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1. True or false: In Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"(1963) the heroine, Esther Greenwood, just as the author herself did at a later moment, successfully commits suicide.
2. Which of these is the title of a novel by Djuna Barnes?
3. True or false: Antonia Susan Byatt, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Possession"(Booker Prize 1990)is the sister of Margaret Drabble, author of "The Millstone" (1965).
4. Daphne du Maurier's popular novels "Rebecca" and "Jamaica Inn" both are set in ________________.
5. Which of these authors was for a short period married to Ernest Hemingway?
6. Which of these women authors had her novel "The Edible Woman" published in 1969?
7. Where in the U.S.A. was Carson McCullers from?
8. Under which name - correct spelling please, especially of first name - did Chloe Anthony Wofford write the books with which she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993?
9. Doris Lessing's book "Going Home" describes a visit to Rhodesia, which was a country _____________.
10. Which of these novels is the only one NOT written by Muriel Spark?
11. Who wrote "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook"?
12. Which of these women novelists committed suicide by drowning herself in
the River Ouse in Sussex, England, in 1941?
13. Which of these women authors was NOT born in Ireland?
14. Which of these author's names is the only one that is NOT a pseudonym?
15. Which of these animals is given the first name Peter and is a leading character in quite a few of Helen Beatrix Potter's stories?
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