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1. George Eliot was the pseudonym for which British novelist who penned Middlemarch?
Answer = E. All of the above
It's tricky this question as going strictly by the recommended source below, A & D are correct but B & C have minor misspellings
2. What caused Herman Melville to change his famous novel from a book about whaling into a comic, darkly tragic “tour de force”?
Answer = A first serious reading of Shakespeare and the impact of a new friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
3. Who gave us the current first recorded use of the verb squabble?
Answer = Thomas Heywood
4. What does Doris Salcedo, a Colombian artist, make her sculptures out of?
Answer = furniture that once belonged to people who have ‘disappeared’ in her country’s long civil war
5. Which Brontë sister’s first novel was called The Professor?
Answer = Charlotte
1. George Eliot was the pseudonym for which British novelist who penned Middlemarch?
Answer = E. All of the above
It's tricky this question as going strictly by the recommended source below, A & D are correct but B & C have minor misspellings
Evans, Marian [pseud. George Eliot] (1819–1880), novelist, was known under several names during her life: Mary Anne Evans (at birth), Mary Ann Evans (from 1837), Marian Evans (from 1851), Marian Evans Lewes (from 1854), and Mary Ann Cross (1880)
2. What caused Herman Melville to change his famous novel from a book about whaling into a comic, darkly tragic “tour de force”?
Answer = A first serious reading of Shakespeare and the impact of a new friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne.
3. Who gave us the current first recorded use of the verb squabble?
Answer = Thomas Heywood
4. What does Doris Salcedo, a Colombian artist, make her sculptures out of?
Answer = furniture that once belonged to people who have ‘disappeared’ in her country’s long civil war
5. Which Brontë sister’s first novel was called The Professor?
Answer = Charlotte
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