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D'Artagnan's companions Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are known as...

the three musketeers

the horsemen of the apocalypse

the friends from the Bastille

the three wonders

Where is Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment set?

Russia

Germany

France

Scotland

Who is this young man? Franz ...

Kafka

Goethe

Said

García Márquez

What language was "The Divine Comedy" originally written in?

Italian

Latin

Greek

French

How is Odysseus (the greek hero of the Odyssey) known in Roman mythology?

Ulysses

Mars

Hercules

Paris

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

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...

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