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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Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was born on August 30th. Who was her famous literary mother?
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Maria Edgeworth
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Finish the title of this Ann Radcliffe novel: The Italian, or the Confessional of the — Penitents.
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Black
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Silent
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The idea for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was put into Coleridge’s head by which fellow poet?
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William Wordsworth
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William Blake
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Publisher Thomas Cadell turned down a manuscript by an unknown author by the name of Jane Austen. The novel was called First Impressions, what do we now know the book as?
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Pride and Prejudice
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Sense and Sensibility
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George Colman’s popular comedy The Heir at Law opened in London. The main character’s name was taken from which character in Voltaire’s Candide?
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Pangloss
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Cacambo
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