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Literature lovers PLEASE HELP! Books and author trivia....?

Please could anyone help with these literature questions?

1. Who was shown a Zambian ostrich egg by his monarch?

2. Which glove-maker’s son cures a king’s spaniel?

3. Which doctor marries a patent medicine heiress?

4. Which expatriate doctor narrowly escapes being hanged by a South American colonel during a revolution?

5. Who performs his diagnosis through perforated bed linen?

6. Whose green Riley overturns into a stream?

7. Who is jailed for throwing tropical fruit at a Daimler?

8. In which book does a Toyota driven by a politician fatally career off a bridge?

9. Who travels south in a blue Mercedes after his death?

10. Which North Country girl is bewitched by a snaky intruder?

11. Who sees three-armed children and a spirit with a squirrel face in an African market?

12. Who returns from abroad to find his billiard room converted into a theatre?

13. In which work is a farce turned back to front?

Thanks Thanks Thanks i am so stuck!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    The teacher should have given you some idea as to where you could find these answers.....

    a book maybe? An sssigned reading book?

    Good luck obtaining answers through orthodox methods.

  • 1 decade ago

    This is not a homework assignment--it is the Sunday Times/Faber Literary Contest and it has about 10 thousand sterling's worth of stuff riding on the answers. B.

  • rjr
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    No 12 is Sir Thomas Bertram --- in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

  • 1 decade ago

    careen off a bridge

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  • 1 decade ago

    Do your own homework

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