Eudora Welty Trivia Quiz: An American short story writer

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Eudora Welty was an American writer and photographer known for her novels, short stories, and essays, many of which were set in the American South. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973 for her novel "The Optimist's Daughter" and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

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In which magazine did Eudora Welty publish her first story "The Death of a Traveling Salesman" in 1936?

  • The New Yorker

  • Manuscript

  • The Sewanee Review

  • The New York Times Book Review

With which novelist did Eudora Welty carry on a lengthy correspondence in the 1970s?

  • Ross Macdonald

  • Ernest Hemingway

  • William Faulkner

  • John Steinbeck

What was the name of Eudora Welty's collection of photographs depicting the Great Depression?

  • One Time, One Place

  • The Optimist's Daughter

  • Where Is the Voice Coming From?

  • A Curtain of Green

What did Eudora Welty write in The New Yorker after the assassination of Medgar Evers?

  • The Optimist's Daughter

  • One Time, One Place

  • Where Is the Voice Coming From?

  • A Curtain of Green

What was the name of Eudora Welty's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel?

  • A Curtain of Green

  • One Time, One Place

  • Where Is the Voice Coming From

  • The Optimist's Daughter

What did Eudora Welty become the first woman to do at the University of Cambridge?

  • Win a Nobel Prize

  • Publish a book

  • Receive a Guggenheim Fellowship

  • Be permitted into the hall of Peterhouse College

In which countries did Eudora Welty travel during her Guggenheim Fellowship?

  • France, England, Ireland, and Germany

  • Mexico, Canada, Brazil, and Chile

  • Japan, China, South Korea, and Vietnam

  • Japan, China, South Korea, and Vietnam

What did Eudora Welty write about in her memoir titled One Writer's Beginnings?

  • Her travels around the world

  • Her childhood experiences and development as a writer

  • Her experiences as a photographer during the Great Depression

  • Her personal life and relationships

What award did Eudora Welty receive from the US government?

  • Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

  • Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • National Book Award

What was Eudora Welty's profession?

  • Writer, Novelist and Photographer

  • Singer and Dancer

  • Scientist and Inventor

  • Doctor and Lawyer

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