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  This Raymond Carver short story opens with the line: "This blind man, an old friend of my wife's, he was on his way to spend the night." see if you know the answer
Answered: 126 times
Correct: 77 times (30.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 49 times (19.1%)
Skipped: 131 times (51.0%)
  The first short story that Raymond Carver published was Furious Seasons in 1963. It appeared in . . .
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Answered: 85 times
Correct: 11 times (5.5%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 74 times (37.2%)
Skipped: 114 times (57.3%)
  For a while Raymond Carver attended a creative writing class at Chico State College taught by . . .
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Answered: 114 times
Correct: 62 times (29.8%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 52 times (25.0%)
Skipped: 94 times (45.2%)
  Raymond Carver taught creative writing at several universities. Which of the following was not among them?
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Answered: 92 times
Correct: 16 times (8.0%)
Difficulty: really really difficult
Incorrect: 76 times (37.8%)
Skipped: 109 times (54.2%)
  Raymond Carver's short story A Small, Good Thing was originally published in a much shorter, heavily edited version entitled . . .
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Answered: 112 times
Correct: 37 times (17.1%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 75 times (34.6%)
Skipped: 105 times (48.4%)
  In which Raymond Carver short story is a couple awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from a woman who is trying to reach a man named Bud? see if you know the answer
Answered: 132 times
Correct: 26 times (11.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 106 times (47.5%)
Skipped: 91 times (40.8%)
  In the Raymond Carver short story Cathedral the narrator tries to describe a cathedral to . . see if you know the answer
Answered: 168 times
Correct: 134 times (52.5%)
Difficulty: medium
Incorrect: 34 times (13.3%)
Skipped: 87 times (34.1%)
  Which one of the following Raymond Carver stories was not drawn upon in Robert Altman’s film Short Cuts? see if you know the answer
Answered: 90 times
Correct: 23 times (10.8%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 67 times (31.6%)
Skipped: 122 times (57.5%)
  In his essay Fires Raymond Carver cites who as "the prime movers and shapers of my life and my writing"?
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Answered: 104 times
Correct: 57 times (28.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 47 times (23.3%)
Skipped: 98 times (48.5%)
  In the Raymond Carver short story Feathers, Joey and Harold are the names of . . .
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Answered: 131 times
Correct: 69 times (28.7%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 62 times (25.8%)
Skipped: 109 times (45.4%)
  "I was in my room one night when I heard something in the corridor. I looked up and saw an envelope slide under the door." is a line from which Raymond Carver story?
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Answered: 88 times
Correct: 49 times (25.0%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 39 times (19.9%)
Skipped: 108 times (55.1%)
  The last story that Raymond Carver wrote and saw published in his lifetime concerns the death of . . .
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Answered: 109 times
Correct: 36 times (17.5%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 73 times (35.4%)
Skipped: 97 times (47.1%)
  Which short story was not written by Raymond Carver ? see if you know the answer
Answered: 36 times
Correct: 20 times (35.1%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 16 times (28.1%)
Skipped: 21 times (36.8%)
  All of these writers except one were either born in California, lived a significant part of their lives in California, or both. Who is the exception? see if you know the answer
Answered: 208 times
Correct: 88 times (21.4%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 120 times (29.1%)
Skipped: 204 times (49.5%)
  In Raymond Carver's Cathedral, what is Robert's physical impairment? see if you know the answer
Answered: 522 times
Correct: 243 times (24.2%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 279 times (27.8%)
Skipped: 481 times (48.0%)
  Robert Altman adapted several short stories and a poem for his movie "Short Cuts". Who was the writer of those stories and poem? see if you know the answer
Answered: 663 times
Correct: 411 times (35.3%)
Difficulty: difficult
Incorrect: 252 times (21.7%)
Skipped: 500 times (43.0%)
  Which author writes in a different style than the others? see if you know the answer
Answered: 61 times
Correct: 13 times (13.7%)
Difficulty: very difficult
Incorrect: 48 times (50.5%)
Skipped: 34 times (35.8%)

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