1. When was Ernest Hemingway born?
a) 9 February 1864
b) 17 May 1862
c) 21 July 1899
d) 30 December 1865
2. Where was Ernest Hemingway born?
a) Cicero
b) Boston
c) Anchorage
d) San Francisco
3. What was Ernest Hemingway’s role in World War I?
a) Corporal
b) Marine
c) Flight Lieutenant
d) Ambulance driver
1. What was Pearl Buck’s original name?
a) Gina Harrison
b) Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
c) Jane Seymour
d) Victoria Crawford
2. When was Pearl Buck born?
a) 10 February 1889
b) 26 June 1892
c) 11 July 1894
d) 17 November 1896
3. Where was Pearl Buck born?
a) Peking
b) Hillsboro
c) Canton
d) Tokyo
1. When was Arthur Conan Doyle born?
a) 31 March 1854
b) 22 May 1859
c) 25 September 1857
d) 30 December 1855
2. Where was Arthur Conan Doyle born?
a) Edinburgh
b) Glasgow
c) Aberdeen
d) Dundee
3. When did Arthur Conan Doyle receive doctorate in medicine?
a) 1880
b) 1874
c) 1885
d) 1882
1. When was John Robert Fowles born?
a) 31 March 1926
b) 2 April 1922
c) 23 August 1919
d) 7 December 1928
2. Where was John Robert Fowles born?
a) Athens
b) Leigh-on-Sea
c) Paris
d) Sparta
3. Which college did John Robert Fowles attend?
a) Christ Church College
b) Merton College
c) Trinity College
d) New College
1) When was Samuel Coleridge born?
a) 12 August 1778
b) 2 December 1776
c) 4 November 1774
d) 21 October 1772
2) What was Samuel Coleridge’s middle name?
a) Bowden
b) Taylor
c) Smith
d) Kennedy
3) Which college did Samuel Coleridge attend?
a) St. Augustine’s College
b) St. Patrick’s College
c) Jesus College
d) Trinity College
Wystan Hugh Auden who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet and one of the leading literary figures of the 20th century. His early poetry made his reputation as a witty and technically accomplished writer. His work is noted for its stylistic and technical achievements, its engagement with moral and political issues, and its variety of tone, form and content. The central themes of his poetry are love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature.
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
Dante Alighieri Quiz Questions 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…
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quiz Questions 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)…
1. When was John Dryden born?
a) 2 February 1641
b) 15 May 1636
c) 19 August 1631
d) 15 December 1628
2. Where was John Dryden born?
a) Aldwinkle
b) Cardiff
c) Liverpool
d) Dorchester
3. Which school did John Dryden attend?
a) Shrewsbury School
b) Westminster School
c) Harrow School
d) St. Paul’s School
