Q 01/05

Which space Western TV series did Joss Whedon create after reading Michael Shaara's novel The Killer Angels?

A) Dollhouse

B) Firefly

C) Farscape

D) Westworld

Answer · why

B) Firefly

Firefly follows veterans of the losing side of a civil war as they scrape a living on a frontier in space, an echo of the years after the American one...

Q 02/05

In The Killer Angels, what does Chamberlain order when the 20th Maine runs low on ammunition on Little Round Top?

A) A bayonet charge

B) A fighting withdrawal

C) A flag of truce

D) A dash for supplies

Answer · why

A) A bayonet charge

A bayonet charge down the hill routs the attackers and takes five hundred prisoners, though the day costs the regiment nearly half its men.

Q 03/05

Which actor played Colonel Joshua Chamberlain in Gettysburg, the 1993 film of The Killer Angels?

A) Kevin Costner

B) Bill Paxton

C) Jeff Daniels

D) Dennis Quaid

Answer · why

C) Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels played the Maine colonel in a film that lifts much of its dialogue directly from the book.

Q 04/05

Which literary award did The Killer Angels win in 1975, despite drawing little attention from reviewers?

A) National Book Award

B) Pulitzer Prize

C) Bancroft Prize

D) O. Henry Award

Answer · why

B) Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction went to a manuscript that fifteen publishers had rejected before a small independent house agreed to print it.

Q 05/05

Arthur Fremantle, who watches the battle from Longstreet's side in The Killer Angels, is an officer from which country?

A) France

B) Prussia

C) Austria

D) England

Answer · why

D) England

England is home to his regiment, the Coldstream Guards, and Fremantle hopes his country will ally itself with the Confederacy he so admires.