General English Culture.

1. 1. Which Spanish author died in the same year as Shakespeare?

• a. Cervantes

• b. Quevedo

• c. Lope de Vega

2. 2. Arthur Conan Doyle invented the hero Sherlock Holmes. What was Conan Doyle´s job?

• a. journalist

• b. doctor

• c. detective

3. 3. What does the J.K Rowling stand for?

• a. Judith Karen

• b. Janine Kristine

• c. Joanne Kathleen

4. 4. Who is the best-selling author of children´s books?

• a. R.L. Stine of the Goodsebumps series

• b. J.K. Rowling of the Harry Potter series

• c. Lemony Snicket of the A series of Unfortunate Events series

5. 5. Where was Anne Frank, the author of The Diary of a Young Girl, born?

• a. Germany

• b. Holland

• c. Belgium

6. 6. Who was the author of Frankenstein?

• a. Lord Byron

• b. Jane Austen

• c. Mary Shelley

7. 7. Which detective was not created by Agatha Christie?

• a. Hercule Poirot

• b. Miss Marple

• c. Philip Marlowe

8. 8. What is the longest novel in the world?

• a. Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust?

• b. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

• c. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

9. 9. Which book did Robert Louis Stevenson not write?

• a. Treasure Island

• b. David Copperfield

• c. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

10. 10. Who was the author of The Chronicles of Narnia?

• a. Edgar Allan Poe

• b. Charles Dickens

• c. C.S. Lewis