Works of Sinclair Lewis

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1. What Sinclair Lewis novel tells the story of the wealthy owner of a motor company who is forced to take a lengthy vacation in Europe that ends with a divorce from his wife? This Side of Paradise Outlander Dodsworth Elmer Gantry

2. What did the main character in Sinclair Lewis' novel 'Arrowsmith' work as? Banker Doctor Office Manager Minister

3. In what 1947 Sinclair Lewis novel is the main character, a wounded war veteran and junior banker named Neil, shocked to find that his ancestory is not what it seems? Flight Passing Kingsblood Royal The House Behind the Cedar

4. In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American writer to do what? Have the best selling book in England Have his book translated into Russian Have the best selling book in Europe Win the Nobel Prize for Literature

5. During the height of the depression, Sinclair Lewis imagined the United States taken over by a facist government in this work. What was the title? Babbitt Crome Yellow Main Street It Can't Happen Here

6. In this book we read the story of George, a successful real estate agent who is very unhappy with his life. What was the name of this Sinclair Lewis book, often considered one of the best satires of the American middle class? Elmer Gantry Cass Timberlane Dodsworth Babbitt

7. Set in Gopher Prairie Minnesota, this Sinclair Lewis novel featured the struggles of Carol Milford, the young freethinking wife of the town doctor Will Kennicott. What was the name of this parody of small town life in America, often considered one of the most important novels of Sinclair Lewis' career? Main Street Babbitt Our Town Ann Vickers

8. Where had Mr. Wrenn met the young female artist he fell in love with in the Sinclair Lewis novel 'Our Mr. Wrenn'? New York France England Italy

9. Why, in the early 1800's, did Aaron Gadd leave New England and travel to Minnesota in the Sinclair Lewis Novel 'God-Seeker'? To start his own church To serve as a missionary to the Sioux To settle on his own farmstead To serve in the Army

10. Written in 1927, what Sinclair Lewis novel described the life of a young small town drunk and ruffian who becomes one of the most famous evangelists in the country? Go East, Young Man Dodsworth Elmer Gantry Cass Timberlane