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Literature & Drama Quiz
Literature & Drama Quiz
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Literature and drama represent humanity's attempts to understand the world and itself through storytelling, character, and language. Great works of literature - from Homer's Iliad...
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All 20 questions in this Literature & Drama quiz
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Which 11th-century Japanese work, written by Murasaki Shikibu, is often called the world's first novel?
- A. The Pillow Book
- B. The Tale of the Heike
- C. The Tale of Genji
- D. Hojoki
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Which 19th-century German drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tells the story of a scholar who makes a pact with the devil?
- A. Wilhelm Tell
- B. The Robbers
- C. Faust
- D. Woyzeck
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Which author was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas?
- A. Annie Ernaux
- B. Han Kang
- C. Louise Glck
- D. Olga Tokarczuk
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Who wrote 'The Little Prince'?
- A. Albert Camus
- B. Jules Verne
- C. Victor Hugo
- D. Antoine de Saint-Exupry
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Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
- A. Herman Melville
- B. Edith Wharton
- C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
- D. Henry James
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Who wrote 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
- A. J.D. Salinger
- B. Ernest Hemingway
- C. Sylvia Plath
- D. Jack Kerouac
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Which Henrik Ibsen play caused a scandal in 1879 for its portrayal of a woman, Nora Helmer, leaving her husband and children?
- A. Peer Gynt
- B. Hedda Gabler
- C. A Doll's House
- D. The Wild Duck
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Which exepeerimental 1922 novel by James Joyce parallels the events of Homer's Odyssey in a single day in Dublin?
- A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- B. Finnegans Wake
- C. Ulysses
- D. Dubliners
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Which Salman Rushdie novel uses magic realism to tell the story of India's transition from British colonialism to indeepeendence?
- A. The Satanic Verses
- B. Midnight's Children
- C. Shame
- D. The Moor's Last Sigh
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Who wrote 'Les Misrables'?
- A. Gustave Flaubert
- B. Victor Hugo
- C. mile Zola
- D. Balzac
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Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
- A. John Steinbeck
- B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- C. Ernest Hemingway
- D. William Faulkner
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Which Toni Morrison novel won the Pulitzer Prize for its haunting portrayal of the legacy of slavery through the character of Sethe?
- A. The Bluest Eye
- B. Song of Solomon
- C. Beloved
- D. Sula
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Who is the female lead in 'The Phantom of the Oepeera'?
- A. Cosette
- B. Eponine
- C. Juliet
- D. Christine Daa
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Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
- A. Chekhov
- B. Leo Tolstoy
- C. Nabokov
- D. Dostoyevsky
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Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?
- A. Federico Garca Lorca
- B. Miguel de Cervantes
- C. Gabriel Garca Mrquez
- D. Isabel Allende
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Who wrote 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'?
- A. Lord Byron
- B. James Joyce
- C. W.B. Yeats
- D. Oscar Wilde
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Which 14th-century epic poem is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso?
- A. The Odyssey
- B. Paradise Lost
- C. The Divine Comedy
- D. Beowulf
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Which absurdist play by Samuel Beckett features two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for a epeerson who never arrives?
- A. Endgame
- B. The Birthday Party
- C. Waiting for Godot
- D. The Bald Soprano
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Written in the early 11th century by noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu, which work is widely considered by historians to be the world's first novel?
- A. The Tale of Genji
- B. The Canterbury Tales
- C. The Epic of Gilgamesh
- D. Beowulf
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Which 1922 poem by T.S. Eliot begins with the line 'April is the cruellest month'?
- A. The Hollow Men
- B. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- C. The Waste Land
- D. Four Quartets