Literature Quiz Questions And Answers
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- 1.Who wrote "to err is human; to forgive, divine"?
- A.
Winston Churchill
- B.
Benjamin Franklin
- C.
Abraham Lincoln
- D.
Alexander Pope
- 2.Who composed the music for the "William Tell Overture"?
- A.
Mozart
- B.
Beethoven
- C.
Gershwin
- D.
Rossini
- 3.Who wrote the novel "Lost Horizon"?
- A.
George S. Kaufman
- B.
James Hilton
- C.
Washington Irving
- D.
Rudyard Kipling
- 4.Who wrote "Farewell My Lovely"?
- A.
John Wyndham
- B.
Lewis Carroll
- C.
Ray Bradbury
- D.
Raymond Chandler
- 5.Allan Quatermain is from which book?
- A.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- B.
The Last Of The Mohicans
- C.
King's Row
- D.
King Solomon's Mines
- 6.The character of Uriah Heep is from which book?
- A.
A Streetcar Named Desire
- B.
The Grapes Of Wrath
- C.
Moby Dick
- D.
David Copperfield
- 7.Who published the drama "Long Day's Journey Into Night" in 1956?
- A.
Eugene O'Neill
- B.
Arthur Miller
- C.
Ernest Hemingway
- D.
Tennessee Williams
- 8.What movement is Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring" associated with?
- A.
Women's Rights
- B.
Pro-Life
- C.
Transcendental Mediation
- D.
Environmental
- 9.Who is the author of "The Secret History"?
- A.
Donna Tartt
- B.
Jeffrey Eugenides
- C.
Richard Paten
- D.
Anita Shreve
- 10.Who wrote the collection of poems entitled "Horse Latitudes"?
- A.
Paul Muldoon
- B.
Charles Bukowski
- C.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- D.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 11.Who wrote "The Human Stain"?
- A.
Philip Roth
- B.
William S. Burroughs
- C.
Norman Mailer
- D.
Saul Bellow
- 12.Who wrote "A Widow For One Year"?
- A.
Saul Bellow
- B.
John Irving
- C.
Philip Roth
- D.
John Updike
- 13.In the novel "The Secret History", the elite group of students devoted themselves to what subject?
- A.
Latin
- B.
Greek
- C.
Archeology
- D.
Anthropology
- 14.In which great novel does the reader find the following line: "Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair"?
- A.
The Virgin Suicides
- B.
An American Dream
- C.
The Secret History
- D.
A Widow For One Year
- 15.Who or what killed Thisbe?
- A.
Pyramus
- B.
Thisbe
- C.
Hera
- D.
A Lioness
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