Literature Termonologies
Here are some amazing quiz about authors and their books.
- 1.The desert people in the "DUNE" series were called what?
- A.
Ewoks
- B.
Fremen
- C.
Sandcrawlers
- D.
Sandpeople
- 2.Who was headlined as a SPOOFSTER in The Saturday Evening Post in 1963?
- A.
Sheb Wooley
- B.
Stan Freberg
- C.
Allen Sherman
- D.
Ben Calder
- 3.What year and what publication did "The Night Before Christmas" originally appear in?
- A.
1823, Troy, New York Sentinel
- B.
1920, Readers Digest
- C.
1940, New York Times
- D.
1863, Anthology Of Stories
- 4.Which writer said "I serve champagne to my real friends and real pain to my sham friends"?
- A.
Helen Frankenthaler
- B.
William Baziotes
- C.
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
- D.
Francis Bacon
- 5.Which mythological character did not die by suicide?
- A.
Aegeus
- B.
Ajax
- C.
The Sphinx
- D.
Jason
- 6.What was the real first name of the main character in Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations"?
- A.
Patrick
- B.
Handel
- C.
Finn
- D.
Philip
- 7.The Greeks hailed him as Apollo. What did the Romans call him?
- A.
Hyperion
- B.
Sol
- C.
Apollo
- D.
Helios
- 8.Which goddess changed "Ulysses" men into swine?
- A.
Merlin
- B.
Medea
- C.
Hera
- D.
Circe
- 9.What is the intended metaphor in the first stanza of "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls" referring to?
- A.
The Years Of Mourning Over A Loved One
- B.
How Luck Comes And Goes
- C.
The Passage Of Time
- D.
The Orbit Of The Earth
- 10.What is the name of the goat who fed Zeus after he was born?
- A.
Ione
- B.
Andromeda
- C.
Iphigenia
- D.
Amaltheia
- 11.Which animal is associated with Pallas Athena?
- A.
Dove
- B.
Horse
- C.
Lion
- D.
Owl
- 12.Who was Zeus' mother?
- A.
Rhea
- B.
Cybelle
- C.
Gaea
- D.
Hestia
- 13.Who wrote the African-American literary classic "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
- A.
Ralph Ellison
- B.
Alice Walker
- C.
Zora Neale Hurston
- D.
James Baldwin
- 14.Who wrote "The Magic Mountain"?
- A.
Thomas Mann
- B.
D.H. Lawrence
- C.
Henry James
- D.
Joseph Conrad
- 15.What is the first line of Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice"?
- A.
My Dear Mr. Bennet, Said His Lady To Him One Day, "Have You Heard That Netherfield Park Is Let At Last?"
- B.
The Family Of Bennet Had Long Been Settled In Derbyshire
- C.
The Day Passed Much As The Day Before Had Done
- D.
It Is A Truth Universally Acknowledged, That A Single Man In Possession Of A Good Fortune, Must Be In Want Of A Wife
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