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  Who is a recurring character in Philip Roth's novels? see if you know the answer
Answered: 198 times
Correct: 166 times (48.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 32 times (9.4%)
Skipped: 142 times (41.8%)
  What image is on the front of the threatening postcards that Nathan Zuckerman receives in Philip Roth's Exit Ghost? see if you know the answer
Answered: 123 times
Correct: 40 times (11.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 83 times (23.8%)
Skipped: 226 times (64.8%)
  In The Dying Animal by Philip Roth, what does Kepesh want to watch Consuela do? see if you know the answer
Answered: 155 times
Correct: 70 times (19.3%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 85 times (23.5%)
Skipped: 207 times (57.2%)
 
Which of Philip Roth's novels contains a character generally believed to be an extremely negative portrait of his ex-wife, Claire Bloom? 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 270 times
Correct: 107 times (27.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 163 times (41.7%)
Skipped: 121 times (30.9%)
  In The Plot Against America by Philip Roth what famous aviator is elected president?


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Answered: 12698 times
Correct: 10211 times (57.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 2487 times (14.0%)
Skipped: 5055 times (28.5%)
 
"There are two things that can be wrong with any man. One of them is a cheque. The other is a woman." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 220 times
Correct: 73 times (24.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 147 times (49.8%)
Skipped: 75 times (25.4%)
  In the alternate history novel The Plot Against America by Philip Roth, who won the 1940 United States Presidential election? see if you know the answer
Answered: 3759 times
Correct: 3067 times (52.8%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 692 times (11.9%)
Skipped: 2054 times (35.3%)
  Where is Philip Roth's brother sent in "The Plot Against America"?



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Answered: 155 times
Correct: 82 times (41.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 73 times (36.5%)
Skipped: 45 times (22.5%)
  Which great American novelist of the late 20th-century died on 27 January 2009 from lung cancer? see if you know the answer
Answered: 266 times
Correct: 210 times (70.7%)
Difficulty: easy
Incorrect: 56 times (18.9%)
Skipped: 31 times (10.4%)
  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? see if you know the answer
Answered: 947 times
Correct: 338 times (27.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 609 times (49.0%)
Skipped: 297 times (23.9%)
  Who narrates Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" and "American Pastoral"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 413 times
Correct: 272 times (35.6%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 141 times (18.5%)
Skipped: 351 times (45.9%)
  What is Seymour Levov's nickname in Philip Roth's "American Pastoral"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 266 times
Correct: 183 times (27.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 83 times (12.3%)
Skipped: 410 times (60.7%)
  Who wrote a novel entitled: "The Great American Novel"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 862 times
Correct: 414 times (33.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 448 times (36.1%)
Skipped: 379 times (30.5%)
  Which novelist is the only one to have won the National Book Award three times (as of 2008)? see if you know the answer
Answered: 110 times
Correct: 24 times (16.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 86 times (60.6%)
Skipped: 32 times (22.5%)
  What's the name of Philip Roth's literary alter ego? see if you know the answer
Answered: 683 times
Correct: 450 times (42.6%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 233 times (22.0%)
Skipped: 374 times (35.4%)
  In American Pastoral by Philip Roth, what is the occupation of Swede Levov? see if you know the answer
Answered: 1905 times
Correct: 607 times (13.4%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 1298 times (28.7%)
Skipped: 2612 times (57.8%)
  Finish this statement by John Updike: "Yet, as we look about, could we not say that Henry James has many academic idolaters but few imitators -- Peter Taylor and _________ in their youths are the last I can think of..." see if you know the answer
Answered: 80 times
Correct: 15 times (11.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 65 times (49.6%)
Skipped: 51 times (38.9%)
  In which Philip Roth book does Nathan Zuckerman befriend Coleman Silk? see if you know the answer
Answered: 253 times
Correct: 151 times (23.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 102 times (15.7%)
Skipped: 396 times (61.0%)
  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)? see if you know the answer
Answered: 113 times
Correct: 26 times (16.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 87 times (56.1%)
Skipped: 42 times (27.1%)
  "Simply Apologizing without a thought would be nothing but a nuisance. There would be no meaning in such an act." see if you know the answer
Answered: 119 times
Correct: 16 times (8.0%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 103 times (51.5%)
Skipped: 81 times (40.5%)
  Which great American writer composed this dedication for one of his books? (His son's surname is left blank.)

"As nearly as possible in the spirit of Matthew ________, age one, urging a luncheon companion to accept a cool lima bean, I urge my editor, mentor, and (heaven help him) closest friend, William Shawn, genius domus of The New Yorker, lover of the long shot, protector of the unprolific, defender of the hopelessly flamboyant, most unreasonably modest of born great artist-editors, to accept this pretty skimpy-looking book."
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Answered: 98 times
Correct: 49 times (36.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 49 times (36.8%)
Skipped: 35 times (26.3%)
  Who is the protagonist of Indignation by Philip Roth? see if you know the answer
Answered: 42 times
Correct: 18 times (18.0%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 24 times (24.0%)
Skipped: 58 times (58.0%)
  From whom did Marcus Messner borrow a car to take out Olivia Hutton in Philip Roth's Indignation? see if you know the answer
Answered: 40 times
Correct: 8 times (7.8%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 32 times (31.4%)
Skipped: 62 times (60.8%)
  This Philip Roth book satirizes the Nixon Administration: Philip Roth see if you know the answer
Answered: 54 times
Correct: 29 times (30.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 25 times (26.6%)
Skipped: 40 times (42.6%)
  From which one of Philip Roth's novels does this excerpt come from?

"All I'm pushing on you is a little normality. This is too separate an existence for any human being. At least you can have a couple of cats for company." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 52 times
Correct: 17 times (19.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 35 times (39.3%)
Skipped: 37 times (41.6%)
  Which book by Joseph Conrad do the characters discuss at various points in Exit Ghost by Philip Roth? see if you know the answer
Answered: 35 times
Correct: 15 times (22.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 20 times (29.4%)
Skipped: 33 times (48.5%)
  All of these great American novelists were born in the 1930s. Which one of them is the oldest? see if you know the answer
Answered: 57 times
Correct: 9 times (11.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 48 times (62.3%)
Skipped: 20 times (26.0%)
  All of these great American novelists were born in the 1930s. Which one of them is the youngest? see if you know the answer
Answered: 32 times
Correct: 15 times (27.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 17 times (31.5%)
Skipped: 22 times (40.7%)
  Which one of these novels by Philip Roth does not feature Nathan Zuckerman as a character? see if you know the answer
Answered: 45 times
Correct: 27 times (48.2%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 18 times (32.1%)
Skipped: 11 times (19.6%)
  Which fictional writer is mismatched with his novelist creator? (See 'Details' for explanation). see if you know the answer
Answered: 44 times
Correct: 22 times (34.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 22 times (34.9%)
Skipped: 19 times (30.2%)
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