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1. Oscar Wilde was a successful playwright, most notably with "The Importance of Being Earnest". His novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
is also masterful. Who painted the picture of Dorian?
2. Edgar Allan Poe was equally skilled with short stories ("Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum") and poetry ("The Raven", Annabel Lee"). Which poem refers to the "fever called living that burned in my brain"?
3. Hermann Hesse was a fine poet, although he is pehaps more well-known for his novels. Which of the following novels is NOT by Hesse?
4. Rudyard Kipling wrote poetry ("If", "Gunga Din"), but he also wrote "The Light That Failed". This novel deals with a man who is going blind; for what reason will his blindness will be particularly difficult for him?
5. Shakespeare was adroit with poetry and with plays. One of his plays that is somewhat disputed as to authorship is "Pericles". How is Pericles identified in the title of the play?
6. Thornton Wilder wrote a classic play ("Our Town") and a classic novel (The Bridge of San Luis Rey"). What is significant about the bridge?
7. Thomas Hardy is more well-known as a novelist than as a poet. Which of these novels created a furor that was sufficient to deter him from writing more novels?
8. Christopher Marlowe wrote poems and plays. Which of the following lines is from one of his poems?
9. Carl Sandburg is best known as a poet ("Fog"), but he also chronicled the life of this American president.
10. Dante Rossetti was a talented poet, but (unlike the other people in this quiz) his other talent was not in the area of writing. In which field was it?
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