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Quiz – Literary Events Timeline (15) 1940-1949

A new series beginning in 1800.
Beginning in the early years of the novel – as we know and love it – each quiz covers a decade of literary events – 2 questions per year. Births, deaths, publications, events; fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and books for children.

  • Question of

    1940 – In The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, what is John Singer’s disability?

    • Deafness
    • Blindness
  • Question of

    1940 – Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler is set in which American city?

    • Los Angeles
    • Chicago
  • Question of

    1941 – FS Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon and Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts are both published in what way?

    • Posthumously
    • Privately
  • Question of

    1941 – ‘If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.’ Which writer was born in New York on May 19th?

    • Nora Ephron
    • Dorothy Parker
  • Question of

    1942 – Anne Frank makes her first diary entry on June 12th, her birthday. How old is she?

    • 13
    • 15
  • Question of

    1942 – Where is Nevil Shute’s Pied Piper on holiday when the Nazis invade the country?

    • France
    • Belgium
  • Question of

    1943 – What are the names of the children at the heart of the classic A Tree Grows in Brooklyn?

    • Francie and Cornelius
    • Katie and Johnny
  • Question of

    1943 – One of the most popular French books ever published begins: ‘Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book…’ Which book is it?

    • The Little Prince
    • The Plague
  • Question of

    1944 – ‘The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.’ Which American writer and activist was born in Georgia on February 9th?

    • Alice Walker
    • James Baldwin
  • Question of

    1944 – Who wrote the semi-fictionalised biographical novel Anna and the King?

    • Margaret Landon
    • Anna Leonowens
  • Question of

    1945 – What is the farm called before it is called Animal Farm in Orwell’s allegorical tale?

    • Manor Farm
    • Willingdon Farm
  • Question of

    1945 – Which Tennessee Williams’ play of this year features the Wingfield family; Amanda, Tom and Laura?

    • The Glass Menagerie
    • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Question of

    1946 – In O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh what type of business is the play’s setting?

    • A saloon
    • A factory
  • Question of

    1946 – Which major award did Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men win?

    • Pulitzer
    • Nobel
  • Question of

    1947 – Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is based on a true story and also on a play by which major Scandinavian playwright?

    • Ibsen
    • Strindberg
  • Question of

    1947 – In Williams’ most popular play who has always ‘depended on the kindness of strangers.’

    • Blanche
    • Stella
  • Question of

    1948 – ‘In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.’ Which prolific British writer was born in Buckinghamshire on April 28th?

    • Terry Pratchett
    • Douglas Adams
  • Question of

    1948 – Finish the title of this Agatha Christie novel: Taken at the —

    • Flood
    • Tide
  • Question of

    1949 – The first of which series by Enid Blyton was published in this year?

    • The Secret Seven
    • The Famous Five
  • Question of

    1949 – Which one of these is not a Ministry in Orwell’s 1984: the Ministry of Truth or the Ministry of War?

    • Ministry of War
    • Ministry of Truth

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