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The author of the first picaresque novel:
Thomas Nashe
Geoffrey ChauсerG
Sir Thomas Malory
Samuel Richardson
>“Two Gentlemen of Verona” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest....
tragedies
chronicles
comedies
sonnets
The ideas of abolition of private property were first expressed in:
“Utopia”
Gulliver’s Travels”
“Robinson Crusoe”
“Amelia”
… is considered to be the father of English poetry:
William Shakespeare
King Alfred the Great
Geoffrey Chaucer
Henry Surrey
The most popular form of literature during the Renaissance:
Poetry
Prose
Pamphlet
Sonnet
The most prominent pamphlet – writer during the Bourgeois revolution of 1640-1649:
John Milton
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Richardson
Tobias Smollet
The poem “Beowulf” is composed in:
Latin
Anglo – Saxon
French
Norman – French
Celtic legends are called:
Sagas
Epics
Poems
Romances
William Shakespeare introduces the character of “an ideal king” in:
“Henry V”
“Henry IV” (Part I)
Henry IV” (Part II)
Henry VIII”
The greatest hero of Celtic legends was:
Cuchulainn
Archilles
Conchobar
Hercules
First romances were brought to England from:
Italy
Scandinavia
Spain
France
The third period of William Shakespeare’s creative life was devoted to:
Tragedies
Sonnets
Comedies
Chronicles
Jonathan Swift was born in:
1667
1650
1669
1655
The 1st poet who introduced blank verse into English poetry was:
Sir Tomas Wyatt
Henry Surrey
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
Point out which of the 4 voyages is described in the 1st part of “Gulliver Travels”
To Lilliput
To Laputa
To the country of the Houyhnhnm
Daniel Defoe
The son of a wine merchant, a page, a squire, a Custom controlle:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jonathan Swift
William Shakespeare
Daniel Defoe
They were the predecessors of Shakespeare:
Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope, Venerable bede
Jeoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory
Venerable bede, Thomas Malory
They work by Geoffrey Chaucer describing in pilgrimage:
Alexander Pope, Venerable Bede
“The Romance of the Rose”
Jeoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory
Venerable bede, Thomas Malory
The author of “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”:
William Shakespeare
Henry Fielding
Tobias Smollett
Edmund Spencer
Late American Romanists (19 century):
Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain
Theodore Dreiser, Jack London
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Pope, Venerable bede
The genre of writers during 1st period of the Renaissance: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard:
Romanists
Classicists
Satirists
Poets humanists
'"Gulliver’s Travels” is Swift’s greatest:
Sonnet
Ballad
Comedy
Novel
The Anglo – Saxon epic “Beowulf” - Petruchio, Hortensio, Bianca:
VII-VIII
X-XI
V-VI
VIII-X
In what Shakespeare’s play are there – Petruchio, Hortensio, Bianca:
The taming of the shrew”
“Othello”
“Macbeth”
“Twelfth Night
The sonnet is a poem of … lines divided into … ???
14 lines, 2 quatrains and 2 terzets
12 lines, 2 quatreins and 2 couplets
16 lines, 3 quatrains and 2 couplets
18 lines, 2 quatrains and 4 terzets
“Two Gentlemen of Verona” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest....
tragedies
chronicles
comedies
sonnets
The 1st man who collected the romances of King Arthur and arranged them in a series of stories in prose was:
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas Malory
Philip Sydney
Thomas More
The literature of the Norman Period dates to … centuries:
XI-XIII
XIV-XV
VII-XI
V-VII
The most popular form of literature during the Renaissance:
Poetry
Prose
Pamphlet
Sonnet
Romances spread over England during:
The Renaissance
The anglo- Norman period
The Enlightenment
The Early Middle Ages
The poem “Beowulf” is composed in:
Latin
Anglo- Saxon
French
Norman – French
Who is the author of “Utopia”:
Thomas More
Bede
Thomas Kyd
Geoffrey Chaucer
What trend was the way of speaking the truth and exploding worn – out conventions for American writers of the late 19th century:
Sentimentalism
Realism
Romanticism
Classicism
>“Robin Hood” refers to …:
Ballads
Romances
Sagas
Epic
William Shakespeare was born in:
1564
1654
1616
1650
>“The Raven” is the best – known poem written by:
Edgar Ellan Poe
Mark Twain
Walt Whitman
Henry Longfellow
The work by Geoffrey Chaucer Describing in pilgrimage:
The Romance of the Rose”
The Canterbury Tales”
The Parliament of Fouls”
Samson Agonistes”
One of the famous classicists who believed that each thing in the world was the harmony with other things:
William Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
Henry Fielding
Edmund Spenser
The Venerable Bede is the author of the 1st famous work known as:
The History of the English Church”
The History of England”
The History of the English Literature”
Samson Agonistes”
A story about people who have never existed as animals who behave like human beings:
Fable
Myth
Verse
Pathos
The most common rhyme scheme in sonnets is –ABBA ABBA CDDC, written by …
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
What writer have been arrested in 1895 for homosexuality:
Oscar Wilde
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Jack London
Jonathan Swift was educated at:
Trinity College, Dublin
High school, London
University, Dublin
Yale school, Dresden
The greatest writer of Enlightenment:
J. Swift
D. Defoe
J. Milton
Th. Kyd
Mark Twain’s fascinating tale “The Mysterious Stranger”, was published in:
1925
1916
1920
1917
The author who developed the genre of satirical comedies:
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Christopher Marlowe
Thomas Nashe
Mark Twain’s first novel is:
The Golden Age”
A Tramp abroad”
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
Paradise Lost”
The creator of the sonnet form consisting of three quatrains and a couplet, the poet who, the father of modern English periodicals:
Henry Surrey
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
W. Shakespeare
The “Golden” comedy by W. Shakespeare with Duke Orsino, Countess Olivin as main characters:
Twelfth Night”
Much Ado About Nothing”
The Taming pf the Shrew”
As You Like It”
Who was the first English classicist:
Alexander Pope
Venerable Bede
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Thomas More
“Paradise Lost” is one of Milton’s greatest...
Epic poem
Tragedies
Epic
Sonnets
The famous poets of the 1st period of the Renaissance
King Alfred the Great
D. Defoe, J. Swift
Thomas more, Thomas Malory
W. Shakespeare, G. Chaucer
… is considered to be the father of Anglo – Saxon prose:
Venerable Bede
King Alfred the Great
Alexander Pope
Henry Howard
Who is the author of “Utopia”:
Thomas More
Bede
Thomas Kyd
Geoffrey Chaucer
“Pericles”, “The winter’s Tale” are Shakespeare’s greatest
Romances
Comedies
Sonnets
Tragedies
The poem “Beowulf” is composed in:
Latin
Anglo- Saxon
French
Norman – French
Celtic Legends are called:
Sagas
Tragedies
Poems
Romances
What trend was the way of speaking the truth and exploding worn – out conventions for American writers of the late 19th century:
Sentimentalism
Realism
Romanticism
Classicism
The greatest hero of Celtic legends was:
Cuchulainn
Archilles
Conchobar
Hercules
“The Raven” is the best – known poem written by:
Edgar Ellan Poe
Mark Twain
Walt Whitman
Henry Longfellow
>“The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer was written in:
Middle English
Roman
Latin
London Dialect
The Anglo – Saxon poem “Beowulf” was composed by:
An unknown author
The Venerable Bede
Geoffrey Chaucer
Alfred the Great
Robin Hood” refers to …:
Ballads
Romances
Sagas
Epic
William Shakespeare was born in:
1564
1654
1616
1655
The most important representative of the early period of the Renaissance in English was:
William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas More
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Which of the following works by John Milton is autobiographical
Paradise Lost”
Samson Agonistes”
Paradise Regained”
The Romance of the Rose”
The work by Geoffrey Chaucer Describing in pilgrimage:
The Romance of the Rose”
The Canterbury Tales”
The Parliament of Fouls”
Samson Agonistes”
One of the famous classicists who believed that each thing in the world was the harmony with other things:
William Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
Henry Fielding
Edmund Spenser
The Venerable Bede is the author of the 1st famous work known as:
The History of the English Church”
The History of England”
The History of the English Literature”
Samson Agonistes”
Poetry Describing the deeds and adventures of a great hero and verbally transmitted from poet to poet is called:
Epic
Lyrical poem
Sonnet
Verse
Guess the name of the poet according to the following information:A shepherd / VII century / “The Paraphrase”:
Caedmon
William Langland
Cynewulf
Alfred the Great
The Anglo – Saxon epic “Beowulf” dates back to … centuries:
VII-VII
X-XI
V-VI
VIII-X
The First work written in Anglo – Saxon prose was:
"The History of the English Church”
The Canterbury
"Anglo- Saxon Chronicle”
Paraphrase
The classical model of the sonnet is a poem of … lines divided into …???
14 lines, 2 quatrains and 2 terzets
12 lines, 2 quatrains and 2 couplets
16 lines, 3 quatrains and 2 couplets
14 lines, 3 quatrains and 2 couplets
First romances were brought to England from:
Italy
Scandinavia
Spain
France
The author of the novels “The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders”, “The Life of Captain Singleton”
Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens
Jonathan Swift
Tobias Smollett
Alexander Pope dates back to … century:
XVIII
VII
XV
XVI
A story about people who have never existed as animals who behave like human beings:
Fable
Myth
Verse
Pathos
The so – called “Great Elizabethan Age” dates to … centuries:
The end of 16 – beginning of the 17
Middle of the 15
The end of the 17
The end of the 17 – middle of the 18
The author of the first picaresque novel:
Thomas Nashe;
Geoffrey Chaucer;
Sir Thomas Malory;
Sir Thomas more;
The ideas of abolition of private property were first expressed in:
Utopia
Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe”
Amelia
The most popular form of literature during the Renaissance:
Poetry
Prose
Pamphlet
Sonnet
The most prominent pamphlet – writer during the Bourgeois revolution of 1640-1649:
John Milton
Daniel Defoe
Samuel Richardson
Tobias Smollet
Celtic legends are called:
Sagas
Epics
Romances
Poems
The greatest hero of Celtic legends was:
Italy
Scandinavia
Spain
France
Jonathan Swift was born in:
1667
1650
1669
1655
Walt Whitman’s years of life:
1819-1892
1819-1895
1820-1890
1821-1895
By... Twain had become a licensed riverboat pilot:
April 1859
March 1858
June 1860
May 1855
“The Merchant of Venice” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest...:
Comedies
Chronicles
Tragedies
Sonnets
An epic poem central characters of which are Satan, God, Angels...:
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Paradise Lost
The History of the English Church”
Mark Twain’s novel represents his first major use memories of his childhood:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
The Golden Age”
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Paradise Lost”
The founder of the early realistic novel, the founder of the first English newspaper, the father of modern English periodicals:
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
G. G. Bairon
One of the famous Renaissance poets whose major work is the allegorical poem known as “The Faerie Queene”; who created a sonnet form of his own:
Edmund Spenser
Henry Surrey
Sir Philip Sidney
Thomas Wyatt
Poets who composed romances were called:
Minstrels
Warriors
Scribes
Bards
One of the best novels by Henry Fielding is:
Amelia
Elene
A history of the Lady Roxana”
Journal to Stella”
Whose real name was Samuel Clemens:
Mark Twain
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Sir Thomas More
“George and Mabel” is written by
Somerset Maugham
Charles Dickens
John Steinbeck
Jane Austen
A story about people who have never existed ar animals who behave like human beings:
Fable
Myth
Verse
Pathos
The author of “Pamela”:
Samuel Richardson
Jonathan Swift
Henry Fielding
Daniel Defoe
The most common rhyme scheme in sonnets is – ABBA ABBA CDDC, written by …:
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
In what Shakespeare’s play this expression have been said: “Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan...”:
Macbeth
King Lear”
Othello’
Romeo and Juliet
What writer have been arrested in 1895 for homosexuality:
Oscar Wilde
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Jack London
A Farewell Swift was educated at:
20
19
21
23
Jonathan Swift was educated at:
Trinity College, Dublin
High school, London
University, Dublin
Yale school, Dresden
Walt Whitman’s years of life:
1819-1892
1819-1895
1820-1890
1821-1895
The greatest writer of Enlightenment:
J. Swift
D. Defoe
J. Milton
Th. Kyd
By... Twain had become a licensed riverboat pilot:
April 1859
March 1858
June 1860
May 1855
Mark Twain’s fascinating tale “The Mysterious Stranger”, was published in:
1925
1916
1920
1917
The Merchant of Venice” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest...:
Comedies
Chronicles
Tragedies
Sonnets
The author who developed the genre of satirical comedies:
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Christopher Marlowe
Thomas Nashe
Mark Twain’s first novel is:
The Golden Age”
A Tramp abroad”
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
Paradise Lost”
Mark Twain’s novel represents his first major use memories of his childhood:
“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
“The Golden Age”
“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
“Paradise Lost”
The creator of the sonnet form consisting of three quatrains and a couplet, the poet who, the father of modern English periodicals:
Henry Surrey
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
W. Shakespeare
The founder of the early realistic novel, the founder of the first English newspaper, the father of modern English periodicals:
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
G. G. Bairon
The “Golden” comedy by W. Shakespeare with Duke Orsino, Countess Olivin as main characters:
Twelfth Night
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming pf the Shrew
As You Like It
One of the famous Renaissance poets whose major work is the allegorical poem known as “The Faerie Queene”; who created a sonnet form of his own:
Edmund Spenser
Henry Surrey
Sir Philip Sidney
Thomas Wyatt
The Robin Hood ballads date back to … centuries:
XIV-XV
XI-XII
XII
XIII
Through events in the Mark Twain’s book … he satirizes reverent attitude of some British Authors toward the legendary Knights of the Round table:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”
Life on the Mississippi”
The Prince and the Pauper”
The Taming pf the Shrew
One of the best novels by Henry Fielding is:
Amelia
Elene
A history of the Lady Roxana
Life on the Mississippi”
The poem “Paraphrase” was written by:
Caedmon
The Venerable Bede
Cynewulf
Thomas Nashe
Mark Twain’s novel … describes a walking tour of Germany, Switzerland and Italy:
A Tramp Abroad
Life on the Mississippi
The Golden Age
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Jonathan Swift was born in:
1667
1650
1669
1655
Mark Twain first began publishing under his pen name in:
February 1863
September 1865
December 1862
October 1859
Who was the first English classicist:
Alexander Pope
Venerable Bede
Geoffrey Chaucer
Sir Thomas More
One of the famous classicists who believed that each thing in the world was the harmony with other things:
William Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
Henry Fielding
Edmund Spenser
Poetry Describing the deeds and adventures of a great hero and verbally transmitted from poet to poet is called:
Epic
Lyrical poem
Sonnet
Verse
The Anglo – Saxon epic “Beowulf” dates back to … centuries:
VIII-VII
X-XI
V-VI
VIII-X
The sonnet is a poem of … lines divided into … ???
14 lines, 2 quatrains and 2 terzets
12 lines, 2 quatreins and 2 couplets
16 lines, 3 quatrains and 2 couplets
18 lines, 2 quatrains and 4 terzets
Alexander Pope dates back to … century:
XVIII
VII
XV
XVI
The so – called “Great Elizabethan Age” dates to … centuries:
The end of 16 – beginning of the 17
Middle of the 15
The end of the 17
The end of the 17 – middle of the 18
… is considered to be the father of Anglo – Saxon prose:
Venerable Bede
King Alfred the Great
Alexander Pope
Henry Howard
“Pericles”, “The winter’s Tale” are Shakespeare’s greatest
Romances
Comedies
Sonnets
Tragedies
The 1st poet who introduced blank verse into English poetry was:
Sir Tomas Wyatt
Henry Surrey
Edmund Spenser
William Shakespeare
Point out which of the 4 voyages is described in the 1st part of “Gulliver Travels”
To Lilliput
To Laputa
To the country of the Houyhnhnm
Daniel Defoe
They were the predecessors of Shakespeare:
Philip Sydney, Edmund Spenser
Alexander Pope, Venerable bede
Jeoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Malory
Venerable bede, Thomas Malory
The author of “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”:
Henry Fielding
William Shakespeare
Tobias Smollett
Edmund Spencer
The genre of writers during 1st period of the Renaissance: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard:
Romanists
Classicists
Satirists
Comedians
In what Shakespeare’s play are there – Petruchio, Hortensio, Bianca:
The taming of the shrew
Othello
Macbeth
Amelia
The 1st man who collected the romances of King Arthur and arranged them in a series of stories in prose was:
Thomas Wyatt
Thomas Malory
Philip Sydney
Thomas More
The literature of the Norman Period dates to … centuries:
XI-XIII
XIV-XV
VII-XI
V-VII
Romances spread over England during
The Renaissance
The anglo- Norman period
The Enlightenment
The Early Middle Ages
Which two cities are the settings for Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities?
Paris and London
France and England
Edinburgh and Prague
Helsinki
Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist of which Jane Austen novel?
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Emma
Which three sisters wrote classic novels including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights?
The Bronte sisters
The Boleyn sisters
The Gilbert sisters
The Moulite sisters
Geoffrey Chaucer was crucial to expanding the use of Middle English in his literature. What were the two dominant literary languages of his time?
Latin and French
Spanish and English
Latin and English
French and English
Virginia Woolf is famous for pioneering the use of stream of…………………. with her narration.
consciousness
individuality
sensations
environment
Geoffrey Chaucer was the first writer to be buried in Poets’ Corner in what location in London?
Westminster Abbey
Leicester Square
Canary Wharf
Covent Garden
What pen name did Mary Anne Evans write her novels under?
George Eliot
George Ellot
Eliot Anne
George Evans
Mary Shelley conceived of the ideas for Frankenstein while famously spending a summer with which lord?
Lord Byron
Lord of the rings
Lord Farquaad
Lord Taylor
Which country banned Alice in Wonderland?
China
Spain
Japan
Russia
What term is used to describe totalitarian and authoritarian social practices?
Orwellian
Shakespearian
Chaucerian
Landorian
Sherlock Holmes never said:
Elementary, my dear Watson’
I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson
Elementary
Excellent!" I cried.
Who is often called the ‘father of science fiction’.
H.G. Wells
Robert Louis Stevenson
William Shakespeare
Conan Doyle
Originally Shakespeare’s plays only included ………. in their productions.
men
women
children
old people
How many children did Shakespeare have?
three
five
one
two
Charles Dickens believed that sleeping…………. would improve his writing
sleeping north
sleeping south
sleeping west
sleeping east
Mary Shelley’s inspiration for Frankenstein came from……….
a nightmare
a daydream
an inspiration
a dream
Zadie Smith’s best selling book White Teeth is now?
a TV series
a film
a book
a TV programme
a movie
Enid Blyton wrote more than……………books?
700
500
600
800
How many rejections had Malorie Blackman before she was accepted?
over 80 rejections
over 90 rejections
over 70 rejections
over 50 rejections
What villain’s name does Tom Riddle’s name rearrange to?
Voldemort
Lord
Mot Elddir
Volmort
The first Harry Potter book is:
Philosopher’s Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Which one of Jojo Moyes many books was made into a film starring Emilia Clarke as Lou Clark caring for a quadriplegic man?
Me Before You
The Last Letter from Your Lover
The Nice Guys
The Jungle Book
Benjamin Zephaniah is an amazing novellist, but also a poet – what is his style of poetry called?
Dub-poetry
Lyric poetry, and
Narrative poetry
Dramatic poetry
Which of these works is not by Charlotte Bronte listed?
The Hunting of the Snark
Villette
Jane Eyre
The Professor
Which of these works is not by Lewis Carroll listed?
To Kill A Mockingbird
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
Jabberwocky
Which of these works is not by Geoffrey Chaucer listed?
A Farewell to Arms
The Canterbury Tales
The Book of the Duchess
The Legend of Good Women
Which of these works is not by Charles Dickens listed?
The Mill on the Floss
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Which of these works is not by Virginia Woolf listed?
The Legend of Good Women
Mrs Dalloway
The Voyage Out
The Lighthouse
Which of these works is not by Jane Austen listed?
The Waves
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Which of these works is not by George Eliot listed?
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Middlemarch
Adam Bede
Which of these works is not by Robert Louis Stevenson listed?
Fahrenheit 451
Treasure Island
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Kidnapped
Which of these works is not by Mary Shelley listed?
Call of the Wild
Frankenstein
The Modern Prometheus
Mathilda
Which of these works is not by H.G. Wells listed?
Invisible Man
The War of the Worlds
The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Time Machine
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are two characters of which Children’s book?
Alice in Wonderland
Harry Potter
Oliver Twist
Through the looking-glass
The abbreviated form of which book is NEB?
New English Bible
New English Books
New English Business
Novel English Bible
Who invented the character, Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Jack London
Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are Macbeth, Othello, Hamlet and __________?
King Lear
King John
Henry V
The Merchant of Venice
By what name was Shakespeare’s mother known before her marriage?
Mary Arden
Anne Arden
Susanna Arden
Hamnet Arden
In which Charles Dickens’ novel we find the characters Bently Drummle, Joe Gargary, and Herbert Pocket?
Great Expectations
The Pickwick Papers
Dombey and Son
David Copperfield
Mention the exact number of sonnets written by William Shakespeare?
154
164
144
158
Name the only play written by Shakespeare in which there is no song.
The Comedy Of Errors
As You Like It
Measure for Measure
The Merchant of Venice
Name the female novelist who has authored ‘Sense and Sensibility’?
Jane Austen
Doris Lessing
Toni Morrison
Virginia Woolf
Which novel of William Peter Blatty written in 1971? It has been adopted in which epic Horror Film?
The Exorcist
Elsewhere
Crazy
Legion
In which novel of Roald Dahl, the character Willy Wonka can be found?
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
The Witches
Name the book that became the best-seller in 1794 in America?
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Way to Wealth
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Quotations of Benjamin Franklin
“Rites of Passage” is a novel written by?
William Golding
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Benjamin Franklin
Who is the author of ‘The Alchemist’ (play)?
Ben Jonson
Paulo Coelho
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
What was the name of the first novelist to have his works serialized?
Charles Dickens
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Ben Jonson
In all the plays written by Shakespeare, only one contains the name of an animal. Name the animal.
Shrew
Shrek
Shrell
Charol
Name the pioneering novel which was typed on a Typewriter?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
The adventure
Huckleberry Finn
‘The War of The World’s’ is a famous work of which author?
H.G. Wells
Charles Dickens
Ben Jonson
Mark Twain
Mention the year in which the first free library of Britain opened?
1852
1998
2000
1752
(The Mousetrap) is an interesting play. Who wrote this play?
Agatha Christie
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
Doris Lessing
Utilitarianism is written by a philosopher of the 19th century. What is his name?
John Stuart Mill
Stuart
Mill
Joseph Mill
Who is the author of the popular novel “Three Men in a Boat”?
Jerome K Jerome
Jeremy K Jeremy
Jimmy K Jimmy
John K John
‘A Brief History of Time’ is a famous book written in 1988. Who is its author?
Stephen Hawking
John Stuart Mill
Stephen Hall
Toni Morrison
Name the Shakespearean character who had spoken the maximum number of lines?
Hamlet
Ophelia
Laertes
Polonius
Who is the poet of The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Jackson
Taylor Swift
Sam Jackson
Who is the author of “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd”?
Agatha Christie
Rosalind Hicks
Stephen Hawking
Charlotte Bronte
In which book of Agatha Christi did the demise of Poirot take place?
Curtain
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The Big Four
The Murder on the Links
Scientists have borrowed the term ‘Quark’ from a book written by a famous author. What is the name of that author?
James Joyce
Oskar Wild
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Who was the authoress of “Pride and Prejudice”?
Jane Austen
Agatha Christie
Rosalind Hicks
Charlotte Bronte
“Ozymandias” and “Ode to the West Wind” are two widely read poems of which poet?
Shelley
Dickens
Chaucer
Bronte
Who ended his writing career with ‘The Last Tycoon’?
F Scott Fitzgerald
Oskar Wild
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
What is the name of the third part in ‘The Lord of the Rings Trilogy’?
The Return Of The King
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The King
In ‘A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’ by William Shakespeare, who did the fairies worship as their queen?
Titania
Juliet
Gertrude
Ophelia
Who is the author of Lord Of The Flies?
William Golding
King William
William Shakespeare
William Smith
‘The English Roses’ is a children’s story written in 2003. Who is the author of this book?
Madonna
Agatha Christie
Charlotte Bronte
Britney Spears
Name the play with which Shakespeare’s started his career as a playwright.
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Richard II
Who was the founder of the pioneering public library in London city?
Robert Ford
Robert Pattinson
William Shakespeare
F Scott Fitzgerald
Elmer Gantry is a critique of ‘Evangelism’. Who wrote the book?
Sinclair Lewis
King William
William Shakespeare
William Smith
West Side Story,’ a musical is based on a tragedy by Shakespeare. Which tragedy is it?
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Henry V
Macbeth
Who is the author of “The Napoleon of Netting Hill”?
G.K. Chesterton
Robert Pattinson
William Shakespeare
F Scott Fitzgerald
Name the person from Britain who wrote 30 books. A million copies of 28 books were sold in Britain out of these 30 books.
Alistair Maclean
Alan Ayckbourn
Mary Shelley
F Scott Fitzgerald
Name the British dramatist who wrote, “The Norman Conquests” – a trilogy?
Alan Ayckbourn
Mary Shelley
F Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Nashe
Who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelley
F Scott Fitzgerald
Thomas Nashe
Alistair Maclean
The three witches play a central role in which Shakespearean tragedy?
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Henry V
What was the name of the fifth novel in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series which was released in the June of 2003?
Harry Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Whose lover has been referred to by D. H. Lawrence in one of his books?
Lady Chatterley
Lady Gaga
Lady Diana
Lady Bird
Who is the author of “The White Company”?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Lewis Carroll
Mary Shelley
F Scott Fitzgerald
What is the name the novel by George Orwell where we find the character ‘Napoleon’?
Animal Farm (the chief pig)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Road to Wigan Pier
Big Brother
Which play is Shakespeare’s ‘swan song’?
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Henry V
Who became the best-selling author in the 2000s in Britain?
J.K. Rowling
Madonna
Emma Watson
Agatha Christie
The character of Mustardseed was found in which Shakespearean play?
A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
What term do novelists use for writing a novel that will be published under the name of someone else who is not the author?
Ghosting
Mysterious
Author
Person
The Series Of Harry Potter Books was written by whom?
J.K. Rowling
Rudyard Kipling
Sylvia Plath
Tiffany Atkinson
Alfred Jingle is a character from which Charles Dickens’ novel?
Pickwick Papers
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
Who is the author of ‘Kidnapped’?
Robert Louis Stevenson
T. S. Eliot
John Keats
Lord Byron
Early Old English period:
450-700
700-1066
1066-1350
1350-1475
The greatest and oldest known Anglo-Saxon epic narrative poem of the 7th or 8th century?
Beowulf
Battle of Maldon
The Wanderer
The Seafarer
Who wrote “The history of English Church”?
The Venerable Bede
Alfred the Great
Sir Thomas Malory
Caedmon
When was born Sir Thomas Wyatt?
1503
1504
1506
1505
Who is author of “Tamburlaine the Great”?
Christopher Marlowe
Thomas Kid
Thomas Nashe
George Peele
Elizabeth I (1533–1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from……?
1558
1559
1555
1557
Who is the author of “Gulliver’s Travels”?
J. Swift
Daniel Defoe
William Shakespeare
Thomas Nashe
Gulliver’s Travels is a?
fable
saga
sonnet
comedy
“Paradise lost” an epic poem by….
John Milton
Alexander Pope
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
When was born John Milton?
1608
1610
1605
1609
Who wrote “Don Quixote in England”?
Henry Fielding
Alexander Pope
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Who is the author of “The Jungle Book” with such unforgettable characters as Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera?
Rudyard Kipling
Henry Fielding
Alexander Pope
Daniel Defoe
When was born John Galsworthy?
1867
1866
1869
1868
