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Books and reading

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

68% of books sold worldwide are bought by women.

Is that true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

2.

How many words per minute does an average person read?

a)

150

b)

300

c)

600

d)

800

3.

Who wrote the play "Hamlet"?

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

W. Somerset Maugham

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

Joanne Rowling

4.

How many books does Bill Gates read per year?

a)

about 20

b)

about 40

c)

about 50

d)

about 60

5.

What is the longest novel ever written?

a)

The Luminaries

b)

Remembrance of Things Past

c)

Anna Karenina

d)

The Lord of the Rings

6.

How tall is the largest book in the world "The Klencke Atlas"?

a)

1.50 meters

b)

1.75 meters

c)

2.00 meters

d)

2.25 meters

7.

New York, Texas, and Mississippi have the highest ratio of customers to bookstores in the United States.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The word "Bibliosmia" is used for

a)

determining the age of a book

b)

publishing a book

c)

reviewing a book

d)

loving the smell of old books

9.

Tsundoku means “to let reading materials pile up in one’s home and never read them” in Japanese.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The three most read books in the world are The Holy Bible, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, and War and Peace.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Who is not a character in Harry Potter?

a)

Hermione Granger

b)

Ronald Weasley

c)

Jonh H.Watson

d)

Harry Potter

12.

How many individuals have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature by 2019?

a)

114

b)

116

c)

118

d)

120