Answers To: A Novel Idea

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
© Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved

  1. C. The novel won the 1986 Pullitzer Prize for fiction.

  2. True

  3. C. Quo Vadis? focuses on early Christians persecuted by the Roman Empire.

  4. True

  5. A. Beka Lamb was a joint winner of the 1982 Fawcett Society Book Prize.

  6. True. It also had a tremendous influence on later art forms, including Chinese opera.

  7. True. Best-selling author Márquez is also credited with popularizing the literary genre known as magic realism (lo real maravilloso).

  8. True.

  9. True. Besides being a filmmaker and novelist, Cocteau was also a poet, dramatist, and artist.

  10. False. Those novels were written by the late German novelist Hermann Hesse. Günter Grass is best known for his 1959 novel The Tin Drum.