Look Homeward, Angel - Quiz
A) Maxwell Perkins B) Thomas Wolfe C) Matthew Bruccoli D) Arlyn Bruccoli
A) 1929 B) 1938 C) 1900 D) 2000
A) The Building of a Wall B) O Lost C) A Story of the Buried Life D) A Sentimental Tale of Growing Up
A) Eugene Gant B) William Oliver Wolfe C) Maxwell Perkins D) John Milton
A) From his birth to his death B) Only his childhood years C) From his birth in 1900 to his departure at age 19 D) His father's early life to World War I
A) Oakdale B) Altamont C) Hendersonville D) Patton Avenue
A) The Building of a Wall B) O Lost C) The Buried Life D) Lycidas
A) Maxwell Perkins B) Matthew Bruccoli C) Thomas Wolfe's father D) Eugene Gant
A) Altamont town square B) The Jackson Building C) Patton Avenue monument shop D) Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville, North Carolina
A) "O Lost" by Matthew Bruccoli B) "Lycidas" by John Milton C) "The Building of a Wall" by Thomas Wolfe D) "A Story of the Buried Life" by Arlyn Bruccoli
A) A Story of the Buried Life B) The Building of a Wall C) O Lost D) Look Homeward, Angel
A) William Oliver Wolfe B) Maxwell Perkins C) Arlyn Bruccoli D) Matthew Bruccoli
A) 100,000 words B) 10,000 words C) 60,000 words D) 20,000 words
A) September 1900 B) September 1929 C) September 1938 D) September 2000
A) Because Perkins refused to publish it B) Because the original manuscript was lost C) Because the book sold poorly D) Criticism that the novel was Perkins's almost as much as his own
A) 2000 B) 1938 C) 1929 D) 1906
A) A complete rewrite of the plot B) A massive destruction of the text C) Necessary to remove all dark themes D) More a matter of reorganization
A) Due to his descriptions of Altamont, people, and family B) Because he joined the military C) Because he sold the angel statue D) Because he moved to New York permanently
A) Cholera B) Smallpox C) Tuberculosis D) Influenza
A) Thomas Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins B) Arlyn and Matthew Bruccoli C) Eugene Gant and his mother D) William Oliver Wolfe and John Milton
A) It proved Perkins was a poor editor B) It marks the restoration of a masterpiece to the literary canon C) It should have remained unpublished D) It is vastly inferior to the 1929 edition
A) Gambling B) Poverty C) Alcoholism D) Illness
A) Seven B) Six C) Five D) Four
A) Margaret B) Dorsey C) Helen D) Eliza
A) Drinking B) Sleeping C) Reading D) Working
A) Milton B) Shakespeare C) Dickens D) Chaucer
A) Philosophy B) History C) Prose D) Poetry
A) Pride B) Strength C) Warmth D) Wealth
A) Beats him B) Babies him C) Ignores him D) Pushes him away
A) A spelling bee B) An oratorical contest C) A writing contest D) A poetry contest
A) $200 B) $50 C) $100 D) $500
A) Eliza B) Margaret C) Helen D) John Dorsey Leonard
A) A chronic cough B) A bad leg C) Rotting, painful teeth D) Poor eyesight
A) Luke B) Ben C) Stevie D) Oliver
A) 25 B) 23 C) 19 D) 21
A) Altamont, North Carolina B) Baltimore, Maryland C) Boston, Massachusetts D) Norfolk, Virginia
A) Chemotherapy B) Surgery C) Radiation treatments D) Physical therapy
A) Cancer B) Tuberculosis C) Heart disease D) Pneumonia
A) Norfolk University B) Harvard C) Johns Hopkins D) UNC
A) Radiation complications B) Cancer C) Pneumonia D) Heart disease
A) Harry Levine B) Jonathan W. Daniels C) Maxwell Perkins D) Vergil Weldon
A) UNC B) Johns Hopkins C) Harvard D) Norfolk
A) Run the boarding house B) Teach drama C) Work at the shipyards D) Work for a newspaper
A) Harold Bloom B) Maxwell Perkins C) Vergil Weldon D) Jonathan W. Daniels
A) R.E.M. B) U2 C) Riblja Čorba D) The Beatles
A) Harry Levine B) Max Cady C) Danielle Bowden D) Jake Manheim
A) Vergil Weldon B) Oliver Gant C) Maxwell Perkins D) Max Cady
A) Jerry Orbach B) Al Pacino C) Robert De Niro D) Tom Wolfe
A) Photographer B) English professor C) Writer D) Actor
A) Cape Fear B) Chinese Coffee C) Genius D) Before Sunset
A) Red Scare B) Atomic Scare C) Yellow Scare D) Lavender Scare
A) Danielle Bowden B) Charlotte Byrde C) Laura James D) Eliza |
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