Language and Literature quiz

Meaning of the Latin word “Quiz”.

• What do you know

• Tell me what

• Who are you

World’s oldest language

• Persian

• Sanskrit

• Latin

 What is the dot in small “i” and “j”?

• Title

• dot

• fleck

 Orthography is the art of :

• a. correct spelling

• b. study of bones

• c. study of religion

A large group of people:

• a. crowd

• b. throng

• c. populace

Which language was spoken and read as the international language before English

• a. Greek

• b. Latin

• c. Norman language

7. A lover of books:

• a. bibliophile

• c. biblioklept

• c. bibliomaniac

In the 1930s, which country burnt all the books of the author Hemmingway?

• a. Mao’s China

• b. Stalin’s Russia

• c. Nazi Germany

The ever great novel, War and Peace has 539 characters. Who is the author?

• a. Dostovsky

• b. Tolstoy

• c.  Charles Dickens

 A person who speaks and writes several languages:

• a. polymath

• b. polyglot

• c. inguist