Category: Literature

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

1. When was Gustave Flaubert born? a) 19 March 1823 b) 16 June 1818 c) 31 August 1826 d) 12 December 1821 2. Where was Gustave Flaubert born? a) La Rochelle b) Rouen c) Nantes d) Strasbourg 3. Which magazine was the first to publish a writing by Gustave Flaubert? a) Le Colibri b) Le Figaro c) Revue de Paris d) Revue des Deux Mondes

1. When was Wystan Hugh Auden born? a) 21 February 1907 b) 7 May 1905 c) 20 August 1906 d) 22 December 1902 2. Where was Wystan Hugh Auden born? a) Berlin b) Madrid c) York d) Florence 3. Which school did Wystan Hugh Auden attend in Surrey? a) St, John’s School b) St. Edmund’s Preparatory School c) St. Albert’s School d) Queen Mary School

1. Which of the following books was written by Daniel Defoe? a) Gulliver’s Travels b) Robinson Crusoe c) Either Or d) Odyssey 2. What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname? a) Friend b) Neighbour c) Foe d) Good 3. Where did Daniel Defoe study? a) Queen Mary School b) St. Thomas Academy c) St. Patrick’s School d) Charles Morton’s Academy

1. When was Isaac Asimov born? a) 2 January 1920 b) 1 June 1923 c) 10 September 1919 d) 28 December 1924 2. Where was Isaac Asimov born? a) Tashkent b) Petrovichi c) Vladivostok d) Yekaterinburg 3. Which university did Isaac Asimov attend? a) John Hopkins b) Yale c) Columbia d) Regent

1. When was Arthur Clarke born? a) 1 January 1901 b) 4 April 1904 c) 8 August 1908 d) 16 December 1917 2. Where was Arthur Clarke born? a) Birmingham b) Minehead c) Liverpool d) Cork 3. When did Arthur Clarke serve in the Royal Air Force? a) 1036-1941 b) 1948-1952 c) 1941-1946 d) 1953-1957

1) Divine Comedy, originally known as Comedy, is the most famous book written by Dante Alighieri. Which of the following is not a canticle of Divine Comedy? a) Inferno b) Limbo c) Paradisio d) Purgatorio 2) When was Dante Alighieri born? a) 1248 b) 1260 c) 1265 d) 1270 3) Where was Dante Alighieri born? a) Venice b) Florence c) Naples d) Genoa

1) When was Percy Bysshe Shelley born? a) 31 January 1786 b) 4 August 1792 c) 4 May 1794 d) 19 December 1784 2) Where was Percy Bysshe Shelley born? a) Connaught Place b) Field Place c) Ashoka Place d) Nehru Place 3) Which university expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley? a) Cambridge b) Oxford c) Paris d) Berlin

1. When was Robert Southey born? a) 8 February 1764 b) 5 April 1776 c) 12 August 1774 d) 4 December 1768 2. Where was Robert Southey born? a) Lisbon b) Liverpool c) Ipswich d) Bristol 3. Which school did Robert Southey attend? a) St. George’s School b) Westminster School c) St. David’s School d) Rugby School

1) How much was Charles Dickens paid when he worked at Warren’s Blacking Factory at the age of twelve? a) One pound a week b) One guinea a week c) Six shillings a week d) Ten shillings a week 2) What did Charles Dickens teach himself after buying Gurney’s Brachgraphy? a) Typewriting b) Shorthand c) Telegraph d) Music 3) With whom Charles Dickens had a love affair that ended in 1833? a) Maria Beadnell b) Dora Winter c) Flora Copperfield d) Jill Smith