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who is who?

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He wrote a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners,

a)

Chaucer

b)

John Gower

c)

John Bunyan

2.

The first title of this famous writer's second novel is "First Impressions"

a)

George Eliot

b)

Jane Austen

c)

Virginia Woolf

3.

He is famous for his ""Heroic Couplets"

a)

Alexander Pope

b)

Dryden

c)

Chaucer

4.

He was the first writer to be buried in what has since come to be called Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey.

a)

Chaucer

b)

Gower

c)

Shakespeare

5.

Born in Portsmouth, he left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison.

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Mark Twain

c)

Henry James

6.

This famous poet was the Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621-1631).

a)

Andrew Marvell

b)

Abraham Cowley

c)

John Donne

7.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes him as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history"

a)

Ben Jonson

b)

Dr. Johnson

c)

Francis Bacon

8.

England's first Poet Laureate in 1668

a)

John Dryden

b)

John Donne

c)

Dr. Johnson

9.

He was honored frequently during his lifetime and is the only poet to receive four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry

a)

Robert Frost

b)

T.S. Eliot

c)

Ted Hughes

10.

This famous Latin American writer founded the town of Macondo, a fictitious town in the country of Colombia.

a)

Pablo Neruda

b)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

c)

Miguel Angel Asturias

11.

Mary Ann Evans born on 22 November 1819 and died on 22 December 1880 is alternatively Mary Anne or Marian and popular by the name

a)

George Eliot

b)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

c)

Jane Austen

12.

Having finished his apprenticeship with Hammond, he registered as a medical student at Guy's Hospital

a)

P.B. Shelly

b)

John Keats

c)

Lord Byron

13.

In 1811 he anonymously published a pamphlet called "The Necessity of Atheism"

a)

Wordsworth

b)

W.B. Yeats

c)

P.B. Shelly

14.

This playwright's plays are the first to use blank verse, which became the standard for the era.

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Thomas Lyly

c)

Christopher Marlowe

15.

He is known for his Four Humors

a)

Ben Jonson

b)

Philip Sydney

c)

Spencer

16.

She is the writer of a famous testimonio and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy and social justice work for the indigenous peoples of Latin America[

a)

Maria Teresa Tula

b)

Rigoberta Menchu

c)

Maria de Jesus

17.

she is the creator of Frankenstein Monster

a)

Mary Shelly

b)

Virginia Woolf

c)

Margaret Atwood

18.

She is the author of the work that was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001.

a)

Margaret Atwood

b)

Margaret Lawrence

c)

Alice Munro

19.

Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth.

a)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

b)

George Eliot

c)

Jane Austen

20.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, "for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry".

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

T.S. Eliot

c)

Ezra Pound

21.

she gained worldwide recognition when she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

a)

Toni Morrison

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Alice Walker

22.

She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel,

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Adrienne Rich

c)

Sylvia Plath

23.

William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".

a)

Robert Frost

b)

Emerson

c)

mark Twain

24.

She boldly said "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

a)

Virginia Woolf

b)

Jane Austen

c)

George Eliot

25.

His magnum opus is a semi-autobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published by his wife in the year of his death, before which it was generally known as "the poem to Coleridge".

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Coleridge

c)

Shelly