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Read All About It. Who Was the Author? Quiz

Extra, extra, read all about it! The newspaper boy is crying famous literary plots for the evening edition. Can you identify the authors who wrote them?

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

Author
estragonsboot

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
360,824

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
540

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Question 1 of 10

1. WWII veteran and optometrist becomes unstuck in time! Held captive in zoo exhibit on alien planet! Poo-tee-weet?

Read all about it - who was the author? Hint

Ray Bradbury

Phillip K. Dick

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Isaac Asimov

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Question 2 of 10

2. Nothing happens! Twice!

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Samuel Beckett

Tom Stoppard

Harold Pinter

Bertolt Brecht

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Question 3 of 10

3. Family vacation ruined by chatty Grandma! Worsened by encounter with local "misfit"! Granny silenced!

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Stephen King

Flannery O'Connor

Shirley Jackson

Frank O'Connor

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Question 4 of 10

4. American ex-pats meet up in Paris! Drink! Go to Spain to watch bullfighting! Drink! Fight! Go their separate ways!

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Ernest Hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Gertrude Stein

John Dos Passos

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Question 5 of 10

5. Young man kills elderly pawnbroker! Feels really bad about it! Finds redemption in confession!

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Leo Tolstoy

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nikolai Gogol

6. Pied-Noir blinded by sunlight, kills Arab man on the beach! Doesn't feel especially bad about it! Contemplates the absurdity of existence, promptly executed!

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Albert Camus

Jean-Paul Sartre

Franz Kafka

Simone de Beauvoir

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Question 7 of 10

7. Slugger strikes out! Town despondent!

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Ernest Thayer

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Conrad Aiken

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Question 8 of 10

8. Man sails up Congo River in search of mad ivory trader! The horror! The horror!

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Herman Melville

Rudyard Kipling

Henry James

Joseph Conrad

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Question 9 of 10

9. Airborne toxic event envelops town! Explorations of death, consumerism and the role of the family in late 20th century America ensues!

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Thomas Pynchon

Jonathan Franzen

David Foster Wallace

Don DeLillo

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Question 10 of 10

10. Pigs stage coup d'etat! Windmill construction proves challenging, in-fighting follows! Revolution deemed a failure!

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Aldous Huxley

E.B. White

Anthony Burgess

George Orwell

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. WWII veteran and optometrist becomes unstuck in time! Held captive in zoo exhibit on alien planet! Poo-tee-weet? Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Slaughterhouse-Five" is Kurt Vonnegut's semi-autobiographical account of his WWII experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden. The alien abduction part? Probably less autobiographical...

2. Nothing happens! Twice! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is one of the most confounding plays of the 20th century, for both its characters and the audience. This "headline" comes from critic Vivian Mercier's summation of the play's plot.

3. Family vacation ruined by chatty Grandma! Worsened by encounter with local "misfit"! Granny silenced! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Flannery O'Connor

"A Good Man is Hard to Find" is one of the most hotly debated short stories ever written. The beguilingly simple plot allows for myriad interpretations.

4. American ex-pats meet up in Paris! Drink! Go to Spain to watch bullfighting! Drink! Fight! Go their separate ways! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Ernest Hemingway

The newspaper boy may have left out a few important details here about love, fate, generational disillusionment, masculinity and antisemitism ... but I think he got the gist of "The Sun Also Rises".

5. Young man kills elderly pawnbroker! Feels really bad about it! Finds redemption in confession! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Crime and Punishment" deals primarily with Rodion Raskolnikov's murder of an old woman and his resultant mental and physical anguish. Dostoyevsky's narrative technique, plot structure and use of symbolism were influences in the development of literary Modernism.

Answer: Albert Camus

"The Stranger" is a cornerstone of the existential literary canon. Camus further developed his ideas on the condition of man in works such as "The Plague", "The Rebel" and "The Myth of Sisyphus".

7. Slugger strikes out! Town despondent! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Ernest Thayer

"Casey at the Bat" is one of the most familiar American poems. It was published in 1888, just as baseball was quickly becoming the country's pastime.

8. Man sails up Congo River in search of mad ivory trader! The horror! The horror! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Joseph Conrad

"Heart of Darkness" is a brutal account of European colonialism in Africa at the turn of the 20th centruy. It served as the primary inspiration behind the 1979 film "Apocalpyse Now".

9. Airborne toxic event envelops town! Explorations of death, consumerism and the role of the family in late 20th century America ensues! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: Don DeLillo

"White Noise" was Don DeLillo's breakout novel. With its far-reaching and seemingly disparate themes and critiques of American culture, it is viewed as one of the major postmodern novels.

10. Pigs stage coup d'etat! Windmill construction proves challenging, in-fighting follows! Revolution deemed a failure! Read all about it - who was the author?

Answer: George Orwell

George Orwell's "Animal Farm" is an allegory for the Russian Revolution and the rise of Stalinism. Many characters in the book correlate directly to real figures instrumental to establishment of the Soviet Union.

Source: Author estragonsboot

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