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Answers To: A Loaf of Bread, A Jug of Wine
By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway © Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved
- B. A war hero born in New Jersey, Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918),
has a turnpike rest stop named after him. The lines are from his poem
Trees.
- False. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was an English poet who became
a pacifist after serving in World War I. Vidal Sassoon sells hair-care
products.
- A.
- True. Walcott, born in 1930 in St. Lucia, studied and worked in
Jamaica and won the Nobel in 1992.
- C. This short novel was written by another author associated with
the Yukon, US author Jack London (1876-1916).
- False. A Communist, Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) was in exile from 1948
to 1952. The 1995 film Il Postino (The Postman) was based on his life.
- C. Darío is also credited with leading the modernism movement
of Spanish American literature.
- True. Among others, Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) and William S.
Burroughs (born 1914) lived in Mexico.
- A. Achebe (born 1930) is Nigeria's most famous novelist.
- False. Burns wrote in dialect, but the language was English.
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