1. In whose celebrated novel set in the 1980s does the central character get to dance with ‘the Lady’?

   1. Money by Martin Amis

   2. The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

   3. Rivals by Jilly Cooper

   4. The Child in Time by Ian McEwan

2. Whose 1996 novel was partly narrated by Margaret Thatcher and featured indolent Commons clerks, rent boys and murder?

   1. Will Self (Great Apes)

   2. Irvine Welsh (Porno)

   3. Philip Hensher (Kitchen Venom)

   4. Hanif Kureishi (Intimacy)

3. Which published diarist of the Thatcher years said of the Tory leader that she was attractive but stressed “I didn’t want to jump on her”?

   1. Edwina Currie

   2. Lord Hailsham

   3. Alan Clark

   4. Adrian Mole

4. The volume of Thatcher’s autobiography dealing with her early years was called

   1. The Path to Power

   2. Ambition

   3. High Hopes

   4. The Moon's a Balloon

5. “It was idiotic. Infantile, on my part”, was which writer’s confession of having voted for Margaret Thatcher?

   1. Harold Pinter

   2. Hanif Kureishi

   3. Martin Amis

   4. Jeffrey Archer

6. Which English critic and travel writer published a close reading of Thatcher’s ‘sermon on the mound’ address to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland entitled God, Man and Mrs Thatcher?

   1. Paul Theroux

   2. Jonathan Raban

   3. Jan Morris

   4. VS Naipaul

7. Which novelist worked as an adviser to Margaret Thatcher?

   1. Michael Dobbs

   2. Frederick Forsyth

   3. David Lodge

   4. David Peace

8. “The British people have seen the future, found it doesn’t work, and want to go somewhere else.” So said which British novelist on the occasion of Margaret Thatcher’s 1979 election victory?

   1. Iris Murdoch

   2. Jonathan Coe

   3. Kingsley Amis

   4. Jeffrey Archer

9. “How on earth did this grocer's daughter, with her constant rhetorical harping on thrift and good housekeeping, end up creating a society so fatally based on debt?” So said which novelist looking back on her legacy?

   1. Iris Murdoch

   2. Jonathan Coe

   3. Kingsley Amis

   4. Jeffrey Archer

10. And whose verdict was this? “She coos like a dove, hisses like a serpent, bays like a hound [in a contrived upper-class accent] reminiscent not of real toffs but of Wodehouse aunts.”

    1. Angela Carter

    2. Fay Weldon

    3. Iain Sinclair

    4. Jilly Cooper

Solutions

1:B, 2:C, 3:C, 4:A, 5:A, 6:B, 7:A, 8:C, 9:B, 10:A

Scores

1. 0 and above.

   You've never been a Tory voter, that's clear. Have you ever read a book, though?

2. 5 and above.

   Not bad, but you would not number as 'One of Us' in the Leader's famous verdict

3. 8 and above.

   True Blue. What in heaven's name are you doing reading the Guardian?