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One of Lawrence's most famous works is The Rainbow.

Author - D H Lawrence

Step into the intense, emotional world of D. H. Lawrence, where families, work and inner feelings collide in powerful stories of early twentieth century life.

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Fascinating Fact:

Lawrence’s fiction often explores class tension, marriage, sexuality and the conflict between instinct and social convention.

In Specialist Books, this quiz focuses on D. H. Lawrence as a major twentieth century English writer. You will explore how his novels, stories and poems portray work, family life and powerful emotion.

  • Modernist fiction: Twentieth century writing that experiments with style and focuses on characters’ thoughts and feelings.
  • Industrial community: A town or region shaped by factories, mines or heavy industry, often central to Lawrence’s settings.
  • Interior life: A character’s private thoughts, emotions and desires, sometimes at odds with the outside world.
Who was D. H. Lawrence as an author?

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist whose early twentieth century books examine close relationships, work, identity and the pressures of society.

Why did some people find D. H. Lawrence’s work shocking?

Some of Lawrence’s books were banned or censored because they described adult relationships and strong emotions very directly, challenging the moral rules and publishing limits of his own time.

Which readers are most likely to study D. H. Lawrence?

His work is mainly studied by older students and adults, especially on literature courses that look at modernist writing, censorship debates and changing ideas about personal freedom.

1 .
Lawrence was born in 1885 in which mining town in Nottinghamshire?
Eastgate
Eastwood
Westgate
Westwood
His former home in Victoria Street has been converted into a museum
2 .
In Lady Chatterley's Lover, what is Lady Chatterley's first name?
Carol
Constance
Cora
Cynthia
The inspiration for Lady Chatterley was said to be Lady Ottoline Morrell, a friend of Lawrence's who lived at Welbeck Abbey in Nottinghamshire
3 .
Lawrence's 1926 novel The Plumed Serpent is set in which country?
Egypt
India
Mexico
Peru
The book was to have been called Quetzalcoatl, after the Aztec god, but Lawrence's publisher insisted on The Plumed Serpent
4 .
In 1901 Lawrence left school to work as a junior clerk in a factory making what?
Bicycles
Pit props
Railway sleepers
Surgical appliances
He worked at Haywards, manufacturers of surgical appliances, before he became a teacher
5 .
What is the appropriate title of Lawrence's 1923 novel, a semi-biographical account of a visit to Australia?
Boomerang
Bush
Kangaroo
Koala
Kangaroo is the story of an English writer and his German wife's visit to Australia in the early 1920s. Coincidentally, Lawrence and his German wife Frieda visited Australia in 1922
6 .
Which 1913 novel charts the life of the aspiring artist Paul Morel?
Aaron's Rod
The Boy in the Bush
Sons and Lovers
The Trespasser
The most biographical of Lawrence's works, based on his childhood and youth in Eastwood
7 .
In 1907 Lawrence won a short story competition in which local newspaper?
Nottingham Echo
Nottingham Guardian
Nottingham Herald
Nottingham Post
This was the first time any of Lawrence's work was published
8 .
Lawrence was diagnosed in 1925 with which disease, from which he died five years later?
Cancer
Cholera
Tuberculosis
Typhoid
He died in Vence, France at the age of 44
9 .
In the 1969 film version of Women in Love, who wrestles naked with Oliver Reed?
Alan Bates
Tom Courtenay
Richard Harris
Patrick McGoohan
The film was directed by Ken Russell and also starred Glenda Jackson
10 .
The Kiowa Ranch, where Lawrence once lived, has now been renamed the D H Lawrence Ranch. In which US state is it situated?
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Lawrence lived at the ranch for two years during the 1920s

 

Author:  Tony Rennick (Art and Literature Critic)

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