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  • 1. 
    Who is the protagonist in Crime and Punishment?

  • Stavrogin
  • Raskolnikov
  • Prince Myshkin
  • Alyosha

  • 2. 
    Who wrote Moll Flanders?

  • Daniel Defoe
  • Tobias Smollett
  • Samuel Richardson
  • Robert Louis Stevenson

  • 3. 
    Which books is said to have contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is sometimes cited among the causes of the American Civil War?

  • Ben Hur
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin
  • Gone with the Wind
  • Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

  • 4. 
    Mirah Cohen appears in which of these novels by George Eliot?

  • Daniel Deronda
  • Middlemarch
  • Adam Bede
  • The Mill on the Floss

  • 5. 
    What is considered the first Australian novel?

  • Rolf Boldrewood’s Robbery Under Arms
  • Marcus Clarke’s His Natural Life
  • Henry Savery’s Quintus Servinton
  • Henry Kingsley’s Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn

  • 6. 
    What was Daniel Defoe’s last major work of fiction?

  • Moll Flanders
  • Journal of the Plague Year
  • Robinson Crusoe
  • Roxana

  • 7. 
    Which novel brought E.M. Forster his first major success?

  • Howards End
  • Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • Maurice
  • The Longest Journey

  • 8. 
    The author of Lord of the Flies won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983 for his parables of the human condition. Who is he?

  • Salman Rushdie
  • William Golding
  • V.S. Naipaul
  • Seamus Heaney

  • 9. 
    Which English novelist became famous for his vision, presented in Brave New World, of a futuristic society that is an immutable caste system?

  • Ayn Rand
  • George Orwell
  • Anthony Burgess
  • Aldous Huxley

  • 10. 
    Who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy?

  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Anna Sewell
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett

  • 11. 
    Which of these English writers was the first to write mystery stories?

  • Agatha Christie
  • Dorothy L. Sayers
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Iris Murdoch

  • 12. 
    Which Icelandic writer received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955?

  • Halldór Laxness
  • Hallgrímur Pétursson
  • Eysteinn Ásgrímsson
  • Jónas Hallgrímsson

  • 13. 
    Whose novels are known as the Leatherstocking Tales?

  • Isabel Allende’s
  • Richard Wright’s
  • Herman Melville’s
  • James Fenimore Cooper’s

  • 14. 
    Who is Sherlock Holmes’s companion and chief interpreter?

  • Mr. Lestrade
  • Dr. Joseph Bell
  • Professor James Moriarty
  • Dr. John H. Watson

  • 15. 
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning is best known for which of her works?

  • Poems Before Congress and The Seraphim and Other Poems
  • Casa Guidi Windows and Sordello
  • Sonnets from the Portuguese and Aurora Leigh
  • Dramatis Personae and Pippa Passes
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