Aldous Huxley Quiz Questions
Aldous Huxley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1. When was Aldous Huxley born?
a) 11 March 1884
b) 19 May 1882
c) 26 July 1894
d) 10 October 1895
2. Where was Aldous Huxley born?
a) Boston
b) Godalming
c) Plymouth
d) Liverpool
3. Which college did Aldous Huxley attend?
a) Christ College
b) St. James’ College
c) Balliol College
d) Trinity College
4. For which magazine did Aldous Huxley work in 1919-1921?
a) Athenaeum
b) The Plain Truth
c) Jane’s Defence Weekly
d) The Tablet
5. When did Aldous Huxley publish Crome Yellow?
a) 1874
b) 1888
c) 1878
d) 1921
6. Which novel did Aldous Huxley publish in 1932?
a) Antic Hay
b) Brave New World
c) Point Counter Point
d) Those Barren Leaves
The Doors of Perception (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
7. Which novel of Aldous Huxley is about his experiences with mescaline?
a) Eyeless in Gaza
b) The Perennial Philosophy
c) The Doors of Perception
d) The Defeat of Youth
8. Which of the following is a title of a book of Aldous Huxley?
a) Heaven
b) Limbo
c) Paradise
d) Purgatory
9. When did Aldous Huxley die?
a) 12 January 1960
b) 18 August 1968
c) 30 June 1966
d) 22 November 1963
10. Where did Aldous Huxley die?
a) San Francisco
b) Austin
c) Houston
d) Los Angeles
Aldous Huxley Quiz Questions with Answers
Signature of Aldous Huxley (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
1. When was Aldous Huxley born?
c) 26 July 1894
2. Where was Aldous Huxley born?
b) Godalming
3. Which college did Aldous Huxley attend?
c) Balliol College
4. For which magazine did Aldous Huxley work in 1919-1921?
a) Athenaeum
5. When did Aldous Huxley publish Crome Yellow?
d) 1921
Cover of Brave New World
6. Which novel did Aldous Huxley publish in 1932?
b) Brave New World
7. Which novel of Aldous Huxley is about his experiences with mescaline?
c) The Doors of Perception
8. Which of the following is a title of a book of Aldous Huxley?
b) Limbo
9. When did Aldous Huxley die?
d) 22 November 1963
10. Where did Aldous Huxley die?
d) Los Angeles
Books by Aldous Huxley
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The Burning Wheel (1916, poems)
Jonah (1917, poems)
The Defeat of Youth and other poems (1918, poems)
Leda (1920, poems)
Crome Yellow (1921, novel)
Antic Hay (1923, novel)
On the Margin: Notes and Essays (1932, essays)
Those Barren Leaves (1925, novel)
Selected Poems (1925, poems)
Along The Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist (1925, travel)
Jesting Pilate: An Intellectual Holiday (1926, travel)
Essays New and Old (1926, essays)
Proper Studies (1927, essays)
Point Counter Point (1928, novel)
Arabia Infelix and other poems (1929, poems)
Do What You Will (1929, essays)
Brief Candles (1930, short stories)
Vulgarity in Literature (1930, essays)
Brave New World (1931, novel)
Music At Night (1931, essays)
The Cicadas and other poems (1931, poems)
Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology of Commentaries (1932, essays)
T. H. Huxley as a Man of Letters (1932, biography)
Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934, travel)
Eyeless in Gaza (1936, novel)
The Olive Tree and other Essays (1937, essays)
What Are You Going To Do About It? The Case for Reconstructive Peace (1936, essays)
Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideas and into the Methods Employed for Their Realization (1937, essays)
The Elder Peter Bruegel (1937, novel)
The Most Agreeable Vice (1938, essays)
After Many a Summer Dies The Swan (1939, novel)
Words and Their Meanings (1940, essays)
Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics (1941, essays)
The Art of Seeing (1942, essays)
The Perennial Philosophy (1942, essays)
Orion (1943, poems)
Time Must Have A Stop (1944, novel)
Science, Liberty and Peace (1946, essays)
Ape and Essence (1948, novel)
Food and People (1949, essays, with John Russell)
Themes and Variations (1950, essays)
A Day in Windsor (1953, essays, with J. A. Kings)
Doors of Perception (1954, essays)
The Genius and the Goddess (1955, novel)
Heaven and Hell (1956, essays)
Brave New World Revised (1958, novel)
On Art and Artists (1960, essays)
Island (1962, novel)
The Politics of Ecology: The Question of Survival (1963, essays)
Form and Substance (1963, essays)
New Fashioned Christmas (1968, essays, posthumous)
America and the Future: An Essay (1970, essay, posthumous)
Aldous Huxley Plays
The Discovery (1924)
The World of Light (1931)
The Gioconda Smile (1948)
The Ambassador of Captripedia (1965, posthumous )
Christmas Sketch (1972, posthumous)
External links
- Huxley on Huxley
- Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery
- BBC discussion programme In our time: “Brave New World”. Huxley and the novel. 9 April 2009. (Audio, 45 mins)
- BBC In their own words series. 12 October 1958. (Video, 12 mins).
- The Ultimate Revolution (talk at University of California, 20 March 1962)
- Huxley interviewed on The Mike Wallace interview 18 May 1958. (Video)
- Works by Aldous Huxley on Open Library at the Internet Archive
- Works by or about Aldous Huxley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Works by Aldous Huxley at Project Gutenberg
- Centre for Huxley Research
- Aldous Huxley Papers at UCLA Library
Originally posted 2016-07-01 21:58:54.