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5. Which award has Texan writer Larry McMurtry (
Lonesome Dove
) NOT won?
Academy Award
Golden Globe
Pulitzer Prize
National Book Award
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4. Which Oklahoman mother/son duo have had their Oklahoma-set works adapted into films?
Joyce Carol Thomas and Michael Withers
Billie and Tracy Letts
S.E. Hinton and Nick Inhofe
Jayne Anne Jayroe-Gamble and Tyler Jayroe
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7. Which Barbara Kingsolver book that often finds itself on banned or challenged books list is largely set in Arizona?
The Bean Trees
Another America
The Poisonwood Bible
Prodigal Summer
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6. Which of John Grisham’s novels is based on spending his childhood summers in Arkansas?
Skipping Christmas
Playing for Pizza
A Painted House
Camino Winds
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3. The first of this New Mexico-born writer’s novels is considered a classic of modern American and Chicano literature
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Rudolfo Anaya
Carlos Fuentes
Pablo Neruda
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What award was Maya Angelou NOT nominated for?
Pulitzer Prize
Grammy Award
Emmy Award
Tony Award
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1. How many times has Charles Portis’s Arkansas-set
True Grit
been adapted for the screen?
Four
Three
Five
Two
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5. Which song featured in 1956's Texas-set
Giant
rose to the top of the charts after the movie's release?
"God Blessed Texas"
"Deep in the Heart of Texas"
"Gone to Texas"
"The Yellow Rose of Texas"
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3. Which American Girl series is set in present-day New Mexico?
Kaya
Molly
Josefina
Kit
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10. The first woman from Texas to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was...
Molly Ivins
Katherine Anne Porter
Sarah Bird
Mary Karr
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4. This Oklahoman poet became the first Native American United States Poet Laureate in history in 2019
Tommy Orange
Joy Harjo
N. Scott Momaday
Louise Erdrich
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2. What movie directed by Academy-Award winner Martin Scorsese is set in Arizona?
After Hours
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Boxcar Bertha
The Color of Money
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10. Which of Cormac McCarthy’s Border Trilogy books is set mainly in Texas?
All the Pretty Horses
No Country for Old Men
Cities of the Plain
The Crossing
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9. This book, partially set in OK, won a National Book Award and a Pulitzer while its film adaptation won two Oscars
Tulsa
The Grapes of Wrath
Oklahoma!
Cimarron
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6. Who was the first Southern poet to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Robert Hillyer
Robert P. T. Coffin
Archibald MacLeish
John Gould Fletcher
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8. Which New Mexican writer and former law enforcement officer wrote the American West Trilogy?
John Nichols
Michael McGarrity
Paul Horgan
Simon J. Ortiz
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9. This OKC-born author's novel won a National Book Award and was once considered the most important novel since WWII
James Baldwin
Alex Haley
Richard Wright
Ralph Ellison
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8. Though most of her works are set in the Great Plains, which Willa Cather novel is mostly set in New Mexico?
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Shadows on the Rock
O Pioneers!
My Ántonia
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2.
In Arizona-born Stephenie Meyer’s hit series,
Twilight
, where does Bella live before moving to Forks, WA?
Flagstaff
Phoenix
Tucson
Scottsdale
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7. A key figure in the Native American Renaissance, this Kiowa author from Arizona won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969.
Gerald Vizenor
Leslie Marmon Silko
James Welch
N. Scott Momaday
