A new series of 46 mini quizzes in this countdown to a new President. Each quiz asks 5 literary questions from the year of inauguration from George Washington in 1789 to Joe Biden’s election in 2020. Literary events, births, deaths and various shenanigans by famous writers plus their great works, of course.
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Nazi Germany introduced a new category of books, Exilliteratur. Which authors were on the list?
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Authors who had left the country
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Communist and/or Jewish authors
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Feminist writer Vera Brittain published the first part of her Testament memoirs. What was it called?
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Testament of Youth
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Testament of Friendship
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Finish the title of this Orwell work: Down and Out in — and London.
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Paris
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Dublin
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American novelist and screenwriter Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20th. What genre of novels is he best known for?
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Western
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Horror
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HG Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come is a science fiction work that speculates on future events up to which year?
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2016
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1999
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