Loaded Questions 4/18/22 - Literature
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1. What Restoration-era author of the play "The Rover" and the slave novel "Oroonoko" in the 1670s-1680s was previously a spy and one of the first British women to make a career in writing?
2. What British-Zimbabwean author is best known for his 1998 novel "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", set in Botswana?
3. Lydia Perez is a Mexican woman who leaves her life behind to escape as an undocumented immigrant in the US with her son in what novel by Jeanine Cummins published in January 2020? The book has received much controversy due to inaccurate portrayals of Mexico.
4. The extinction of the last of the Neanderthals at the hands of Homo sapiens is the center of what 1955 novel by William Golding, published the year after "Lord of the Flies"?
5. What Confessional poet and friend of Sylvia Plath published the collection "The Awful Rowing Towards God" and "All My Pretty Ones"? Like Sylvia Plath, she committed suicide in 1974 via carbon monoxide.
6. The half-Mexican, half-Irish Juan Chicoy drives Sweetheart, the title conveyance of what 1947 novel by John Steinbeck?
7. What 1963 book by James Baldwin is a plea for racial acceptance and is comprised of two parts: "My Dungeon Shook" and "Down at the Cross"?
8. "The Beach" and "The Tesseract" are 90s novels by what English author, who also directed 2014's "Ex Machina" and 2018's "Annihilation"?
9. American author Mary Mapes Dodge is known for an 1865 children's novel about what Dutch boy, who wins an ice-skating race with his silver skates? This boy's father is Raff, and he may have put his finger in a dike.
10. According to the first line of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray, what does the curfew toll?
11. What would ABCDE stand for in Sue Grafton's alphabet novels?
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1. What Restoration-era author of the play "The Rover" and the slave novel "Oroonoko" in the 1670s-1680s was previously a spy and one of the first British women to make a career in writing? Aphra Behn
2. What British-Zimbabwean author is best known for his 1998 novel "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency", set in Botswana? Alexander McCall Smith
3. Lydia Perez is a Mexican woman who leaves her life behind to escape as an undocumented immigrant in the US with her son in what novel by Jeanine Cummins published in January 2020? The book has received much controversy due to inaccurate portrayals of Mexico. American Dirt
4. The extinction of the last of the Neanderthals at the hands of Homo sapiens is the center of what 1955 novel by William Golding, published the year after "Lord of the Flies"? The Inheritors
5. What Confessional poet and friend of Sylvia Plath published the collection "The Awful Rowing Towards God" and "All My Pretty Ones"? Like Sylvia Plath, she committed suicide in 1974 via carbon monoxide. Anne Sexton
6. The half-Mexican, half-Irish Juan Chicoy drives Sweetheart, the title conveyance of what 1947 novel by John Steinbeck? The Wayward Bus
7. What 1963 book by James Baldwin is a plea for racial acceptance and is comprised of two parts: "My Dungeon Shook" and "Down at the Cross"? The Fire Next Time
8. "The Beach" and "The Tesseract" are 90s novels by what English author, who also directed 2014's "Ex Machina" and 2018's "Annihilation"? Alex Garland
9. American author Mary Mapes Dodge is known for an 1865 children's novel about what Dutch boy, who wins an ice-skating race with his silver skates? This boy's father is Raff, and he may have put his finger in a dike. Hans Brinker
10. According to the first line of "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray, what does the curfew toll? The knell of parting day
11. What would ABCDE stand for in Sue Grafton's alphabet novels? Alibi, Burglar, Corpse, Deadbeat, Evidence