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Saramago, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1998, was a national of which country?
 
Portugal
 
Spain
 
Italy
 
France
TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU is based on a play by
 
William Shakespeare
 
Jane Austen
 
Geoffrey Chaucer
 
Roman Polansky
The LION KING is based on which classic?
 
Hamlet
 
King Lear
 
The return of the king
 
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
The Canadian Margaret Atwood, writer of THE HANDMAID'S TALE won the Nobel prize for literature last year.
 
FALSE
 
TRUE
J.M Coetzee is one of the six Africans to have won the Nobel prize in Literature. What country is he from?
 
South Africa
 
Zimbabwe
 
Nigeria
 
Angola
Emilia Pardo Bazan is known for introducing naturalism into Spanish literature, for her detailed descriptions of reality. One of her most famous works is
 
House of Ulloa
 
The spendthrifts
 
The Family of Pascual Duarte
 
Nothing
Which of these Jules Verne's books has a chapter titled THE BAY OF VIGO
 
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
 
Around the world in eighty days
 
Journey to the center of the earth
 
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES is set during the French Revolution
 
FALSE
 
TRUE
What are the names of the Bronte sisters?
 
Anne, Emily and Charlotte
 
Anne, Charlotte and Mary
 
Charlotte, Mary and Elizabeth
 
Emily, Elizabeth and Mary
The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen. Which European capital has a statue of the mermaid in honour of Andersen?
Copenhagen
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...
Which Russian writer wrote CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
 
Dostoyevsky
 
Tolstoy
 
Gogol
 
Nabokov
The Feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir sparked off second wave feminist with
 
The SecondSex
 
The Feminine Mystique
 
A room of one's own
 
Pride and Prejudice
There is archaeological evidence of the existence of Homer, the writer of THE ILLIAD and THE ODYSSEY
 
FALSE
 
TRUE
Ayatollah Khomeini, former supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against which writer in 1989
 
Salman Rushdie
 
Charles Bukowsky
 
William Boyd
 
Luis Sepulveda
'Call me Ishmael' is the first line of which American classic?
 
MobyDick
 
Huckleberry Finn
 
As I lay Dying
 
Ishmael's Hunt
All of Dickens major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments.
 
TRUE
 
FALSE
'Big brother is watching you' is out of
 
1984
 
Catch 22
 
Catcher in the Rye
 
American Psycho
'To be or not to be' is part of a soliloquy out of Shakespeare's
 
Hamlet
 
Othello
 
The Sonnets
 
Julius Caesar
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
Who invented the PRINTING PRESS?
Gutenberg
ARABIAN NIGHTS is a collection of folk tales told by Sherazade to postone her own execution.
 
TRUE
 
FALSE