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English Literature _ Trivia _ Literary Awards

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sonia Nazario of "Los Angeles Times" was awarded Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for

a)

Commentary

b)

Editorial writing

c)

Music

d)

Feature writing

2.

Which is the highest literary award of the world?

a)

Magsaysay Award

b)

Nobel Prize

c)

Booker Prize

d)

Pulitzer Prize

3.

The Nobel Prize was first awarded in

a)

1976

b)

1958

c)

1901

d)

1972

4.

Which of the following is considered as the highest literary award of India?

a)

Jnanpith Award

b)

Saraswati samman

c)

Sahitya Academy Award

d)

Vyas Samman

5.

Which is the Literary award?

a)

R. D. Birla Award

b)

Dronacharya Awards

c)

Jawaharlal Nehru Award

d)

Jnanpith award

6.

Who won the Jnanpith Award for 2015?

a)

Kedar Nath

b)

Mridula Garg

c)

Ashok Pajepyi

d)

None of these

7.

1991, and John Updike wins with his fourth and final novel in a series. What was it?

a)

Rabbit at Rest

b)

Rabbit Redux

c)

Rabbit Run

d)

Rabbit is Rich

8.

What year was the Newberry medal first awarded?

a)

1922

b)

1889

c)

1918

d)

1926

9.

Who designed the Newberry medal?

a)

Georges Rouchambaud

b)

Michel Deveraux

c)

Rene Paul Chambellan.

d)

Marcel Marcheon

10.

The Nobel Prize for Literature, first awarded in 1901, has added a vast array of literary figures to its list of laureates. In 1998, Portuguese author José Saramago won the award; which book is not amongst his works?

a)

Blindness

b)

Death with Interruptions

c)

Seeing

d)

One Hundred Years of Solitude