Author: Mauvin Sequeira

1. Jean Rhys was born under the name: (a) Edith Wharton (b) Gertrude Stein (c) Marguerite Taine (d) Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams 2. Jean Rhys was born in: (a) France (b) England (c) Dominica (d) Jamaica 3. Rhys's most famous novel is: (a) Wide Sargasso Sea (b) After Dark (c) Good Morning, Midnight (d) Quartet

1. In what year was Zora Neale Hurston born? (a) 1891 (b) 1901 (c) 1895 (d) 1905 2. Zora Neale Hurston was a member of which literary movement? (a) Harlem Renaissance (b) Beat Generation (c) Modernism (d) Romanticism 3. Which of the following is NOT a famous work by Zora Neale Hurston? (a) Their Eyes Were Watching God (b) The Awakening (c) Sweat (d) Jonah's Gourd Vine

1. In which country was Herman Hesse born? (a) Germany (b) Switzerland (c) France (d) Austria 2. What was the name of Herman Hesse's most famous novel? (a) The Glass Bead Game (b) Steppenwolf (c) Siddhartha (d) Demian 3. In which year did Herman Hesse win the Nobel Prize in Literature? (a) 1936 (b) 1946 (c) 1956 (d) 1966

1. In the novel "The Secret Garden" where was Mary Lennox Born? (a) England (b) India (c) France (d) America 2. What is the name of the manor where Mary Lennox lives? (a) Willow Creek Manor (b) Thornfield Hall (c) Misselthwaite Manor (d) Highbury House 3. Who is the grumpy gardener at Misselthwaite Manor? (a) Ben Weatherstaff (b) Mr. Rochester (c) John Thornton (d) Mr. Bennet

1. Who is the main protagonist of The Iliad? (a) Achilles (b) Odysseus (c) Hector (d) Agamemnon 2. What is the central conflict of The Iliad? (a) A love triangle between Helen, Paris, and Menelaus (b) A war between Troy and Sparta (c) A journey to the underworld (d) A quest for immortality 3. What is the Achilles' heel? (a) A physical weakness (b) A magical artifact (c) A psychological flaw (d) A strategic advantage

1. What was Sylvia Plath's profession? (a) Teacher (b) Doctor (c) Poet and Novelist (d) Actress 2. Which of the following is NOT a work by Sylvia Plath? (a) The Bell Jar (b) Ariel (c) The Awakening (d) Daddy 3. Sylvia Plath is known for her poetry that often explores themes of: (a) Love and Romance (b) Nature and Beauty (c) Mental Health and Suffering (d) Adventure and Travel

1. In which year was Daphne du Maurier born? (a) 1890 (b) 1907 (c) 1920 (d) 1935 2. What is the name of the Gothic mansion featured in her most famous novel "Rebecca"? (a) Thornfield Hall (b) Wuthering Heights (c) Manderley (d) Pemberley 3. In which English county is Manderley, the setting of "Rebecca," located? (a) Cornwall (b) Devon (c) Dorset (d) Somerset

1. In which country was James Joyce born? (a) England (b) Ireland (c) France (d) Italy 2. What is the name of James Joyce's most famous novel? (a) Dubliners (b) Finnegans Wake (c) Ulysses (d) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3. The protagonist of "Ulysses" is named: (a) Stephen Dedalus (b) Leopold Bloom (c) Buck Mulligan (d) Molly Bloom

1. What is the central theme of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man? (a) The importance of education and social mobility (b) The struggles of African Americans to find their identity in a racist society (c) The power of love and forgiveness (d) The dangers of political extremism 2. Who is the narrator of Invisible Man? (a) A young, unnamed man (b) A white man pretending to be black (c) A ghost haunting the novel's setting (d) A robot designed to simulate human experience 3. What is the significance of the narrator's invisibility in the novel? (a) It is a literal condition ... Read more

1. What is the title of Chinua Achebe's most famous novel? (a) Things Fall Apart (b) No Longer at Ease (c) Arrow of God (d) A Man of the People 2. In Things Fall Apart, what is the name of the protagonist? (a) Okonkwo (b) Nwoye (c) Obierika (d) Ikemefuna 3. What is the main theme of Things Fall Apart? (a) The dangers of colonialism (b) The importance of family (c) The power of tradition (d) The inevitability of change