1. This man wrote fine poetry, despite intervals of both poverty and mental illness. Sadly, he outlived five of his children. John Clare Robert Burns William Blake Ernest Dowson

2. This author destroyed part of a manuscript that he had written, then more-or-less starved himself to death in "preparation" for doing more writing. Gogol Zola Pushkin Mann

3. This author was married to the sister of the legendary Baron Von Richthoffen. Stephen Crane Jack London Theodore Dreiser D.H. Lawrence

4. This author suffered the loss of his daughter "Susy" to spinal meningitis at the age of 24. Mark Twain Sinclair Lewis John Steinbeck William Faulkner

5. Which of these poets committed suicide? Elizabeth Browning John Dryden William Ernest Henley Anne Sexton

6. This author wrote a suicide note that began: "I am certain that I am going mad again ..." Sylvia Plath Emily Dickinson Marianne Moore Virginia Woolf

7. The writing Bronte sisters all died relatively young. They all died of tuberculosis. True False

8. This playwright was investigated during the McCarthy period because of membership in the American Communist Party. Clifford Odets Eugene O'Neill Robert Anderson William Inge

9. Charles Nordhoff (along with James Hall) wrote the "Bounty" trilogy. What happened to him? Murder victim Suicide victim Accident victim Mysterious disappearance

10. This author's "horror fiction" was said to be partially the product of his struggle with mental illness later in his life. Proust Stendhal Du Maupassant Gide