12) 1970s and the Rise of Postmodernism

Question 1

Which author is connected with Gonzo Journalism?

Answer 1

Hunter S. Thompson

Question 2

What is Gonzo Journalism?

Answer 2

a style that does not claim to be objective, the journalist is a part of the story

Question 3

Hunter S. Thompson

Answer 3

Hell’s Angels, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Question 4

Thomas Pynchon

Answer 4

V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity’s Rainbow

Question 5

Joseph Heller

Answer 5

Catch-22, Something Happened, Good as Gold, God Knows, Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man

Question 6

Stephen King

Answer 6

The Shining, Cujo, Dreamcatcher

Question 7

Toni Morrison

Answer 7

The Bluest Eyes, Song of Solomon, Beloved

Question 8

William Styron

Answer 8

Lie Down in Darkness, The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

Question 9

Norman Mailer

Answer 9

The Executioner’s Song, The Naked and the Dead, An American Dream

Question 10

E. L. Doctorow

Answer 10

Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, The March

Question 11

Elmore Leonard

Answer 11

Hombre, Get Shorty, Riding the Rap

Question 12

Kurt Vonnegut

Answer 12

Slaughterhouse no.5, Breakfas of Champions, Slapstick

Question 13

Which book is a great comic book and a satire on war and absurdity of the bureaucratic system and who wrote it?

Answer 13

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Question 14

Which book written by Joseph Heller is a satire on the U.S. government?

Answer 14

Good as Gold

Question 15

Which book by Joseph Heller is about exploration of the Jewish identity?

Answer 15

God Knows

Question 16

Which 1970s author wrote mainly historical fiction?

Answer 16

E. L. Doctorow