Test Your Cultural Literacy (Answers Below) 1. Samuel Clemens took his pen name from a. a river navigation term. b. an older journalist. c. Bret Harte in a poker game. 2. Tweedledum and Tweedledee originally a. were inventions of Lewis Carroll b. were references to rival composers. c. ran for president in 1988 3. The guillotine which decapitated Louis XVI a. was invented during the French Revolution b. was inspected and improved by him first. c. is still awaiting FDA approval. 4. Horace Greeley said "Go West, young man" a. to encourage youth to leave home. b. as a last resort. c. after his first author tour in California. 5. A catalyst a. causes a chemical reaction. b. facilitates a chemical reaction. c. costs $0.99 at a hardware store, $695 at the Pentagon. 6. The capital of Florida is a. Jacksonville. b. Tallahassee. c. about four billion dollars. 7. Santa Claus and his reindeer a. arrive by air. b. leap from the ground to reach the roof. c. get stuck in a holding pattern over Newark. Answers to The Cultural Literacy Quiz Defintions marked "a" are found in E. D. Hirsch's Dictionary. Those under "b" are based on research by the Boston Reviewstaff. "C" selections are the choice of a new generation. Read Sophie Glazer's related article, "Listing" Originally published in the February 1989 issue of Boston Review