To celebrate the beginning of spring (well, for us in the northern hemisphere) a quiz on writing related to the season, to Easter, gardens and generally sunshiney stuff!
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Which book by Roddy Doyle deals with the Easter uprising in 1916?
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A Star Called Henry
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Paddy Clarke, Ha, Ha, Ha
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Which great American playwright wrote The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone?
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Tennessee Williams
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Arthur Miller
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Who wrote these words: ‘Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.’
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John Keats
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Walt Whitman
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Which war poet wrote the moving Spring Offensive?
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Wilfred Owen
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Edmund Blunden
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Who said, ‘In a pleasant spring morning all men’s sins are forgiven’?
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Oscar Wilde
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Henry David Thoreau
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Who has ‘spring fever’ which “when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so”?
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Jo March
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Huckleberry Finn
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‘Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.’ Which character is affected by spring?
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Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit)
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Mole (Wind in the Willows)
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Which Victorian novelist describes spring as, ‘Summer in the light and winter in the shade’?
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Charles Dickens
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Thomas Hardy
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‘Spring is the time of plans and projects’ in which Tolstoy novel?
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Anna Karenina
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War and Peace
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Who was “slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously…”?
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Dorothea Brooke (Middlemarch)
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Marilla Cuthbert (Anne of Green Gables)
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Who Victorian poet wrote Spring Quiet?
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Christina Rossetti
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Emily Bronte
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Which novel by Balzac begins ‘On a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road…’?
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The Human Comedy
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The Country Doctor
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When Wordsworth wandered lonely as a cloud, what spring flowers did he see?
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Crocuses
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Daffodils
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In which Shakespeare play does spring awaken the cuckoo to mock married men?
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Love’s Labours Lost
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As You Like It
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In which classic children’s novel do Mary, Dickon and the great outdoors help bring Colin to better health?
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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The Secret Garden
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Who wrote the popular 2008 novel The Forgotten Garden?
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Kate Morton
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Kate Riordan
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In which capital city is Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel The Beginning of Spring set?
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Paris
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Moscow
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Which Bronte sister wrote this: “A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
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Charlotte
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Anne
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Which fairy tale writer wrote these words: “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.”
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Jacob Grimm
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Hans Christian Anderson
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Who wrote, “Nothing is so beautiful as Spring”?
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Noel Coward
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Eek, that was hard and every guess went wrong!