Litrature 01
By INDICA
The Great Works. Part1
1. 'Agnes Grey' is a novel written by:
Anne Bronte
Emily Bronte
George Elliot
Virginia Woolf
2. 'Alamayer'sFolly' published in 1895, mostly inspired by the author's experience of life at sea was his first novel. Can you name this novelist, who, despite his Polish origin became a major English novelist?
Charles Kingsley
A.J.Cronin
Joseph Conrad
Charls Dickens
3. 'The Artful Dodger" is a character in which of Dicken's works?
David Copperfield
Dombey And Son
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
4. "Aurora Leigh" is a romantic novel in blank verse published in 1856. Can you name the novelist?
Mrs. Browning
Lane Austen
Anthony Trollope
Charlotte Bronte
5. In a note to the third edition of her famous novel Charlotte Bronte writes, "My claim to the title of novelist, rests on this work alone." Can you identify this work?
Shirly
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
6. The Eustace Diamonds' is a novel published in 1873, which deals with the attempts of Lizzie Eustace to retain the necklace valued at 10,000, which belongs to her dead husband's family. Can you name the novelist?
Charles Dickens
Mary Shelley
George Meradith
7. Mark Tapley and Mr. Peckniff are two famous characters in one of Dickens' novels. Which one?
Pickwick Papers
Old Curiosity Shop
Martin Chuzzelwit
8. 'Elimer Gantry' and 'Dodsworth' are among the best novels of this American author who received the Nobel Prize in 1930. What is his name?
Sinclair Lewis
Samuel Butler
John Galsworthy
illiam Golding
9. 'The Summing UP' is the autobiography of a famous novelist, platwright, and short story writer. Can you name him?
G.B.Shaw
William Somerset Maugham
Herman Melville
10. 'The Citadel", a novel which created a sensation by its exposure of doubtful medical practices was authored by?
Robin Cook
D.H.Lawrence
E.M.Foster
11. 'It is a truth universally ackowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Thus starts a famous novel. Can you name it?
Great Expectations: Charls Dickens
Far From The Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy
Pride And Prejudice: Jane Austen
Eustace Diamonds: Anthony Trollope
12. 'A Tale of a Tub' is a devastatind satire about certain religious practices in Europe. When its author re-read it in his old age he exclaimed, "What a genius I had been when I wrote that book." Can you identify this novelist?
Miguel De Cervantes
Daniel Defoe
Johnathan Swift
13. 'Lorna Doone' is a classic adventure novel, the stor of a beautiful girl mysteriously boumd to a lawless robber family and of the two men who faught for her love to the point of death. Who is the author of this npvel of sublime romance?
W.M.Thacheray
R.D.Blackmore
Walter Scott
14. Plauged by reccuring bouts, of madness 'To The Lighthouse' has remained the most popular of her novels. Who is the novelist?
Jane Austin
Pearl. S. Buck
Virginia Woolfe
15. Her one novel,'Wuthering Heights' published a year before her death in 1848, at the age of 30, stands alone as perhaps the most passionately original work in the English language, Can you name the novelist?
George Eliot
Emily Dickinson
Mary Shelly
16. The novel was hailed by Virginia Woolf as' One of the new English novels written for adlut people'. The novel is 'Middle March'. Who is its author?
Mrs. Ann Radcliffe
Sheila Keye Smith
17. "Willam Micawebar is an adoreable, restless, boisterous beliver in the goodness of providence, who always expects something to turn up, yet never moves a finger to start the turning'. Who is the creator of this fictitious character?
Willam Thackeray
Thomas Hardy
Ernet Hemingway
18. "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig,and from pig to man again, but already it was impossile to say which was which." Thus ends a very famous satirical novel. Can you name it?
Lord of the Flies
Erewohn
Animal Farm
Gulliver's Travels
19. 'Moll Flanders' is a novel which gives an account of a spirited woman's journey from innocence to evil. Can you pick the correct name of the novelist?
Daniel Dafoe
Nathaniel Hawthrone
20. Which novelist said:" A man with his belly full of classics is an enemy of the human race?"
H.G.Wells
Aldous Huxley
Henry Miller
21. An ambitious hay-trusser with a wife and child, who are obstacles to his progress, in a drunken stupor sells them to a stranger. Which of Hardy's Novels begins like this?
Return of the Natives
Far from the Madding Crowd
Mayor of Casterbridge
Jude, the Obscure
22. All of his novels were burnt in Nanzi Germany in the 1930's. Who was the novelist?
Graham Greene
Boris Pastepnak
Ernest Hemingway
Aldus Huxley
23. She was a spy in the employment of Charles II, and also a writer who is remembered as the authoress of Oroonoko (1678), a novel remarlable for its representation of negroes as human beings. Who was she?
Mrs. Aphra Behn
Stella Benson
Esther Van Homrigh
Maria Edgeworth
24. 'The Egoist" is a witty novel dealing with the insufferable Sir Willoughby Patterne and his humiliation before he is enabled to marry theshy Laetita Dale. Can you name the novelist?
Theodore Dreiser
homas Hardey
25. This was Hardy's first published novel (1871) a tale of mystery entanglement, surprise...." nearly approaching a thriller. Can you name it?
Tess of the D'Uberviles
Under The Greenwood Tree
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Desperate Remedies