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was a poor editor B) It marks the restoration of a masterpiece to the literary canon C) It should have remained unpublished D) It is vastly inferior to the 1929 edition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