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1. Who among these writers was initially known as an interpreter of New Orleans culture but was rediscovered in the late 20th century because of her concerns about the freedom of women?

2. Who wrote The Bluest Eye and Beloved?

3. Whose novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was adapted for film as Blade Runner (1982)?

4. Which of these writers reconstructed in Wide Sargasso Sea the earlier life of the fictional character Antoinette Cosway, who was Mr. Rochester’s mad first wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre?

5. Which American novelist was famous for his depiction of the Jazz Age?

6. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country, a novel that helped focus global attention on the injustices of apartheid in South Africa?

7. Which novelist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986?

8. Who wrote Song of Solomon?

9. Who wrote The Prince and the Pauper?

10. Who wrote Hans Brinker?

11. Who wrote Our Mutual Friend?

12. Who of these writers, along with Samuel Richardson, is considered to be a founder of the English novel?

13. Who wrote Brighton Rock, which was later made into a film?

14. Who first achieved fame with Goodbye Columbus and was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral?