Q 01/05

In which Canadian city was Margaret Atwood born on November 18, 1939?

A) Halifax

B) Ottawa

C) Toronto

D) Montreal

Answer · why

B) Ottawa

Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa on November 18, 1939, the second of three children; the family spent much of each year in the bush of northern Queb...

Q 02/05

What was Margaret Atwood's father's profession?

A) Entomologist

B) Lumberjack

C) Geologist

D) Lighthouse keeper

Answer · why

A) Entomologist

Her father, Carl Atwood, was a forest entomologist; his insect research took the family into the bush of northern Quebec and Ontario each spring and s...

Q 03/05

Which famous literary critic taught Margaret Atwood at Toronto's Victoria College?

A) Marshall McLuhan

B) Harold Bloom

C) Northrop Frye

D) Hugh Kenner

Answer · why

C) Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye taught her at Victoria College; his 'garrison mentality' idea later shaped her 1972 critical study Survival, and she graduated in 1961 w...

Q 04/05

Where did Margaret Atwood earn her master's degree in 1962, on a Woodrow Wilson fellowship?

A) Vassar College

B) Barnard College

C) Bryn Mawr College

D) Radcliffe College

Answer · why

D) Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College, Harvard's women's college, awarded her an A.M. in 1962; she went on to Harvard doctoral work on 'The English Metaphysical Romance' ...

Q 05/05

What was the title of Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry, published as a pamphlet in 1961?

A) Power Politics

B) The Animals in That Country

C) Double Persephone

D) The Circle Game

Answer · why

C) Double Persephone

Double Persephone, a pamphlet she printed in 1961 under her own Hawkshead Press imprint, won the E. J. Pratt Medal; The Circle Game later took the Gov...