The Do You Read Me? Quiz: Eighth Edition
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- 1.All of the Brontës died before they turned 40. Which of the siblings lived longest?
- A.
Anne
- B.
Patrick (Branwell)
- C.
Emily
- D.
Charlotte
- 2.By which name is author Mary Westmacott better known?
- A.
Agatha Christie
- B.
Nora Roberts
- C.
Anne Rice
- D.
George Eliot
- 3.How many syllables are there in a haiku written in English?
- A.
14
- B.
17
- C.
22
- D.
16
- 4.In C.S. Lewis The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, which of the Pevensie children is the first to enter Narnia?
- A.
Susan
- B.
Lucy
- C.
Edmund
- D.
Peter
- 5.Three of these titles are books that have been - or still are - commercially available. One of them is completely made up. Which one?
- A.
Drummer Dick's Discharge
- B.
Servants of The Wankh
- C.
Stuffed Spatchcocks and Other Recipes for Game Birds
- D.
Fanny Hill
- 6.What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of 1868?
- A.
The biro
- B.
Moveable type
- C.
The typewriter
- D.
Correction fluid
- 7.What's the penultimate book of the bible?
- A.
3 John
- B.
Jude
- C.
Ephesians
- D.
Colossians
- 8.Which Newberry Award winning children's book relates the plight of a widowed field mouse who seeks the aid of a group of former lab rats in rescuing her home from destruction by a farmer's plow, and of the history of the rats' escape from the laboratory and development of a literate and technological society?
- A.
Redwall by Brian Jacques
- B.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
- C.
TheTale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
- D.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
- 9.Which of these authors is still alive?
- A.
J.D. Salinger
- B.
Dick Francis
- C.
John Sandford
- D.
Douglas Adams
- 10.Which of these books is not on the 2010 Mann Booker longlist?
- A.
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
- B.
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
- C.
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
- D.
Room by Emma Donoghue
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