ARABIAN NIGHTS is a collection of folk tales told by Sherazade to postone her own execution.
TRUE
FALSE
Who invented the PRINTING PRESS?
Gutenberg
Finish the sentence: Don Quixote is considered by literary historians to be one of the most important books of all time, and it is often cited as the first modern n..........
novel
'To be or not to be' is part of a soliloquy out of Shakespeare's
Othello
The Sonnets
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
'Big brother is watching you' is out of
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
1984
American Psycho
All of Dickens major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments.
TRUE
FALSE
'Call me Ishmael' is the first line of which American classic?
As I lay Dying
MobyDick
Huckleberry Finn
Ishmael's Hunt
Ayatollah Khomeini, former supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against which writer in 1989
William Boyd
Charles Bukowsky
Salman Rushdie
Luis Sepulveda
There is archaeological evidence of the existence of Homer, the writer of THE ILLIAD and THE ODYSSEY
TRUE
FALSE
The Feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir sparked off second wave feminist with
Pride and Prejudice
The Feminine Mystique
A room of one's own
The SecondSex
Which Russian writer wrote CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Tolstoy
Dostoyevsky
Gogol
Nabokov
Name two books written by Roald Dahl:
The Witches, BFG, Charlie and the chocolate factory, Matilda, Revolting Rhymes, Magic Finger, George's Marvelous Medicine, James and the giant peach...
The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen. Which European capital has a statue of the mermaid in honour of Andersen?
Copenhagen
What are the names of the Bronte sisters?
Anne, Emily and Charlotte
Emily, Elizabeth and Mary
Anne, Charlotte and Mary
Charlotte, Mary and Elizabeth
Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES is set during the French Revolution
FALSE
TRUE
Which of these Jules Verne's books has a chapter titled THE BAY OF VIGO
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Around the world in eighty days
Journey to the center of the earth
