Literary Trivia, Part One

 

Part One

1. Whose advice to budding writers was “Murder your darlings”?
Agatha Christie’s
Mary Roberts Rinehart’s
Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s
Jonathan Swift’s
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s

2. Hemingway’s first wife was named
Pauline
Catherine
Hadley
Zelda
Pilar

3. With which literary figure is Joyce Maynard associated?
S.J. Perelman
W.H. Auden
M.F.K. Fisher
J.D. Salinger
E.E. Cummings

4. George Sand and George Eliot were both
female
blind from birth
knighted for their literary achievements
well over six feet tall
the same person

5. The Hound of the Baskervilles is introduced to his victim’s scent through which article of clothing?
A hat
A boot
A cravat
A handkerchief
A glove

Answers appear at the bottom of the following page.

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