Answers To: A Loaf of Bread, A Jug of Wine

By Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway
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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. A.

  4. True. Walcott, born in 1930 in St. Lucia, studied and worked in Jamaica and won the Nobel in 1992.

  5. C. This short novel was written by another author associated with the Yukon, US author Jack London (1876-1916).

  6. 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.

  7. C. Darío is also credited with leading the modernism movement of Spanish American literature.

  8. True. Among others, Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) and William S. Burroughs (born 1914) lived in Mexico.

  9. A. Achebe (born 1930) is Nigeria's most famous novelist.

  10. False. Burns wrote in dialect, but the language was English.