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Ernest Hemingway Quiz

Literature

1. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
a) 9 February 1864
b) 17 May 1862
c) 21 July 1899
d) 30 December 1865

2. Where was Ernest Hemingway born?
a) Cicero
b) Boston
c) Anchorage
d) San Francisco

3. What was Ernest Hemingway’s role in World War I?
a) Corporal
b) Marine
c) Flight Lieutenant
d) Ambulance driver

4. When did Ernest Hemingway publish The Sun Also Rises?
a) 1914
b) 1926
c) 1918
d) 1922

5. Which book of Ernest Hemingway was a parody of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter?
a) Men without Women
b) The Killers
c) The Snows of Kilimanjaro
d) The Torrents of Spring

6. Which novel did Ernest Hemingway publish in 1940?
a) For Whom the Bell Tolls
b) Death in the Afternoon
c) The Fifth Column
d) To Have and Have Not

7. Which novel got Ernest Hemingway Pulitzer Prize?
a) A Farewell to Arms
b) The Old Man and the Sea
c) Across the River and into the Seas
d) The Green Hills of Africa

8. When did Ernest Hemingway get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1931
b) 1937
c) 1945
d) 1954

9. When did Ernest Hemingway die?
a) 15 January 1956
b) 2 July 1961
c) 3 April 1962
d) 12 December 1955

10. Where did Ernest Hemingway die?
a) Barcelona
b) Ketchum
c) Havana
d) Milan

Ernest Hemingway Quiz Answers

1. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
c) 21 July 1899

2. Where was Ernest Hemingway born?
a) Cicero

3. What was Ernest Hemingway’s role in World War I?
d) Ambulance driver

4. When did Ernest Hemingway publish The Sun Also Rises?
b) 1926

5. Which book of Ernest Hemingway was a parody of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter?
d) The Torrents of Spring

6. Which novel did Ernest Hemingway publish in 1940?
a) For Whom the Bell Tolls

7. Which novel got Ernest Hemingway Pulitzer Prize?
b) The Old Man and the Sea

8. When did Ernest Hemingway get Nobel Prize for Literature?
d) 1954

9. When did Ernest Hemingway die?
b) 2 July 1961

10. Where did Ernest Hemingway die?
b) Ketchum

Originally posted 2017-03-26 03:34:31.

Pearl Buck Quiz

Awards, Literature, Nobel Prize Winners

1. What was Pearl Buck’s original name?
a) Gina Harrison
b) Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
c) Jane Seymour
d) Victoria Crawford

2. When was Pearl Buck born?
a) 10 February 1889
b) 26 June 1892
c) 11 July 1894
d) 17 November 1896

3. Where was Pearl Buck born?
a) Peking
b) Hillsboro
c) Canton
d) Tokyo

4. Which college did Pearl Buck attend?
a) William and Mary College
b) Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
c) Rhodes College
d) Trinity College

5. Which University did Pearl Buck attend?
a) Cornell
b) Harvard
c) Shanghai
d) Yale

6. Which novel won Pearl Buck Pulitzer Prize in 1932?
a) The House of Earth
b) The Good Earth
c) Dragon Seed
d) The Imperial Woman

7. When did Pearl Buck get Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1921
b) 1927
c) 1935
d) 1938

8. What pen name did Pearl Buck use to write The Townsman?
a) James Hadley Chase
b) Barbara Cartland
c) John Sedges
d) Agatha Christie

9. When did Pearl Buck die?
a) 6 March 1973
b) 3 April 1975
c) 28 September 1977
d) 29 December 1968

10. Where did Pearl Buck die?
a) Danby
b) New York
c) Reno
d) Lynchburg


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Pearl Buck Quiz Questions with Answers

1. What was Pearl Buck’s original name?
b) Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker

2. When was Pearl Buck born?
b) 26 June 1892

3. Where was Pearl Buck born?
b) Hillsboro

4. Which college did Pearl Buck attend?
b) Randolph-Macon Woman’s College

5. Which University did Pearl Buck attend?
a) Cornell

6. Which novel won Pearl Buck Pulitzer Prize in 1932?
b) The Good Earth

7. When did Pearl Buck get Nobel Prize for Literature?
d) 1938

8. What pen name did Pearl Buck use to write The Townsman?
c) John Sedges

9. When did Pearl Buck die?
a) 6 March 1973

10. Where did Pearl Buck die?
a) Danby

Originally posted 2017-03-26 03:34:14.

Gabriela Mistral Quiz

Literature, Nobel Prize Winners

Gabriela Mistral was a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist. Gabriela Mistral played an important role in the educational systems of Mexico and Chile, was active in cultural committees of the League of Nations, and was Chilean consul in Naples, Madrid, and Lisbon. She held honorary degrees from the Universities of Florence and Guatemala and was an honorary member of various cultural societies in Chile as well as in the United States, Spain, and Cuba. She taught Spanish literature in the United States at Columbia University, Middlebury College, Vassar College, and at the University of Puerto Rico.

Gabriela Mistral Quiz Questions

Gabriela Mistral

Gabriela Mistral (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. When did Gabriela Mistral win Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1945
b) 1941
c) 1935
d) 1968

2. What was Gabriela Mistral’s original name?
a) Mary Ann Evans
b) Amandine Dudevant
c) Lucila Godoy Alcayaga
d) Josephine O’Brien

3. When was Gabriela Mistral born?
a) 16 March 1879
b) 7 April 1889
c) 12 July 1884
d) 30 December 1890

4. Where was Gabriela Mistral born?
a) Santiago
b) Buenos Aires
c) Sao Paulo
d) Vicuna

5. When did Gabriela Mistral win a Chilean prize for Sonetos de la muerte?
a) 1902
b) 1914
c) 1908
d) 1906

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Signature of Gabriela Mistral (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

6. Which poem deals with the tragedy of Gabriela Mistral’s love affair?
a) Te Anno
b) Tala
c) Dolor
d) Lagar

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Gabriela Mistral Monument, Limache, Chile (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

7. When was Lagar published?
a) 1916
b) 1928
c) 1936
d) 1954

8. When did Gabriela Mistral die?
a) 10 January 1957
b) 5 June 1984
c) 7 September 1977
d) 11 November 1969

9. Where did Gabriela Mistral die?
a) Venice
b) Hempstead
c) Lisbon
d) Genoa

10. Which of the following is true of Gabriela Mistral?
a) First woman to win Nobel Prize for Literature
b) First Asian to win Nobel Prize for Literature
c) First Latin American to win Nobel Prize for Literature
d) First European to win Nobel Prize for Literature

Gabriela Mistral Quiz Questions and Answers

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Gabriela Mistral Premio Nobel01 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. When did Gabriela Mistral win Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1945

2. What was Gabriela Mistral’s original name?
c) Lucila Godoy Alcayaga

3. When was Gabriela Mistral born?
b) 7 April 1889

4. Where was Gabriela Mistral born?
d) Vicuna

5. When did Gabriela Mistral win a Chilean prize for Sonetos de la muerte?
b) 1914

6. Which poem deals with the tragedy of Gabriela Mistral’s love affair?
c) Dolor

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Posters of Gabriela Mistral in a LGBT parade, in Santiago de Chile (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

7. When was Lagar published?
d) 1954

8. When did Gabriela Mistral die?
a) 10 January 1957

9. Where did Gabriela Mistral die?
b) Hempstead

10. Which of the following is true of Gabriela Mistral?
c) First Latin American to win Nobel Prize for Literature

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Originally posted 2017-02-24 22:36:17.