Quiz  /  The Literary World (Authors & Poets) Quiz

  • 1. 
    In what language did Geoffrey Chaucer write?

  • Middle English
  • Greek
  • Modern English
  • German

  • 2. 
    Which of these books is not by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry?

  • Wind, Sand, and Stars
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Southern Mail
  • Night Flight

  • 3. 
    Which of these authors is from Romania?

  • Jerzy Kosinski
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Andrei Codrescu
  • Nikita Khrushchev

  • 4. 
    Where are Geoffrey Chaucer and Robert Browning buried?

  • the Paris Catacombs
  • the Great Pyramid
  • St. Peter’s Basilica
  • Westminster Abbey

  • 5. 
    Where was Charles Dickens born?

  • Cardiff
  • Portsmouth
  • London
  • Manchester

  • 6. 
    Which of these American novelists has won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Alice Munro
  • Pearl S. Buck
  • Emily Dickinson

  • 7. 
    Who is the author of the poetry collection Mother Love?

  • Rita Dove
  • Louise Simpson
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • Rita Rudner

  • 8. 
    Which of these authors is from Canada?

  • Mark Twain
  • Clarence Major
  • Kevin Major
  • J.D. Salinger

  • 9. 
    Which of these writers was not a playwright?

  • Ibsen
  • Artaud
  • Stendhal
  • Molière

  • 10. 
    The author of A Tale of Two Cities and Oliver Twist is:

  • Rabindranath Tagore
  • Charles Dickens
  • Stephen King
  • William Shakespeare
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