Agog about Agee

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Where was Agee born? Knoxville, Tennessee Atlanta, Georgia Albany, New York Baltimore, Maryland

2. What is the first name of the young hero of 'A Death In The Family'? Rufus Rhett Sidney Ashley

3. Name the two Stephen Crane storie Agee adopted for the screen. The Open Boat, A Mystery of Heroism The Monster, The Red Badge Of Courage The Pace of Youth, The Upturned Face The Blue Hotel, The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky

4. Name the director of Agee's script of Davis Grubb's The Night Of The Hunter. John Wayne Marlon Brando Charles Laughton Karl Malden

5. Which 19th-century artist's life did Agee base a script on? Edgar Degas Vincent Van Gogh Paul Gauguin Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

6. Which American composer set Agee's words to music? Aaron Copland Stephen Sondheim Leonard Bernstein Samuel Barber

7. Name the magazine Agee DIDN'T write film criticism for. The Nation Time Films in Review Life

8. What is the film Agee DID do with Huston? The Asphalt Jungle The African Queen Night of the Iguana Fat City

9. Name the title of Agee's collaboration with photographer Walker Evans. I Am A Camera How the Other Half Lives As I See Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

10. Name the only untrue statement about Agee. He died of a heart attack in a taxi He won the Pulitzer Prize He was a Broadway playwright He was a published poet