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 November are some National and International Days, Divali, Remembrance Day, Thanksgiving and Hanukkah.
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Which author has the first name Arch, the third name Chipp but goes by his second name?
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Colson Whitehead
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Stephen King
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Which writer’s parents committed him to an asylum because he wanted to write?
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Paul Coelho
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Which modern British author was once a bilingual secretary for Amnesty International?
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JK Rowling
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Kate Atkinson
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What is the name of the female protagonist of Bhutto’s novel The Runaways?
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Anita
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Suni
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Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier is set in which American state?
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New Jersey
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New York
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Which poet wrote In Quintum Novembris, 21 years after the failed Gunpowder Plot?
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John Milton
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Aphra Behn
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Which Victorian wrote the hugely popular Guy Fawkes in 1840?
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William Harrison Ainsworth
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Walter Scott
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Which novel of Conrad’s has the characters of Kurtz and Marlow?
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Heart of Darkness
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The Secret Agent
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The Witcher novels by Sapkowski are in which genre?
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Fantasy
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Horror
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In Boyne’s The Absolutist what does Tristan take to Marian from her brother?
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Letters
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A photograph
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Question of
Finish the title of Keneally’s World War 1 novel: The Daughters of —
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Mars
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Thieves
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Question of
Which book begins, ‘All children, except one, grow up’?
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Peter Pan
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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What is Scout’s real name in To Kill a Mockingbird?
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Jean Louise
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Laurie Jo
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Which child’s name is in the title of Roald Dahl’s best-selling book?
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Charlie
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Matilda
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Who wrote the mystery Still Life which opens on Thanksgiving?
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Louise Penny
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David Baldacci
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Which famous American wrote The Thanksgiving Visitor, based on their own childhood memories in Alabama?
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Truman Capote
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Fannie Flagg
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Finish the title of Chabon’s novel: The Yiddish Policeman’s —
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Union
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Murder
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Which century is part of the setting for Kadish’s The Weight of Ink?
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17th
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9th
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What genre of novels does Ian Rankin write?
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Crime
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Dystopian
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely fine is set in which Scottish city?
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Glasgow
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Aberdeen
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