How well-read are you?

Only one person will truly know if you are well-read. This quiz is just to pass the time between pages of your more recent literary acquisitions, pleasantly.

Enjoy and if you are unfamiliar with any of the works referenced, do look them up. Some are popular; some are required reading, in the American school system; and some have been "challenged" or banned. They are all, in this author's opinion, worthy of, at the least, a perusal.

1. What is your age?
Under 18 Years Old
18 to 24 Years Old
25 to 30 Years Old
31 to 40 Years Old
41 to 50 Years Old
51 to 60 Years Old
Over 60 Years Old
2. What is your gender?
Male
Female
3. In Catcher in the Rye, what is the occupation of the protagonist's brother?
Actor.
Stockbroker.
Writer.
Advertising director.
4. What work was not written by Henry Miller?
Plexus.
Tropic of Cancer.
Death of a Salesman.
Nexus.
5. Of the following poets, who is not a surrealist?
Robert Desnos.
Louis Aragon.
Robert Frost.
Paul Eluard.
6. Lord Byron's writing is categorized as:
Transcendentalism.
Romanticism.
Realism.
Surrealism.
7. Who is "disappeared" in Catch-22?
Orr.
Appleby.
Yossarian.
Dunbar.
8. What is the name of the narrator in Moby Dick?
Ahab.
His name is never revealed.
Ishmael.
Starbuck.
9. Allen Ginsberg was very good friends with all but one of the authors/poets listed below. Who was he not connected with, directly?
Jack Kerouac.
William S. Burroughs.
Peter Orlovsky.
Henry Miller.
10. What genre would Nora Roberts' work be categorized within?
Romance.
Crap.
Kindling.
Oh, my dear Lord.
11. At Dawn We Slept is a work of non-fiction. The events discussed took place during which war?
World War One.
The Korean War.
Vietnam.
World War Two.
12. What was the name of the eldest Bronte sister?
Charlotte.
Emily.
Anne.
Jane.
13. What is a common denominator among the following authors/poets: Edgar Allan Poe, Percy Bysshe Shelly, William Wordsworth, Johann Goethe?
They all wrote about death.
They all wrote about love.
They were all Romanticists.
Hey, all the above.
14. What is the name of the biographical work of Michelangelo's life and work?
The Pain and Sorrow.
The Agony and the Ecstasy.
Michelangelo: Portrait of Pain.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
15. Who is not a protagonist of Kurt Vonnegut's creation?
Billy Pilgrim.
Billy Name.
Dwayne Hoover.
Kilgore Trout.
16. Which name is not actually a Nom de Plume for an author?
George Eliot.
Mark Twain.
O. Henry.
Henry James.
17. What is the best selling novel of all-time?
The Holy Bible.
Ben-Hur.
The Da Vinci Code.
Flowers in the Attic.
18. How much money has the author of the best-selling book made?
Well...the book is the Holy Bible.
The amount of sales can't even be estimated.
There was more than one author of the Bible.
All the above.
19. The following works were challenged (persons sought to ban the books) in America, except one. Which one title wasn't challenged or banned?
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
The Diary of Anne Frank.
Tropic of Cancer.
The Da Vinci Code.
20. Which novel is known as "The Assassin's Handbook?"
Catch-22.
Tropic of Capricorn.
The Stranger Beside Me.
Catcher in the Rye.
21. Finally, which work is autobiographical?
The book of Proverbs, in the Holy Bible.
Moby Dick.
Me Talk Pretty One Day.
At Dawn We Slept.

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