• 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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