English and American Literary Works and Authors 2

Question 1

Who wrote Lord Jim?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Conrad

Question 2

Billy Budd is best described as:

Accepted Answer

A sea tale

Question 3

The Mill on the Floss is set in:

Accepted Answer

Rural England

Question 4

What is the theme of A Modest Proposal?

Accepted Answer

Economic exploitation

Question 5

The Forsyte Saga is about:

Accepted Answer

Social change across generations

Question 6

Sense and Sensibility explores:

Accepted Answer

Reason vs emotion

Question 7

The House of Fame was written by:

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 8

Troilus and Criseyde was written by:

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 9

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage reflects:

Accepted Answer

Romantic melancholy

Question 10

The Jungle Book features which character?

Accepted Answer

Mowgli

Question 11

A Woman of No Importance is a play by:

Accepted Answer

Oscar Wilde

Question 12

A Christmas Carol is by:

Accepted Answer

Charles Dickens

Question 13

The Sun Also Rises was written by:

Accepted Answer

Ernest Hemingway

Question 14

The Wings of the Dove was authored by:

Accepted Answer

Henry James

Question 15

Cannery Row is a work by:

Accepted Answer

John Steinbeck

Question 16

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man was written by:

Accepted Answer

James Joyce

Question 17

What is the main theme of Hard Times?

Accepted Answer

Industrialisation and education

Question 18

Lord Jim is set in:

Accepted Answer

India

Question 19

Who wrote The Legend of Good Women?

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Chaucer

Question 20

The Ballad of Reading Gaol deals with:

Accepted Answer

Prison and injustice

Question 21

Who wrote Just So Stories?

Accepted Answer

Rudyard Kipling

Question 22

The Turn of the Screw explores:

Accepted Answer

Psychological ambiguity

Question 23

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by:

Accepted Answer

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 24

The Prince and the Pauper critiques:

Accepted Answer

Social inequality

Question 25

Finnegans Wake is known for:

Accepted Answer

Experimental language

Question 26

Annabel Lee is a poem by:

Accepted Answer

Edgar Allan Poe

Question 27

The House of the Seven Gables deals with:

Accepted Answer

Guilt and family legacy

Question 28

What is the literary form of The Apple Cart?

Accepted Answer

Political play

Question 29

Who wrote A Christmas Carol?

Accepted Answer

Charles Dickens

Question 30

The Prince and the Pauper was written by:

Accepted Answer

Mark Twain

Question 31

What literary form is The Dubliners?

Accepted Answer

Short stories

Question 32

Brut was written by:

Accepted Answer

Layamon

Question 33

Who wrote Saint Joan?

Accepted Answer

George Bernard Shaw

Question 34

Green Hills of Africa is a:

Accepted Answer

Memoir

Question 35

The Murders in the Rue Morgue is an early:

Accepted Answer

Detective story

Question 36

True or False: The Canterbury Tales is unfinished.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

The Jungle Book is a novel is by:

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 38

The Mayor of Casterbridge is a novel by:

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hardy

Question 39

Ivanhoe deals with:

Accepted Answer

Norman-Saxon conflict

Question 40

The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written by:

Accepted Answer

Oscar Wilde

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