The Why Read Quiz: The Key

The key to last week’s quiz.  I used this only as a springboard for discussion.  It was meant to a fun icebreaker.  After all, who’s going to take a writing workshops facilitator serious who has this introduction: “Welcome in, I thought we’d get started with a quiz.”?  Incidentally, anyone who got question 13 really amazed and pleased me.

  1. What is a Catch-22?
    A circular problem, term coined by Joseph Heller in     Catch-22.
  2. Who is Big Brother? Party
    leader in George Orwell’s     1984.
  3. Who lived next door to Nick
    Carraway? Jay Gatz, AKA Gatsby in F. Scott
    Fitzgerald’s     The Great Gatsby.
  4. Who wrote: “The mass of men lead
    lives of quiet desperation”? Henry David
    Thoreau in     Walden.
  5. What was Alice Walker’s color?
    Purple, in The
    Color Purple    .
  6. “It was the best of times and_it
    was the worst of times.    ” In Charles
    Dickens     Tale of Two Cities.
  7. Who is Mr. Rosewater? He
    makes appearances in many of Kurt Vonnegut’s novels.
  8. What 1960s rock band wanted to
    “Break on through to the other side? Jim
    Morrison’s The Doors.
  9. Where did they get their name?
    Aldous Huxely’s The
    Doors of Perception    , and he got the
    title of the book from a William Blake poem.
  10. What is Soma? A
    drug used by residence of Aldous Huxley’s     Brave
    New World    .
  11. At what temperature does paper
    combust? 451 degrees, a book by Ray Bradbury.
  12. In what book would a reader meet
    Piggy? Lord of the Flies,
    by William Golding.
  13. What novel begins: “In
    watermelon sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is
    done in watermelon sugar”? In Watermelon
    Sugar     by Richard Brautigan.
  14. Who fought the Cyclops? Odysseus,
    in Homer’s     The Odyssey.
  15. Lord Henry Wotton watched Basil
    Hallward paint a picture of whom? Dorian Gray
    in Oscar Wilde’s     The Picture of
    Dorian Gray    .
  16. What was Lee Chong’s business?
    Groceries in John Steinbeck’s Cannery
    Row    .
  17. How were the principal figures of
    the Lost Generation? Any of them including;
    Hemingway, Stein and Fitzgerald.
  18. How is Clyde Wynant commonly
    referred? The Thin Man in Dashell Hammet’s
    novel of the same name.
  19. What story was told by Mr.
    Lockwood, or was it Nellie? Wuthering
    Heights     by Emily B ronte
  20. 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”? The
    Book of Ecclesiastes in The Bible.