American Literature 2
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15 questions · Published August 21, 2023
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What Charles Dickens classic inspired the 2023 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction from author Barbara Kingsolver?
Published in 2022, Barbara Kingsolver's novel "Demon Copperhead" is a rural Appalachia-inspired reimagining of the nineteenth century Dickens classic "David Copperfield" (1849).
- Multiple Choice
2. What U.S. conflict serves as backdrop for Stephen Crane's late nineteenth century war novel "The Red Badge of Courage"?
Stephen Crane's 1895 novel follows teenage soldier Henry Fleming, who deserts his regiment during the American Civil War.
- Multiple Choice
3. Which of these Oscar winners costars in the 2007 film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men"?
The Coen Brothers' 2007 crime thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones was adapted from Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men."
- Multiple Choice
4. What American statesman penned 1785's "Notes on the State of Virginia"?
"Notes on the State of Virginia" (1785) is the only full-length book written by Founding Father Thomas Jefferson, and it highlights many of his beliefs about church, state and liberty.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which of these these heralded American authors did NOT win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
All of author Mark Twain's novels save for 1907's "A Horse's Tale" were published before the Nobel Prize for Literature was established in 1901.
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