Three of the men below are credited with writing books found in the Old Testament. Which one wrote New Testament books?

He spent his early life with wild animals before becoming domesticated. Which of the following choices names the title character’s best friend in The Epic of Gilgamesh?

Which of the tragedies below did Euripides write?

Below are four Roman writers. Which one was responsible for The Art of Love and Metamorphoses?

Three of the following characters appear in The Odyssey. Which one is from The Aeneid?

In Paradiso, the final section of the Divine Comedy, which woman below leads Dante through heaven?

He is the tragic hero of a French chanson de geste. Which choice below names this nephew of Charlemagne, who belatedly blows a horn for military support during the Battle of Roncesvalles?

Three of the following quotations are from Machiavelli’s The Prince. Which one did Sun-Tzu write in The Art of War?

Match each character with his creator.

x. Harry Bailly 1. Francois Rebelais

y. The Redcrosse Knight 2. Geoffrey Chaucer

z. Pantagruel 3. Edmund Spenser

Which of the following dramatists, whose career bridged the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, wrote the related comedies Every Man in His Humour and Every Man Out of His Humour?

In Othello, which character below, the husband of Emilia, warns the title character, “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on”?

Which of the following literary characters did Voltaire use to satirize G.W. Leibniz’s relentlessly optimistic philosophy?

Some of them called themselves the “Sons of Ben.” Which group below included Richard Lovelace, Robert Herrick, and other poets loyal to King Charles I?

Which of the following colonial American figures was a physician and clergyman, but is best remembered as the poet of The Day of Doom?

Who wrote the lines at right?

'TWAS mercy brought me from my Pagan land,

Taught my benighted soul to understand

That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:

once I redemption neither sought nor knew,

Some view our sable race with scornful eye,

"Their colour is a Diabolic Die."

Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain,

May be regin'd, and join th' angelic train.

Thomas Paine penned three of the following works. Which one did Benjamin Franklin write?

Below are four Romantic poems. Which one did John Keats create?

Which choice below gives the pseudonym under which Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, long-time companion of Frédéric Chopin, published the novels Indiana and Valentine?

Match each Russian writer with his creation.

x. Ivan Turgenev 1. Boris Godunov

y. Aleksandr Pushkin 2. The Death of Ivan Ilyich

z. Leo Tolstoy 3. Fathers and Sons

The Bostonians, The Ambassadors, and Portrait of a Lady were among the works in which he contrasted New and Old World cultures. Which author below also wrote Daisy Miller?

At age seventeen, William Cullen Bryant wrote a meditation on death that urged the reader to “Go forth, under the open sky, and list / To Nature’s teachings.” Which of the following choices names that poem?

Which of the following authors invented the futuristic slang language Nadsat in a novel about juvenile delinquent Alex: A Clockwork Orange?

Although C. S. Lewis is perhaps most famous for The Chronicles of Narnia, he also wrote which book below, a Christian apologetic novel?

Which of the following choices names the deceased title character of a Daphne du Maurier Gothic novel?

Below are four authors. Which one wrote of a Kenyan coffee plantation’s management in the memoir Out of Africa?

Which of the following writers was a journalist, but received the Nobel Prize for creative literary efforts like Love in the Time of Cholera and a novel set in Macondo?

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison wrote each of the novels below. Which one, about Sethe’s escape from slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

Below are four Nobel Laureates in Literature. Which one also earned National Book Awards for Mr. Sammler's Planet, Herzog, and The Adventures of Augie March, as well as a Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt's Gift?

Match each Nobel Prize winner with his character.

x. William Faulkner 1. Quentin Compson

y. John Steinbeck 2. Jim Casy

z. William Golding 3. Jack Merridew

Which of the following choices names the couple at the heart of Thornton Wilder's Our Town?

Tom Stoppard gained international prominence with an absurdist adaptation of which Shakespearean play?

The Playboy of the Western World, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars are all set in, and written by playwrights from, which of the following countries?

Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems earned him a Pulitzer. Which man below is known for "This Is Just To Say—" and "The Red Wheelbarrow"?

He was a leading naturalist novelist and journalist. Which of the following writers secured his literary reputation with Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy?

Jack Kerouac used which name below for his alter ego, the protagonist of On the Road?

Wang Lung and O-Lan are prominent characters in which of the following Pulitzer Prize-winning novels?

In The Overstory by Richard Powers, nine characters develop a deep appreciation for what aspect of nature?

Two of the novels in which of the following authors’ Rabbit series earned Pulitzer Prizes?

Match each writer with her short story.

x. Kate Chopin 1."Desiree's Baby"

y. Katherine Anne Porter 2. "Miss Brill"

z. Katherine Mansfield 3. "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"

Benjamin Button and Bernice, who bobs her hair, are both characters from which of the following writers’ short stories?

Flannery O’Connor wrote three of the following stories. Which one was the work of Eudora Welty?

Which choice below names the poetic form of Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”?

Alexander Pope once wrote, “To err is human; to forgive divine.” This quotation illustrates which of the following literary devices?

Which of the following words can be either a correlative or a coordinating conjunction, depending on context?

Which sentence below is written in the future perfect tense?

Which of the following pronouns is written in the objective case?

Which choice below names a Greek prefix meaning “under”?

Below are four Spanish words borrowed by English. Which one is defined as “a person who engages in irregular warfare, especially as a member of an independent unit carrying out harassment and sabotage”?

Match each word with the meaning of its root.

x. confide 1. conquer

y. bankrupt 2. faith

z. invincible 3. burst

Xenophon’s Anabasis and Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita Libri are ancient examples of which genre below?

Which of the following novels, published in 1988, prompted Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa against its author?

Which choice below names the monster who ravages the mead hall before Beowulf defeats him?

The word also applies to a victory that is “achieved at excessive cost.” Which of the following choices names a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables?

Noël Coward wrote a farce in which the ghost of Charles Condomine’s first wife makes his life miserable. Which choice below names that comedy?

For which of the following poetry collections did Robert Frost NOT win a Pulitzer Prize?

He won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Fixer. Which writer below also penned the baseball classic The Natural?

The Yiddish word chutzpah is a synonym for which of the following?

Which choice below gives the surname of the protagonists of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility?

Match each Leatherstocking Tale with its subtitle.

x. The Deerslayer 1. The Sources of the Susquehanna

y. The Pathfinder 2. The Inland Sea

z. The Pioneers 3. The First War-Path