QUIZ A:
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Literature
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1. About what event “on the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five” did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow write?
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a. The landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
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b. The surrender of Lord Cornwallis
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c. Sherman’s march through Georgia
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d. Paul Revere’s ride
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2. Who wrote the current non-fiction best seller ‘Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus’?
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a. William J. Bennett
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b. Susan Powter
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c. John Gray
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d. Thomas Moore
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3. Administered by Yale University, for what is the Bollington Prize awarded every two years?
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a. Poetry
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b. Fiction
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c. Best essay
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d. Biography or auto-biography
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4. Of who did Henry Miller write “A lofty, sturdy wind blows through his poems. There is a healing quality to his vision”?
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a. D.H.Lawrence
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b. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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c. Walt Whitman
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d. Edgar Allen Poe
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5. Who wrote the 1994 novel, ‘Forrest Gump’?
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a. Tom Clancy
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b. Winston Groom
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c. Laura Esquivel
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d. Peter Hoeg
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6. Chapter 1 of which Mark Twain novel begins with the lines
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“‘CAMELOT--Camelot,’ said I to myself, ‘I don’t seem to remember hearing of it before.’”?
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a. A Connecticut Yankee
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b. The $30.000 Bequest
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c. A Tramp Abroad
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d. Tom Sawyer Abroad
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