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