Every year I put up some type of post about my reading for the year on "Writing is Tricky" as a means of reflection (and action for the next year) as well as hopefully to bring something useful to all of you.
So this year I decided to make my reading list a bit more interactive. Rather than summarize what I read or give details on what I was doing and where I was when I read each story, I thought I’d set up a little quiz about the books that I read to test your writing prowess (and coolness).
(Note: Designing this quiz was WAY more challenging than anticipated. Do not expect an end of year quiz for 2013!)
Pre-quiz instructions PLUS a TOTALLY AWESOME 80s flashback!!
Picture Pages! Picture
Pages! Time to get your Picture Pages.
Time to get your crayons and your pencils. Picture Pages! Picture Pages! Open up your
Picture Pages. Time to watch Bill Cosby do a Picture with you!
Matching will be the format that we use for the quiz, 30 questions, totaling a possible 300 cool points should you answer everything correctly.
You’re on the honor system (answers are below).
Note: This is an “open-internet” quiz--feel free to websearch, and no you don’t need Mortimer Ichabod Marker* to take this test
Matching will be the format that we use for the quiz, 30 questions, totaling a possible 300 cool points should you answer everything correctly.
You’re on the honor system (answers are below).
Note: This is an “open-internet” quiz--feel free to websearch, and no you don’t need Mortimer Ichabod Marker* to take this test
Matching Part I Match the book to the author
1. Hellbender A.
Matt & Natalie Duvall (editors)
2. The Blood Poetry B.
Gary A Braunbeck
3. Days of Reckoning C.
Troy Aaron Ratliff
4. Cloud Atlas D.
Gail Z. Martin
5. A Game of Thrones E.
Stephen King
6. Odd Apocalypse F.
Dean Koontz (Used 3 times)
7. The Last Werewolf G. Leland Pitts Gonzalez
8. 30 Days to Social
Media Success H.
Jason Jack Miller
9. To Each Their
Darkness I.
Ansel Dibell
10. 77 Shadow Street J.
David Mitchell
11. The Wind Through
the Keyhole K.
George R. R. Martin
12. What the Night
Knows L.
Glen Duncan
13. Little Bernie’s
Map M.
Chris Stout
14. Hazard Yet Forward
15. Plot
Matching Part II Match the summary/description/theme/quote/observation/etc… on
the left to the story/book to the right
2. Make social media
marketing work for you B. The
Blood Poetry
3. Features a young
fry cook who sees the dead C. Days
of Reckoning
4. Literary vampire
novel yet without one poem D. Cloud
Atlas
5. Anthology, which my
story “The Turnpike” E. A Game
of Thrones
6. Creepy old hotel,
inhabited by “The One” F.
Odd Apocalypse
7. Roland Deschain
& the Man in Black in DT4.5 G.
The Last Werewolf
8. Femme fatale aid in
crooked cop’s gory demise H. 30 Days to
Social Media
Success
9. Family stalked by a
poltergeist seeking revenge I. To Each
Their Darkness
10. Reviews essential
story structure in all fiction J. 77
Shadow Street
11. Harness your own
horror when you write K. The Wind
Through the Keyhole
12. Struggling family’s drive becomes a nightmare L. What the Night Knows
13. Appalachian
gothic/literary novel set in WV M.
Little Bernie’s Map
14. Story structure
resembling matryoshka dolls N. Hazard
Yet Forward
15. “Humboldt's Gift
on the highbrow shelves, O. Plot
Shogun on the low"--best quote from this novel
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ANSWERS
Part I Part II
1.
H 1. E
2.
G 2. H
3.
L 3. F
4.
J 4. B
5.
K 5. N
6.
F 6. J
7.
L 7. K
8.
D 8. C
9.
B 9. L
10. F 10. O
11. E 11. I
12. F 12. M
13. C 13. A
14. A 14. D
15. I 15. G
Scoring (Each question is worth 10 cool points):
< 200 -- We probably have very different reading tastes and differing views of “cool”
210-250 -- I’d probably buy you a drink in a bar just so we
can keep talking books
260-280 -- I like you.
Can I buy you a shot?
290 -- You’re one twisted SOB…I mean honestly...Can we be friends?
300 -- You must know me, ARE me, or are the principal reason I don’t
publish my address
This was so cool! And, by the way, you can buy me a shot. ;)
ReplyDeleteLove it!
:) Heidi