The Why Read Quiz

I used the following quiz as an ice breaker for a writing workshop I taught a few years ago.  It’s pretty fun stuff.  I found it to be a better opening exercise rather than the who are you and why are you here stuff we normally get at the onset of such workshops.  I post it here for fun.  I’ll post the answers next week.  Enjoy.

  1. What is a
    Catch-22?
  2. Who is Big
    Brother?
  3. Who lived next
    door to Nick Carraway?
  4. Who wrote: “The
    mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”?
  5. What was Alice
    Walker’s color?
  6. “It was the
    best of times and________________________”
  7. Who is Mr.
    Rosewater?
  8. What 1960s rock
    band wanted to “Break on through to the other side”?
  9. Where did they
    get their name?
  10. What is Soma?
  11. At what
    temperature does paper combust?
  12. In what book
    would a reader meet Piggy?
  13. What novel begins: “In
    watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is
    done in watermelon sugar”?
  1. Who fought the
    Cyclops?
  2. Lord Henry
    Wotton watched Basil Hallward paint a picture of whom?
  3. What was Lee
    Chong’s business?
  4. How were the
    principal figures of the lost generation?
  5. How is Clyde
    Wynant commonly referred?
  6. What story was
    told by Mr. Lockwood, or was it Nellie?
  7. In what book would a reader find:
    “What has happened will happen again, and what has been done will
    be done again, and there is nothing new under the sun”?