ARABIAN NIGHTS is a collection of folk tales told by Sherazade to postone her own execution.
FALSE
TRUE
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
Hamlet
The Sonnets
Othello
Julius Caesar
'Big brother is watching you' is out of
1984
American Psycho
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
All of Dickens major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments.
FALSE
TRUE
'Call me Ishmael' is the first line of which American classic?
As I lay Dying
Huckleberry Finn
Ishmael's Hunt
MobyDick
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
The SecondSex
Pride and Prejudice
A room of one's own
The Feminine Mystique
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, Charlotte and Mary
Anne, Emily and Charlotte
Emily, Elizabeth and Mary
Charlotte, Mary and Elizabeth
Which of these Jules Verne's books has a chapter titled THE BAY OF VIGO
Journey to the center of the earth
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Around the world in eighty days
Emilia Pardo Bazan is known for introducing naturalism into Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality. One of her most famous works is
The Family of Pascual Duarte
The spendthrifts
Nothing
House of Ulloa
J.M Coetzee is one of the six Africans to have won the Nobel prize in Literature. What country is he from?
Zimbabwe
Nigeria
South Africa
Angola
