[literature] sunday evening quiz

Sunday literature quiz continued:

3. A leading politician of the French Revolution spends the entirety of this play sitting in a bath, cooling his skin disease, while amongst other incidents, a group of lunatics taunt and persecute him.

4. A hapless cuckolded gentleman becomes an explorer in Brazil, gets hopelessly lost and ill, and is forced to spend the rest of his life reading the complete works of Dickens to the mad old man who rescues him.

5. A wealthy American reaches self-fulfilment blowing up a water tank infested with frogs and is introduced to a pet lion in the den of an African tribal king.

6. A legal clerk working on Wall Street, answers every request from his employer with the gentle rebuttal, 'I should prefer not to'. Eventually this preference not to take part, leads him to give up food and he dies of starvation.

7. The lady of the castle, and mother of the principal character, is forever accompanied by a mass of cats, who swarm around her feet like a sea of white fur.

Quiz Lite – use the clues below to identify the novels and authors:

a. Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
b. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville
c. Marat Sade by Peter Weiss
d. The Third Policemen by Flann O'Brien
e. The Great Pursuit by Tom Sharpe
f. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
g. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh


Answers – no peeking!

1d, 2e, 3c, 4g, 5a, 6b, 7f