The Road Quizzes

1. What was McCarthy's given name at birth?

• John McCarthy
• Charles McCarthy
• Cormac McCarthy
• Cullen McCarthy

2. Which of the following works does not belong in the Border Trilogy?

• All the Pretty Horses
• Suttree
• Cities of the Plain
• The Crossing

3. Which of the following works has not been adapted to film?

• No Country for Old Men
• The Road
• Child of God
• All the Pretty Horses

4. For which novel was McCarthy awarded a Pulitzer Prize?

• The Road
• Blood Meridian
• Suttree
• The Crossing

5. Where was Cormac McCarthy born?

• Tennessee
• Ireland
• Rhode Island
• Texas

6. McCarthy's editor for I[The Orchard Keeper] was also the editor for which author?

• William Faulkner
• Marcel Proust
• Ernest Hemingway
• Henry James

7. The name "Cormac" means:

• son of John
• son of Charles
• John
• Charles

8. In which of the following genres have McCarthy's works NOT been seriously classified?

• romance
• Western
• crime thriller
• science fiction

9. To whom is The Road dedicated?

• Jennifer Winkley
• John Francis McCarthy
• Albert Erskine
• Cullen McCarthy

10. With whom did McCarthy give his first televised interview?

• Larry King
• Oprah Winfrey
• Bil O'Reilly
• Barbara Walters