Book of the Month Club Books

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1. One of our selections was Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart." From which poet's work does this novel take its title? William Carols Williams William Wordsworth William Butler Yeats William Blake

2. Our November 2003 selection was "The Map that Changed the World." The work talks about the beginnings of modern geology. Whose life does it chronicle? Abraham Gesner Charles Darwin William Smith George Fredric Matthew

3. One of our book club selections covered the work of this author, who gave us the term "quixotic." Charles Dickens Samuel Johnson Miguel de Cervantes George Eliot

4. We also discussed "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis. What does the "S" stand for? Staples Steadman Stephen Sean

5. We read "Adam Bede." Was the author of this novel a woman? Yes No

6. This book of the month club selection was penned by Charles Dickens. A Tale of a Tub The Sign of Four The Pickwick Papers The Inferno

7. Which science-fiction author brought us "The Time Machine," the subject of our August 2003 book club discussion? Arthur C. Clarke H.G. Wells Ray Bradbury H.P. Lovecraft

8. The book club discussed the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. In which tale do we meet Fortunato? The Pit and the Pendulum The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Fall of the House of Usher

9. Which book of the month club selection begins, "Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case."? The Sign of Four The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Hound of the Baskervilles The Murders in the Rue Morgue

10. In the February 2004 book club selection, Queen Elizabeth reads this woman's secret diary. Katherine Parr Anne Frank Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour