• 1. 
    Whose novel Strangers on a Train did Alfred Hitchcock adapt for film?

  • Daphne du Maurier’s
  • Graham Greene’s
  • Patricia Highsmith’s
  • Jules Feiffer’s
  • 2. 
    Whose first two novels were The Natural and The Assistant?

  • Stephen King
  • Miguel de Cervantes
  • Bernard Malamud
  • George Sand
  • 3. 
    What novelist created the lawyer-detective Perry Mason?

  • Ian Fleming
  • Erle Stanley Gardner
  • Josephine Bell
  • Agatha Christie
  • 4. 
    In which type of novel are the thoughts, feelings, and motivations of the characters of equal or greater interest than the external action of the narrative?

  • psychological novel
  • historical novel
  • novel of manners
  • Gothic novel
  • 5. 
    Who wrote a satire originally titled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World?

  • Jonathan Swift
  • Alexander Pope
  • Mark Twain
  • Patricia Highsmith
  • 6. 
    Who among these authors wrote only one novel?

  • Jane Austen
  • Emily Brontë
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Charles Dickens
  • 7. 
    What was Arthur Conan Doyle’s profession (outside of his writing)?

  • lawyer
  • doctor
  • architect
  • detective
  • 8. 
    Whose novel Death Comes for the Archbishop recounted the story of French Catholic missionaries in the southwestern United States?

  • Laura Ingalls Wilder’s
  • Anne Brontë’s
  • Samuel Richardson’s
  • Willa Cather’s
  • 9. 
    From which novel by Leo Tolstoy is the statement “All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way” taken?

  • Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  • War and Peace
  • Anna Karenina
  • 10. 
    Which of these books was not written by W. Somerset Maugham?

  • The Razor’s Edge
  • Love in a Cold Climate
  • Cakes and Ale
  • Of Human Bondage
  • 11. 
    Whose novel Wise Blood explored the “religious consciousness without a religion”?

  • Edna Ferber’s
  • Flannery O’Connor’s
  • Dorothy Parker’s
  • Margaret Mitchell’s
  • 12. 
    Whose novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1932?

  • Margaret Mitchell’s
  • Edith Wharton’s
  • Pearl S. Buck’s
  • Eudora Welty’s
  • 13. 
    What form of novel typically relates the adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer as he drifts from place to place in an effort to survive?

  • epistolary novel
  • epic
  • picaresque novel
  • sentimental novel
  • 14. 
    What is the name given to a novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters?

  • epistolary novel
  • picaresque novel
  • novel of manners
  • roman à clef
  • 15. 
    What is the English-language title of the first full-length novel published in the Yoruba language?

  • The Forest of a Thousand Daemons
  • Things Fall Apart
  • The Forest of God
  • Wretched of the Earth
  • 16. 
    What mystery writer introduced the amateur detective Ezekiel (“Easy”) Rawlins?

  • Walter Mosley
  • E. Lynn Harris
  • Christopher Chambers
  • Henry Louis Gates
  • 17. 
    Who wrote Dead Souls and “The Overcoat,” which are considered the foundation of 19th-century Russian realism?

  • Maxim Gorky
  • Nikolay Gogol
  • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • 18. 
    Whose mythical Mississippi community Yoknapatawpha County depicted the transformation and decadence of the American South?

  • William Faulkner’s
  • Edith Wharton’s
  • Truman Capote’s
  • Tennessee Williams’s
  • 19. 
    Who was the chief model for the character Orlando in Virginia Woolf’s novel of that name?

  • Katherine Mansfield
  • Rebecca West
  • Dame Ethel Smyth
  • Vita Sackville-West
  • 20. 
    Who wrote the novel I, Claudius, the autobiography Good-Bye to All That, and the scholarly work The White Goddess?

  • Siegfried Sassoon
  • Robert Graves
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Muriel Spark
  • 21. 
    Which novel by George Meredith centres on a woman’s right to be accepted as an individual?

  • The Shaving of Shagpat
  • The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
  • Evan Harrington
  • The Egoist
  • 22. 
    Which of these writers is often considered the inventor of the historical novel?

  • Honoré de Balzac
  • Jane Austen
  • H.G. Wells
  • Sir Walter Scott
  • 23. 
    Who wrote the novel whose title thereafter entered the English language as a reference to a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem?

  • Alice Walker
  • George Orwell
  • Stephenie Meyer
  • Joseph Heller
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