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1. What is one of many books which consider the conforming side of Americans in the American life?
2. What is this international, posthumously published, novel which takes place in the time of the Italian reunification with Sicily?
3. This book was the winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961, and it also became a film starring Gregory Peck.
4. Which 1962 book first spoke of a "global village" and introduced the idea, "the medium is the message"?
5. What is the name of the 1965 book, written by a frequent contender for the Presidency of the United States, that controversially took up the lack of safety in the automobile industry?
6. What was the name of the 1960 book written by the Arizona candidate for President?
7. What is the name of the short story (and later film) that deals with Herr von Hammerstein, the Havelocks, Major Gonzales and the Greek businessman Aristotle Kristatos? The novel previous to this story is "Goldfinger".
8. What book earned the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction in 1964?
9. What is the name of Truman Capote's 1966 book dealing with the killing of the Clutter family in Kansas?
10. President Kennedy authorized Robin Moore to go to a war zone (Vietnam) to do research into the nature of a particularly highly trained fighting force. What was the name of a particularly well-known book which came out of his research, which was later followed by a famous film?
11. What was the book dealing non-chronologically with the bombing of Dresden and with a character named Billy Pilgrim? He is a hero who famously becomes "unstuck in time."
12. What was the famous novel published by the wife of Charles Lindbergh? Note: this is not to be confused with the novel by Toni Morrison.
13. What irreverent 1964 book did a Beatle write which included line drawings, poems and paintings?
14. What is the name of the famous 1967 book of by the Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez? The entire novel takes place in the fictional town of Macondo.
15. Which is the 1969 novel whose central character is Sarah Woodruff or "Tragedy"? This woman who lives in Lyme Regis has been seduced and abandoned by a French sailor.
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