Worksheetsmajor
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
1. Identify the author of this literary work: MEN WITHOUT WOMEN.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Benjamin Disraeli
C. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
D. E.M. Forster
2. PILGRIMS PROGRESS was written by:
A. John Bunyan
B. Jack London
C. Henry Fielding
D. Stendhal
3. DON QUIXOTE
A. Gustave Flaubert
B. Joseph Condrad
C. Miguel de Cervantes
D. D.H. Lawrence
4. Which of the following works by DANIEL DEFOE features a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives, and mutinees before being rescued?
A. Memoirs of a Cavalier
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Moll Flanders
D. Captain Singleton
5. VANITY FAIR is a novel satirizing society in early 19th century Britain. Who wrote this classic?
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Wikie Collins
C. Herman Melville
D. William Makepeace Thackeray
6. Journey to the End of the Night
A. Wikie Collins
B. Herman Melville
C. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
D. Franz Kafka
7. As I Lay Dying
A. William Faulkner
B. Jerome K. Jerome
C. Erskine Childers
D. George Grosmith
8. THE TRIAL is a novel which tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime never revealed either to him or the reader. Who is the writer of this novel?
A. Henry James
B. Franz Kafka
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Fyodor Dostoevsky
9. The Great Gatsby
A. Ford Madox Fod
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. D.H. Lawrence
D. Joseph Condrad
10. "A Passage to India" is about the racial tensions and prejudices between indigenous Indians and the British colonists who rule India. Who wrote this novel?
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Jack London
D. E.M. Forster
11. "Mrs. Dalloway" is a novel that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Who is the author?
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Mary Shelley
D. Emily Bronte
12. ULYSSES chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homer's Odyssey. Name the author of Ulysses.
A. Anthony Trollope
B. Kenneth Grahame
C. Laurence Strene
D. James Joyce
13. "The Rainbow" is a novel with a frank treatment of sexual deaire and the power it plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life. Who is its author?
A. D.H. Lawrence
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Alexandre Dumas
D. Daniel Defoe
14. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" is about a young man who sold his soul to the devil to ensure his portrait would age rather than himself. Who is the author?
A. Herman Melville
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Wikie Collins
15. Which of the following is a work of Samuel Clemens?
A. Animal Farm
B. Uncle Tom's Cabin
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
16. Which is a Henry James masterpiece?
A. Vanity Fair
B. The Portrait of Dorian Gray
C. The Portrait of a Lady
D. David Copperfield
17. Who wrote the novel "Three Men in a Boat"?
A. Benjamin Disraeli
B. Jerome K. Jerome
C. Laurence Sterne
D. Marcel Proust
18. Who wrote the poem "The Bells"?
A. William Shakespeare
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. Emily Dickenson
19. "Is this a dagger that I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee."
Who said this line?
A. Romeo
B. Macbeth
C. Hamlet
D. Julius Caesar
20. Who wrote the poem "The Mountain and the Squirrel"?
A. Ben Jonson
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Edwin Arlington Robinson
D. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
