We invite you to test your Lewis knowledge with our quiz about Sinclair Lewis.
- In what 1960 film that won him an Oscar did Burt Lancaster compare love to “the morning and the evening star”?
- The site of Lewis’s birth is now on an avenue named for him.
- The wife of this Sinclair Lewis realtor calls him “Georgie Boy.”
- This Sinclair Lewis title character became involved with fellow religious hypocrite Sharon Falconer.
- What 1930s novel of his did Lewis help adapt for the stage? (Clue: He played the protagonist in summer stock.)
- This Sinclair Lewis title character studied medicine at the University of Winnemac.
- Lewis refused the Pulitzer Prize for what novel?
- What fellow Pulitzer Prize winner did Lewis dedicate Babbitt to?
- Sinclair Lewis’s novel Main Street is set in the town of Gopher Praire in this state.
- Cass Timberlane and Kingsblood Royal are set in what city?
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- Elmer Gantry
- Sauk Centre, Minnesota
- George F. Babbitt
- Elmer Gantry
- It Can’t Happen Here
- Arrowsmith
- Arrowsmith
- Edith Wharton
- Minnesota
- Grand Republic