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General questions on basic English literature.
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1
S.E Hinton was _ years old The Outsiders was published:
15
17
46
20
2
This writer is called the "master of terror". Name?
Seamus Heaney
Stephen King
PD James
Mark Twain
3
The Matrix alludes to
All answers are correct
Alice in Wonderland
The Wizard of OZ
Buddhism
4
This work by Geoffrey Chaucer deals with people's life in the Middle Ages:
Canterbury Tales
The Jungle Book
Pride and Prejudice
The Hobbit
5
"Brave new World" is a dystopian novel. Who wrote it?
Jeff Koontz
Ray Bradbury
Aldous Huxley
Virginia Wolf
6
Which novel is the iconical book from the Enlightenment?
Candide
Uncle Tom's cabin
Frankenstein
Robinson Crusoe
7
Who wrote: "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms"?
Lord Byron
Ernest Hemingway
William Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
8
Lyrical Ballads was a collection of poems, written in the Romantic period. When was this?
2000
1800
1500
1300
9
the biggest writer during REALISM in Great Britain was.....
Antigone
Eric Blair
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
10
Pride and Prejudice
and
Emma
are written by this female author:
Harper Lee
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Joyce Carol Oates
11
John Steinbeck wrote a famous novel about George and Lennie. Name?
Tortilla Flat
Of Mice and Men
A Room with a View
A Midsummer Night's dream
12
Who wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby"?
JD Salinger
Scott Fitzgerrald
Jane Austen
Edgar Allen Poe
13
Charles Dickens wrote......
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Rings
Oliwer Twist
14
The way to succeed in grade 10 is to
Pay off your teachers
Bring ping pong balls to look like fake eyes
Wear glasses to look smart
Bring chocolate the days of exams
15
Please rate your knowledge in English literature here
University level
very much more than before, thank you Sandra!
same as before
I know a little more now
16
Leaves of Grass is written by a very famous American author. Name?
James Joyce
Walt Whitman
Emelie Dickinson
Harriet Beecher Stowe
17
"The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth is England's most loved poem. What is it about?
wild flowers
old mythology
Indian mountains
war weapons
18
A Modest proposal is a novel dealing with......
eating children
burning witches
beating children
starting a war
19
In which literary epoch was William Shakespeare active?
The Antiquity
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
The Realism
20
What is the name of Shakespeare's theater in London?
The Swan
The Globe
The Roundhouse
The Palace
21
William Golding wrote this novel about kids stranded on a desert island:
A Farewell to Arms
Picture of Dorian Grey
Ulysses
Lord of the Flies
22
The Jungle book
is a novel written by an English writer. Name?
D.H Lawrence
James Joyce
Susan Collins
Rudyard Kipling
23
What kind of plays are Macbeth and Hamlet?
comedies
history plays
satiric plays
tragedies
24
Hassan's favourite colour is
black like his soul
green
the colour of air
rainbows