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In Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the librarian gives Melinda a poster of _____________.
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Which writer sardonically declared in 1934 that Adolf Hitler should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
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What modernist novel is prefaced with an epigraph by Gertrude Stein that states: "You are all a lost generation"?
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What painter was such a close friend of Gertrude Stein's that he even painted a portrait of her?
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The Hogarth Press publishing house was famously founded by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard, and named for their home at the time, where the enterprise was started.
After the business grew and moved, however, the actual printing press used eventually ended up in ____________, the home of a (very) close friend of the couple, _________________, where it is still exhibited today.
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Who coined the term "The Lost Generation"?
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Who said this after whose death?
"She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a thought concealed from her, and it is as if I had lost a part of myself."
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In his book A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway once described this author's talent as:
"natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time she/he understood it no more than the butterfly did and she/he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later she/he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and she/he could only remember when it had been effortless."
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