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The English Literature Quiz tests your knowledge with regard to English Literature.
The questions of the English Literature Quiz are craftily compiled and will enable you to gauge how well you know about the life and works of the famous English Playwrights, Novelists, Poets, and Short-story Writers.
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| 1. | Which of the following words describe the prevailing attitude of High-Modern Literature? |
| a. | | Skeptical |
| b. | | Authoritative |
| c. | | Impressionistic |
| d. | | Confident |
| e. | | Both a & c
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| 2. | Which Welsh poet wrote "Under Milk Wood?" |
| a. | | Anthony Hopkins |
| b. | | Richard Burton |
| c. | | Tom Jones |
| d. | | Dylan Thomas
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| 3. | Who wrote Canterbury Tales? |
| a. | | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| b. | | Dick Whittington |
| c. | | Thomas Lancaster |
| d. | | King Richard II
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| 4. | Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?" |
| a. | | Agatha Christie |
| b. | | H Ryder-Haggard |
| c. | | P D James |
| d. | | Arthur Conan Doyle
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| 5. | Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of: |
| a. | | Titus Andronicus |
| b. | | Taming of the Shrew |
| c. | | White Devil |
| d. | | Hamlet
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| 6. | ___________is a late 20th century play written by a woman? |
| a. | | Queen Cristina |
| b. | | Top Girls |
| c. | | Camille |
| d. | | The Homecoimg
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| 7. | Which of the following writers wrote historical novels? |
| a. | | Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte |
| b. | | Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth |
| c. | | William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| d. | | Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| 8. | Who wrote "Ten Little Niggers?" |
| a. | | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| b. | | Irvine Welsh |
| c. | | Agatha Christie |
| d. | | None of above
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| 9. | Which of the following are Thomas Hardy books? |
| a. | | The Poor Man and the Lady |
| b. | | The Return of Native |
| c. | | Chollttee |
| d. | | None of the above
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| 10. | Which of the following is not a work of John Keats? |
| a. | | Endymion |
| b. | | To some ladies |
| c. | | To hope |
| d. | | None of above
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| 11. | Who wrote the poems, "On death" and "Women, Wine, and Snuff?" |
| a. | | John Milton |
| b. | | John Keats |
| c. | | P.B. Shelley |
| d. | | William Wordsworth
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| 12. | "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden."
This is an extract from: |
| a. | | Paradise Lost |
| b. | | Paradise Regained |
| c. | | Samson Agonistes |
| d. | | Divorce Tracts
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| 13. | William Shakespeare was born in the year: |
| a. | | 1564 |
| b. | | 1544 |
| c. | | 1578 |
| d. | | 1582
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| 14. | Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy? |
| a. | | Titus Andronicus |
| b. | | Othello |
| c. | | Macbeth |
| d. | | Hamlet |
| e. | | None of the above
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| 15. | Who wrote 'The Winter's Tale?' |
| a. | | George Bernard Shaw |
| b. | | John Dryden |
| c. | | Christopher Marlowe |
| d. | | William Shakespeare
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| 16. | Who wrote The Traveler, She Stoops to Conquer, and The Vicar of Wakefield? |
| a. | | George Bernard Shaw |
| b. | | Oscar Wilde |
| c. | | Oliver Goldsmith |
| d. | | William Shakespeare
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| 17. | Sophocles and Aeschylus were Roman playwrights. |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False
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| 18. | Who wrote Emma? |
| a. | | Jane Austen |
| b. | | George Orwell |
| c. | | Thomas Hardy |
| d. | | Daniel Defoe
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| 19. | Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities? |
| a. | | Leo Tolstoy |
| b. | | Charles Dickens |
| c. | | Thomas Hardy |
| d. | | Daniel Defoe
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| 20. | The Princess, In Memoriam, and Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington are the works of: |
| a. | | Alfred Tennyson |
| b. | | Robert Browning |
| c. | | Oscar Wilde |
| d. | | John Milton
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| 21. | Who won the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fiction? |
| a. | | Salman Rushdie |
| b. | | Sebastian Barry |
| c. | | Julian Barnes |
| d. | | John Banville
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| 22. | The story of ___________ revolves around Indian characters and Indian society. |
| a. | | Last Orders |
| b. | | God of Small Things |
| c. | | Disgrace |
| d. | | The Sea
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| 23. | Which of the following is not a J.K. Rowling book? |
| a. | | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
| b. | | Quidditch Through the Ages |
| c. | | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince |
| d. | | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them |
| e. | | None of the above
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| 24. | The Snows of Kilimanjar, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, The Dead, To Build A Fire, and A Rose for Emily are all famous: |
| a. | | Short Stories |
| b. | | Novels |
| c. | | Plays |
| d. | | None of the above
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| 25. | The character James Bond was introduced by writer Ian Fleming. |
| a. | | True |
| b. | | False
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