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1
Who is regarded as the father of the English novel?
Thomas Hardy
William Makepeace Thackeray
Wilkie Collins
Henry Fielding
2
What is the name for a record of a period in a person’s life?
Short Story
Diary
Fiction
Volume
3
Which historical event does Charles Dickens’s novel
A Tale of Two Cities
concern?
The American Revolution
The French Revolution
The Chinese Revolution
The Russian Revolution
4
Which was H.G. Wells's first novel?
"The Invisible Man"
"The Time Machine"
"A Modern Utopia"
"The First Men in the Moon"
5
What kind of book is a Nebula Award given for?
Romance
Poetry
Science Fiction
Drama
6
In Irish folklore, which demonic beings threaten the inhabitants of Ireland until they are defeated by the god-race?
Milesians
Tuatha Dé Danann
Ladhras
Fomoires
7
Which event, lasting from 1845 to 1849, was responsible for approximately one million deaths and mass emigration?
The Great Stink
The Great Famine
The Great Fire
The Black Death
8
Which is the last book of
Gulliver's Travels?
“Voyage of Laputa”
“Voyage to Houyhnhnms”
“Voyage to Brobdingnag”
"Voyage to Balnibarbi"
9
In which century did science fiction become a major type of writing?
20th
18th
17th
19th
10
Which American social and literary movement originated in the 1950s and centered in the bohemian artist communities?
Black Arts Movement
New Formalism
Beat movement
Dirty realism
11
Who wrote the epic poems Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?
John Milton
William Wordsworth
T. S. Eliot
John Donne
12
Which British novelist created the iconic character James Bond?
Tom Clancy
Alan Moore
Agatha Christie
Ian Fleming
13
Which English children’s author and mathematician wrote
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
?
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Rudyard Kipling
Flora Annie Steel
Flora Annie Steel
14
Who wrote
On the Origin of Species
, which was published in 1859?
Lord Kelvin
Charles Darwin
Michael Faraday
James Clerk Maxwell
15
Who is considered the master of realistic fiction?
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
George Elliot
Leo Tolstoi
16
What is the literary technique where the audience knows something that the characters don't?
Allusion
Aphorism
Dramatic irony
Conceit
17
Which type of portraiture was popular in Victorian times?
Boudoir
Silhouette
Surreal
Abstract
18
Which literary and artistic movement originated with a group of French poets in the late 19th century?
New Formalism
Symbolism
Modernism
Romanticism
19
Which of T. S. Eliot's play's most striking feature was the use of a chorus?
"Murder in the Cathedral"
"The Confidential Clerk"
"The Family Reunion"
"Sweeney Agonistes"
20
Which of the following is considered one of the first detective stories?
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Moonstone"
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
"A Study in Scarlet"
21
Which of these literary movements was concerned with clear, direct expression?
Neoclassicism
Dadaism
Imagism
Surrealism
22
Pip is the main character of which book by Charles Dickens?
"Dombey and Son"
"Hard Times"
"David Copperfield"
"Great Expectations"
23
Which of the following words reflects the character's name to their personality or occupation?
Charactonym
Aptronym
Oronym
Pseudonym
24
Which novel by Charles Dickens tells the story of the Jarndyce family?
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Little Dorrit
Hard Times
25
Which science-fiction author wrote
The Invisible Man
?
H.G. Wells
William Wordsworth
Rudyard Kipling
Lewis Carroll
26
Who completed Christopher Marlowe’s poem Hero and Leander?
Ben Jonson
Michael Drayton
George Chapman
John Marston
27
Which collection of Welsh myths and tales involves the adventures of King Arthur and his knights?
The Book of Taliesin
The Mabinogion
Culhwch and Olwen
The Welsh Triads
28
Who is the author of Beowulf, a heroic poem considered to be the highest achievement in Old English literature?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Unknown
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Nennius
29
Which Shakespearean play features the characters Bianca, Cassio and Iago?
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
King Lear
Othello
30
Whose serialized novels, such as
The Pickwick Papers
and
Nicholas Nickleb
?
William Wordsworth’s
Charles Dickens’s
William Makepeace Thackeray’s
Anthony Trollope’s