AMERICAN WRITERS
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Rudolf Dostálek
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Hester Prynne, the main character of the Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, had to face public humiliation and punishment due to the crime she had commited. What crime was it?
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The most popular work of Edgar Alan Poe is probably the poem Raven with its NEVER MORE line. However, he is also considered to be the father of a detective story. Which short story introduces C. August Dupin, the first modern detective ever?
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Moby Dick, the animal hero of the novel by Herman Melville, was hunted maniacally by Captain Ahab in "the greatest book of the sea ever written". The book´s title is The Whale. However, what whale it actually was?
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Walt Whitman became one of the most famous American poets due to his book of poems called
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One of the poems from the book the Leaves of Grass was written as an elegy for Abraham Lincoln after his assassination. It´s called
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Ernest Hemingway is most famous for his Nobel Prize awarded short story The Old Man and the Sea. However, he wrote a few more oustanding books. Which one from the four was NOT written by Hemingway?
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You might know a lot about life and work of Ernest Hemingway. Do you also know how he died?
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Jack London is famous for depicting lives of gold diggers in harsh conditions in Alaska during the Golden Rush. However, the novel which bears autobiographical features about a self-educated writer rising from the working class
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Everyone knows the novel about a young, charming millionaire Jay Gatsby who enchanted New Yorkers of the Roaring Twenties with his fabulous parties in the novel by F.S. Fitzgerald. What was the name of the love of his life, a lighthearted woman who had married the wrong guy?
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The most famous novel by John Steinbeck is without any doubt Of Mice and Men. Who are its main characters?
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E.A. Poe was the father of the American horror story. The contemporary king of American horrors is Stephen King. He has written more than 60 novels and novellas and 200 short stories. One of the following, however, was NOT written by him?
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The scariest "hero" created by Stephen King is definitely the moster/clown from the novel IT. His name is:
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Three Laws of Robotics are a set of ethical rules designed to govern the behavior of intelligent robots. They first appeared in his Robot series of stories and are foundational in discussions of AI ethics. They were created by an outstanding American sci-fi author. His name is:
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