 22 times (11.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 89 times (47.6%)
Skipped: 76 times (40.6%)

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