1. Whose novel Strangers on a Train did Alfred Hitchcock adapt for film?

2. Whose first two novels were The Natural and The Assistant?

3. What novelist created the lawyer-detective Perry Mason?

4. In which type of novel are the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters of equal or greater interest than the external action of the narrative?

5. Who wrote a satire originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World?

6. Who among these authors wrote only one novel?

7. What was Arthur Conan Doyle’s profession (outside of his writing)?

8. Whose novel Death Comes for the Archbishop recounted the story of French Catholic missionaries in the southwestern United States?

9. From which novel by Leo Tolstoy is the statement “All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” taken?

10. Which of these books was not written by W. Somerset Maugham?

11. Whose novel Wise Blood explored the “religious consciousness without a religion”?

12. Whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932?

13. What form of novel typically relates the adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer as he drifts from place to place in an effort to survive?

14. What is the name given to a novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters?

15. What is the English-language title of the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language?

16. What mystery writer introduced the amateur detective Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins?

17. Who wrote Dead Souls and “The Overcoat,” which are considered the foundation of 19th-century Russian realism?

18. Whose mythical Mississippi community Yoknapatawpha County depicted the transformation and decadence of the American South?

19. Who was the chief model for the character Orlando in Virginia Woolf’s novel of that name?

20. Who wrote the novel I, Claudius, the autobiography Good-Bye to All That, and the scholarly work The White Goddess?

21. Which novel by George Meredith centres on a woman’s right to be accepted as an individual?

22. Which of these writers is often considered the inventor of the historical novel?

23. Who wrote the novel whose title thereafter entered the English language as a reference to a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem?