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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Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! was published. From which country do the new American settlers come from?
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Sweden
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Denmark
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In Conrad’s Chance Flora de Barral is the daughter of a convicted man. What was his crime?
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Swindler
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Bigamy
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In Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers where do Gertrude and Walter meet?
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A Christmas dance
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A travelling fair
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Which prominent female writer published Custom of the Country in this year?
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Edith Wharton
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Katherine Mansfield
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The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to an author outside of Europe for the first time. Where did the author come from?
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India
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United States
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