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William Faulkner Flashcards

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When did Faulkner try to enlist in the air corps?

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Spring 1918

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What school did Faulkner publish illustrations and poems in the university year book in 1916?

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University of Mississippi

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Why was Faulkner turned down from the air corps?

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Because he was too short, just a little over 5’5 and too slight

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Whose engagement motivated Faulkner to joint the Royal Canadian Air Force?

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The engagement of his sweetheart, Estelle Oldham to another man

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How did Faulkner get into the Royal Canadian Air Corps?

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By forging documents to make himself appear as an Englishman and changing his name from Falkner to Faulkner

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Where did Faulkner train from July to November 1918?

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In Toronto

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When did Faulkner enroll in the University of Mississippi?

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September 1919

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When did Faulkner drop out of the University of Mississippi?

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November 1920

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Who eventually married Sherwood Anderson?

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Elizabeth Prall

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Who did Faulkner read while in New York?

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Conrad Aiken, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.D., Eugene O’Niell and William Carlos Williams

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When did Faulkner publish his first book and meet Sherwood Anderson

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In 1924

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What was the name of William Faulkner’s first book?

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The Marble Faun, it was a work of poems

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What was New Orleans’s vital literary magazine encouraging cultural revival?

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The Double Dealer

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What was Hemingway’s first publication?

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A Divine Gesture which appeared in the May 1922 of The Double Dealer

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What was the title of Faulkner’s collection of works about city life in New Orleans in 1925?

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New Orleans

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What other magazine did Faulkner publish in while staying in New Orleans?

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Times Picayune

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What was Faulkner’s first novel?

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Soldier’s Pay

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What is a Soldier’s Pay about?

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A wounded aviator who returns to his homes in Georgia who returns to his home in Georgia at the end of the war

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What countries did Faulkner tour after landing in Genoa in August 1925?

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Italy, Switzerland and France

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Who was the only literary man that Faulkner met in Paris?

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James Joyce

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What was Faulkner’s second book?

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Mosquitoes with Liveright

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What novel of Faulkner’s did Liveright reject in 1927?

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Flags in the Dust

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What did Faulkner rewrite Flags in the Dust as?

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Sartoris

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What foreword of Faulkner’s annoyed Sherwood Anderson?

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The foreword to William Spratling’s Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles

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What was Faulkner’s Flags in the Dust about?

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About characters from the southern Mississippi delta who inhabited a county named Yoknapatwpha and a town called Jefferson based on Winesburg, Ohio

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What real town was the town of Jefferson in Flags in the Dust inspired by?

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Winesburg, Ohio

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What was Faulkner’s masterpiece that he worked on in 1928?

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The Sound and the Fury

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Who published Sartoris?

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Harcourt Brace

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Who published The Sound and the Fury?

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Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith in October 1928

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What short storied did Faulkner publish?

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As I Lay Ding, Sanctuary, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and The Wild Palms

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When was All the Dead Pilots first accepted?

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When Faulkner included it in his first collection of stories, These Thirteen in 1931

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Who did Faulkner marry in June 1929?

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His childhood sweetheart Estelle

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What did Faulkner name a crumbling mansion in Oxford, Mississippi he bought in April 1930?

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Rowan Oak

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What magazine favorably compared Faulkner to Anderson, Hemingway and others?

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Contempo: A review of Books and Personalities

34
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When did Faulkner work in Hollywood?

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From the 1930’s to 11945

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What work of Hemingway was Faulkner assigned to be the scriptwriter for?

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To Have and Have Not

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Who did Faulkner write a letter to calling Hollywood a salt mine?

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Malcolm Crowley

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What work of Raymond Chandler’s did Faulkner work on?

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The Big Sleep in the spring and summer of 1944

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What work of Faulkner’s was interrupted by his work on To Have and Have Not and The Great Sleep?

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A Fable

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Who did Faulkner have a contract with in Hollywood?

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Warner Brothers

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How many works of Faulkner’s did Hemingway have in his library?

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15 works

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When did Faulkner receive the Nobel Prize?

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In December 1950

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What Humphrey Bogart picture did Faulkner work on in the 1950’s?

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The Left Hand of God

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Why did Faulkner’s work on The Fable slow in the 1950’s?

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Because of physical problems as a result of his alcoholism

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Who did Faulkner refuse to debate segregation with?

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NAACP leader W.E.B. Debois

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Where did Faulkner have a position as writer in residence in 1957?

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The University of Virginia

46
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When did Faulkner die and of what?

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On July 6, 1962 of a coronary occlusion

47
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How many stories did Faulkner write wit World War One as their subject?

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Six

48
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When was All the Dead Pilots first sent out?

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February 1930

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What was the original title of All the Dead Pilots?

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Per Ardua

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What was Per Ardua

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The first part of the motto of the Royal Air Force, Per Ardua ad astra or Through adversity to the starrs

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What Faulkner story was based on World War One and published in American Caravan in March 1931?

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Ad Astra

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When did Faulkner place All The Dead Pilots in a section called The Wasteland?

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In 1950 Collected Editions

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How many section is All The Dead Pilots Structured in?

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Seven sections

54
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What does All the Dead Pilots start of with?

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An anonymous war veteran thinking about the closing days of the First World War

55
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Who competes with the squadron commander compete with for women in London and France?

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John Sartoris

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What does the first section of All the Dead Pilots question?

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The idea of heroism

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What does All The Dead Pilots reveal about the narrator?

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That he lost a leg, was a pilot and is trying to get used to a mechanical one while relegated to desk duty as censoring squadron mail

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What quotation does All the Dead Pilots refer to from Horace?

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Pro Patria

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What happens in All the Dead Pilots?

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Sartoris tries to trip Spomer who was sleeping with is girl in Amiens

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How many words does Satoris have in his vocabulary?

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About 200

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What does the narrator want to portray Sartoris as?

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Dumb and silly in life while heroic in death

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How does Sartoris try to track Spoomer?

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By releasing his dog when he suspects Spoomer of having gone to Amiens

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What happens during the German bombardment of Amiens?

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Satoris dresses up an unconscious ambulance driver in Spoomer’s clothes and when Spoomer returns in women’s clothes he is sent back to England for dereliction of duty

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When does Sartoris die?

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In July 1918

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Who are Johnny Satoris’s ancestors?

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John Satoris and Bayard Satoris

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What war does Faulkner link World War One to?

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The Civil War

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What are the letters in the mail at the end of All the Dead Pilots?

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A letter from John to his aunt in Jefferson, Mississippi; a package with Sartoris effect’s; a letter from the Major announcing Satoris’s death and burial place; letters from his great aunt

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What is the irony about Satoris’s death on Independence Day?

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His aunt lames the war on the Yankees

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Who was Spoomer’s uncle?

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A Corps commander

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What airplanes did the pilots in All the Dead Pilots fly?

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Camels

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What was the nickname of Sartoris’s girl?

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Kitchener

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