This week's quiz, last week's answers

This week's quiz: Dogs and cats.

1. An Alaskan sled dog.

2. An Australian wild dog.

3. "Herd" is to cattle as ____ is to cats.

4. A cat that lives mostly in trees in Central and South America.

Next week's quiz: Automobiles, past and present

Answers to last week's quiz: British and American writers.

1. This British author, as a boy, worked in a factory that made black shoe polish. Later he became a court stenographer.

Charles Dickens

2. This American author has a bridge in Boston named after him.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. A bridge over the Charles River is named after him.

3. This British author began a novel with the words "It was a dark and stormy night..." for which there is a contest every year in the USA for an opening sentence worse than that one. He also coined the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

4. This American author had only one book, a novel, published to great acclaim; it was later made into a popular movie. The author died after being hit by a taxi.

Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind