Sample Questions
1. “A screaming comes across the sky...” is the first line of this novel titled:a. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
b. The Sound and the Fury
c. Ulysses
d. Gravity’s Rainbow
This same author was the winner of the William Faulkner Foundation Award for best first novel of the year in 1963 - for the novel:
a. The Crying of Lot 49
b. Vineland
c. V
d. Slow Learner
e. Mason Dixon
This author’s full name is:
a. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
b. J. Thomas Pynchon
c. Thomas Michael Pynchon
d. Thomas Randolph Pynchon
This author wrote an introduction to which other author’s work (they were classmates in college):
a. Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita
b. Richard Arina: Been Down So Long It Looks Up to Me
c. J.D. Salinger: Franny and Zooey
d. Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer
2. What does KIA WHAKAPONO, KIA MANAWNUI mean? (You could even start this journey at Hillside Elementary in Minnesota - quack, quack, about 8.12 squared).