ARABIAN NIGHTS is a collection of folk tales told by Sherazade to postone her own execution.
FALSE
TRUE
TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU is based on a play by
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
Roman Polansky
The Canadian Margaret Atwood, writer of THE HANDMAID'S TALE won the Nobel prize for literature last year.
FALSE
TRUE
Ayatollah Khomeini, former supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against which writer in 1989
William Boyd
Salman Rushdie
Charles Bukowsky
Luis Sepulveda
Which of these Jules Verne's books has a chapter titled THE BAY OF VIGO
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Around the world in eighty days
Journey to the center of the earth
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
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...
All of Dickens major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments.
TRUE
FALSE
Who invented the PRINTING PRESS?
Gutenberg
Saramago, winner of the Nobel prize for literature in 1998, was a national of which country?
France
Italy
Spain
Portugal
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
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
D'Artagnan's companions Athos, Porthos, and Aramis are known as...
the friends from the Bastille
the three musketeers
the three wonders
the horsemen of the apocalypse
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 Family of Pascual Duarte
Nothing
The spendthrifts
How is Odysseus (the greek hero of the Odyssey) known in Roman mythology?
Mars
Ulysses
Hercules
Paris
What are the names of the Bronte sisters?
Anne, Charlotte and Mary
Emily, Elizabeth and Mary
Anne, Emily and Charlotte
Charlotte, Mary and Elizabeth
'Call me Ishmael' is the first line of which American classic?
Huckleberry Finn
As I lay Dying
Ishmael's Hunt
MobyDick
'Big brother is watching you' is out of
American Psycho
1984
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
The LION KING is based on which classic?
The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
The return of the king
Hamlet
King Lear
Where is Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment set?
France
Russia
Germany
Scotland
What language was "The Divine Comedy" originally written in?
Greek
French
Latin
Italian
There is archaeological evidence of the existence of Homer, the writer of THE ILLIAD and THE ODYSSEY
FALSE
TRUE
The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen. Which European capital has a statue of the mermaid in honour of Andersen?
Copenhagen
'To be or not to be' is part of a soliloquy out of Shakespeare's
The Sonnets
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
Othello
J.M Coetzee is one of the six Africans to have won the Nobel prize in Literature. What country is he from?
South Africa
Angola
Nigeria
Zimbabwe
Who is this young man? Franz ...
Said
Goethe
García Márquez
Kafka