Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about printed works that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions and more. With ancient Greek texts back in the cultural conversation — thanks to the new film based on Homer’s “Odyssey” — this week’s challenge highlights screen adaptations of other Greek plays, poems and histories. Just tap or click your answers to the five questions below. Scroll down after you finish the last question for links to the works and their screen versions.

Among the many complaints made about the modern American novelist, the loudest, if not the most intelligent, has been the charge that he is not speaking for his country. A few seasons back an editorial in Life magazine asked grandly, “Who speaks for America today?” and was not able to conclude that our novelists, or at least our most gifted ones, did.

This opening paragraph is from an essay titled “The Fiction Writer and His Country” by a writer whose work was influenced by Catholicism, the rural South and peacocks. Who was it?