Loaded Questions 1/1/22 - Literature
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1. "Don't Bother the Earth Spirit", "A Map to the Next World", and "She Had Some Horses" are poems by what Muscogee Nation author, who was named US Poet Laureate in 2019?
2. What 1944 novella by Colette about a girl being groomed as a courtesan is the basis of a 1958 Best Picture winner?
3. Mr. Thomas Gradgrind is a hard-nosed school superintendent in what Charles Dickens novel?
4. "Oscar and Lucinda", "My Life as a Fake", and "True History of the Kelly Gang" are both novels by what Australian author?
5. "Twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas and ALL through the HOUSE" is an example of what metrical foot, consisting of an unstressed, unstressed, stressed pattern?
6. The biomythography "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" was a work by what American black lesbian author, who also wrote "The First Cities" and "The Black Unicorn"?
7. What occupation did Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus both hold, which inspired their 2002 novel about upper class Manhattan society?
8. "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold" is a line from what William Butler Yeats poem, that ends with the question "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
9. Virginia Lee Burton wrote a 1939 children's book about what worker and his steam shovel Mary Anne?
10. American author Rex Stout is known for creating what detective, whose assistant is Archie Goodwin? This character first appeared in the 1934 novel "Fer-de-Lance".
11. "The Dutch House", a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer for Fiction, is a work by what author? She also wrote "The Patron Saint of Liars", "State of Wonder", and "Bel Canto".
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ANSWERS:
1. Joy Harjo
2. Gigi
3. Hard Times
4. Peter Carey
5. Anapest
6. Audre Lorde
7. Nanny
8. The Second Coming
9. Mike Mulligan
10. Nero Wolfe
11. Ann Patchett