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
Hamlet
The Sonnets
Julius Caesar
Othello
10
'Big brother is watching you' is out of
American Psycho
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
1984
15
All of Dickens major novels were published serially, in monthly (or weekly) installments.
TRUE
FALSE
10
'Call me Ishmael' is the first line of which American classic?
Huckleberry Finn
MobyDick
Ishmael's Hunt
As I lay Dying
15
Ayatollah Khomeini, former supreme leader of Iran, issued a fatwa against which writer in 1989
William Boyd
Charles Bukowsky
Luis Sepulveda
Salman Rushdie
20
There is archaeological evidence of the existence of Homer, the writer of THE ILLIAD and THE ODYSSEY
FALSE
TRUE
10
The Feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir sparked off second wave feminist with
The SecondSex
A room of one's own
The Feminine Mystique
Pride and Prejudice
15
Which Russian writer wrote CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Dostoyevsky
Gogol
Nabokov
Tolstoy
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?
Emily, Elizabeth and Mary
Anne, Emily and Charlotte
Charlotte, Mary and Elizabeth
Anne, Charlotte and Mary
10
Victor Hugo's LES MISERABLES is set during the French Revolution
TRUE
FALSE
10
Which of these Jules Verne's books has a chapter titled THE BAY OF VIGO