ENGLISH LITERATURE QUIZ

This is basic stuff. Make sure to get EVERY answer right...

1 - Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

a) Rudyard Kipling b) John Keats c) Lewis Carroll d) H. G. Wells

2 - How many lines does a sonnet have?

a) 10 b) 12 c)14 d) they vary

3 - Who said 'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.' ?

a) Browning b) Marx c) Shakespeare d) Kipling

4 - Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'?

a) The Railway Children b) Winnie the Poo c) Jungle Book d) Peter Pan

5 - Which is the first Harry Potter book?

a) HP and the Goblet of Fire b) HP and the Philospher's Stone c) HP and the Chamber of Secrets

6 - In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written?

a) fourteenth b) fifteenth c) sixteenth d) seventeenth

7 - What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of 'Treasure Island'?

a) Scottish b) Welsh c) English d) Irish e) French

8 - 'Jane Eyre' was written by which Bronte sister?

a) Anne b) Charlotte c)Emily

9 - What is the book 'Lord of the Flies' about?

a) a road trip around the USA b) a swarm of killer flies c) schoolboys on a desert island

10 - In the book' The Lord of the Rings', who or what is Bilbo?

a) dwarf b) wizard c) troll c) hobbit d) man e) castle

11 - The following taboo phrases were used by which writer?
"I fart at thee", "shit on your head', "dirty bastard"

a) Ben Jonson b) William Shakespeare c) Henry James d) Ernest Hemingway

12 - Who wrote the crime novel "Death On The Nile"?

a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle b) Irvine Welsh c) Agatha Christie d) Emile Zola