Q 01/05
A) Charles Portis
B) Larry McMurtry
C) Louis L'Amour
D) Elmore Leonard
Answer · why
Portis served as a Marine sergeant in the Korean War and studied journalism at the University of Arkansas before he ever wrote fiction.
Q 02/05
A) The New Yorker
B) The Saturday Evening Post
C) Collier's Weekly
D) Harper's Magazine
Answer · why
Only later did it appear as a standalone novel that some critics now call one of the great American novels.
Q 03/05
A) A decade
B) Twenty-five years
C) A half century
D) Seventy years
Answer · why
She was 14 when she set out to avenge her father, and tells the story as an old spinster.
Q 04/05
A) $50
B) $500
C) $1,000
D) $250
Answer · why
He spends only $100 on the horses, and Chaney robs the body of the remaining $150 and two gold pieces.
Q 05/05
A) Yell
B) Sebastian
C) Pope
D) Logan
Answer · why
Mattie later has Rooster buried in the family plot in Yell County in the 2010 film.
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