Test Your Literary Knowledge: Consider Yourself a Bookworm?
Question 1 of 10
For Thomas Mann, it was "in Venice," for Agatha Christie it was "on the Nile" and for Ernest Hemingway it was "in the Afternoon." What is it?
Question 2 of 10
Norman Mailer's "The Castle in the Forest" fictionizes what historical person's childhood, as seen through the eyes of a demon named Dieter?
Question 3 of 10
Which Prime Minister won a Nobel prize for literature?
Question 4 of 10
Which novel begins with the line "My father's family name being Pirrip...."?
Question 5 of 10
Per the Kingsley Amis book, how would you describe James Dixon, who teaches medieval history at a minor university in England's Midlands?
Question 6 of 10
When Queen Victoria asked this author for more of his books, instead of giving Her Majesty another kid's book, he instead sent along "A Syllabus of Plane Alegraic Geometry." Who?
Question 7 of 10
Five years after he died in 1930, his widow had his body dug up in France and cremated. Unfortunately, her new boyfriend, Angelo Ravagli, dumped the ashes in Europe and replaced them with new ashes by the time he got back to Taos, New Mexico. Who was this dead writer?
Question 8 of 10
The title of what Stephen King book was inspired by the John Lennon song "Instant Karma"?
Question 9 of 10
What character was named for a French poet, although somebody with the same name is on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall?
Question 10 of 10
How many self portraits did Rembrandt paint?
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