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Canadian Literature Part 1

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 53mins

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1.

He/She was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her/his experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

2.

Roughing it in the Bush is an account of life as a Canadian settler who immigrated to Upper Canada (soon to become Canada West), near modern-day Peterborough, Ontario during the 1830s. At the suggestion of her editor, she wrote a "guide" to settler life for British subjects considering coming to Canada.

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

3.

Also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

4.

She was notable for her poems, short stories, and performances that celebrated her mixed-race heritage, drawing from both Indigenous and English influences. She is most known for her books of poetry The White Wampum (1895), Canadian Born (1903), and Flint and Feather (1912); and her collections of stories Legends of Vancouver (1911), The Shagganappi (1913), and The Moccasin Maker (1913).

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

5.

He was a Canadian poet from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario. A three-time winner of the country's Governor General's Award for poetry, he has been called "the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the century."

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

6.

Dunkirk (1941)

Still Life and Other Verse (1943)

They are Returning (1945)

Behind the Log (1947)

Towards the Last Spike

Newfoundland Verse

The Witches’ Brew (1925)

Titans (1926)

The Roosevelt and the Antinoe (1930)

"The Cachalot" (1926)

The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

7.

He was a Canadian author and professor of English at McGill University. He won five Governor General's Awards and a Royal Bank Award.

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

8.

Barometer Rising (1941)

Two Solitudes (1945)

The Precipice (1948)

Each Man's Son (1951)

The Watch That Ends the Night (1957)

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

9.

Her first novel, Bonheur d'occasion (1945), gave a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri, a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal. The novel caused many Quebeckers to take a hard look at themselves, and is regarded as the novel that helped lay the foundation for Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s.

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

10.

Published in English as The Tin Flute (1947), the book won the 1947 Governor General's Award for fiction as well as the Royal Society of Canada's Lorne Pierce Medal.

a)

Susanna Moodie

b)

Pauline Johnson

c)

E.J. Pratt

d)

Hugh MacLannan

e)

Gabrielle Roy

11.

He/She is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. Her/His stories often have feminist themes and include exotic settings. He/She is a recipient of the Marian Engel Award.

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

12.

She has three times received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, for Intertidal Life (1984), Wild Blue Yonder (1990), and Coming Down from Wa (1995). In 2008, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

13.

He was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters"

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

14.

The Salterton Trilogy

The Deptford Trilogy

The Cornish Trilogy

The "Toronto Trilogy"

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

15.

His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate(1971) and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974). His 1977 record Death of a Ladies' Man, co-written and produced by Phil Spector

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

16.

1. In 1979, He returned with the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his acoustic style with jazz, East Asian, and Mediterranean influences.

2. Perhaps his most famous song, "Hallelujah", was first released on his studio album Various Positions in 1984.

3. I'm Your Man in 1988 marked his turn to synthesized productions.

4. In 1992, he released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark lyrics and references to political and social unrest.


Identify the poet

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

17.

1.He returned to music in 2001 with the release of Ten New Songs, which was a major hit in Canada and Europe.

2. His 11th album, Dear Heather, followed in 2004. Following a successful string of tours between 2008 and 2013

3. He released three albums in the final four years of his life: Old Ideas (2012), Popular Problems (2014) and You Want It Darker (2016), the last of which was released three weeks before his death.

4. A posthumous album titled Thanks for the Dance was released in November 2019, his fifteenth and final studio album.


Identify the author

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

18.

He achieved fame with the publication of his books on the Canadian north, such as People of the Deer(1952) and Never Cry Wolf (1963).

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

19.

For his body of work as a writer he won the annual Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature in 1970.

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

20.

Canadian-born writer of essays, novels, plays, and especially short stories, almost all of which were published initially in The New Yorkermagazine.

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

21.

She was awarded the Canadian Fiction Prize (1978), the Canada Council Molson Prize for the Arts (1997), and the PEN/Nabokov Award (2004). She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981 and was elevated to Companion in 1993.

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

22.

1. Her second submission to The New Yorker, a short story titled “Madeline’s Birthday,” was published the following year.

2. Collections of her well-constructed, perceptive, often humorous short stories included My Heart Is Broken(1964), The Pegnitz Junction (1973), Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories (1981; winner of a Governor General’s Literary Award), Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris (1985), In Transit (1988), and Across the Bridge(1993).

3. In addition, she penned essays, two novels, and a play, What Is to Be Done? (1983).

a)

Audrey Thomas

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

23.

She was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.

a)

Jean Margaret Laurence

b)

Robertson Davies

c)

Leonard Cohen

d)

Farley McGill Mowat

e)

Mavis Leslie Gallant

24.

It is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. First published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, it is perhaps the best-known of Laurence's series of five novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba.

a)

This Side Jordan

b)

The Stone Angel

c)

A Jest of God

d)

The Fire-Dwellers

e)

The Diviners

25.

It tells the story of Hagar Currie Shipley. In the present, 90-year-old Hagar struggles against being put in a nursing home, which she sees as a symbol of death. This narrative alternates with Hagar looking back at her life.

a)

This Side Jordan

b)

The Stone Angel

c)

A Jest of God

d)

The Fire-Dwellers

e)

The Diviners

26.

It is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Laurence. It was first published in 1966.

It won the Governor General's Award for 1966 and was made into the 1968 Paul Newman/Joanne Woodward film Rachel, Rachel.

a)

This Side Jordan

b)

The Stone Angel

c)

A Jest of God

d)

The Fire-Dwellers

e)

The Diviners

27.

The novel follows schoolteacher Rachel Cameron through a summer affair and its consequences on her life. Although Rachel is in her 30s, the book serves to document a second adolescence as she comes to recognize herself as the adult to her aging mother.

a)

This Side Jordan

b)

The Stone Angel

c)

A Jest of God

d)

The Fire-Dwellers

e)

The Diviners

28.

The novel won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1974. The protagonist of the novel is Morag Gunn, a fiercely independent writer who grew up in Manawaka, Manitoba. Morag has a difficult relationship with her daughter Pique and her Métis lover Jules Tonnerre, and struggles to maintain her independence.

a)

This Side Jordan

b)

The Stone Angel

c)

A Jest of God

d)

The Fire-Dwellers

e)

The Diviners

29.

Protagonist in "The Diviners", the story is told from her perspective.

a)

Morag Gunn

b)

Piquette "Pique" Gunn

c)

Jules "Skinner" Tonnerre

d)

Christie Logan

e)

Brooke Skelton

30.

A descendant of the Metis people of Canada, specifically those of French and First Nations peoples. He is also independent and proud of his heritage, often seen composing songs regarding his grandfather and Louis Riel.

a)

Morag Gunn

b)

Piquette "Pique" Gunn

c)

Jules "Skinner" Tonnerre

d)

Christie Logan

e)

Brooke Skelton

31.

Morag's caretaker growing up in Manawaka. Married to Princess "Prin". Derisively called by the children of Manawaka as the “scavenger”, works at the garbage dump of Manawaka called the “Nuisance grounds”.

a)

Morag Gunn

b)

Piquette "Pique" Gunn

c)

Jules "Skinner" Tonnerre

d)

Christie Logan

e)

Brooke Skelton

32.

It is a short story sequence written by Margaret Laurence. Noted by Laurence to be "semi-autobiographical", the series chronicles the growing up of a young agnostic writer, Vanessa MacLeod, in the fictional town of Manawaka, Manitoba.

a)

The Tomorrow-Tamer (1963)

b)

A Bird in the House (1970)

c)

The Olden Days Coat (1980)

d)

The Christmas Birthday Story (1982)

e)

The Loons

33.

He was a Canadian novelist, poet and nonfiction writer. In his fiction and critical essays, as well as in the journal he co-founded, Boundary 2, he was an influential figure in Canada in introducing ideas about postmodernism.

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

34.

But We Are Exiles – 1965

The Words of My Roaring – 1966

The Studhorse Man – 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Fiction)

Gone Indian – 1973

Badlands – 1975

What the Crow Said – 1978

Alibi – 1983

The Puppeteer – 1992

The Man from the Creeks – 1998

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

35.

He was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

36.

It is the first novel of Canadian author Timothy Findley. It was published in 1967, in Britain, and later on in Canada, and was one of the first novels ever to be labelled as Southern Ontario Gothic.

a)

The Last of the Crazy People

b)

The Wars

c)

Famous Last Words

d)

The Piano Man's Daughter

e)

Pilgrim

37.

The novel tells the story of a well-to-do Ontarian family in the 1960s, whose future becomes uncertain when Jessica (the wife/mother) gives birth to a stillborn and returns home only to become hostile to the rest of the family, and to imprison herself in her own room.

a)

The Last of the Crazy People

b)

The Wars

c)

Famous Last Words

d)

The Piano Man's Daughter

e)

Pilgrim

38.

It is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley that follows Robert Ross, a nineteen-year-old Canadian who enlists in World War I after the death of his beloved older sister in an attempt to escape both his grief and the social norms of oppressive Edwardian society.

a)

The Last of the Crazy People

b)

The Wars

c)

Famous Last Words

d)

The Piano Man's Daughter

e)

Pilgrim

39.

It is a novel by Timothy Findley, first published in 1995 by HarperCollins Canada. It was a nominee for the 1995 Giller Prize.

a)

The Last of the Crazy People

b)

The Wars

c)

Famous Last Words

d)

The Piano Man's Daughter

e)

Pilgrim

40.

The Paper People (1967)

Don't Let the Angels Fall (1969)

The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972)

The Newcomers (1977)

Can You See Me Yet? (1977)

The Stillborn Lover (1993)

The Trials of Ezra Pound (2000)

Elizabeth Rex (2001)

Shadows (2001)


Identify the dramatist

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

41.

1. He was a Canadian writer. His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz(1959) and Barney's Version (1997).

2. His 1970 novel St. Urbain's Horseman and 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

3. He is also well known for the Jacob Two-Two children's fantasy series.

4. His Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy.

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

42.

A bawdy and sometimes farcical account of a Jewish boy in Montreal and his transformation into a ruthless and amoral businessman, which was made into a film from his screenplay in 1974

a)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

b)

Barney's Version

c)

St. Urbain's Horseman

d)

Solomon Gursky Was Here

e)

Jacob Two-Two

43.

The story is written as if it is an autobiography by Panofsky recounting his life in varying detail. His version of events may be viewed as that of two unreliable narrators, in that his recollections are told from varying mental states and then posthumously edited by his son.

a)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

b)

Barney's Version

c)

St. Urbain's Horseman

d)

Solomon Gursky Was Here

e)

Jacob Two-Two

44.

It is the seventh novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. First published in 1971 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Governor General's Award for 1971.

a)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

b)

Barney's Version

c)

St. Urbain's Horseman

d)

Solomon Gursky Was Here

e)

Jacob Two-Two

45.

The novel is set in London and Montreal during the late 1960s. The protagonist, Jake Hersh, first appeared in Richler's fourth novel, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, as a schoolmate of the title character. Now, almost twenty years later, Hersh is a moderately successful film director, married with three children, who has become embroiled in a sordid sex scandal. With his world crumbling around him, Jake continues to be obsessed with the mystery of his long-lost cousin and idol Joey, an adventurer, Nazi-hunter and Spanish Civil War veteran.

a)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

b)

Barney's Version

c)

St. Urbain's Horseman

d)

Solomon Gursky Was Here

e)

Jacob Two-Two

46.

The novel tells of several generations of the fictional Gursky family, who are connected to several disparate events in the history of Canada, including the Franklin Expedition and rum-running. Some fans and critics have cited this as Mordecai Richler's best book, and in terms of scope and style it is unmatched by his other works.

a)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

b)

Barney's Version

c)

St. Urbain's Horseman

d)

Solomon Gursky Was Here

e)

Jacob Two-Two

47.

The tale centres on Moses Berger, an alcoholic failed writer who is obsessed with Solomon Gursky, the brother of Bernard and Morrie and absent from the family empire after a fatal plane crash. It is implied that it is disappointment with his own father, the failed poet L. B. Berger, with whom Moses has a deeply dysfunctional relationship that put him on the trail of Solomon, a character as strong-willed as he was mysterious.

a)

True

b)

False

48.

It is a series of children's books written by Mordecai Richler:

a)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

b)

Barney's Version

c)

St. Urbain's Horseman

d)

Solomon Gursky Was Here

e)

Jacob Two-Two

49.

It is a book by Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler. Published in 1992, it parodied the evolution of language policy in Quebec, and spoofed the Canadian province of Quebec's language laws that restrict the use of the English language. The book, a best-seller, grew out of a long article published in a September 1991 issue of The New Yorker.

a)

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

b)

Barney's Version

c)

Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!

d)

Solomon Gursky Was Here

e)

Jacob Two-Two

50.

Son of a Smaller Hero (1955)

The Incomparable Atuk (1963)

Cocksure (1968)

A Choice of Enemies (1957)

Joshua Then and Now (1980)

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

51.

It is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Albertasince 1992. Rudy Wiebe was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in the year 2000.

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

52.

She was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.

a)

Robert Kroetsch

b)

Timothy Findley

c)

Mordecai Richler

d)

Rudy Wiebe

e)

Carol Shields

53.

The book is the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose life is marked by death and loss from the beginning, when her mother dies during childbirth. Through marriage and motherhood, Daisy struggles to find contentment, never truly understanding her life's true purpose.

a)

The Stone Diaries

b)

Swann: A Mystery

c)

The Republic of Love

d)

Larry's Party

e)

Unless

54.

What is the middle name of Alice Munro?

a)

Ann

b)

Jiu

c)

Jmn

d)

Kium

55.

Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time. Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."

a)

True

b)

False

56.

Munro is the recipient of many literary accolades, including the ________ Nobel Prize in Literature for her work as "master of the contemporary short story",

a)

2014

b)

2013

c)

2002

d)

2012

57.

She won Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work.

a)

2009

b)

2013

c)

2002

d)

2012

58.

She is also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction and was the recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada's 1996 Marian Engel Award, as well as the 2004 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for Runaway.

a)

True

b)

FAlse

59.

1. It is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Ryerson Press in 1968.

2. It was her first collection of stories and won the 1968 Governor General's Award for English Fiction.

3. The title of the main story is the English translation provided for the ballet in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice when it was first presented in London

a)

Dance of the Happy Shades

b)

Lives of Girls and Women

c)

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

d)

Who Do You Think You Are?

e)

The Moons of Jupiter

60.

It is a short story cycle by Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. All of the stories chronicle the life of a single character, Del Jordan, and the book has been characterized as a novel by some critics as a result.

a)

Dance of the Happy Shades

b)

Lives of Girls and Women

c)

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

d)

Who Do You Think You Are?

e)

The Moons of Jupiter

61.

"Material"

"How I Met My Husband"

"Walking on Water"

"Forgiveness in Families"

"Tell Me Yes or No"

"The Found Boat"

"Executioners"

"Marrakesh"

"The Spanish Lady"

"Winter Wind"

"Memorial"

"The Ottawa Valley"

a)

Dance of the Happy Shades

b)

Lives of Girls and Women

c)

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

d)

Who Do You Think You Are?

e)

The Moons of Jupiter

62.

It is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1978. It won the 1978 Governor General's Award for English Fiction, her second win of that prize.

a)

Dance of the Happy Shades

b)

Lives of Girls and Women

c)

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

d)

Who Do You Think You Are?

e)

The Moons of Jupiter

63.

It is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1982. It was nominated for the 1982 Governor General's Award for English Fiction.

a)

Dance of the Happy Shades

b)

Lives of Girls and Women

c)

Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

d)

Who Do You Think You Are?

e)

The Moons of Jupiter

64.

It is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1986. It won the 1986 Governor General's Award for English Fiction, her third win of that award.

a)

The Progress of Love

b)

Friend of My Youth

c)

Open Secrets

d)

The Love of a Good Woman

e)

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

65.

"Friend of My Youth"

"Five Points"

"Meneseteung"

"Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass"

"Oranges and Apples"

"Pictures of the Ice"

"Goodness and Mercy"

"Oh, What Avails"

"Differently"

"Wigtime

a)

The Progress of Love

b)

Friend of My Youth

c)

Open Secrets

d)

The Love of a Good Woman

e)

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

66.

The Edmonton Journal called it "the best Canadian book of 1994."

a)

The Progress of Love

b)

Friend of My Youth

c)

Open Secrets

d)

The Love of a Good Woman

e)

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

67.

The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.

a)

The Progress of Love

b)

Friend of My Youth

c)

Open Secrets

d)

The Love of a Good Woman

e)

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

68.

In 2006, the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, Away from Her, directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan. Following the release of this film, the collection was republished under the title Away from Her.

a)

The Progress of Love

b)

Friend of My Youth

c)

Open Secrets

d)

The Love of a Good Woman

e)

Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

69.

It is a book of short stories by Alice Munro. First published in 2004 by McClelland and Stewart, it was awarded that year's Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

a)

Runaway

b)

The View from Castle Rock

c)

Too Much Happiness

d)

Dear Life

70.

It is a collection of historical and autobiographical stories. The first part of the book narrates the lives of members of the Laidlaw branch of the family tree of the author, starting from their Scottish origins in the 18th century. The second part consists of fictionalized tales inspired by events in her own life.

a)

Runaway

b)

The View from Castle Rock

c)

Too Much Happiness

d)

Dear Life

71.

1. It is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published on August 25, 2009 by McClelland and Stewart's Douglas Gibson Books imprint.

2. The title story is a fictional retelling of the life of the 19th century Russian mathematician and writer Sofia Kovalevskaya.

3.The book comprehends overall ten short stories. Each of them narrates some scenes of a life which outline the core of existence of the protagonist.

a)

Runaway

b)

The View from Castle Rock

c)

Too Much Happiness

d)

Dear Life

72.

Margaret Atwood was named after who?

a)

Her Fathers Favorite Author

b)

Her Mother

c)

Her Grandmother

d)

Her Mothers best friend

73.

When did Margaret Atwood first attend school full-time?

a)

8 years old

b)

6 years old

c)

8th grade

d)

6th grade

74.

Where did Margaret Atwood graduate college?

a)

Harvard

b)

Ontario State University

c)

San Diego Mesa

d)

None of the above

75.

What did she carve a jack-o-lantern out of?

a)

Pumpkin

b)

Squash

c)

Turnip

d)

Her hopes and dreams

76.

As a child what movie did she find traumatizing?

a)

Cinderella

b)

Sleeping Beauty

c)

Beauty and the Beast

d)

Snow White

77.

What did she write her first novel about?

a)

A dinosaur

b)

An Ant

c)

A fly

d)

A duck

78.
a)

Margaret Atwood

b)

Carolyn Keene

79.

In what year was Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, published?

a)

1967

b)

1963

c)

1969

d)

1970

80.

Atwood will be the first contributor to the Future Library project. What is it?

a)

A digital project to turn Atwood’s works into web-based "immersion experiences"

b)

A global project to connect libraries through video conferences hosted by authors

c)

An education project, appealing to authors to donate books to a touring library visiting areas hit by climate change

d)

A writing project that aims to collect one original story each year which will remain unseen until 2114

81.

Which piece of technology did Atwood invent?

a)

The LongPen - robotic writing technology that allows authors, and others, to sign paper remotely

b)

Writing World - an app that enables amateur writers to collaboratively create and self-publish stories online

c)

Earthface - a web-based rogues gallery, where users can add their own defaced images of environmental villains

d)

The She-reader, an app that switches masculine and feminine pronouns in ebooks

82.

What happens to female Crakers when they are on heat?


a)

Their abdomens and buttocks turn blue

b)

They sing loudly with their eyes shut

c)

Their hair turns pink

d)

They take to the hills

83.

How many of Atwood’s novels have been shortlisted for the Booker prize?

a)

0

b)

3

c)

5

d)

6

84.

From which novel does this quote come? "Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.”

a)

Oryx and Crake

b)

MaddAddam

c)

The Year of the Flood

d)

The Blind Assassin

85.

Which science fiction prize did The Handmaid’s Tale win?

a)

Nebula award

b)

Hugo award

c)

Arthur C Clarke award

d)

Prometheus award

86.

What is the name of the fictional Ontario town in which The Blind Assassin is set?

a)

Saugeen Shores

b)

Deep River

c)

South Bruce Peninsula

d)

Port Ticonderoga

87.

In The Handmaid’s Tale, handmaids are renamed after their male owners. What is the name of the novel’s narrator?

a)

Ofglen

b)

Offred

c)

Ofwarren

d)

Ofsted

88.

What was the title of the online novella on which Atwood collaborated with Naomi Alderman in 2012?

a)

Happy Zombie Sunrise

b)

Love Songs of a Terminator

c)

Frankenstein's Monster Song

d)

Bluebeard’s Egg

89.

It is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. It is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her selfare becoming separated. As Marian begins endowing food with human qualities that cause her to identify with it, she finds herself unable to eat, repelled by metaphorical cannibalism.

a)

The Edible Woman

b)

Surfacing

c)

Lady Oracle

d)

Life Before Man

e)

Bodily Harm

90.

The novel, grappling with notions of national and gendered identity, anticipated rising concerns about conservation and preservation and the emergence of Canadian nationalism. It was adapted into a movie in 1981.

a)

The Edible Woman

b)

Surfacing

c)

Lady Oracle

d)

Life Before Man

e)

Bodily Harm

91.

The book tells the story of a woman who returns to her hometown in Canada to find her missing father. Accompanied by her lover, Joe, and a married couple, Anna and David, the unnamed protagonist meets her past in her childhood house, recalling events and feelings, while trying to find clues to her father's mysterious disappearance. Little by little, the past overtakes her and drives her into the realm of wildness and madness.

a)

The Edible Woman

b)

Surfacing

c)

Lady Oracle

d)

Life Before Man

e)

Bodily Harm

92.

The novel's protagonist, Joan Foster, is a romance novelist who has spent her life running away from difficult situations. The novel alternates between flashbacks from the past and scenes from the present.

a)

The Edible Woman

b)

Surfacing

c)

Lady Oracle

d)

Life Before Man

e)

Bodily Harm

93.

The novel's protagonist Rennie Wilford is a travel reporter. After surviving breast cancer, she travels to the fictional Caribbean island St. Antoine to carry out research for an article. The island, however, is on the brink of revolution. Rennie tries to stay away from politics, but is drawn into events through her romance with Paul, a key player in the uprising, and ends up in a survival struggle.

a)

The Edible Woman

b)

Surfacing

c)

Lady Oracle

d)

Life Before Man

e)

Bodily Harm

94.

s a 1988 novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood about fictional painter Elaine Risley, who vividly reflects on her childhood and teenage years. Her strongest memories are of Cordelia, who was the leader of a trio of girls who were both very cruel and very kind to her in ways that tint Elaine's perceptions of relationships and her world — not to mention her art — into her middle years.

a)

The Handmaid's Tale

b)

Cat's Eye

c)

The Robber Bride

d)

Alias Grace

e)

The Blind Assassin

95.

Set in present-day Toronto, Ontario, the novel is about three women and their history with old friend and nemesis, Zenia. Roz, Charis, and Tony meet once a month in a restaurant to share a meal decades after Zenia betrayed them and interferes with their romantic relationships.

a)

The Handmaid's Tale

b)

Cat's Eye

c)

The Robber Bride

d)

Alias Grace

e)

The Blind Assassin

96.

1. It is a novel of historical fiction by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. First published in 1996 by McClelland & Stewart, it won the Canadian Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

2. The story fictionalizes the notorious 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Canada West.

2.

a)

The Handmaid's Tale

b)

Cat's Eye

c)

The Robber Bride

d)

Alias Grace

e)

The Blind Assassin

97.

1. It is a novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. Set in Canada, it is narrated from the present day, referring to previous events that span the twentieth century.

2. The work was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001 and also received a number of other nominations.

a)

The Handmaid's Tale

b)

Cat's Eye

c)

The Robber Bride

d)

Alias Grace

e)

The Blind Assassin

98.

1. It is a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (1985).

2. The novel is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale.

3.It is narrated by Aunt Lydia, a character from the previous novel; Agnes, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman living in Canada.

4. was joint winner of the 2019 Man Booker Prize, alongside Bernardine Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other.

a)

The Penelopiad

b)

The Testaments

c)

MaddAddam

d)

The Heart Goes Last

e)

Hag-Seed

99.

It was the first publication released by Atwood, and comprises seven poems: "Formal Garden", "Pastoral", "Iconic Landscape", "Persephone Departing", "Chthonic Love", "Her Song", "and "Double Persephone".

a)

Double Persephone

b)

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

c)

Dancing Girls

d)

Wilderness Tips

e)

The Circle Game

100.

It is a poetry collection written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in 1964. The book was a highly acclaimed work of poetry and was the winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award.

a)

Double Persephone

b)

Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

c)

Dancing Girls

d)

Wilderness Tips

e)

The Circle Game