1. When was Oliver Goldsmith born?
a) 2 February 1744
b) 18 May 1742
c) 8 August 1736
d) 10 November 1730
2. Where was Oliver Goldsmith born?
a) Belfast
b) Kilkenny West
c) Durham
d) Falkirk
3. Which college did Oliver Goldsmith attend?
a) William and Mary College
b) Pembroke College
c) Rhodes College
d) Trinity College
1. When was Arthur Miller born?
a) 5 January 1924
b) 17 May 1921
c) 4 September 1918
d) 17 October 1915
2. Where was Arthur Miller born?
a) Philadelphia
b) New York
c) Buffalo
d) Santa Barbara
3. Which university did Arthur Miller attend?
a) Michigan
b) Cornell
c) Princeton
d) Notre Dame
1. When was Louisa May Alcott born?
a) 22 March 1836
b) 14 April 1838
c) 9 September 1834
d) 29 November 1832
2. Where was Louisa May Alcott born?
a) Germantown
b) Pittsburg
c) Concord
d) Wolcott
3. Which school did Louisa May Alcott attend?
a) Boston Public Latin School
b) St. Joseph’s School
c) Temple School
d) St. Mary’s School
1. When did Toni Morrison win Nobel Prize for Literature?
1993
1982
1998
2006
2. When was Toni Morrison born?
18 February 1931
24 June 1934
14 September 1928
11 November 1936
3. Where was Toni Morrison born?
Boston
Atlanta
Lorain
Dayton
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. His output consists of eleven novels, three novellas, seventeen short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. His novella Notes From Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. – Wikipedia
(Dates are as per Gregorian calendar. Dostoevsky is also written as Dostoyevsky.)
1. When was Fyodor Dostoevsky born?
a) 28 January 1824
b) 15 May 1823
c) 23 August 1822
d) 11 November 1821
2. Where was Fyodor Dostoevsky born?
a) Sorochinsty
b) Moscow
c) Kiev
d) Poltova
3. When did Fyodor Dostoevsky write Poor Folk?
a) 1846
b) 1848
c) 1850
d) 1852
(This quiz is about Francis Bacon the author.)
1. When was Francis Bacon born?
a) 22 January 1561
b) 4 May 1549
c) 16 July 1548
d) 11 November 1564
2. Where was Francis Bacon born?
a) Liverpool
b) London
c) Cambridge
d) Paris
3. Where did Francis Bacon study law?
a) Inner Temple
b) Middle Temple
c) Lincoln’s Inn
d) Gray’s Inn
1. When was Thomas Carlyle born?
a) 25 March 1806
b) 3 June 1802
c) 28 September 1799
d) 4 December 1795
2. Where was Thomas Carlyle born?
a) Craigenputtock
b) Ecclefechan
c) Dunkeld
d) Falkirk
3. Which university did Thomas Carlyle attend?
a) Edinburgh
b) Dublin
c) Manchester
d) Berlin
1. When did Gabriel Garcia Marquez win Nobel Prize for Literature?
a) 1975
b) 1982
c) 1994
d) 2004
2. When was Gabriel Garcia Marquez born?
a) 6 March 1928
b) 28 June 1914
c) 19 September 1924
d) 11 November 1918
3. Where was Gabriel Garcia Marquez born?
a) Bogota
b) Lima
c) Aracataca
d) Valencia
1. When was Herbert Ernest Bates born?
a) 22 November 1908
b) 31 August 1906
c) 16 May 1905
d) 28 February 1904
2. Where was Herbert Ernest Bates born?
a) Rushden
b) Mandalay
c) Bejawada
d) Farndish
3. Which school did Herbert Ernest Bates attend?
a) Boston Grammar School
b) Rugby School
c) Harrow School
d) Kettering Grammar School