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Canadian Authors Trivia Quiz

Can you identify the Canadian authors who wrote these well-known works?

A multiple-choice quiz by Astena. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Astena

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
302,710

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
581

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. Whose works include "St. Urbain's Horseman", "Solomon Gursky Was Here", "The Incomparable Atuk", and "Joshua Then and Now"? Hint

Mordecai Richler

Timothy Findley

George Elliott Clarke

Michel Tremblay

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Question 2 of 10

2. Whose works include "A Jest of God", "This Side Jordan", "The Diviners", and "The Fire Dwellers"? Hint

Margaret Atwood

Carol Shields

Jane Urquhart

Margaret Laurence

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Question 3 of 10

3. Whose works include "In the Skin of a Lion", "Anil's Ghost", "Divisadero", and "The English Patient"? Hint

Yann Martel

Michael Ondaatje

Rohinton Mistry

Simon Rose

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Question 4 of 10

4. Whose works include "The Telling of Lies", "Famous Last Words", "The Piano Man's Daughter", and "Pilgrim"? Hint

Ethel Wilson

Michael Turner

Timothy Findley

Guy Vanderhaeghe

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Question 5 of 10

5. Whose works include "The Wandering Fire", "Tigana", "A Song for Arbonne", and "Sailing to Sarantium"? Hint

A. E. van Vogt

Guy Gavriel Kay

Michelle Sagara

Wentworth M. Johnson

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Question 6 of 10

6. Whose works include "The Suicide Murders", "A City Called Judy", "Dead and Buried", and "My Brother's Keeper"? Hint

J. Robert Janes

Howard Engel

W.P. Kinsella

William Gibson

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Question 7 of 10

7. Whose works include "Alias Grace", "Lady Oracle", "Cat's Eye", and "Oryx and Crake"? Hint

Douglas Coupland

Margaret Atwood

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Question 8 of 10

8. Whose works include "Barometer Rising", "Two Solitudes", "The Watch That Ends the Night", and "Return of the Sphinx"? Hint

Robert W. Service

Alice Munro

Hugh MacLennan

Gabrielle Roy

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Question 9 of 10

9. Whose works include "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be", "A Whale for the Killing", "My Father's Son", and "Owls in the Family"? Hint

Evan Adams

Kenneth J. Harvey

Robertson Davies

Farley Mowat

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Question 10 of 10

10. Whose works include "The Vanishing Point", "Since Daisy Creek", "Roses are Difficult Here", and "How I Spent My Summer Holidays"? Hint

Mark Anthony Jarman

W.O. Mitchell

Douglas Lochhead

Alistair MacLeod

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Whose works include "St. Urbain's Horseman", "Solomon Gursky Was Here", "The Incomparable Atuk", and "Joshua Then and Now"?

Answer: Mordecai Richler

Amongst many other novels not mentioned here, Richler also wrote the popular "Jacob Two-Two" children's books.

2. Whose works include "A Jest of God", "This Side Jordan", "The Diviners", and "The Fire Dwellers"?

Answer: Margaret Laurence

"A Jest of God" was adapted into the 1968 movie "Rachel, Rachel" with Joanne Woodward.

3. Whose works include "In the Skin of a Lion", "Anil's Ghost", "Divisadero", and "The English Patient"?

Answer: Michael Ondaatje

Although a Canadian citizen, Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka.

4. Whose works include "The Telling of Lies", "Famous Last Words", "The Piano Man's Daughter", and "Pilgrim"?

Answer: Timothy Findley

Findley's work often employed tormented characters struggling with mental illness, gender and sexual psychoses.

5. Whose works include "The Wandering Fire", "Tigana", "A Song for Arbonne", and "Sailing to Sarantium"?

Answer: Guy Gavriel Kay

Kay assisted Christopher Tolkien in editing J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Silmarillion".

6. Whose works include "The Suicide Murders", "A City Called Judy", "Dead and Buried", and "My Brother's Keeper"?

Answer: Howard Engel

Engel suffered a stroke in 2000 that left him with alexia sine agraphia, a condition that allows him to write, but renders him unable to easily read written words.

7. Whose works include "Alias Grace", "Lady Oracle", "Cat's Eye", and "Oryx and Crake"?

Answer: Margaret Atwood

She did not attend school full-time until she was 11 years old.

8. Whose works include "Barometer Rising", "Two Solitudes", "The Watch That Ends the Night", and "Return of the Sphinx"?

Answer: Hugh MacLennan

A passage from "The Watch that Ends the Night" was used by Canadian rockers The Tragically Hip in their song called "Courage (for Hugh MacLennan)".

9. Whose works include "The Dog Who Wouldn't Be", "A Whale for the Killing", "My Father's Son", and "Owls in the Family"?

Answer: Farley Mowat

Mowat has also published two books about ethologist Dian Fossey.

10. Whose works include "The Vanishing Point", "Since Daisy Creek", "Roses are Difficult Here", and "How I Spent My Summer Holidays"?

Answer: W.O. Mitchell

Mitchell was honoured by the government of Canada with his image on a postage stamp in the year 2000.

Source: Author Astena

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