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1
Which of the following authors wrote a book in the 21st century?
J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Neil Gaiman – Coraline
J.R.R. Tolkien – The Return of the King
C.S. Lewis – The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2
Which of these American authors wrote significant children's literature?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
3
When was George Orwell born? (Hint: He shares the same birth date as the presenter, minus 103 years)
June 25, 1903
May 26, 1903
June 25, 1906
July 25, 1903
4
Which of the following books is written by an Englishman?
George B. Shaw – Pygmalion
David H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley's Lover
James Joyce – Ulysses
Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Gray
5
Which of the following books was written by Ken Elton Kesey?
The Cider House Rules
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Tracy’s Tiger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
6
In which of the following works do animals speak?
The Jungle Book
The Old Man and the Sea
White Fang
Of Mice and Men
7
William Shakespeare wrote historical plays about five kings named Henry.
False
True
8
Which of these famous English women wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
9
George Orwell wrote the dystopian novels 1884 and Animal Farm.
True
False
10
Which Romantic author is associated with the genre called narrative poem ("poema" in Czech)?
John Keats
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
George Gordon Byron
11
Which of the following writings is considered the oldest surviving English literary work?
King Horn
Waldere
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
12
Which Enlightenment author wrote The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York?
Henry Fielding
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Laurence Sterne
13
What was the name of William Shakespeare's wife?
Helena Bonham Carter
Emma Watson
Anne Hathaway
Keira Knightley
14
Oscar Wilde had a wife and 2 children.
False
True
15
Which of the following books was written by Arthur Miller?
The Rainmaker
Waiting for Godot
Death of a Salesman
A Streetcar Named Desire