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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Pew Research Center's quiz...

on the degree to which people are following news about the U.S. The quiz is here.
Good news! I answered all the questions correctly. Bad news: I joined 2% of the respondents in doing so. Even worse news: the questions were quite basic.

My WEM Reading Group

UP NEXT:
4. RA's choice
IS READING:
7.The Confessions , Jean-Jacques Rousseau
HAS READ:
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3. To Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee 1960
2. How Then Should We Live, Francis Schaeffer 1976
1. Inkheart, Cornelia Funke 2003
- AUTOBIOGRAPHIES -
6. The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration, Mary Rowlandson
5. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, John Bunyan 1666
4. The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself
3. Michel De Montaingne: Essays
2. Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery Kempe
1. Augustine: Confessions
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31. Possession, A.S. Byatt 1990
30. White Noise, Don Delillo 1985
29. Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison 1977
28. If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino 1972
27. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1967
26. Seize the Day, Saul Bellow 1956
25. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 1952
24. 1984, George Orwell 1949
23. The Stranger, Albert Camus 1942
22. Native Son, Richard Wright 1940
21. The Trial, Franz Kafka 1925
20. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf 1925
19. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925
18. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton 1905
17. Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad 1902
16. The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane 1895
15. Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain 1884
14. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James 1881
13. The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy 1878
12. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy 1877
11. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1866
10. Madame Bovary, Gustave Fiaubert 1857
9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe 1851
8. Moby Dick, Herman Melville 1851
7. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne1850
6. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte 1847
5. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens 1838
4. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 1815
3. Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift 1726
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan 1679
1. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes, 1604