World Literature II Quiz

The answers appear after the last question, number 15.

1. Whose father was murdered by his serfs in 1844?

a. H. G. Wells
b. Dostoevsky
c. Tolstoy
d. Stalin

2. Who wrote the play Antony and Cleopatra?

a. George Bernard Shaw
b. George Orwell
c. John Milton
d. William Shakespeare

3. Who is the protagonist in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?

a. Stephen Dedalus
b. Raskolnikov
c. Charles Dodson
d. Tom Jones

4. What question does Plato discuss in his Republic?

a. What is comedy?
b. What is philosophy?
c. Why is the sky blue?
d. Is wine good for your heart?

5. Who wrote The Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure?

a. George Eliot
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Thomas Mann
d. Daniel Defoe

6. What is the pen name of Mary Ann Evans?

a. George Eliot
b. Jane Austen
c. Virginia Woolf
d. Henry Fielding

7. How old was Daniel Defoe when he wrote Robinson Crusoe?

a. nearly 20
b. almost 60
c. over 90
d. 18

8. August Strinberg was what?

a. a Norwegian novelist
b. a French playwright
c. a Swedish playwright
d. an Italian poet

9. Who is Henry Fielding's best-known character?

a. Tom Sawyer
b. Anna Karenina
c. Tom Jones
d. Debbie Marshall

10. Who wrote "The Ugly Duckling"?

a. the Grimm brothers
b. Charles Perrault
c. Walt Disney
d. Hans Christian Andersen

11. Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country?

a. Alan Paton
b. Athol Fugard
c. Mark Twain
d. Henrik Ibsen

12. Heathcliff and Catherine appear in what novel?

a. Jane Eyre
b. Wuthering Heights
c. The Canterbury Tales
d. Don Quixote

13. Who wrote The Magic Mountain?

a. Tolstoy
b. D. H. Lawrence
c. Gustave Flaubert
d. Thomas Mann

14. What nationality is the hero in Beowulf?

a. French
b. English
c. Welsh
d. Danish

15. How many parts are there in the epic Paradise Lost by John Milton?

a. 25
b. 12
c. 2
d. 50

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

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