World Literature I Quiz

The answers appear after the last question, number 15.

1. Who wrote Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov?

a. Fyodor Dostoevsky
b. Leo Tolstoy
c. George Bernard Shaw
d. Aleksandr Pushkin

2. Who wrote the poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"?

a. Plato
b. James Joyce
c. William Wordsworth
d. William Shakespeare

3. Who is the hero of Great Expectations?

a. Clara Peggotty
b. Pip
c. Uriah Heep
d. Top

4. In Gulliver's Travels, where are the residents extremely small?

a. Brobdingnag
b. Lilliput
c. Laputa
d. Yahoo

5. What is the name of the monster in Beowulf?

a. Grendel
b. Franenstein
c. Barkis
d. Alien

6. Electra by Euripides is what?

a. a comedy
b. a poem
c. a tragedy
d. an essay

7. What was the profession of D. H. Lawrence's father?

a. attorney
b. doctor
c. business tycoon
d. miner

8. Who was a blind poet?

a. Nietzsche
b. Homer
c. Ovid
d. Thomas Hardy

9. Who was exiled from Germany by Hitler in 1933?

a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Thomas Mann
d. Samuel Beckett

10. What is the nationality of Franz Kafka?

a. Polish
b. Czech
c. Russian
d. French

11. Who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables?

a. Henrik Ibsen
b. Victor Hugo
c. Geoffrey Chaucer
d. Miguel de Cervantes

12. Who were the brothers Grimm?

a. Jack and Pete
b. Samuel and Steven
c. James and Kenneth
d. Jacob and Wilhelm

13. What is the nationality of Henrik Ibsen?

a. Norwegian
b. Swedish
c. Austrian
d. German

14. Who wrote Madame Bovary?

a. Leo Tolstoy
b. Daniel Defoe
c. D. H. Lawrence
d. Gustave Flaubert

15. Leo Tolstoy's title was what?

a. prince
b. duke
c. jester
d. count

Answers: 1-a, 2-c, 3-b, 4-b, 5-a, 6-c, 7-d, 8-b, 9-c, 10-b, 11-b, 12-d, 13-a, 14-d, 15-d

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