This series of quizzes uses various events – national, international, literary or historical – that take place this month to ask relevant literary questions. The events for August are some National Days, Book Lover’s Day, World Photography Day and International days for cats and dogs.
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What is the name of Heidi’s invalid friend in Spyri’s classic novel?
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Clara
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Sophia
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Which contemporary Swiss writer wrote best-selling The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair?
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Joël Dicker
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Pascal Mercier
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Question of
Finish the title of Marlon James Booker Prize winner: A Brief History of Seven —
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Killings
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Murders
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Who is the narrator of Levy’s Long Song?
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July
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May
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Which cat is loved by Primrose but hated by Katniss in The Hunger Games?
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Buttercup
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Jupiter
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What is the name of Hermione Granger’s cat with ‘the squashed face’?
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Crookshanks
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Greebo
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Which TS Eliot cat is described as ‘a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity’?
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Macavity
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Moxie
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Question of
Who is the best-selling fiction writer of all time?
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Agatha Christie
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Stephen King
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Which novel by Louise Erdrich won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize?
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The Night Watchman
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The Sentence
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Question of
What year was the Kindle invented?
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2007
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2010
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Question of
Finish the title of Nadeem Aslam’s novel: — for Lost Lovers
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Maps
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Notes
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Who wrote Shame, a novel which depicts the political turmoil of Pakistan?
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Salman Rushdie
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Mohsin Hamid
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Finish the title of Aravind Adiga’s prize winning novel: — Tiger
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White
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Black
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Question of
In Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, what place of hospitality does Anjum run?
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Guest house
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Restaurant
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Question of
Who wrote the poem War Photographer?
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Louise Gluck
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Question of
The Woman in the Photograph by Dana Gynther is set in which European city in the 1920s?
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Paris
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Milan
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Question of
Finish the title of Anna Quindlen’s novel: Still Life with — Crumbs
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Bread
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Cake
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Question of
Which Dickens’ heroine receives the only affection in her life from a dog called Diogenes?
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Florence Dombey
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Esther Summerson
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What is the name of the dog found dead at the beginning of Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time?
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Wellington
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Nelson
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What is the name of the only real animal in a Shakespeare play, a dog in All’s Well That Ends Well?
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Crab
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Fang
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