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1. When I was young and asthmatic, stuck in bed, I would read and read my days away. One book in a series which I read starred this nearly impossibly perfect young girl who cleverly solves mysteries. One of her women friends is named George, and her sometimes boyfriend is named Ned. She has been called a role model, even a 'mythic hero' to young women everywhere in the world. What is the name of this heroine?
2. Being a member of the counter-culture, a Venerable Hippie, a Vietnam era Peacenik, I followed my conscience and added my voice to the anti-war voices of the day. In the mid 1970s when the war ended, we celebrated chanting "Hurray! Nixon is done. The war is over! Our job is done." Then, I read a new voice, and I realized the job is never done, that another struggle was gaining strength. My beliefs are non-violent; my arsenal consists of protest, writing letters, signing petitions and voting. The protagonist in this novel, however, embraces direct action.
The book I wish to introduce you to might well be as controversial today as the day it was published. It is about people in the southwestern United States who use sabotage to help save the environment. What is the name of this book by Edward Abbey?
3. In 1977, the science fiction writers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle joined forces to write and publish a novel about a comet hitting the Earth. The name of their book is "Lucifer's ______"?
4. The summer before my senior year of college (shockingly long time ago that was!), I had reconstructive surgery on my jaw. Friends and relatives, knowing what a bookworm I am, gave me mountains of paperbacks to pass the time. However, one book really knocked my socks off. In it, a unhappy young man from California transfers to a college in Vermont. There he becomes fascinated by a small group of students and eventually joins them in committing a murder. What novel is this?
5. This was the first book I read without help, and it started my love of reading. (How fortunate that my mother ignored the warnings that a chapter in the book, known to be sad, would blight my young life.) Reading of the escapades of a resourceful animal and its friends is a delightful introduction to the fascinating creatures of the Australian bush. Never out of print, the book has been adapted for TV, cinema and computer games. With its dedication to "All the kind children," which book is this?
6. When I was a young man, I was really into science fiction. One particular short story that changed my life concerned a man who is transported to the future. Instead of finding an advanced, Utopian society, he awakes in a world populated by mental defectives. What is the name of this famous tale written by Cyril M. Kornbluth?
7. I remember choosing this book as a school project because its premise sounded interesting, but, after I had finished it, I lost no time in turning back to page one and starting all over again. The second time through, I had a better idea of what words like "horrorshow," "mesto," and "slovo" meant, but I had also wanted to revisit the melancholy story of Alex DeLarge and his droogs. What nadsat-laden classic novel made such a strong impact on me?
8. In childhood I loved novels in which other children faced challenging and even fantastic events with courage and determination. All four of the choices below were particular favorites of mine. But only one contains scenes of the story's children trying to manage life on their own in a museum, bathing in the fountain and sleeping in the antique beds. Which of these novels contains such scenes?
9. In the novel "The Three Musketeers," Alexandre Dumas introduces us to the evil Milady De Winter. In the novel, Milady has two husbands and several lovers. Which of her husbands or lovers outlived her?
10. During the Christmas break of my first year at university, I suddenly found myself with no assignments to write and two long weeks away from classes to fill. Digging around the literature section of the campus library, I found myself two volumes of the famously hard-boiled novels of Raymond Chandler. For the whole of those two weeks, I immersed myself in the seedy world of Los Angeles and the smart talking character of Philip Marlowe. Which was the first novel that starred Chandler's gumshoe Marlowe?
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