Grammar and Language Workbook

6. William Kennedy wrote the novel Ironweed that became a film and also wrote the script for
Francis Ford Coppolas film The Cotton Club 1984
7. Big jazz festivals are held in Newport Rhode Island and Monterey California
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8. Jack Kerouac wrote the novel On the Road which has become synonymous with the period of
American writing known as the beat movement
9. Can there be a movie called Alien 4 if the heroine you know Sigourney Weavers Ripley died
in Alien 3
10. Arent you confusing Francis Scott Key 1779 1843, who wrote The Star-Spangled Banner with
Francis Parkinson Keyes 1885 1970
 
who wrote the novel Dinner at Antoines (1948)
11. When the writer Thoreau was arrested for refusing to pay taxes to support the Mexican War his
friend Emerson visited and said Henry what are you doing in here
12. Supposedly they are making Star Wars movies that predate the current ones for example I guess
well get to know the ancestors of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo
13. American humorist James Thurber who was a cartoonist for the New Yorker is often identified
with his short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
14. Bill Haley and His Comets were the first famous rock band and their recording of Rock Around
the Clock from the film Blackboard Jungle 1955 was a major hit
15. A A Milnes characters Pooh Tigger Roo and Piglet are some of the most beloved in all of
childrens literature
16. Georgia O’Keeffe 1887 1986 painted haunting pictures of the Southwest and hey youre not
listening to a thing I say are you 
17. Do you know if its Jim or Tim the one with the beard who published a story in The Antioch
Review
18. Nina a member of the seraph society is the headstrong heroine in a Teresa Vitale book.

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