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Q2. William Sydney Porter wrote a number of short stories under which pen-name?

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Q3. In which city did Anne Frank live when she had to go into hiding to escape capture by the invading Germans?

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Q4. In which famous story would you encounter the Yellow Brick Road and the Emerald City?

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Q5. In Percy Jackson’s ‘The Lightning Thief’ what was the throne of Hades made of?

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Q6. Which theatre in London is associated with William Shakespeare?

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Q7. The Bengali private detective character known as Feluda was the creation of:

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Q8. Jhumpa Lahiri is a novelist of Indian origin who usually writes about:

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Q9. Wings of Fire is an autobiography of

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Q10 . “The God of Small things”, a novel which won the Booker Prize in 1997 is written by:

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Q1. "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense".

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Q2. “Look, I didn’t want to be a half-blood.

If you’re reading this because you think you might be one, my advice is: close this book right now. Believe whatever lie your mom or dad told you about your birth, and try to lead a normal life.”

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Q3. "Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door….and made his way up to bed…... As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings".

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Q4. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair".

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Q5. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

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Q1. “Whose woods these are I think I know”

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Q2. “Is there anybody there? ” said the Traveller

Knocking on the moonlit door”

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Q3. "The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.

The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed on cloudy seas”

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Q4. "The most important thing we've learned,

So far as children are concerned,

Is never, NEVER, NEVER let

Them near your television set – "

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Q5. "You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may tread me in the very dirt

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

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Q1. H.G.WELLS, JULES VERNE, RAY BRADBURY, ARTHUR C. CLARKE are all famous exponents of what genre of story-telling:

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Q2. An elegy is a poem that

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Q3. William Shakespeare wrote his plays in

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Q4. Foreshadowing is a literary device that the writer employs to

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Q5. In the denouement of a story or play the writer