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  For which book did Simone de Beauvoir win the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary honour? see if you know the answer
Answered: 148 times
Correct: 44 times (19.6%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 104 times (46.4%)
Skipped: 76 times (33.9%)
  How old was Simone de Beauvoir when she wrote her classic account of her teenage years, "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter"? see if you know the answer
Answered: 111 times
Correct: 24 times (11.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 87 times (42.9%)
Skipped: 92 times (45.3%)
  Who defended women's equality in a book named The Worth of Women (subtitled "Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men")? see if you know the answer
Answered: 135 times
Correct: 35 times (14.9%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 100 times (42.6%)
Skipped: 100 times (42.6%)
  Who defended women's equality in a speech (and later, treatise) entitled Are Women Human? see if you know the answer
Answered: 170 times
Correct: 59 times (21.9%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 111 times (41.3%)
Skipped: 99 times (36.8%)
  In 1993 novelist Edmund White published a large-scale and highly-respected biography of which influential 20th-century French writer? see if you know the answer
Answered: 62 times
Correct: 24 times (31.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 38 times (49.4%)
Skipped: 15 times (19.5%)
  Who wrote the groundbreaking The Second Sex, on feminism and many other aspects of modern life? see if you know the answer
Answered: 430 times
Correct: 353 times (59.0%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 77 times (12.9%)
Skipped: 168 times (28.1%)
  Who offered the following alternative interpretation of Adam and Eve's Fall from Grace?

"It was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good." 		see if you know the answer
Answered: 43 times
Correct: 3 times (3.9%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 40 times (52.6%)
Skipped: 33 times (43.4%)
  Which novel has a character who can detect smells through the telephone? see if you know the answer
Answered: 49 times
Correct: 20 times (27.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 29 times (39.7%)
Skipped: 24 times (32.9%)
  Which author wrote a novel about someone who never dies? see if you know the answer
Answered: 61 times
Correct: 6 times (7.1%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 55 times (65.5%)
Skipped: 23 times (27.4%)
  What is All Men Are Mortal by Simone de Beauvoir NOT about? see if you know the answer
Answered: 50 times
Correct: 20 times (22.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 30 times (33.0%)
Skipped: 41 times (45.1%)
  Which of the answers below would come next in this sequence: H.G. Wells' men in the moon, Simone de Beauvoir's sex, Flann O'Brien's policeman, John Irving's hand, ...? see if you know the answer
Answered: 92 times
Correct: 37 times (26.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 55 times (39.0%)
Skipped: 49 times (34.8%)

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