Category: Literature

1. When did Naguib Mahfouz get Nobel Prize for Literature? a) 1969 b) 1967 c) 1988 d) 1992 2. When was Naguib Mahfouz born? a) 12 January 1902 b) 14 April 1906 c) 5 August 1908 d) 11 December 1911 3. Where was Naguib Mahfouz born? a) Alexandria b) Cairo c) Luxor d) Thebes

1. When was Henry David Thoreau born? a) 26 March 1804 b) 14 June 1808 c) 12 July 1817 d) 9 December 1820 2. Where was Henry David Thoreau born? a) Ottawa b) Concord c) Montreal d) Atlanta 3. Which university did Henry David Thoreau attend? a) Columbia b) Harvard c) Yale d) Notre Dame

1. When did Sully Prudhomme get Nobel Prize for Literature? a) 1909 b) 1901 c) 1905 d) 1908 2. What was Sully Prudhomme’s original name? a) Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme b) Ercoli Matthioli c) Eustance Dauger d) Nicolas Fouquet 3. When was Sully Prudhomme born? a) 16 March 1839 b) 24 April 1849 c) 12 July 1834 d) 30 December 1840

5. Which was Henry Rider Haggard’s first novel? a) Heart of the World b) Dawn c) Allan Quatermain d) The Ivory Child 6. When was King Solomon’s Mines published? a) 1872 b) 1875 c) 1867 d) 1885 7. Which of the following Henry Rider Haggard novels was published in 1910? a) Cleopatra b) Nada the Lily c) Queen Sheba’s Ring d) Marie

1. When was Hilaire Belloc born? a) 3 February 1874 b) 17 May 1872 c) 27 July 1870 d) 30 December 1865 2. Where was Hilaire Belloc born? a) La Rochelle b) La Celle Saint Cloud c) Nantes d) Paris 3. Which college did Hilaire Belloc attend? a) Christ College b) New College c) King’s College d) Balliol College

Honore De Balzac Quiz Questions and Answers 1. What was Honore de Balzac’s original name? a) Edmund Nantes b) George Sand c) Honore Balssa d) Horatio Alger 2. When was Honore de Balzac born? a) 3 January 1794 b) 20 May 1799 c) 14 July 1801 d) 22 October 1795 3. Where was Honore de Balzac born? a) Tours b) Vendome c) La Rochelle d) New Rochelle

1) When was Alexander Solzhenitsyn born? a) 28 June 1914 b) 14 May 1920 c) 7 July 1924 d) 11 December 1918 2) Where was Alexander Solzhenitsyn born? a) Kislovodsk b) Yekatinburg c) St. Petersburg d) Vladivostok 3) What did Alexander Solzhenitsyn study in Rostov University? a) Botany and Zoology b) Mathematics and Physics c) History and Political Science d) Economics and Statistics

1. What was Dr. Seuss’s original name? a) George Sand b) Theodor Seuss Geisel c) George Eliot d) Alfred George Gardiner 2. When was Dr. Seuss born? a) 2 March 1904 b) 4 April 1900 c) 12 August 1896 d) 14 December 1898 3. Where was Dr. Seuss born? a) Albany b) Boston c) Springfield d) Detroit

1. When was Lyman Frank Baum born? a) 23 March 1864 b) 15 May 1856 c) 4 August 1852 d) 2 December 1848 2. Where was Lyman Frank Baum born? a) Aberdeen b) Syracuse c) Chittenango d) San Francisco 3. Which school did Lyman Frank Baum attend? a) St. Thomas Academy b) St. John’s Grammar School c) Chiltern Edge Secondary School d) Peakskill Military Academy

Samuel Beckett Quiz Questions with Answers 1. When was Samuel Beckett born? a) 1 January 1901 b) 13 April 1906 c) 2 August 1904 d) 5 October 1905 2. Where was Samuel Beckett born? a) Wexford b) Limerick c) Foxrock d) Boyle 3. Which school did Samuel Beckett attend? a) St. Patrick’s School b) Portola Royal School c) St. John’s School d) Holy Family School