This quiz tests Can we have a good conversation about literature? Yes: though we have differing tastes in literature, we have a common passion for reading and can exchange ideas/add books to our respective 'to-read' lists over several cups of coffee. Books Knowledge Quizzes, Trivia, IQ Tests

This Books IQ Quiz is based upon the selector Can we have a good conversation about literature? by Alyna.
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Yes: though we have differing tastes in literature, we have a common passion for reading and can exchange ideas/add books to our respective 'to-read' lists over several cups of coffee.

Show what you know by answering true or false to the following. Answer ''false'' if neither applies or if you're not sure. Your score will be calculated on the next page.

Your first question is below.

Does your your 'to-read' list approximate the weekly bestsellers compiled by The New York Times?

True False

Is a romantic subplot key to the plot of a good book?

True False

Social significance aside, has the beat movement made any worthy contributions to literature?

True False

Can you eloquently defend Hemingway when I start in on how he's just another mediocre, overrated American writer?

True False

Does poetry have to be good? (not a trick question)

True False

Have you noticed that most 'southern novelists' have been slavishly and unsuccessfully emulating Faulkner?

True False

Does a book have to be reread to be truly read?

True False

Is the word 'Kafkaesque' in your vocabulary?

True False

Should more books explore the delicate, heartwrenching mother/daughter relationship between (insert minority here)?

True False

Do you like to read?

True False

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