Book Review Launches 5-Question Quiz on American History Adaptations Before US 250th Birthday
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 15
Book Review Launches 5-Question Quiz on American History Adaptations Before US 250th Birthday
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 15
Summary
Five multiple-choice questions in the Book Review’s latest Great Adaptations quiz test readers on books that became screen works tied to major eras of American history.
The challenge was framed around the United States nearing its 250th birthday next month, linking literary adaptations to the colonial period, the Civil War, World War II, the space race and the Vietnam War.
Examples include a 2008 HBO miniseries about a lawyer in the nation’s founding era, the 1993 Civil War film adapted from Michael Shaara’s “The Killer Angels,” and the 10-part “Band of Brothers.”
The final questions turn to the 2016 book and film “Hidden Figures” and a 1988 television series partly inspired by Lynda Van Devanter’s 1983 memoir “Home Before Morning,” extending the quiz’s sweep into modern history.