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Agog about Agee Trivia Quiz

Before his untimely death, James Agee almost did it all. If you've ever read any of his work, this quiz is for you.

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
23,078

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
4 / 10

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353

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Question 1 of 10

1. Where was Agee born? Hint

Albany, New York

Baltimore, Maryland

Atlanta, Georgia

Knoxville, Tennessee

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the first name of the young hero of 'A Death In The Family'? Hint

Rufus

Rhett

Sidney

Ashley

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Question 3 of 10

3. Name the two Stephen Crane storie Agee adopted for the screen. Hint

The Open Boat, A Mystery of Heroism

The Monster, The Red Badge Of Courage

The Pace of Youth, The Upturned Face

The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

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Question 4 of 10

4. Name the director of Agee's script of Davis Grubb's The Night Of The Hunter. Hint

Charles Laughton

Karl Malden

Marlon Brando

John Wayne

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which 19th-century artist's life did Agee base a script on? Hint

Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Gauguin

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Edgar Degas

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which American composer set Agee's words to music? Hint

Aaron Copland

Stephen Sondheim

Leonard Bernstein

Samuel Barber

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Question 7 of 10

7. Name the magazine Agee DIDN'T write film criticism for. Hint

Time

The Nation

Life

Films in Review

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Question 8 of 10

8. What is the film Agee DID do with Huston? Hint

Fat City

The Asphalt Jungle

The African Queen

Night of the Iguana

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Question 9 of 10

9. Name the title of Agee's collaboration with photographer Walker Evans. Hint

I Am A Camera

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

As I See

How the Other Half Lives

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Question 10 of 10

10. Name the only untrue statement about Agee. Hint

He won the Pulitzer Prize

He died of a heart attack in a taxi

He was a published poet

He was a Broadway playwright

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Where was Agee born?

Answer: Knoxville, Tennessee

Also born in Knoxville: cult filmmaker Quentin Tarantino.

2. What is the first name of the young hero of 'A Death In The Family'?

Answer: Rufus

Rufus, by the way, was Agee's middle name!

3. Name the two Stephen Crane storie Agee adopted for the screen.

Answer: The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

Though Agee worked with John Huston, it wasn't on Red Badge. Both Agee and Crane were writers who died comparatively young.

4. Name the director of Agee's script of Davis Grubb's The Night Of The Hunter.

Answer: Charles Laughton

Hunter was Laughton's sole directorial effort, and a cult classic, starring Robert Mitchum.

5. Which 19th-century artist's life did Agee base a script on?

Answer: Paul Gauguin

Agee based 'Noa Noa' on Gauguin's life (but was left unfilmed on the author's death).

6. Which American composer set Agee's words to music?

Answer: Samuel Barber

'Knoxville: Summer of 1915' was Barber's beautiful musicalization of Agee's prelude to his 'Death in the Family'.

7. Name the magazine Agee DIDN'T write film criticism for.

Answer: Films in Review

'Films in Review' wasn't around when Agee wrote!

8. What is the film Agee DID do with Huston?

Answer: The African Queen

The 1952 adaptation of the C.S. Forester tale, which Agee co-wrote with Huston, snagged the Oscar for Bogie.

9. Name the title of Agee's collaboration with photographer Walker Evans.

Answer: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Agee and Evans teamed to make a minor American classic of reportage.

10. Name the only untrue statement about Agee.

Answer: He was a Broadway playwright

Agee never wrote a stage play, but Tad Mosel adapted 'Death' for the stage as 'All the Way {Home';} it became a movie starring Robert Preston(Agee won the Pulitzer posthumously for 'Death').

Source: Author tjoebigham

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