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Question 1 of 10
Who did the murder in the 1930 Mary Roberts Rinehart mystery "The Door"?
Question 2 of 10
You can visit Pablo Neruda's home, called La Chascona, next time you're in what Chilean capital?
Question 3 of 10
The 1963 Morris West novel "The Shoes of the Fisherman" was based on the then-improbable idea that a Russian named Kiril Lakota would assume what position?
Question 4 of 10
What English schoolmaster wrote about English schoolboys in "Lord of the Flies"?
Question 5 of 10
The existence of Phobos and Deimos was predicted in "Gulliver's Travels," where they are found by the Laputans, 156 years before they were found by American Asaph Hall in 1877. What are they?
Question 6 of 10
Which Shakespeare play has the line, "Fair is foul and foul is fair"?
Question 7 of 10
What Faulkner book's title comes from a line in Macbeth about "a tale, told by an idiot," which signifies nothing?
Question 8 of 10
Even though I had proofread the 1903 edition of The Ambassadors, I didn't notice Harper & Brothers had switched chapters 29 and 28, a mistake left uncorrected for nearly half a century. Who am I?
Question 9 of 10
Novelist Robin Cook has said, "If my books stop selling I can always fall back on" what other career of his?
Question 10 of 10
"Watchmen" character Jon Osterman is better known by what alias?

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