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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?
2. What is the final choice Sophie makes?
3. Where does the meeting between Stingo and Sophie take place?
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?
5. Who or what is 'Praxis' in Fay Weldon's novel of that name?
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 ?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
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 ?
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 ?
15. What African politician is the 'Big Man' in V.S. Naipaul's ' A Bend in the River' a thinly disguised portrait of ?
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