ArtsAutosBooksBusinessEducationEntertainmentFamilyFashionFoodGamesGenderHealthHolidaysHomeHubPagesPersonal FinancePetsPoliticsReligionSportsTechnologyTravel

Trivia Quiz: Summer in Literature

Updated on July 30, 2014
"Different Seasons" by Stephen King
"Different Seasons" by Stephen King

It is summer, and for those that love to read, the perfect time for a trivia quiz all about summer and summer themes found in Literature.

If you would like to play the quiz, the rules are simple: get out paper and pen or pencil. Number your paper 1-11, then proceed to the Questions segment of this page. Read each individual question and choose an answer from among the group of possibilities provided for each. Select and mark your choice of answer on the paper and proceed to next question. Answers are found below the Questions segment.

Scoring: The first 10 correctly answered questions are worth 10 points each. The correctly answered BONUS QUESTION (#11) is worth 100 points - making for a possible 200 points final score.

As always, good luck on the quiz and have fun!

Questions


1. Fifty years after publication of Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury released the sequel. What was the title of this long-awaited book?

a. Summer Wine

b. Embrace The Summer

c. Farewell Summer

d. Summer Hangover


2. Herman Raucher wrote what highly-acclaimed coming of age novel?

a. Summer-Time Blues

b. Summer of ‘42

c. Summer House

d. How I Spent My Summer Vacation


3. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Puck uses his magic to turn Nick Bottom’s head into what?

a. the head of an ass

b. the head of a turtle

c. the head of an owl

d. a battering ram


4. The novelette, Summer by Edith Wharton (published in 1917) is often attributed as one of the first American works of fiction to deal with what subject matter?

a. a young man’s sensual awakening

b. a young woman’s sensual awakening

c. a school marm’s sensual awakening

d. a drunk awakening to discover he got a tattoo of a fluffy kitten


5. John Muir’s My First Summer in the Sierra chronicled what?

a. a young boy’s discovery of a dead body in Sierra foothills

b. a young white man rescued by a beautiful Apache woman

c. a 93-year old released convict seeing his children for the first time in 62 years

d. the author’s first summer in the Sierra


6. In the Stephen King collection, Different Seasons, what story is known as the Summer story?

a. The Body

b. Apt Pupil

c. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption

d. How Carrie White Saved Christmas


7. In his poem, Summer Stars, Carl Sandburg urges what to bend low again?

a. the night

b. the wind

c. the eternal seasons

d. his gouty knees


8. In the Bible, Proverbs 30:25, who is said to prepare their meat in the summer?

a. lions

b. eagles

c. ants

d. men with honey barbecue sauce


9. The short story, The Summer People was written by what master of horror?

a. Shirley Jackson

b. Fritz Lieber

c. Richard Matheson

d. Dr. Seuss


10. In The Berenstain Bears: Too Much Vacation by Jan and Stan Berenstain, what does the Bear family do after spending the most miserable vacation of their lives together in a rundown cabin?

a. They go home and look at snapshots

b. They head off to a comfortable resort

c. They seek family therapy

d. They go hunting and triumphantly return home with Sarah Palin strapped over the hood of the family car


11. *Bonus Question* - In Tennessee Williams’ one-act play, Suddenly, Last Summer, Violet Venable does not want to accept what truth about her son, Sebastian?

a. He can’t read

b. His AM/FM radio only picks up AM stations

c. He was cannibalized by a pack of hungry street urchins

d. That at 34-years of age, he still can’t figure out how to double-knot his shoe laces

e. He prepared a casserole using a budget-variety of caviar instead of the name brand stuff

f. That he uploads toilet tissue so it feeds backward from the underside instead of forward and over



Scroll down to find the Answers










Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams

Answers


1. c. Farewell Summer

2. b. Summer of ‘42

3. a. the head of an ass

4. b. a young woman’s sensual awakening

5. d. the author’s first summer in the Sierra

6. b. Apt Pupil

7. a. the night

8. c. ants

9. a. Shirley Jackson

10. a. They go home and look at snapshots

11. c. He was cannibalized by a pack of hungry street urchins



This Hub ©July 30, 2014 by Beth Perry

working

This website uses cookies

As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.

For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy

Show Details
Necessary
HubPages Device IDThis is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons.
LoginThis is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service.
Google RecaptchaThis is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy)
AkismetThis is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy)
HubPages Traffic PixelThis is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized.
Amazon Web ServicesThis is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy)
CloudflareThis is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy)
Google Hosted LibrariesJavascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy)
Features
Google Custom SearchThis is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy)
Google MapsSome articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
Google ChartsThis is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy)
Google AdSense Host APIThis service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Google YouTubeSome articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
VimeoSome articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy)
PaypalThis is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook LoginYou can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy)
MavenThis supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy)
Marketing
Google AdSenseThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Google DoubleClickGoogle provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Index ExchangeThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
SovrnThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Facebook AdsThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Unified Ad MarketplaceThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
AppNexusThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
OpenxThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Rubicon ProjectThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
TripleLiftThis is an ad network. (Privacy Policy)
Say MediaWe partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy)
Remarketing PixelsWe may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites.
Conversion Tracking PixelsWe may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service.
Statistics
Author Google AnalyticsThis is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy)
ComscoreComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy)
Amazon Tracking PixelSome articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy)
ClickscoThis is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy)