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1. Tennessee-born Peter Taylor has been called "the undisputed master of the short story form", but he won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in which a son is asked to forestall the remarriage of his father by his two spinster sisters. Which of these is Taylor's Pulitzer-winning novel?
2. In William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the Fury", the four chapters are written from four different points of view, using four dramatically different narrative styles. Who is the speaker in the second chapter, titled "June Second, 1910", in which a Harvard student commits suicide?
3. What William Faulkner novel centers on a family's journey across the countryside to bury one of its own, nearly losing the corpse in a river and in a burning barn?
4. In the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Fall of the House of Usher", who is the sister of Roderick Usher who emerges blood-stained to kill her brother moments before the House falls crumbling into the tarn?
5. Which of the following authors is known for her depiction of Louisiana Creole culture, particularly in her book "The Awakening"?
6. In the 1920s and 30s, a group of authors centered around Vanderbilt University began a short-lived literary movement, known as the Fugitives and Agrarians, that reacted against the industrialization of the South. Which of the following authors was not associated with that movement?
7. Which of the following Southern authors was a descendant of Daniel Boone, was involved in revolutionary Mexican politics, was married to the first of her three husbands at age 16, and won the Pulitzer Prize for her "Collected Stories"?
8. In Harper Lee's novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", Scout is attacked on her way home from a school theater production on Halloween. What is Scout dressed as when she is attacked?
9. Which Southern political icon's life does Robert Penn Warren's novel "All the King's Men" roughly follow?
10. Identify the Tennessee Williams play from the following plot description: A woman visits her sister in the wake of personal scandal and battles wits with her brother-in-law, who sees through her pretensions and resents her self-righteous intrusion into his family's humble existence.
11. In William Faulkner's novel, "Absalom, Absalom!", what is the name of Sutpen's estate, where he builds his mansion and which Quentin Compson and Rosa Coldfield visit in the novel's climactic final passages?
12. In Donald Davidson's classic poem, "Lee in the Mountains", how is Robert E. Lee supposedly employed as he speaks to the reader?
13. In T.R. Pearson's novel "A Short History of a Small Place", Miss Myra Pettigrew and her brother the Mayor keep what kind of unusual pet, known as Mr. Britches?
14. In William Faulkner's novel "Light in August", how does Joe Christmas die?
15. What is the name of the river that four Atlanta suburbanites feel the need to travel down one last time before it is dammed forever in James Dickey's novel, "Deliverance"?
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