His disciples founded the Whirling Dervish sect of Islam. Which choice below names the mystic Persian poet of "A Moment of Happiness" and "How Long"?

The Bhagavad-Gita is a multi-chapter dialogue between Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu, and a Hindu prince with which of the following names?

Below are four comedies by Aristophanes. In which one is Philocleon obsessed with serving on juries?

He contrasted corrupt Roman cities with simpler country lifestyles. Which of the following men is remembered for his sixteen Satires?

Which Greek poet below, whose only complete surviving work is an ode to Aphrodite, lived on the island of Lesbos?

Below are four medieval writers. Which one was also a teacher and theologian who secretly married his student Héloïse?

Which of the following choices names a book of Christian philosophy written by Saint Augustine?

Which man below was a knight who probably wrote parts of Le Morte D'Arthur while he was in prison?

Match each Canterbury Tale with its description.

It included the role of Dogberry for Will Kemp. Which Shakespearean comedy below contrasts the love story of Claudio and Hero with that of Beatrice and Benedick?

His play The School for Scandal was an early comedy of manners. Which of the following playwrights included Mrs. Malaprop in The Rivals?

Three of the plays below are French tragedies. Which one is a comedy by Molière?

He published the epistolary novel The Expedition of Humphry Clinker in 1771. Which of the following men also wrote the picaresque novels The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle and The Adventures of Roderick Random?

He was related to a historical painter of the same name. Which colonial writer below, a member of the Hartford Wits, is remembered for the comic epic M'Fingal?

Royall Tyler wrote the first American comedy, which featured the Yankee character Billy Dimple. Which of the following choices names that play?

Below are four early American authors. Which one was an actress who toured with her husband, as well as the author of the best-selling novel Charlotte Temple?

Which one of the following characters is a governess created by Anne Brontë?

Which choice below names the protagonist of Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls?

Match each character with the Jane Austen novel in which she appears.

Five writers, including Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Greenleaf Whittier, composed what group of 19th-century New England poets?

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote three of the following short stories. Which one was the work of Washington Irving?

Which character below does NOT appear in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984?

Below are four Virginia Woolf novels. Which one parallels a society lady's life with that of working-class veteran Septimus Warren Smith?

As of January 2022, he serves as the current Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. Which of the following men wrote "Avalon" and "Chainsaw versus the Pampas Grass"?

Stephen Kumalo, a pastor in apartheid-era South Africa, is the protagonist of a novel by which author below?

He won a Whitbread Prize for An Artist of the Floating World and a Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day. Which of the following authors is also a recent Nobel laureate in literature?

Jean-Paul Sartre wrote three of the works below. Which one did Albert Camus write?

John Steinbeck set many of his works, including Cannery Row and Tortilla Flat, in which state's Salinas Valley?

Match each Nobel laureate with his work.

Below are four Arthur Miller dramas. In which one does Joe Keller's guilt over manufacturing faulty airplane parts drive him to suicide?

He wrote the books for the musicals Little Me and Sweet Charity. Which of the following dramatists earned a Pulitzer for his comedy Lost in Yonkers?

He satirized Hollywood in Speed-the-Plow and depicted a burglary gone wrong in American Buffalo. Which man below won a Pulitzer Prize for his drama Glengarry Glen Ross?

Below are four Pulitzer-winning poets. Which one, a member of a Boston Brahmin literary family, wrote "A Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" and Lord Weary's Castle?

Which one of the following poets was NEVER associated with the Imagist movement?

To date, she has received six National Book Award nominations, including for Blonde and A Garden of Earthly Delights. Which author below wrote them, as well as the Pulitzer-nominated story collection The Wheel of Love?

Below are four recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. Which one created the characters of Melanie and Ashley Wilkes and Bonnie Blue Butler?

Deforestation is central to which of the following Pulitzer-winning novels, written by Richard Powers?

Below are four winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Which one is set at a Confederate prisoner of war camp in Georgia?

Match each author with his short story.

Below are four Flannery O'Connor stories. In which one do the Misfit and his accomplices kill Bailey, the Grandmother, and the rest of a family?

The author of the short stories "The Secret Sharer" and "Youth" also wrote which of the following longer works?

Imagine a poem whose lines consist of seven metrical feet and whose feet consist of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. That poem would be written in which of the following meters?

Litotes is essentially the opposite of which literary technique below?

Which one of the following pronouns is demonstrative?

Which choice below correctly describes a compound-complex sentence?

Which of the following sentences contains a predicate nominative?

Below are four Italian words. Which one, in its strictest sense, refers to a private blood feud?

Based on their Greek roots, which of the following words means "rule by the best"?

Match each Latin phrase with its translation.

Which of the following plays did Plautus write?

A degenerative eye condition led to his complete blindness by age 55. Which Latin American author below is remembered for his story collections Fictions and The Aleph?

In Beowulf, who or what is Hrunting?

Which of the following authors, a member of the Harlem Renaissance, celebrated rural Southern African American culture in works like Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Which one of the following plays, subtitled A Play About a Good Woman, did Oscar Wilde write about a wife skeptical of her husband's fidelity?

Below are four poetic types. Which one is written specifically to honor a bride and groom?

Which of the following men earned a Pulitzer Prize for his true crime novel about Gary Gilmore's killing spree and consequential death by firing squad?

Which word below contains a Latin root meaning "place" or "area"?

Many 19th-century composers set poems from his Book of Songs to music. Which man below also wrote the satirical epic Germany: A Winter's Tale?

Match each 19th-century writer with his work.