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"},{"text":"Whose novel <i>Wise Blood</i> explored the “religious consciousness without a religion”?","correctAnswerIndex":1,"answers":["Edna Ferber’s","Flannery O’Connor’s","Dorothy Parker’s","Margaret Mitchell’s"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Flannery-OConnor\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Flannery O’Connor</a>’s first novel, <em>Wise Blood</em> (1952), explored, in her own words, the “religious consciousness without a religion.” "},{"text":"What novelist created the lawyer-detective Perry Mason?","correctAnswerIndex":3,"answers":["Ian Fleming","Josephine Bell","Agatha Christie","Erle Stanley Gardner"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"American author and lawyer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erle-Stanley-Gardner\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Erle Stanley Gardner</a> wrote nearly 100 detective and mystery novels that sold more than 1,000,000 copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time. His best-known works centre on the lawyer-detective Perry Mason, a character he created."},{"text":"Whose first two novels were <i>The Natural</i> and <i>The Assistant</i>?","correctAnswerIndex":0,"answers":["Bernard Malamud","Miguel de Cervantes","Stephen King","George Sand"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"American novelist and short-story writer <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Malamud\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Bernard Malamud</a> made parables out of Jewish immigrant life. His first novel, <em>The Natural</em> (1952), is a fable about a baseball hero who is gifted with miraculous powers. <em>The Assistant</em> (1957), his second, is about a young Gentile hoodlum and an old Jewish grocer."},{"text":"Who wrote <i>Dead Souls</i> and “The Overcoat,” which are considered the foundation of 19th-century Russian realism?","correctAnswerIndex":1,"answers":["Maxim Gorky","Nikolay Gogol","Leo Tolstoy","Fyodor Dostoyevsky"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikolay-Gogol\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Nikolay Gogol</a> is the Ukrainian-born humorist, dramatist, and novelist whose novel <em>Myortvye dushi</em> (<em>Dead Souls</em>) and whose short story “Shinel” (“The Overcoat”) are considered the foundation of the great 19th-century tradition of Russian Realism."},{"text":"From which novel by Leo Tolstoy is the statement “All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” taken?","correctAnswerIndex":2,"answers":["<i>Childhood, Boyhood, Youth</i>","<i>The Death of Ivan Ilyich</i>","<i>Anna Karenina</i>","<i>War and Peace</i>"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"Leo Tolstoy’s <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Anna-Karenina-novel\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Anna Karenina</a></em> (1875–77) interweaves the stories of three families, the Oblonskys, the Karenins, and the Levins. Its first sentence, which indicates its concern with the domestic, is perhaps Tolstoy''s most famous: “All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”"},{"text":"Whose novel <i>Strangers on a Train</i> did Alfred Hitchcock adapt for film?","correctAnswerIndex":0,"answers":["Patricia Highsmith’s","Daphne du Maurier’s","Graham Greene’s","Jules Feiffer’s"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"In 1950 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patricia-Highsmith\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Patricia Highsmith</a> published <em>Strangers on a Train</em>, a story of two men, one ostensibly good and the other ostensibly evil, whose lives become inextricably entangled. The following year the novel was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, using a screenplay by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde. "},{"text":"Who wrote a satire originally titled <i>Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World</i>?","correctAnswerIndex":3,"answers":["Mark Twain","Patricia Highsmith","Alexander Pope","Jonathan Swift"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<em>Gulliver’s Travels</em>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Swift\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Jonathan Swift</a>’s satirical masterpiece, was originally published under the title <em>Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World</em>. "},{"text":"In which type of novel are the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters of equal or greater interest than the external action of the narrative?","correctAnswerIndex":3,"answers":["novel of manners","Gothic novel","historical novel","psychological novel"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/art/psychological-novel\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">psychological novel</a> the emotional reactions and internal states of the characters are influenced by and in turn trigger external events in a meaningful symbiosis. Plot in the psychological novel is subordinate to and dependent upon the probing delineation of character. "},{"text":"Which novel by George Meredith centres on a woman’s right to be accepted as an individual?","correctAnswerIndex":0,"answers":["<i>The Egoist</i>","<i>The Ordeal of Richard Feverel</i>","<i>The Shaving of Shagpat</i>","<i>Evan Harrington</i>"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<em>The Egoist</em> (1879) and <em>Diana of the Crossways</em> (1885) marked the beginning of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Meredith\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">George Meredith</a>’s acceptance by a wider reading public and a more favourable reception by critics. Both are comedies, full of Meredithian wit and brilliant dialogue and notable for women characters who prove their right to be accepted as individuals, equal with men, rather than puppets. <em>The Egoist</em> is concerned with the dangers of making the wrong choice before marriage."},{"text":"What is the English-language title of the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language?","correctAnswerIndex":3,"answers":["<i>The Forest of God</i>","<i>Things Fall Apart</i>","<i>Wretched of the Earth</i>","<i>The Forest of a Thousand Daemons</i>"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/D-O-Fagunwa\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">D.O. Fagunwa</a>’s first novel, <em>Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale</em> (1938; <em>The Forest of a Thousand Daemons</em>), was the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language. "},{"text":"What is the name given to a novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters?","correctAnswerIndex":1,"answers":["novel of manners","epistolary novel","picaresque novel","psychological novel"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"Originating with Samuel Richardson’s <em>Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded</em> (1740), the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/art/epistolary-novel\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">epistolary novel</a> was one of the earliest forms of novels to be developed and remained one of the most popular up to the 19th century. It is told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters. "},{"text":"Who wrote the novel <i>I, Claudius</i>, the autobiography <i>Good-Bye to All That</i>, and the scholarly work <i>The White Goddess</i>?","correctAnswerIndex":1,"answers":["Sylvia Plath","Robert Graves","Siegfried Sassoon","Muriel Spark"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"The English poet, novelist, critic, and classical scholar <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Graves\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Robert Graves</a> wrote more than 120 books, including a notable historical novel, <em>I, Claudius</em> (1934); an autobiographical classic of World War I, <em>Good-Bye to All That</em> (1929); and erudite, controversial studies in mythology, particularly <em>The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth</em> (1948). "},{"text":"Who among these authors wrote only one novel?","correctAnswerIndex":1,"answers":["Jane Austen","Emily Brontë","Charles Dickens","Charlotte Brontë"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Emily Brontë</a> produced only one novel, <em>Wuthering Heights</em> (1847), a novel of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors."},{"text":"Who wrote the novel whose title thereafter entered the English language as a reference to a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem?","correctAnswerIndex":0,"answers":["Joseph Heller","Alice Walker","Stephenie Meyer","George Orwell"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"Joseph Heller’s novel <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/topic/Catch-22-novel-by-Heller\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Catch-22</a></em> (1961) was one of the most significant works of protest literature to appear after World War II. The “catch” in <em>Catch-22</em> involves a mysterious Air Force regulation that asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions; but, if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. The term catch-22 thereafter entered the English language as a reference to a proviso that trips one up no matter which way one turns."},{"text":"What was Arthur Conan Doyle’s profession (outside of his writing)?","correctAnswerIndex":1,"answers":["lawyer","doctor","architect","detective"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Conan-Doyle\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Arthur Conan Doyle</a> was a doctor. He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from the University of Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, “An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in <em>Tabes Dorsalis</em>.”"},{"text":"What mystery writer introduced the amateur detective Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins?","correctAnswerIndex":1,"answers":["Henry Louis Gates","Walter Mosley","Christopher Chambers","E. Lynn Harris"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Mosley\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Walter Mosley</a>’s first novel, <em>Devil in a Blue Dress</em> (1990), set in 1948, introduces Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins, an unwilling amateur detective from the Watts section of Los Angeles. "},{"text":"Whose novel <i>The Good Earth</i> won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932?","correctAnswerIndex":0,"answers":["Pearl S. Buck’s","Margaret Mitchell’s","Edith Wharton’s","Eudora Welty’s"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pearl-S-Buck\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">Pearl S. Buck</a>’s novel <em>The Good Earth</em> (1931) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. "},{"text":"Whose mythical Mississippi community Yoknapatawpha County depicted the transformation and decadence of the American South?","correctAnswerIndex":2,"answers":["Edith Wharton’s ","Tennessee Williams’s","William Faulkner’s","Truman Capote’s"],"difficulty":4,"explanation":"<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Faulkner\" class=\"md-crosslink \" data-show-preview=\"true\">William Faulkner</a> combined stream-of-consciousness techniques with rich social history. Works such as <em>The Sound and the Fury</em> (1929), <em>As I Lay Dying</em> (1930), <em>Light in August</em> (1932), and <em>The Hamlet</em> (1940) were parts of the unfolding history of Yoknapatawpha County, a mythical Mississippi community, which depicted the transformation and the decadence of the American South. 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He is often considered the inventor of the historical novel. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Which of these books was <i>not</i> written by W. Somerset Maugham?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/W-Somerset-Maugham" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">W. Somerset Maugham</a>’s reputation as a novelist rests primarily on four books: <em>Of Human Bondage</em> (1915), a semiautobiographical account of a young medical student''s painful progress toward maturity; <em>The Moon and Sixpence</em> (1919), an account of an unconventional artist, suggested by the life of Paul Gauguin; <em>Cakes and Ale</em> (1930), the story of a famous novelist, which is thought to contain caricatures of Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole; and <em>The Razor’s Edge</em> (1944), the story of a young American war veteran’s quest for a satisfying way of life. (Nancy Mitford wrote <em>Love in a Cold Climate</em>.)</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Who was the chief model for the character Orlando in Virginia Woolf’s novel of that name?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/V-Sackville-West" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Vita Sackville-West</a> was an English novelist and poet who wrote chiefly about the Kentish countryside. Her best-known are <em>The Edwardians</em> (1930) and <em>All Passion Spent</em> (1931), she also wrote biographies. She was the chief model for the character Orlando in the novel of that title written by Virginia Woolf. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Whose novel <i>Wise Blood</i> explored the “religious consciousness without a religion”?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Flannery-OConnor" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Flannery O’Connor</a>’s first novel, <em>Wise Blood</em> (1952), explored, in her own words, the “religious consciousness without a religion.” </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: What novelist created the lawyer-detective Perry Mason?</dt> <dd>Answer: American author and lawyer <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Erle-Stanley-Gardner" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Erle Stanley Gardner</a> wrote nearly 100 detective and mystery novels that sold more than 1,000,000 copies each, making him easily the best-selling American writer of his time. His best-known works centre on the lawyer-detective Perry Mason, a character he created.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Whose first two novels were <i>The Natural</i> and <i>The Assistant</i>?</dt> <dd>Answer: American novelist and short-story writer <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Malamud" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Bernard Malamud</a> made parables out of Jewish immigrant life. His first novel, <em>The Natural</em> (1952), is a fable about a baseball hero who is gifted with miraculous powers. <em>The Assistant</em> (1957), his second, is about a young Gentile hoodlum and an old Jewish grocer.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Who wrote <i>Dead Souls</i> and “The Overcoat,” which are considered the foundation of 19th-century Russian realism?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nikolay-Gogol" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Nikolay Gogol</a> is the Ukrainian-born humorist, dramatist, and novelist whose novel <em>Myortvye dushi</em> (<em>Dead Souls</em>) and whose short story “Shinel” (“The Overcoat”) are considered the foundation of the great 19th-century tradition of Russian Realism.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: From which novel by Leo Tolstoy is the statement “All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” taken?</dt> <dd>Answer: Leo Tolstoy’s <em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Anna-Karenina-novel" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Anna Karenina</a></em> (1875–77) interweaves the stories of three families, the Oblonskys, the Karenins, and the Levins. Its first sentence, which indicates its concern with the domestic, is perhaps Tolstoy''s most famous: “All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Whose novel <i>Strangers on a Train</i> did Alfred Hitchcock adapt for film?</dt> <dd>Answer: In 1950 <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patricia-Highsmith" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Patricia Highsmith</a> published <em>Strangers on a Train</em>, a story of two men, one ostensibly good and the other ostensibly evil, whose lives become inextricably entangled. The following year the novel was made into a movie by Alfred Hitchcock, using a screenplay by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Who wrote a satire originally titled <i>Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World</i>?</dt> <dd>Answer: <em>Gulliver’s Travels</em>, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-Swift" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Jonathan Swift</a>’s satirical masterpiece, was originally published under the title <em>Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World</em>. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: In which type of novel are the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters of equal or greater interest than the external action of the narrative?</dt> <dd>Answer: In a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/psychological-novel" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">psychological novel</a> the emotional reactions and internal states of the characters are influenced by and in turn trigger external events in a meaningful symbiosis. Plot in the psychological novel is subordinate to and dependent upon the probing delineation of character. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Which novel by George Meredith centres on a woman’s right to be accepted as an individual?</dt> <dd>Answer: <em>The Egoist</em> (1879) and <em>Diana of the Crossways</em> (1885) marked the beginning of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Meredith" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">George Meredith</a>’s acceptance by a wider reading public and a more favourable reception by critics. Both are comedies, full of Meredithian wit and brilliant dialogue and notable for women characters who prove their right to be accepted as individuals, equal with men, rather than puppets. <em>The Egoist</em> is concerned with the dangers of making the wrong choice before marriage.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: What is the English-language title of the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/D-O-Fagunwa" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">D.O. Fagunwa</a>’s first novel, <em>Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale</em> (1938; <em>The Forest of a Thousand Daemons</em>), was the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: What is the name given to a novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters?</dt> <dd>Answer: Originating with Samuel Richardson’s <em>Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded</em> (1740), the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/epistolary-novel" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">epistolary novel</a> was one of the earliest forms of novels to be developed and remained one of the most popular up to the 19th century. It is told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Who wrote the novel <i>I, Claudius</i>, the autobiography <i>Good-Bye to All That</i>, and the scholarly work <i>The White Goddess</i>?</dt> <dd>Answer: The English poet, novelist, critic, and classical scholar <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Graves" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Robert Graves</a> wrote more than 120 books, including a notable historical novel, <em>I, Claudius</em> (1934); an autobiographical classic of World War I, <em>Good-Bye to All That</em> (1929); and erudite, controversial studies in mythology, particularly <em>The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth</em> (1948). </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Who among these authors wrote only one novel?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Emily Brontë</a> produced only one novel, <em>Wuthering Heights</em> (1847), a novel of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Who wrote the novel whose title thereafter entered the English language as a reference to a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem?</dt> <dd>Answer: Joseph Heller’s novel <em><a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Catch-22-novel-by-Heller" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Catch-22</a></em> (1961) was one of the most significant works of protest literature to appear after World War II. The “catch” in <em>Catch-22</em> involves a mysterious Air Force regulation that asserts that a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions; but, if he makes the necessary formal request to be relieved of such missions, the very act of making the request proves that he is sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved. The term catch-22 thereafter entered the English language as a reference to a proviso that trips one up no matter which way one turns.</dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: What was Arthur Conan Doyle’s profession (outside of his writing)?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Conan-Doyle" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">Arthur Conan Doyle</a> was a doctor. 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Buck</a>’s novel <em>The Good Earth</em> (1931) won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. </dd> </dl> <dl> <dt>Question: Whose mythical Mississippi community Yoknapatawpha County depicted the transformation and decadence of the American South?</dt> <dd>Answer: <a target="_blank" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Faulkner" class="md-crosslink " data-show-preview="true">William Faulkner</a> combined stream-of-consciousness techniques with rich social history. 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