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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Jhumpa Lahiri's "Interpreter of Maladies"?

  1. Mr. Kapasi
  2. Mrs. Das
  3. Mr. Gupta
  4. Mrs. Sen
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the short story collection by Junot Díaz that won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008?

  1. Drown
  2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  3. This Is How You Lose Her
  4. The Emperor of All Maladies
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun"?

  1. Ugwu
  2. Olanna
  3. Adewale
  4. Richard
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the short story collection by Alice Munro that won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013?

  1. Runaway
  2. The View from Castle Rock
  3. Dear Life
  4. Too Much Happiness
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Hanya Yanagihara's "A Little Life"?

  1. Willem
  2. Jude
  3. Malcolm
  4. JB
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the short story collection by George Saunders that won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2013?

  1. Tenth of December
  2. Pastoralia
  3. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
  4. In Persuasion Nation
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Jesmyn Ward's "Sing, Unburied, Sing"?

  1. Jojo
  2. Leonie
  3. Michael
  4. Richie
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the short story collection by Lorrie Moore that won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2014?

  1. Bark
  2. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?
  3. Birds of America
  4. A Gate at the Stairs
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad"?

  1. Cora
  2. Caesar
  3. Royal
  4. Mabel
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the short story collection by Yiyun Li that won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2010?

  1. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
  2. The Vagrants
  3. Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
  4. Kinder Than Solitude
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Jennifer Egan's "A Visit from the Goon Squad"?

  1. Sasha
  2. Bennie
  3. Lulu
  4. Scotty
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the short story collection by Karen Russell that won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2012?

  1. Swamplandia!
  2. St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
  3. Vampires in the Lemon Grove
  4. The Tide Is High and Other Stories
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Hanya Yanagihara's "The People in the Trees"?

  1. Norton Perina
  2. Aiko Takeshi
  3. Olivia Keating
  4. Graham Hawes
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the short story collection by George Saunders that won the Story Prize in 2010?

  1. Tenth of December
  2. Pastoralia
  3. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
  4. In Persuasion Nation
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the name of the protagonist in Jesmyn Ward's "Salvage the Bones"?

  1. Esch
  2. Skeetah
  3. Manny
  4. Junior
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