7) 1950s and 1960s

Question 1

Which are the conditions of the Society?

Answer 1

Cold War, McCarthy trials, economic boom, baby boom, civil rights, sexual revolution, gay and lesbian voices

Question 2

J.D.Salinger

Answer 2

The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Hapworth 16

Question 3

Ray Bradbury

Answer 3

The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, Green Shadows, White Whale

Question 4

Which book is about conflict between human psyche and technology?

Answer 4

The Illustrated Man

Question 5

Which book is about Americans colonizing Mars and earth destroyed by nuclear war?

Answer 5

The Martian Chronicles

Question 6

Flannery O´Connor

Answer 6

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away

Question 7

Into which genre does Flannery O´Connor belong?

Answer 7

Southern Gothic

Question 8

Harper Lee

Answer 8

To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman

Question 9

Truman Capote

Answer 9

In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms; Breakfast at Tiffany´s: A Short Novel and Three Stories

Question 10

Which Capote´s book is a semiautobiografical novel about a boy who loses his mother?

Answer 10

Other Voices, Other Rooms

Question 11

Ralph Ellison

Answer 11

Invisible Man

Question 12

Describe Invisible Man

Answer 12

exploration of racism in America, with emphasis on the differences between racism in the South and the North; unnamed narrator, living in an underground room, powered by electricity stolen from the grid

Question 13

Patricia Highsmith

Answer 13

Strangers on a Train, Talented Mr Ripley, The Price of Salt

Question 14

Which book is a psychological thriller about two men arranging to commit murders each on the other´s behalf?

Answer 14

Strangers on a Train

Question 15

James Baldwin

Answer 15

Notes of a Native Son, Giovanni´s Room

Question 16

Which book is about racial, sexual and class divisions in American society?

Answer 16

Notes of a Native Son

Question 17

Which author spent most of his life in France?

Answer 17

James Baldwin

Question 18

Name a russian born writer and philosopher

Answer 18

Ayn Rand

Question 19

Ayn Rand

Answer 19

Atlas Shrugged

Question 20

The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, Hapworth 16

Answer 20

J.D.Salinger

Question 21

The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Fahrenheit 451, Green Shadows, White Whale

Answer 21

Ray Bradbury

Question 22

A Good Man is Hard to Find, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away

Answer 22

Flannery O´Connor

Question 23

To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman

Answer 23

Harper Lee

Question 24

In Cold Blood, Other Voices, Other Rooms; Breakfast at Tiffany´s: A Short Novel and Three Stories

Answer 24

Truman Capote

Question 25

Invisible Man

Answer 25

Ralph Ellison

Question 26

Strangers on a Train, Talented Mr Ripley, The Price of Salt

Answer 26

Patricia Highsmith

Question 27

Notes of a Native Son, Giovanni´s Room

Answer 27

James Baldwin

Question 28

Atlas Shrugged

Answer 28

Ayn Rand