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Quiz about Dramatic Lives of Creative People

Dramatic Lives of Creative People Quiz

Many of the truly creative people (writers, artists, musicians) have greater drama in their lives than in their works. See what you know about some of them.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
12,993

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
2884

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. This wildly creative writer married his 13 year old cousin, before ultimately succumbing to poverty and alcoholism at a young age. Hint

Theodore Dreiser

Sinclair Lewis

William Faulkner

Edgar Allan Poe

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Question 2 of 10

2. This writer also died at a very young age, brought about by pneumonia on a trip to the Northwest. Hint

Herman Melville

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Thomas Wolfe

Henry James

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Question 3 of 10

3. This writer had major personal problems; psychologists love him. His 'Letter to His Father' is a classic, as is his romance with 'Felice'. Hint

Leo Tolstoi

Franz Kafka

Erich Maria Remarque

Jonathan Swift

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Question 4 of 10

4. This writer somewhat revolutionized literature with the sexual content of his writing. Hint

Hermann Hesse

D. H. Lawrence

Oscar Wilde

Marcel Proust

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Question 5 of 10

5. This writer was known largely for his masochism and his wild life style. Hint

Paul Verlaine

Charles Baudelaire

Arthur Rimbaud

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Question 6 of 10

6. This writer 'lived the adventure' by exploring Alaska. Hint

Robert Louis Stevenson

Ernest Hemingway

Jack London

Stephen Crane

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Question 7 of 10

7. This writer died in his 40s in a car accident. Hint

Rudyard Kipling

Thomas Mann

Albert Camus

Daniel Defoe

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Question 8 of 10

8. This writer sustained a serious injury to his arm during the Battle of Lepanto. Hint

Walter Scott

Miguel de Cervantes

Alexander Dumas

Thomas Hardy

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which writer did NOT die by drowning? Hint

Virginia Woolf

Percy Shelley

Hart Crane

William Inge

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Question 10 of 10

10. Which person did NOT suffer from either blindness or deafness? Hint

Ludwig Van Beethoven

F Scott Fitzgerald

Goya

John Milton

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This wildly creative writer married his 13 year old cousin, before ultimately succumbing to poverty and alcoholism at a young age.

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

Poe had a great imagination - but a truly terrible life.

2. This writer also died at a very young age, brought about by pneumonia on a trip to the Northwest.

Answer: Thomas Wolfe

A too-brief life.

3. This writer had major personal problems; psychologists love him. His 'Letter to His Father' is a classic, as is his romance with 'Felice'.

Answer: Franz Kafka

An unhappy and short life.

4. This writer somewhat revolutionized literature with the sexual content of his writing.

Answer: D. H. Lawrence

His time was short.

5. This writer was known largely for his masochism and his wild life style.

Answer: Algernon Charles Swinburne

He was quite a character!

6. This writer 'lived the adventure' by exploring Alaska.

Answer: Jack London

John G Chaney, aka Jack London (1876-1916). Another writer who died young.

7. This writer died in his 40s in a car accident.

Answer: Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-1960). It was a tough way to go. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

8. This writer sustained a serious injury to his arm during the Battle of Lepanto.

Answer: Miguel de Cervantes

He was known as the 'manco (cripple) of Lepanto'.

9. Which writer did NOT die by drowning?

Answer: William Inge

Inge poisoned himself via carbon monoxide. Crane committed suicide by jumping overboard; Woolf also committed suicide by walking into the River Ouse weighed down by stones. Shelley drowned in an accident.

10. Which person did NOT suffer from either blindness or deafness?

Answer: F Scott Fitzgerald

Beethoven and Goya were deaf; Milton was blind. Fitzgerald merely drank.

Source: Author robert362

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