Category: Literature

1. In which decade was Oscar Wilde’s most famous play, “The Importance of Being Earnest,” first performed?
(a) 1870
(b) 1880
(c) 1895
(d) 1900

2. What is the name of the hedonistic and cynical character who influences Dorian Gray in “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
(a) Algernon Moncrieff
(b) Jack Worthing
(c) Lord Henry Wotton
(d) Basil Hallward

3. What famous quote about happiness appears in the preface of “The Picture of Dorian Gray”?
(a) “To be or not to be, that is the question.”
(b) “Elementary, my dear Watson.”
(c) “All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
(d) “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

1. Virginia Woolf was a prominent figure in what literary movement of the 20th century?
(a) Romanticism
(b) Modernism
(c) Realism
(d) Victorian Literature

2. What is the title of Woolf’s novel that famously uses stream of consciousness narration?
(a) To the Lighthouse
(b) Jane Eyre
(c) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
(d) Pride and Prejudice

3. Woolf was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a collective known for what?
(a) Political activism
(b) Artistic and intellectual innovation
(c) Gothic horror writing
(d) Detective fiction

1. When did Nadine Gordimer win Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1972
b) 1985
c) 1991
d) 2004

2. When was Nadine Gordimer born?
a) 6 March 1928
b) 28 June 1914
c) 22 September 1924
d) 20 November 1923

3. Where was Nadine Gordimer born?
a) Pretoria
b) Springs
c) Durban
d) Cape Town