How Much Do You Know About the American Revolution?
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of the American Revolution and popular books written about it. In the five multiple-choice questions below, tap or click on the answer you think is correct. After the last question, you’ll find links to the books if you’d like to do some further reading.
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Who is traditionally considered the first casualty of the American Revolution — and is also the subject of Mitch Kachun’s 2017 book titled “First Martyr of Liberty”?
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Esther Forbes was awarded the 1943 Pulitzer Prize in history for “Paul Revere and the World He Lived In,” as well as the 1944 Newbery Medal for which classic young-adult novel — and one that also happens to feature Paul Revere as a character?
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Walter Isaacson has written books about several men who were pioneers of science and technology in their time, including Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Leonardo da Vinci and Albert Einstein. Which founding father with an interest in science also got an Isaacson biography?
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Which state was not part of the original 13 colonies, but was home to British loyalists, Native Americans, women and other groups that had their freedom impacted, as described in “Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution,” Kathleen DuVal’s 2015 book?
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Thomas Jefferson described him as “truly the man of the Revolution” and he was the subject “The Revolutionary,” Stacy Schiff’s 2022 biography. Who was this person?