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If you think you have a Thoreau understanding of trivia, these American Literature questions are the Wright ones for you. Hopefully you've been Twain-ing long enough, but we'll Lee-ave it up to you.

What is the home state of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz? California, Kansas, Kentucky, Texas

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Kansas

Who said:- ‘I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception’.

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Groucho Marx

Who wrote Tarzan of the Apes in 1912?

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Edgar Rice Burroughs

How was writer William Sydney Porter better known?

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O Henry

What ABC political host penned the inspirational bestseller We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters?

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Cokie Roberts

In a searing essay titled ‘Uncle Remus, No Friend of Mine’, the writer Alice Walker accused which other African-American author of ‘stealing a good part of my heritage’?

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Joel Chandler Harris, known for recording Brer Rabbit stories from the African-American oral tradition

Which city did Truman Capote describe as “eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go?”

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Venice

The Terror of the Monster was an early title for a best-selling novel which inspired one of the highest-grossing movies of the mid-70’s. Under what name did it eventually terrify the reading and film going public?

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Jaws

What color fur does The Grinch have? Is it a) brown, b) green, or c) yellow?

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b) green

THE FIRST BOOK TO BE WRITTEN ON A TYPEWRITER, WAS TYPED IN 1875, AND WAS ENTITLED “THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER”, WHO W?

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MARK TWAIN

Which author famed for his Wild West novels penned the 1912 book Riders of the Purple Sage?

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Zane Grey

Celie is the name of the central character in which award winning novel by Alice Walker?

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The Color PURPLE

Who narrates the Brer Rabbit stories?

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Uncle Remus

Which novel opens with the murder of Miles Archer? Death on the Nile, The Maltese Falcon, Casino Royale, Funeral In Berlin

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The Maltese Falcon

Who was Moby-Dick?

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A whale

Hemmingway’s Old Man and the Sea is set in which country?

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Cuba

Who wrote Breakfast At Tiffany’s?

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Truman Capote

In fiction, what is the last name of Dr. Hannibal – the Cannibal?

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Lecter

Lindbergh wrote about his New York to Paris flight in which book?

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Spirit of St. Louis

Who wrote the novel The Left Hand Of Darkness?

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Ursula Le Guin

What title did William Burroughs intend to give his controversial, scatological book Naked Lunch?

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Naked Lust. Its name was changed by accident. Fellow Beat Generation writer Allen Ginsberg misread Burroughs’s handwriting, and the wrong title stuck

What kind of tree was Betty Smith referring to in her book “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”?

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An ailanthus, known as “the tree of heaven.”

WHAT ARE THE MARCH SISTERS NAMES IN LOUISA M ALCOTTS (LITTLE WOMAN)?

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JO, MEG BETH AND AMY

Which children’s toy now considered to be politically incorrect was the brain child of Florence K Upton in 1895

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Golliwog

Who wrote the novel Jaws?

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Peter Benchley

Which famous author sent the first typewritten manuscript to a publisher?

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Mark Twain

Which author was portrayed by Gregory Peck in the film Beloved Infidel? Edgar Allan Poe, HG Wells, F Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway

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F Scott Fitzgerald

Gabilan is the title animal of which John Steinbeck’s work?

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The Red Pony It is a book of four related stories published in 1937 and expanded in 1945. Each story focuses on Jody Tiflin, a 10-year old boy growing up on a ranch on the west coast of the United States

The duke and the king’ are characters that accompany the runaway lead pair in which classic American novel?

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

What famous author wrote the short story Dry September in 1931 and the novel Light in August in 1932?

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William Faulkner

Which people inhabited the country in the ‘Land of Oz’ to which Dorothy was blown?

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Munchkins

Who hunted Moby-Dick?

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Captain Ahab

Which book, by Herman Melville, opens with the words – Call me Ishmael?

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Moby Dick

In what year was the first Tarzan novel published?

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1914

Who wrote the horror book ‘The Shining’?

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Stephen King

WHO WROTE THE NOVEL “SILENCE OF THE LAMBS”?

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THOMAS HARRIS

Beatrice Bryant is a lead character in which novel?

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Roots

Which literary character, created by Washington Irving, suffered from trypanosomiasis?

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Rip Van Winkle, trypanosomiasis is the medical name for sleeping sickness

Who wrote The Glass Menagerie?

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Tennessee Williams

Which novel is set on the Mediterranean island of Pianosa? The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Prince And The Pauper, Catch 22,Don Quixote

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Catch 22

What was the first book in the Goosebumps series?

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Welcome To Dead House

What was the name of the last book written by Amelia Earhart?

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Last Flight. It was published after she disappeared in the central Pacific in 1937 while attempting an around-the-world flight. Her husband, publisher George Putnam, put it together using her letters, diary entries, charts, cables, and phone conversations

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the only complete novel written by which writer of the macabre?

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Edgar Allan Poe Difficulty in finding literary success early in his short story-writing career inspired Poe to pursue writing a longer work. A few serialized installments of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket were first published in the Southern Literary Messenger, though never completed. The full novel was not published until July 1838 in two volumes. Contemporary critics responded negatively to the work for being too gruesome and for cribbing heavily from other works. Poe himself later called it “a very silly book”. Nevertheless, it became an influential work, notably for Herman Melville and Jules Verne

Earth’s Children is a series of popular alternative pre-historical fiction novels by which author?

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Jean M. Auel The books focus on the period of co-existence between Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals. Clan of the Cave Bear (1980) is the first novel in the series that is set in Europe

Who wrote The Call of the Wild?

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Jack London

What was the title of the book and film about Hannibal Lector as he grows up?

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Red Dragon

Which book did Mark Chapman read while waiting to be arrested after the murder of John Lennon?

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The Catcher in the Rye

What kind of ship was the U.S.S. Caine in Herman Wouk’s 1952 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Caine Mutiny?

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A minesweeper

WHAT WAS THE PEN-NAME OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER-BOAT PILOT WHO CREATED THE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS OF TOM SAWYER AND HUCKLEBERRY FINN?

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MARK TWAIN

What was the name of Hopalong Cassidy’s horse?

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