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Quiz about Great Novels From Seventies
Quiz about Great Novels From Seventies

Great Novels From Seventies Trivia Quiz


This quiz deals with plots and characters of novels that had their moment of glory (or longer ) in the 1970s. See how well you remember their titles, authors or what they were about .

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
flem-ish
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
67,860
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
7 / 15
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902
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Question 1 of 15
1. In William Styron's 'Sophie's Choice', the title-character has to make various choices.One of them is pointing out to a nazi-officer which of her two kids she wants saved. What happens ultimately to the kids? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. What is the final choice Sophie makes? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Where does the meeting between Stingo and Sophie take place? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Which of these characters in Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel 'Shosha' is the one who proposes marriage to the hero Aaron Greidinger so that he might escape from the nazi-persecution of the Polish Jews? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Who or what is 'Praxis' in Fay Weldon's novel of that name? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. What was the title of the successful book by E.L.Doctorow in which a negro father sees his 'bride-to-be' killed by the police and his car smashed by bigots before waging terrorist warfare on his oppressors and finally dying at the hands of police-marksmen ? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. What was the title of Erica Jong's successful story in which Isadora Zelda White Stoller Wing flies to a convention of psychoanalysts in Vienna and temporarily exchanges her husband Bennett for an Englishman with the highly symbolic name Adrian Goodlove? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. What letter of the alphabet was used as a title by John Berger for a book situated in pre-First World War Italy in which the hero (the son of a wealthy merchant and his mistress) gets sexually involved with 1.one of his two adult cousins 2.a hotelmaid 3. the wife of a motormagnate 4.a banker's wife 5.a Slovenian working-class girl before he ultimately is murdered on the orders of one or other politician ? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. What boy's name was used by E.M.Forster for his book describing the homosexual awakening of a boy who falls in love with an unstable but intelligent classics undergraduate and later becomes the lover of the gamekeeper at that same friend's estate ? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. What is the general title of Paul Scott's tetralogy of which 'The Jewel in the Crown' was the first book (1966) and ' A Division of the Spoils' in 1975 the final one? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. What title was given by Beryl Bainbridge to her book in which we see young Hitler run off from Vienna to his half-brother Alois in Liverpool in order to escape from military service one year before the outbreak of World War One? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. What was the title of Robert Coover's novel dealing with the execution of the Rosenbergs on June 19, 1953, in which Richard Nixon, Dwight D.Eisenhower,the Groun'Hog Hunt and Uncle Sam himself also play a role? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. What was the title of the very successful book which had all of these ingredients: a. a woman who decides to have a baby without 'sharing her body or her life' b.a hero who marries Helen Holm, the daughter of his wrestling-coach but later gets involved in a car-crash with her that ends up in weird fatalities c.an athlete of the Philadelphia Eagles undergoing a sex-change and becoming RobertA Muldoon d. a feminist movement whose members cut off their tongues in imitation of their heroine, one Ellen James who got raped at age eleven ?

Answer: (Five Words last of which is a proper name. Not the Gospel according to Matthew.)
Question 14 of 15
14. Which of these novels deals with the famous case of Gary Gilmore who after spending 22 years in prison was released on parole, shot and killed two people , then demanded the death penalty for himself ? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. What African politician is the 'Big Man' in V.S. Naipaul's ' A Bend in the River' a thinly disguised portrait of ? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. In William Styron's 'Sophie's Choice', the title-character has to make various choices.One of them is pointing out to a nazi-officer which of her two kids she wants saved. What happens ultimately to the kids?

Answer: neither is saved

'Sophie's Choice' was published in 1979.
2. What is the final choice Sophie makes?

Answer: she commits suicide with her old lover Nathan

Styron was born in Virginia in 1925.He won Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for The Confessions of Nat Turner.
3. Where does the meeting between Stingo and Sophie take place?

Answer: Brooklyn, New York

Alan J. Pakula made a film version in 1982.
4. Which of these characters in Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel 'Shosha' is the one who proposes marriage to the hero Aaron Greidinger so that he might escape from the nazi-persecution of the Polish Jews?

Answer: Betty Slonim, an actress and mistress of Sam Dreiman, a New York millionnaire

The hero has been having an affair with Celia, but Celia is already married. Her complaisant husband Haiml does not seem to mind too much. Aaron also has an affair with Dora. But it's Betty, for whom he has been commissioned to write a Yiddish play, who tries to get him out of Poland. Ultimately he refuses because he wants to take care of the innocent, introverted, unteachable Shosha.

This is all in vain because neither Celia nor Shosha nor his good friend the philosopher Morris Feitelzohn escape the Holocaust. Only he and Haiml survive. Apart from the New-Yorkers Betty and Sam of course.
5. Who or what is 'Praxis' in Fay Weldon's novel of that name?

Answer: the heroine of the story

Published in 1978. Praxis Duveen is a woman with a past: she has been sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment for the murder of her handicapped child.In the course of the book we see her first as the partner of Willy, a slovenly, mean and sexually inexhaustible male.

Then she finds a second husband , Philip, who soon is deceiving her with another woman. Then she has a relationship with Mary Leonard, the illegitimate daughter of her guardian.
6. What was the title of the successful book by E.L.Doctorow in which a negro father sees his 'bride-to-be' killed by the police and his car smashed by bigots before waging terrorist warfare on his oppressors and finally dying at the hands of police-marksmen ?

Answer: Ragtime

The book is full of links with historical characters such as Emma Goldmann (with whom Younger Brother is having a short {affair);} J.P.Morgan (a private library of his is the scene of a siege by the {police);} Henry Ford (the black ragtime pianist's new car was a Ford {car);Archduke} Franz {Ferdinand;} Houdini...etc. Filmversion by Milos Forman.(1981)
7. What was the title of Erica Jong's successful story in which Isadora Zelda White Stoller Wing flies to a convention of psychoanalysts in Vienna and temporarily exchanges her husband Bennett for an Englishman with the highly symbolic name Adrian Goodlove?

Answer: Fear of Flying

The heroine is in search of the zipless f***, by which term she means : sex without constraint, without involvement and (therefore) without regrets. The feminist side of the book can be seen in the identification of Jews and women. On the other hand the many explicit scenes use the habitual scenarios of modern pornography.
8. What letter of the alphabet was used as a title by John Berger for a book situated in pre-First World War Italy in which the hero (the son of a wealthy merchant and his mistress) gets sexually involved with 1.one of his two adult cousins 2.a hotelmaid 3. the wife of a motormagnate 4.a banker's wife 5.a Slovenian working-class girl before he ultimately is murdered on the orders of one or other politician ?

Answer: G

Another very brief title from the Seventies was William Gaddis' JR.
9. What boy's name was used by E.M.Forster for his book describing the homosexual awakening of a boy who falls in love with an unstable but intelligent classics undergraduate and later becomes the lover of the gamekeeper at that same friend's estate ?

Answer: Maurice

Clive Durham, Maurice 's first homosexual mentor suddenly discovers he is 'normal' again and Maurice now turns to Alec Scudder, a much less intellectually sophisticated boy-friend. Filmversion by James Ivory in 1987.
10. What is the general title of Paul Scott's tetralogy of which 'The Jewel in the Crown' was the first book (1966) and ' A Division of the Spoils' in 1975 the final one?

Answer: The Raj Quartet

The Day of the Scorpion 1968 and the Towers of Silence 1971 were books 2 and 3.
11. What title was given by Beryl Bainbridge to her book in which we see young Hitler run off from Vienna to his half-brother Alois in Liverpool in order to escape from military service one year before the outbreak of World War One?

Answer: Young Adolf

Alois, young Adolf's illegitimate half-brother, is not too happy about his Viennese relative coming over to England. In this black comedy we see how Bridget, Alois's wife, makes a brown shirt from a curtain for her German lodger, how young Hitler himself begins to grow a moustache to cover up the traces left from being molested while disguised as a woman and how he brushes down his hair to conceal a bump received from some of his landlord Meyer's sinister friends.

Other characters: Alois and Bridget's darling baby {Pat;} the housekeeper Mary O'Leary {;} Meyer's associate Dr Kephaius. Published in 1978.
12. What was the title of Robert Coover's novel dealing with the execution of the Rosenbergs on June 19, 1953, in which Richard Nixon, Dwight D.Eisenhower,the Groun'Hog Hunt and Uncle Sam himself also play a role?

Answer: The Public Burning

The execution of the Rosenbergs is certainly the focal point of the book, but its subtitle might have been 'The Making of a president', for the main character and principal narrator is none other than the then vice-president Richard Milhous Nixon. The vice-president emerges as a hapless, isolated buffoon, capable of inspiring sympathy despite his chicanery and hypocrisy. (Published in 1977.)
13. What was the title of the very successful book which had all of these ingredients: a. a woman who decides to have a baby without 'sharing her body or her life' b.a hero who marries Helen Holm, the daughter of his wrestling-coach but later gets involved in a car-crash with her that ends up in weird fatalities c.an athlete of the Philadelphia Eagles undergoing a sex-change and becoming RobertA Muldoon d. a feminist movement whose members cut off their tongues in imitation of their heroine, one Ellen James who got raped at age eleven ?

Answer: The World According to Garp

Among the weird fatalities in this 'black comedy' there is not just two kids being killed or maimed, but also the hero breaking his jaw and his unfaithful wife Helen biting off some essentials of her lover. Book published in 1978.Author John Irving.
14. Which of these novels deals with the famous case of Gary Gilmore who after spending 22 years in prison was released on parole, shot and killed two people , then demanded the death penalty for himself ?

Answer: The Executioner's Song

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote was already published in 1966. The Cement Garden is by Ian Mc Ewan and was published in 1978. Both these books also deal with murder cases. A Dry White Season, 1979 is a political novel on apartheid by Andre Brink. Mailer's Executioner's Song was published in 1979.The Gilmore Case dates back to 1976.
15. What African politician is the 'Big Man' in V.S. Naipaul's ' A Bend in the River' a thinly disguised portrait of ?

Answer: President Mobutu of Zaire

The novel subtly shows how the hero Salim is as dependent on his lover Yvette as the country he describes is dependent on its 'Big Man'. 'A Bend in the River' dates back to 1979.
Source: Author flem-ish

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