Q 01/05

In Gone with the Wind, what does Scarlett have made into a fine dress when she has no money?

A) A wedding gown

B) A piano shawl

C) Velvet curtains

D) A Yankee greatcoat

Answer · why

C) Velvet curtains

Velvet curtains from Tara's windows became the green dress Scarlett wore to charm tax money out of Rhett. Carol Burnett's 1976 parody left the curtain...

Q 02/05

Gone with the Wind sold a million copies in six months during which era?

A) The Roaring Twenties

B) The Great Depression

C) The Second World War

D) The postwar baby boom

Answer · why

B) The Great Depression

The Great Depression had not yet lifted, and the 1,037-page novel cost three dollars, yet about a million copies had gone by the end of the year.

Q 03/05

Which honour did Gone with the Wind win for its author in 1937?

A) The O. Henry Award

B) The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

C) The Newbery Medal

D) The Nobel Prize in Literature

Answer · why

B) The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to a first novel whose author never published another: Mitchell spent much of her remaining twelve years answering...

Q 04/05

Gone with the Wind takes its title from what?

A) A marching song

B) A love poem

C) A Shakespeare play

D) A general's letter

Answer · why

B) A love poem

A love poem: in Ernest Dowson's 'Cynara' a man sick with an old passion says he has 'forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind'. Scarlett borrows the ph...

Q 05/05

What was Scarlett O'Hara's first name in Mitchell's manuscript before publication?

A) Violet

B) Rose

C) Daisy

D) Pansy

Answer · why

D) Pansy

Pansy O'Hara she stayed through years of drafts; Mitchell swapped in Scarlett only while revising for the printer, in the same months she finally wrot...