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The Literary World Quiz
1.
In which country might you attend a Kabuki performance?
Yemen
Yugoslavia
Java
Japan
2.
What kind of book is a Nebula Award given for?
science fiction
poetry
drama
romance
3.
How many chapters are in the Qur’an?
12
47
114
99
4.
Which of these writers often deals with the experience of Indian immigrants in the United States?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Zadie Smith
Salman Rushdie
Rabindranath Tagore
5.
Which of these literary movements was concerned with clear, direct expression?
imagism
dadaism
surrealism
neoclassicism
6.
What is the name for a record of a period in a person’s life?
diary
short story
fiction
volume
7.
What describes the borogoves in "Jabberwocky"?
mimsy
droopy
slithy
sneezy
8.
Which of these is not part of the Vedas?
Brahmanas
Dhammapada
Upanishads
Aranyakas
9.
Which historical event does Charles Dickens’s novel
A Tale of Two Cities
concern?
the Chinese Revolution
the Russian Revolution
the American Revolution
the French Revolution
10.
In which century did science fiction become a major type of writing?
19th
17th
20th
18th
11.
Who coined the term abstract poem?
Arthur Symons
Edith Sitwell
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Thomas Cooper
12.
Which Japanese literary prize is awarded semiannually for the best work of fiction by a new or rising author?
Akutagawa Prize
Dazai Osamu Prize
Noma Prize
Tanizaki Prize
13.
Which literary and artistic movement originated with a group of French poets in the late 19th century?
New Formalism
Modernism
Symbolism
Romanticism
14.
Which prize is awarded to the most distinguished American picture book for children?
Carnegie Medal
Caldecott Medal
Newbery Medal
Frost Medal
15.
For which work did Thornton Wilder win Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1938?
"Our Town"
"Childhood"
"The Matchmaker"
"Infancy"
16.
Which of these Indian drama treatises deals with all aspects of classical Sanskrit theatre?
Natyashastra
Purushartha
Arthashastra
Dharmashastra
17.
Name the American journalist who created the genre known as gonzo journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
Walter Cronkite
Peter Jennings
Christiane Amanpour
18.
Which British novelist created the iconic character James Bond?
Ian Fleming
Alan Moore
Agatha Christie
J. R. R. Tolkien
19.
Which English poetry group of the mid-17th-century sided with King Charles I against the parliament?
Cavalier poets
Beat poets
Black Mountain poets
Metaphysical poets
20.
Who was the author of the Greek epic poem
Argonautica
?
Apollonius of Rhodes
Callimachus
Xenophon
Philitas of Cos
21.
Who won the Prix Goncourt for
Les Mandarins
?
Germaine Greer
Simone de Beauvoir
Virginia Woolf
Mary Wollstonecraft
22.
Which of the following words reflects the character's name to their personality or occupation?
Charactonym
Pseudonym
Aptronym
Oronym
23.
Which American literary awards honors African American writers and illustrators of outstanding books for children or young adults?
Golden Baobab Prize
Coretta Scott King Book Awards
Spur Award
Caine Prize
24.
Pip is the main character of which book by Charles Dickens?
"Great Expectations"
"Hard Times"
"David Copperfield"
"Dombey and Son"
25.
Which novel by Charles Dickens tells the story of the Jarndyce family?
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
Bleak House
David Copperfield
26.
Which Shakespearean play features the characters Bianca, Cassio and Iago?
Othello
King Lear
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
27.
Which form of theatre was associated with French poet Antonin Artaud?
Theatre of Fact
Theatre of Cruelty
Theatre of the Absurd
Musical Theatre
28.
Which American social and literary movement originated in the 1950s and centered in the bohemian artist communities?
Beat movement
Dirty realism
Black Arts Movement
New Formalism
29.
Who is considered the master of realistic fiction?
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Mark Twain
30.
Which novel is considered the first Gothic novel in the English language?
"Selected letters of Horace Walpole"
"The Mysterious Mother: A Tragedy"
"Hieroglyphic Tales"
"The Castle of Otranto"
31.
Who wrote
The Canterbury Tales
?
George Orwell
William Lackland
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
32.
Which poet authored
Shāh-nāmeh
, the Persian national epic?
Khaqani
Hafez
Saadi Shirazi
Ferdowsī
33.
To which country does the Njáls saga and the Gísla saga belong?
Austria
Poland
Iceland
Hungary
34.
Name the book that is a collection of Indian animal fables?
"Panchatantra"
"Śukasaptati"
"Hitopadesha"
"Harshacharita"
35.
Which of the following works is considered the world's first true novel?
"The Tale of the Heike"
"The Tale of Genji"
"The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter"
"The Tales of Ise"
36.
Who among the following Japanese poets is considered the greatest haiku poet?
Bashō
Yosa Buson
Saigyō
Kobayashi Issa
37.
The tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sindbad the Sailor are part of which collection of stories?
"Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights"
"Description of Egypt"
"Grimms' Fairy Tales"
"The Thousand and One Nights"
38.
Who among the following wrote under the pen name Saki?
Virginia Woolf
Hector Hugh Munro
Joseph Conrad
George Orwell
39.
Which of the following is considered one of the first detective stories?
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"A Study in Scarlet"
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles"
"The Moonstone"
40.
Who wrote the epic poems
Paradise Lost
and
Paradise Regained
?
John Donne
John Milton
William Wordsworth
T. S. Eliot
41.
Which of John Milton's works is a plea for the free expression of opinion?
"Areopagitica"
"Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"
"The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates"
"Eikonoklastes"
42.
Which of Shakespeare’s plays is based on Plutarch’s
Bioi parallēloi
?
"Antony and Cleopatra"
"The Merchant of Venice"
"The Tempest"
"Macbeth"
43.
Which of T. S. Eliot's play's most striking feature was the use of a chorus?
"Sweeney Agonistes"
"Murder in the Cathedral"
"The Confidential Clerk"
"The Family Reunion"
44.
Who is regarded as the father of the English novel?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins
Henry Fielding
45.
In which year was the
Lyrical Ballads
published?
1794
1802
1817
1798
46.
In which year was
The Defence of Poesie
published?
1591
1600
1595
1593
47.
Who founded the naturalist movement?
Henry David Thoreau
Washington Irving
Émile Zola
Robert Southey
48.
Which of the following is considered the Estonian national epic?
"Kalevipoeg"
"Pan Tadeusz"
"Kalevala"
"Lacplesis"
49.
Who is the author of
The Spirit of Laws
?
Immanuel Kant
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
50.
For which work is Bram Stoker best known?
"The Jewel of Seven Stars"
"The Man"
"Lair of the White Worm"
"Dracula"
51.
What is the literary technique where the audience knows something that the characters don't?
Allusion
Aphorism
Dramatic irony
Conceit
52.
Which is Cervantes's famous novel?
"Don Quixote"
"Galatea: A Pastoral Romance"
"The Little Gypsy Girl"
"Exemplary Stories"
53.
Which was H.G. Wells's first novel?
"The First Men in the Moon"
"A Modern Utopia"
"The Invisible Man"
"The Time Machine"
54.
Which work by Ovid is a collection of mythological stories?
"Ars Amatoria"
"Metamorphoses"
"Amores"
"Tristia"
55.
Who wrote the epic poem
The Divine Comedy
?
Henry of Settimello
Giovanni Boccaccio
Ludovico Ariosto
Dante
56.
In which year was the Greek dramatist Aristophanes born?
c. 342 BCE
c. 445 BCE
c. 450 BCE
c. 484 BC
57.
Which theatre in London is associated with Shakespeare?
Vaudeville Theatre
Globe Theatre
Blackfriars Theatre
Royal Shakespeare Theatre
58.
Who completed Christopher Marlowe’s poem
Hero and Leander
?
John Marston
Ben Jonson
George Chapman
Michael Drayton
59.
What is the English title of the great Chinese classic
Lunyu
?
“Record of Rites”
“Five Classics”
"Dream of the Red Chamber"
"The Analects of Confucius"
60.
Which is the last book in
Gulliver's Travels
?
Voyage to Balnibarbi
Voyage to Lilliput
Voyage to Houyhnhnms
Voyage to Brobdingnag
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