The Wild Western Book Quiz
From classic tales of the frontier to modern novels that twist in new directions, test your knowledge of the Western genre with The Wild Western Book Quiz
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The Wild Western Book Quiz
Results
#1. Who wrote the novel True Grit in 1968?
Unlucky! Charles Portis wrote True Grit
#2. Published in 1992 which Cormac McCarthy novel is the first in his Border trilogy?
Unlucky! All The Pretty Horses was the first in the series
#3. Complete the title of John Williams’s 1960 classic Butcher’s …..?
Unlucky! Butcher’s Crossing was the title
#4. Which of these Western novels is based on a true story?
Unlucky! The Renevant was based on the true story of Hugh Glass.
#5. Who wrote the early western novel Riders of the Purple Sage published in 1912?
Unlucky! Zane Gray wrote the novel
#6. Larry McMurtry won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 with which novel?
Unlucky! He won the Pulitzer Prize for Lonesome Dove
#7. Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton tells the tale of two famous hunters of what?
Unlucky! They were dinosaur fossil hunters
#8. Desperadoes by Ron Hansen tells the story of which infamous gang?
Unlucky! It tells the story of The Dalton Gang
#9. A Man Called Horse the movie was based on a short story of the same name by?
Unlucky! It was Dorothy M. Johnson’s short story
#10. Eli and Charles Sisters — The Sisters Brothers, have what profession in Patrick DeWitt’s 2011 novel?
Unlucky! They were assassins.
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