Which of the following characters is a former wild man who befriends Gilgamesh before being sentenced to death by the gods?

With a name meaning “news,” it is a record of the Prophet Muhammad’s sayings. Which choice below names this sacred Islamic text?

His comedies inspired the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Which of the following choices names the Roman playwright of Miles Gloriosus and The Menaechmi?

It is set after the Iliad, but before the Trojan War’s conclusion. Which play below is a Sophoclean tragedy about a Greek hero’s treachery and suicide?

The Greek historian Xenophon wrote which work below to recount the upcountry march of Greek soldiers serving Persia’s Prince Cyrus?

In a medieval poem, Sir Gawain performs which of the following actions on the Green Knight?

In Dante’s Inferno, which of the following sins earns sinners a place in the ninth circle of Hell, where Satan resides?

He wrote The History of the World while imprisoned in the Tower of London. Which writer below told of his South American voyage in The Discoverie of Guiana, and satirized Christopher Marlowe in “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”?

Match each medieval drama with its genre.

In The Canterbury Tales, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” illustrates the dangers of flattery by using what two animal species?

Calpurnia and Portia are long-suffering wives in which of the following Shakespearean plays?

Which choice below names the title character’s idealized love object in Voltaire’s Candide?

The play She Stoops to Conquer, the novel The Vicar of Wakefield, and the poem The Deserted Village all cemented which of the following writers’ reputation?

He drew on his religious training for God’s Controversy with New England and A Short Discourse on Eternity. Which author below wrote the first Puritan bestseller, The Day of Doom?

Which of the following works did Michel Guillaume de Crèvecoeur, under the pen name J. Hector St.John, publish in 1782?

His Gothic novels, including Wieland and Edgar Huntly, influenced Edgar Allan Poe. Which choice below names this colonial writer?

John Keats wrote three of the following poetic lines. Which one did Samuel Taylor Coleridge write?

The poem The Bronze Horseman, verse novel Eugene Onegin, and blank verse drama Boris Godunov were all written by which author below?

Match each Jane Austen heroine with her novel.

Which poet below was a New England Brahmin who drew on American history for Evangeline and The Courtship of Miles Standish?

Which of the following 19th -century novelists contrasted Americans and Europeans in The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove, and The Ambassadors?

Ian Fleming created which of the following characters, the protagonist of novels like Casino Royale and From Russia, with Love?

The terms “doublethink,” “newspeak,” and “Thought Police” entered mainstream usage after first appearing in what author’s work?

He explored science fiction with his Space Trilogy. Which writer below dabbled in apologetics with The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity?

He unsuccessfully ran for Peru’s presidency, but earned a Nobel Prize twenty years later. Which of the following authors created Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, The Green House, and The Time of the Hero?

Which of the following authors, a Nobel laureate, decried apartheid in such novels as July’s People and Burger’s Daughter?

Below are four W. B. Yeats poems. In which one, based on an Irish uprising after the English failed to grant them home rule, does he repeat the line, “A terrible beauty is born”?

Thomas Mann wrote three of the following works. Which one did Hermann Hesse pen?

Match each William Faulkner character with the novel in which he appears.

He revived The Merchant of Yonkers as The Matchmaker and later it was adapted to the musical Hello, Dolly! Which of the following dramatists earned a Pulitzer for The Skin of Our Teeth?

He is tied for the second-most Drama Pulitzer wins. Which playwright below, whose works were usually deemed absurdist, wrote A Delicate Balance and The Zoo Story?

He was a major figure in the Irish Literary Renaissance. Which of the following men caused riots when his play The Playboy of the Western World premiered in 1907?

Below are four Southern authors. Which one created a WWII veteran who founded an “anti-religion” in Wise Blood, and a fourteen-year-old prophet in the Southern Gothic classic The Violent Bear It Away?

Which one of the following poetic lines did Robert Frost NOT write?

He spent most of his life as an insurance firm employee, but his Collected Poems earned a Pulitzer Prize. Which poet below wrote “The Emperor of Ice-Cream,” “The Man with the Blue Guitar,” and “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”?

Which of the following authors earned two Pulitzers for novels in his Harry Angstrom series: Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest?

Which author below won a Pulitzer Prize for his historical novel set in a Confederate prison camp?

She won a Pulitzer Prize for her tale of gambler’s daughter Selina Peake DeJong, So Big. Which of the following writers also created the musical-inspiring novel Show Boat?

Match each author with his or her short story.

In his novel The Castle, the protagonist is known only as K. Which author below also created the short stories “A Hunger Artist” and “In the Penal Colony”?

Its title story tells of a carnival worker whose tattoos predict future events. Which of the following authors included eighteen unrelated science fiction short stories in The Illustrated Man?

Which of the following poetic forms does NOT, by definition, require a rural setting?

In this literary device, a character uses an incorrect word that sounds similar to the correct one. Which device below is named for a character from Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals?

Which of the following sentences is written in the subjunctive mood?

Which choice below gives a subordinating conjunction?

Which of the following sentences contains an intransitive verb?

The Greek root “chore” refers to which art form below?

Below are four Chinese words. Which one names the board game pictured at right?

Match each adjective with its associated animal.

In the Aeneid, which of the following women influences Latin-Trojan relations by being the potential wife of both Turnus and Aeneas?

He included characters based on his mentally disabled son in Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!, My Deluged Soul, Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, and A Personal Matter. Which author below, a Nobel laureate, also penned The Silent Cry?

In Beowulf, Unferth loans the title character Hrunting before the battle with Grendel’s mother. Hrunting is which of the following?

A novel in which the protagonist experiences moral and psychological growth, such as The Catcher in the Rye or A Separate Peace, is known as which of the following?

Three of the musicals below won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Which one did not?

His Rosy Crucifixion trilogy consists of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus. Which 20th -century novelist below drew on his New York City years for Tropic of Capricorn, and his Parisian poverty for Tropic of Cancer?

Which of the following Pulitzer-winning novels, written by Geraldine Brooks, is based on Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women?

It refers to evidence that is based on hypothesis, rather than on an experiment, or knowledge derived by logic rather than empirical observation. Which phrase below means “from the former” in Latin?

He rewrote the Faust legend so that heavenly powers won the title character’s soul from Mephistopheles. Which of the following authors also penned Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship?

Match the authors to their work.