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It's June and that means that, for those of us in the God-fearing Northern Hemisphere, the weather is warmer and the sunlight lasts a few hours longer. What to do with those prodigal hours, when you've reached a longueur in your novel and Wheel of Fortune is a rerun? Try this month's OLM Quiz, brought to you by New York quizmaster Tony Hightower. After you've tried your luck, you can find more questions, as well as times and locations for Tony's Pub Trivia challenges, by following this link.

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Question 1

Robin Maxwell wrote two separate historical novels about a secret diary passed down to a future queen from what other doomed royal, who ascended the throne herself in June 1533?

A	Joanna the Mad
B	Anne Boleyn
C	Eleni of Ethiopia
D	Mary, Queen of Scots

Question 2

The story of Hans Castorp, a shipbuilder stuck in a Davos sanitarium with a nagging case of tuberculosis, was an extended metaphor for Germany being stuck in World War I, and helped to earn its author a Nobel Prize. Name this novel, one of the most important works of European Literature in the early 20th century.

A	The Glass Pearl Game, by Hermann Hesse
B	Pale Fire, by Vladimir Nabokov
C	Hunger, by Knut Hamsun
D	The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann

Question 3

She published three novels under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield, but what author was well known enough by her actual name to meet and allegedly share a now-famous joke with Abraham Lincoln in 1862?

A	Harriet Beecher Stowe
B	Sojourner Truth
C	Hannah Adams
D	Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

Question 3 Explanation:

"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!"

Question 4

William Faulkner's final novel, published in June 1962, was made into what film, starring Steve McQueen?

A	The Reivers
B	Tom Horn
C	Requiem for a Nun
D	Go Down, Moses

Question 5

In June 1937, his play "Me, Vasha!" placed fourth in a competition in his playwriting class at Washington University, a defeat from which he never fully recovered. Name him.

A	George S. Kaufman
B	Arthur Miller
C	Tennessee Williams
D	Edward Albee

Question 6

Name the teenaged duo who published their first comic book character in June 1938, named for a concept taken from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

A	Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
B	Goscinny & Uderzo
C	Sergio Aragones & William Gaines
D	Martin Goodman & Stan Lee

Question 6 Explanation:

Superman!

Question 7

Name the volume of poetry, published in June 1857, that was split into six sections, beginning with "Spleen et Idéal" and ending with "La Mort."

A	Un Saison En Enfer
B	Les Raftsman
C	Fleurs Du Mal
D	Un Coup De Dés

Question 8

Name the Greek God depicted by Franz Kafka in a noted short story as being crushed under mountains of paperwork, unable to see the world over which he has unquestioned dominion.

A	Hephaestus
B	Nereus
C	Dionysus
D	Poseidon

Question 9

Name the best-seller, published in June 1936, which took its title from the poem Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae, a poem by the English poet Ernest Dowson.

A	Absalom, Absalom!
B	Nightwood
C	Gone with the Wind
D	Days of Wine and Roses

Question 10

Although he was most comfortable writing in Yiddish and Hebrew, what Russian/Soviet author and journalist fashioned many of his short stories and plays after his literary heroes, Guy de Maupassant and Gustave Flaubert, writing most of his early works in French to avoid restrictions on Jews writing and interacting freely with the outside world?