Q 01/05

Who wrote the novel Gone with the Wind?

A) Margaret Mitchell

B) Willa Cather

C) Edna Ferber

D) Harper Lee

Answer · why

A) Margaret Mitchell

It was the only novel published in her lifetime.

Q 02/05

In what year was the novel published?

A) 1926

B) 1930

C) 1933

D) 1936

Answer · why

D) 1936

Selznick bought the film rights a month later for $50,000.

Q 03/05

Which honour did the author win for the novel 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

She also received the second-ever National Book Award for Fiction.

Q 04/05

The novel's title comes from a poem by which writer?

A) Edgar Allan Poe

B) Alfred Tennyson

C) Ernest Dowson

D) Lord Byron

Answer · why

C) Ernest Dowson

Mitchell had tentatively titled it Tomorrow Is Another Day, from its last line.

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

She had spent three years on the book after leaving her Atlanta Journal job.