Literature Quiz 26
1. Who wrote "The Island of Doctor Moreau",?
Jules VerneH G Wells
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pushkin
2. Whose autobiography is "My Presidential Years"?
R K NarayanR Venkataraman
V V Giri
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
3. Which former British Prime Minister wrote the memoir titled "The Downing Street Years"?
Margaret ThatcherTony Blair
Gordon Brown
Theresa May
4. Name the author of the Greek epic poem "Argonautica"
HomerEuripides
Aeschylus
Apollonius of Rhodius
5. "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is described as the first modern detective story. Who is the author?
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleEdgar Allen Poe
Wilkie Collins
Raymond Chandler
6. Who wrote "Night", a work based on his experiences as a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps?
Saul BellowPhilip Roth
Bernard Malamud
Elie Wiesel
7. "Animal's People" is a novel based on Bhopal Disaster and was shortlisted for 2007 Booker Prize. Who is the author?
Jhumpa LahiriArundhati Roy
Indra Sinha
Kiran Desai
8. Who is the author of "Gone with the Wind" that won the Pulitzer Prize fo Fiction in 1937?
David MitchellMargarett Mitchell
John Steinbeck
Harper Lee
9. Eric Arthur Blair, a well known English writer, was born in Motihari, Bihar in 1903. By what name we know this writer?
George OrwellGeorge Eliot
George Saunders
George Meredith
10. "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling" is a comic novel by an English playwright and novelist who is seen as founder of the traditional English novel. Who is he?
Henry FieldingCharles Dickens
Herman Melville
George Eliot
Very nice quiz but it is little bit tough,But I learned many about who wrote what books. I really enjoyed the quiz
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