Fire literato!

We, English literature aspirants call it restoration age!

• 1500- 1623

• 1660-1700

• 1770- 1830

• 1800- 1860

It is considered that 'The Tale of Genji' is the world's first novel. It is written by a Japanese woman writer as early as approximately 1010! What is her name?

• Murasaki Shikibu

• Shimizu Shikin

• Nogami Yaeko

• Tamura Toshiko

"The unfortunate death of a Creole! I'm fighting mad to write her story!" She angrily wrote this to a friend. The result was a fictional response to one of the celebrated English classics, written by Bronte.

Identify the fiction resulting from this feminist anger.

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We are members of the University Wits. Tick right ones!

• Christopher Marlowe

• Robert Greene

• Albert Greene

• John Nashe

• Thomas Kyd

"You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise."

'And Still I Rise' is her third volume of poetry which includes the collection's title poem, 'Still I Rise' and 'Phenomenal Woman'. Who is she?

• Mary Shelley

• Virginia Woolf

• Maya Angelou

• Alice Walker

“ESTRAGON: What am I to say?

VLADIMIR: Say, I am happy.

ESTRAGON: I am happy.

VLADIMIR: So am I.

ESTRAGON: So am I.

VLADIMIR: We are happy.

ESTRAGON: We are happy. (Silence.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

Identify the play.

• Camus's 'Metamorphosis'

• Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'

• Kafka's 'The Trial'

• Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros'

Alice in Wonderland is a ___ creation by Lewis Carroll.

• Postmodern

• Modern

• Victorian

• Romantic

Who popularised the comedy of humors?

• Ben Johnson

• Benn Jonson

• Ben Jonson

• Benn Johnson

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."

The lines are from ____.

• John Keats's 'Ode on a Gracian Urn'

• Shelley's 'Ode to a Westwind'

• John Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale'

• Wordsworth's 'Ode on the Intimations of Immortality'

Who said of blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is "a verse only to the eye", adding further that it "has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers"?

• John Dryden

• Alexander Pope

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Samuel Johnson