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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which Scottish writer is the author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and From a Railway Carriage?

a)

Robert Burns

b)

Robert Louis Stevenson

c)

Walter Scott

d)

Carolyn Bailey

2.

When did Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

1982

b)

1956

c)

1999

d)

1979

3.

"Every experience is worth life's journey ". Which is the figure of speech used here?

a)

Simile

b)

metaphor

c)

Assonance

d)

Alliteration

4.

What is known as the conversation between the characters in a story?

a)

Point of view

b)

Dialect

c)

Imagery

d)

Dialogue

5.

Which character from the Jungle Book was raised by wolves?

a)

Akhela

b)

Bagheera

c)

Chil

d)

Mowgli

6.

Read the following lines from the poem From a Railway Carriage.

"Here is a beggar who stands and gazes. "


Which word has almost the same meaning as 'gazes'?

a)

Sits

b)

Looks

c)

Screams

d)

Ignores

7.

What is the original title of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel 'Treasure Island'?

a)

The Cabin boy

b)

The pirate

c)

The Hispaniola

d)

The Sea Cook

8.

Who is the author of the famous book Harry Potter?

a)

Enid Blyton

b)

J. K. Rowling

c)

R. L. Stine

d)

Hans Anderson

9.

Who is the recipient of 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

Robert E Wilson

b)

Andrea M Ghez

c)

Michael Houghton

d)

Louise Gluck

10.

Stevenson was born in 1850 in which city?

a)

Edinburgh

b)

Dundee

c)

Glasgow

d)

Perth

11.

Who is Mr. Fetzer in the story The Little Round Red House?

a)

Shoemaker

b)

Farmer

c)

Driver

d)

Baker

12.

Who is the protagonist in the story ' The Mysterious Picture '?

a)

Velasco

b)

Tyl

c)

Archduke

d)

Captain of Guards

13.

"Yet still one solitary tear

would hang on the cheek of time"........

These lines are from which poem?

a)

Taj Mahal

b)

Time and Tide

c)

The sower

d)

We are the world

14.

Who was trying to stay above water with his head phones aloft in his right hand in the story A Ship Wrecked Sailor?

a)

Ramon Herrera

b)

Julio Amador Caraballo

c)

Luis Rengifo

d)

The narrator

15.

The story Ship Wrecked Sailor is narrated from the point of view of a man involved in a shipwreck.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

The Mysterious Picture is a story taken from ______________

a)

The Legend of Archduke

b)

Lamme and Goedzak

c)

Paul Reverse's Ride

d)

The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel

17.

In which of the following stories you can see a 'Goblin Rat'?

a)

The Mysterious Picture

b)

The Light on the Hills

c)

The Boy Who Drew Cats

d)

The Little Round Red House

18.

Which of the following work of Carolyn Sherwin Bailey won the Newberry Medal?

a)

Miss Hickory

b)

The Little Round Red House

c)

Tell me another story

d)

The Little Rabbit Who wanted Red Wings

19.

Who is the author of the famous book Harry Potter?

a)

Enid Blyton

b)

J. K. Rowling

c)

R. L. Stine

d)

Hans Anderson

20.

When did Robert Louis Stevenson die?

a)

5 Jan 1906

b)

6 April 1912

c)

8 March 1892

d)

3 Dec 1894