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Can You Pass This Basic Lit Test?

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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is an autobiographical work by Maya Angelou.

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    That quote was spoken by Charlotte in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

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    The coalition of planets that Genly Ai represents in The Left Hand of Darkness was called the Ekumen.

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    Mrs. Dalloway was written by Virginia Woolf, while the other three books were written by the Brontë sisters.

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    Margaret Atwood was born in Canada.

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    The full title of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s classic is Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

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    Short story author Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2013.

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    Mrs. Who, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Which are supernatural beings who assist Meg Murry on her adventures.

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    Mary Ann Evans claimed that she used a male pen name to ensure her work be taken seriously, but also to separate her writing from the work she did as an editor and critic.

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    The three novels of the Hunger Games series were written by American novelist Suzanne Collins.

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    The Joy Luck Club takes place in San Francisco, and the 16 vignettes that make up the novel are told over a game of mahjong.

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    The symbol represents the three legendary objects wielded by the Master of Death in the Harry Potter books: the Elder Wand, the Resurrection Stone, and the Cloak of Invisibility.

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