ARABIAN NIGHTS is a collection of folk tales told by Sherazade to postone her own execution.
FALSE
TRUE
5
Who invented the PRINTING PRESS?
Gutenberg
20
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
20
'To be or not to be' is part of a soliloquy out of Shakespeare's
The Sonnets
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Othello
10
'Big brother is watching you' is out of
1984
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
American Psycho
15
All of Dickens major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments.
FALSE
TRUE
10
'Call me Ishmael' is the first line of which American classic?
As I lay Dying
MobyDick
Ishmael's Hunt
Huckleberry Finn
15
Ayatollah Khomeini, former supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against which writer in 1989
William Boyd
Salman Rushdie
Charles Bukowsky
Luis Sepulveda
20
There is archaeological evidence of the existence of Homer, the writer of THE ILLIAD and THE ODYSSEY
TRUE
FALSE
10
The Feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir sparked off second wave feminist with
The Feminine Mystique
A room of one's own
The SecondSex
Pride and Prejudice
15
Which Russian writer wrote CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Gogol
Nabokov
Tolstoy
Dostoyevsky
15
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...
15
The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen. Which European capital has a statue of the mermaid in honour of Andersen?
Copenhagen
15
What are the names of the Bronte sisters?
Anne, Charlotte and Mary
Charlotte, Mary and Elizabeth
Anne, Emily and Charlotte
Emily, Elizabeth and Mary
10
Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES is set during the French Revolution
FALSE
TRUE
10
Which of these Jules Verne's books has a chapter titled THE BAY OF VIGO