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Which one of the following is not a book in John Updike's "Rabbit quartet?"
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562 times (61.8%) |
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152 times (16.7%) |
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Which one of the following was not written by John Updike?
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449 times |
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153 times (18.9%) |
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What was John Updike's Rabbit Angstrom's first profession?
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243 times |
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86 times (13.9%) |
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157 times (25.4%) |
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In which state do the events of John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick take place?
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382 times |
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152 times (25.2%) |
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Who provided the source material for William Shakespeare's Hamlet?
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166 times |
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14 times (5.6%) |
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152 times (61.3%) |
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82 times (33.1%) |
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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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94 times |
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47 times (37.0%) |
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difficult |
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47 times (37.0%) |
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Of whom is John Updike writing here?
"What are we to make of him? The economy of his prose, the tact of his imagery, the courage of his thought are there to be admired and emulated. In resounding the note of the marvelous last struck in English by Wells and Chesterton, in permitting infinity to enter and distort his imagination, he has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place."
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59 times |
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26 times (26.0%) |
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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."
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105 times |
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21 times (15.2%) |
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very difficult |
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84 times (60.9%) |
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33 times (23.9%) |
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The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments is the long-awaited unfinished novel of which great writer, set to be published in November of 2009?
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67 times |
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41 times (46.1%) |
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medium |
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26 times (29.2%) |
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22 times (24.7%) |
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Fill in the missing name in this excerpt from John Updike's Bech A Book:
"_________, it happened, was Bech's favorite American author, in whom he felt united the strengths that were later to go the separate ways of Dreiser and James. Throughout dinner, back at the hotel, he lectured Petrescu about him. 'No one,' Bech said, ... 'more courageously faced our native terror. He went for it right between its wide-set little pig eyes, and it shattered his genius like a lance.' ...
'You do not consider,' Petrescu said, 'that Hawthorne also went between the eyes? And the laconic Ambroce Bierce?' ...
'Hawthorne blinked,' Bech pronounced, 'and Bierce squinted.'"
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58 times |
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28 times (33.3%) |
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difficult |
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30 times (35.7%) |
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26 times (31.0%) |
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Which fictional writer is mismatched with his novelist creator? (See 'Details' for explanation).
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38 times |
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22 times (38.6%) |
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difficult |
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16 times (28.1%) |
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19 times (33.3%) |
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Which author did not win two Pulitzers for fiction (novel).
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20 times |
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6 times (17.1%) |
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very difficult |
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14 times (40.0%) |
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15 times (42.9%) |
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