It is considered that 'The Tale of Genji' is the world's first novel. It is written by a Japanese woman writer as early as approximately 1010! What is her name?

"The unfortunate death of a Creole! I'm fighting mad to write her story!" She angrily wrote this to a friend. The result was a fictional response to one of the celebrated English classics, written by Bronte.

Identify the fiction resulting from this feminist anger.

We are members of the University Wits. Tick right ones!

"You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise."

'And Still I Rise' is her third volume of poetry which includes the collection's title poem, 'Still I Rise' and 'Phenomenal Woman'. Who is she?

“ESTRAGON: What am I to say?

VLADIMIR: Say, I am happy.

ESTRAGON: I am happy.

VLADIMIR: So am I.

ESTRAGON: So am I.

VLADIMIR: We are happy.

ESTRAGON: We are happy. (Silence.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

Identify the play.

Alice in Wonderland is a ___ creation by Lewis Carroll.

Who popularised the comedy of humors?

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."

The lines are from ____.

Who said of blank verse, quoting an unnamed critic, that it is "a verse only to the eye", adding further that it "has neither the easiness of prose, nor the melody of numbers"?

"Mr. Lamb ... does not march boldly along with the crowd .... He prefers bye-ways to highways. When the full tide of human life pours along to some festive show, to some pageant of a day, Elia would stand on one side to look over an old book-stall, or stroll down some deserted pathway in search of a pensive description over a tottering doorway, or some quaint device in architecture, illustrative of embryo art and ancient manners. Mr. Lamb has the very soul of an antiquarian ....", says ___.

"It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”

Identify the author.

Arrange the following according to chronological order:

1) Manushyanu our Aamukham (Subhash Chandran)

2) Agnisakshi (Lalithambika Antharjjanam)

3) Aadujeevitham (Benyamin)

4) Khasakkinte Ithihasam (O V Vijayan)

Arrange the ages according to chronological order.

1) Caroline Period

2) Elizabethan Period

3) The Puritan Age

4) The Augustan Age

Arrange these Shakespearean works in chronological order.

1) Hamlet

2) The Tempest

3) A Midsummer Night's Dream

4) King Lear

The year in which Irish novelist James Joyce and English novelist Virginia Woolf died is sometimes used as a rough boundary for the beginning of postmodernism. Which is the year of their death?

Examples of realistic fiction. (Tick all the right ones)

"All that glitters is not gold", is from Act 2, scene 7 of Shakespeare's play, ___.

We are modernists!!! (Tick the right ones)

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet, black bough."

is a poem by Ezra Pound entitled 'In a Station of the Metro' published in 1913. The poem is sometimes considered to be the first haiku published in English. The poem is an example of ___.

Identify the genre of 'Dracula'.

A book which was criticised especially for its unrestrained description of sexuality by E. K. Nayanar, the then Chief Minister of the author's home state Kerala, for which the author had to answer charges of obscenity was ___.

'The Penelopiad' by Margaret Atwood is an example of retelling of myths. The character that it alludes to is Penelope from ___.

These are the novels by Chetan Bhagath. (tick the right ones)

Is this sequence of nobel prize for literature true or false?

Louise Gluck (2020)

PeterHandke (2019)

Olga Tokarczuk (2018)

Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)

Bob Dylan (2016)