1. WARM-UP: In what city was Sylvia Plath when she put her head in an oven?

New York
Paris
London
San Francisco

2. James Boswell, notable biographer of Samuel Johnson, died of what STD?

Gonorrhea
AIDS
Syphilis
Herpes

3. At age 42, this writer died in a French insane asylum after lapsing into a coma due to a combination of Syphilis and a complete refusal to urinate.

Henry Miller
Guy de Maupassant
Gustave Flaubert
Edgar Rice Burroughs

4. Dying in poverty of most likely cerebral menengitis, this playwright has been quoted as remarking of his final resting place, "This wallpaper is killing me; one of us has got to go."

Tennessee Williams
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
Aristophanes

5. Commiting seppuku in front of a laughing audience, this Japanese author's final words to his comrades were: "I don't think they even heard me."

Louis Chu
Aizawa
Osamu Tezuka
Yukio Mishima

6. This Southern icon accidently swallowed the cap to his nasal spray and suffocated.

William Faulkner
Pat Conroy
Tennessee Williams
Cormac McCarthy

7. This poet's last words were: "I must go in, for the fog is rising."

Sarah Orne Jewett
Sylvia Plath
Emily Dickenson
TS Eliot

8. Five days before his death in Fresno, California, this writer made this statement to the Associated Press: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?"

Mark Twain
Raymond Carver
William Saroyan
William S. Burroughs

9. This author of "Occurence at Owl Creek" among many other stories and novels was happy to die wandering Mexico with Pancho Villa's army.

Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ambrose Bierce

10. This American ex-pat's last words were, "So here it is at last, the distinguished thing." Faulkner once called him "one of the nicest old ladies [he] ever met."

Henry James
Henry Miller
TS Eliot
Ezra Pound