Loaded Questions 11/14/22 - Literature
Time to start a new chapter!
Happy Monday everyone! It’s starting to feel like fall here in South Carolina, finally. Hope you enjoy this autumnal set of literatures questions! (The questions aren’t autumnal, just the time of year)
1. Following prospector Walter Moody's journey to Hokitika, "The Luminaries" is a 2013 novel by what New Zealand author? This novel made her the youngest author to ever win the Man Booker Prize (at 28), and the longest book to ever win the prize (at 848 pages).
2. What neighborhood in Chicago is found in the name of the Gwendolyn Brooks collections "A Street in ___" and "___ Boys and Girls"?
3. What 11-letter name is given to a literary genre often described as a "desert island story" or a "castaway narrative"?
4. A military man waits for his pension in what 1961 novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
5. In a 1926 short story by D. H. Lawrence, a boy named Paul is able to determine the winner of races after getting in a clairvoyant state while using what type of object?
6. The Rachel Corbett biography "You Must Change Your Life" is about what German poet? The title of this work is from one of his poems.
7. What animal names a trilogy of works by Haruki Murakami that includes "Hear the Wind Sing", "Pinball, 1973" and "A Wild Sheep Chase"? It’s one letter off from the animal maybe most associated with Murakami.
8. The Willian Faulkner character Quentin Compson dies drowning in what river?
9. In "1984", what Oceanic ministry is the ministry of propaganda? Winston Smith works for this ministry.
10. Eatonville, Florida is the home to a Museum of Fine Arts named after what author who lived there in her early life?
11. "Sweet Valley High" and "Django Unchained" are both discussed in what 2014 essay collection by Roxane Gay?
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1. Following prospector Walter Moody's journey to Hokitika, "The Luminaries" is a 2013 novel by what New Zealand author? This novel made her the youngest author to ever win the Man Booker Prize (at 28), and the longest book to ever win the prize (at 848 pages).
Eleanor Catton
2. What neighborhood in Chicago is found in the name of the Gwendolyn Brooks collections "A Street in ___" and "___ Boys and Girls"?
Bronzeville
3. What 11-letter name is given to a literary genre often described as a "desert island story" or a "castaway narrative"?
Robinsonade
4. A military man waits for his pension in what 1961 novella by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
No One Writes to the Colonel
5. In a 1926 short story by D. H. Lawrence, a boy named Paul is able to determine the winner of races after getting in a clairvoyant state while using what type of object?
Rocking horse (The Rocking-Horse Winner)
6. The Rachel Corbett biography "You Must Change Your Life" is about what German poet? The title of this work is from one of his poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke
7. What animal names a trilogy of works by Haruki Murakami that includes "Hear the Wind Sing", "Pinball, 1973" and "A Wild Sheep Chase"? It’s one letter off from the animal maybe most associated with Murakami.
Rat
8. The Willian Faulkner character Quentin Compson dies drowning in what river?
Charles River
9. In "1984", what Oceanic ministry is the ministry of propaganda? Winston Smith works for this ministry.
Ministry of Truth
10. Eatonville, Florida is the home to a Museum of Fine Arts named after what author who lived there in her early life?
Zora Neale Hurston
11. "Sweet Valley High" and "Django Unchained" are both discussed in what 2014 essay collection by Roxane Gay?
Bad Feminist