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1
What genre is Jane Austen known for?
Murder mystery
Gothic novel
Adventure novel
Domestic novel
2
Complete the quote from George Orwell’s
1984
: "______ is watching you."
Little Sister
Big Telly
God Almighty
Big Brother
3
What are the names of the two main dramatic genres?
Comedy and Tragedy
Mystery and Fantasy
Romance and Horror
Documentary and Satire
4
What is the name of the castle that was the seat of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table?
Cadillac
Camelot
Galahad
Lancelot
5
Who did Oliver Twist join when he arrived in London?
A group of pickpockets
A team of actors
A sect
A band of musicians
6
Who is considered the leading figure of Metaphysical Poetry?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Robert Burns
John Donne
Oscar Wilde
7
Who is the main character of Dickens’s
A Christmas Carol
?
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Ebenezer Scrooge
David Copperfield
Edwin Miser
8
Which of these is not a Lake School Poet?
William Wordsworth
Robert Southey
Wystan Hugh Auden
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9
What literary technique was used by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf?
Free verse
Allegory
Stream of consciousness
Symbolism
10
Which book introduced the word
Lilliput
?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Picture of Dorian Gray
11
Wuthering Heights
was written by Charlotte Brontë.
False
True
12
Where was Thomas Becket murdered and buried?
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Westminster Abbey
Tower of London
Canterbury Cathedral
13
Where does the story of
Beowulf
take place?
Scandinavia
Medieval France
Heaven
Ancient Rome
14
Which of these is
not
a character from the Canterbury Tales?
The Knight
The Blacksmith
The Miller
The Nun
15
What is the Holy Grail?
A magical sword
A crown of an ancient king
A lost city of gold
A cup or dish with miraculous healing powers
16
What is the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet?
Two quatrains and two couplets
One octave and one sestet
Three quatrains and a couplet
Four tercets and a final line
17
Which of these is
not
a character from Arthurian Legends?
Grendel
Guinevere
King Arthur
Merlin
18
Which fantasy author created
Harry Potter
?
J. R. R. Tolkien
George R. R. Martin
J. K. Rowling
C. S. Lewis
19
Who is Agatha Christie’s best-known detective?
Philip Marlowe
Hercule Poirot
Inspector Clouseau
Sherlock Holmes
20
What is the title of John Milton's epic poem based on biblical stories?
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Faerie Queene
The Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
