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General questions on basic English literature.
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1
Lyrical Ballads was a collection of poems, written in the Romantic period. When was this?
1500
1800
1300
2000
2
Some years ago a Canadian author won the Nobel price for literature. Who?
Alice Cooper
Alice Munroe
Alice Smith
Alice in Wonderland
3
Pride and Prejudice
and
Emma
are written by this female author:
Harper Lee
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Joyce Carol Oates
4
In which era was lyric, epic and drama the dominant genres?
Romantic
Antiquity
Reniassance
medieval times
5
Leaves of Grass is written by a very famous American author. Name?
Emelie Dickinson
Walt Whitman
James Joyce
Harriet Beecher Stowe
6
William Golding wrote this novel about kids stranded on a desert island:
Ulysses
A Farewell to Arms
Lord of the Flies
Picture of Dorian Grey
7
the biggest writer during REALISM in Great Britain was.....
Antigone
Eric Blair
Jonathan Swift
Charles Dickens
8
Who wrote: "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms"?
Lord Byron
Ernest Hemingway
Oscar Wilde
William Shakespeare
9
In which literary epoch was William Shakespeare active?
The Renaissance
The Antiquity
The Enlightenment
The Realism
10
Who wrote the novel "The Great Gatsby"?
Scott Fitzgerrald
Jane Austen
JD Salinger
Edgar Allen Poe
11
This is a strange book about Lilliputs and Yahoos. Name?
Gulliver's Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Murders at Rue Morgue
Kubla Kahn
12
What kind of plays are Macbeth and Hamlet?
tragedies
satiric plays
comedies
history plays
13
"The Daffodils" by William Wordsworth is England's most loved poem. What is it about?
Indian mountains
old mythology
war weapons
wild flowers
14
A Modest proposal is a novel dealing with......
beating children
burning witches
eating children
starting a war
15
The Jungle book
is a novel written by an English writer. Name?
James Joyce
Rudyard Kipling
Susan Collins
D.H Lawrence
16
This work by Geoffrey Chaucer deals with people's life in the Middle Ages:
Canterbury Tales
The Jungle Book
The Hobbit
Pride and Prejudice
17
"Brave new World" is a dystopian novel. Who wrote it?
Ray Bradbury
Jeff Koontz
Virginia Wolf
Aldous Huxley
18
Which novel is the most significative book from the Enlightenment?
Candide
Uncle Tom's cabin
Robinson Crusoe
Frankenstein
19
Charles Dickens wrote......
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Oliwer Twist
Lord of the Rings
20
This writer is called the "master of terror". Name?
Seamus Heaney
Mark Twain
PD James
Stephen King
21
What is the name of Shakespeare's theater in London?
The Swan
The Roundhouse
The Globe
The Palace
22
John Steinbeck wrote a famous novel about George and Lennie. Name?
A Midsummer Night's dream
A Room with a View
Tortilla Flat
Of Mice and Men