12) 1980s, Jewish writings, postmodern literature

Question 1

Name three Jewish authors from the 1980s

Answer 1

Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Question 2

Which two of the Jewish authors won Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer 2

Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer

Question 3

Saul Bellow

Answer 3

The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift

Question 4

Bernard Malamud

Answer 4

The Natural, The Assistant

Question 5

Which book is a story of Jewosh emigrant running a grocery store in Brooklyn and who wrote it?

Answer 5

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud

Question 6

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Answer 6

Satan in Goray, The Slave, Enemies, a Love Story

Question 7

Philip Roth

Answer 7

Portnoy’s Complaint, Prague Orgy, I Married a Communist, Everyman

Question 8

Alice Walker

Answer 8

The Color Purple

Question 9

Leslie Marmon Silko

Answer 9

Ceremony, Storyteller

Question 10

John Updike

Answer 10

Rabbit series, The Witches of Eastwick, Gertrude and Claudius, Terrorist

Question 11

John Barth

Answer 11

The Floating Opera, The End of the Road, The Sot-Weed Factor, Giles Goat-Boy, Lost in the Funhouse

Question 12

Which 1980s author was a major figure in the Native American Renaissance?

Answer 12

Leslie Marmon Silko

Question 13

Name same of the postmodern authores

Answer 13

Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Leslie Marmon Silko, John Barth