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A sonnet consists of how many lines

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14

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William Shakespeare was born in

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United Kingdom

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Who wrote ‘The Invisible Man’?

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H.G. Wells

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Poems by Sylvia Plath

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Daddy, Lady Lazarus, Mad Girl’s Love Song

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Bequest

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Not written by Sylvia Plath

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Who wrote ‘The Canterbury Tales’?

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Helen of Troy is the daughter of

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Zeus and Leda

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Who killed Arjuna in Mahabharata

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Babruvahana

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How many witches predict Macbeth’s fate in the play ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare?

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4

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Protagonist of the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens is

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Pip

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Which poems are termed as ‘epics’?

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Iliad, Ramayana, The Odyssey, Canterbury Tales

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What is the “lock” referred to as in ‘The Rape of Lock’ by Alexander Pope?

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Lock of hair

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Romantic poets

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John Keats
Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Lee Masters

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In the Book 4 of Gulliver’s Travel, which community Gulliver aspires to choose?

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Houyhnhnms

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Which village does Elizabeth belong to in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen?

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Longbourn

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a ________”

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Wife

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In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy’s estate is called

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Pemberley

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‘Culture and Anarchy’ was written by

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Mathew Arnold

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The Romantic Afe was the age of

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Lyric

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Pozzo was a character in

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Waiting for Godot

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Who considers literature as superstructure?

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Marxists

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Who collects ten faults of Shakespeare?

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Dr. Johnson

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Not a lake poet

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Keats

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Who was the first translator of Virgil’s works in English?

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Dryden

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‘Othello’ was based on

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An Italian tale in Hecatommithi

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A character in Virginia Woolf’s novel changes his sex. Which is that novel?

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Orlando

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How many Shakespeare’s history plays are based on Roman history?

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4

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Who has been dubbed as ‘angry young man’ of the 1950s?

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John Braine

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Charles Dickens died in 1870 leaving the unfinished novel which was?

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Edwin Drood

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Chaucer was indebted to

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Homer

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In Homer’s Odyssey, Ulyssey was the king of

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Ithaca

32
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Who were “Lollards”?

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The followers of John Wycliffe

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When is The Illiad thought to have been composed?

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The eighth century

34
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Which God helps to bring about the death of Patroclus?

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Zeus

35
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In what city was Jesus born?

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Bethlehem

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Who takes Jesus’s body off the cross?

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Joseph of Arimathea

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The Poetics deals with primarily with what genre?

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Tragedy

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Which of Aristotle’s early works was inspired by the death of a friend?

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Eudemus

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When did Aristotle live?

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384-322 BC

40
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Which philosopher was Aristotle’s master?

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Plato

41
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How was the school founded by Aristotle known?

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Lyceum

42
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Whose creation is the character Mowgli?

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Rudyard Kipling

43
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Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things is based in which Indian state?

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Kerala

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Name the American short story writer who wrote under the pseudonym (pen name) O. Henry.

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William Sydney Porter

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The term “plot” refers to

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The sequence of events and actions in a narrative

46
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A stanza is a

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Paragraph in a poem

47
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” This famous line is from a poem by

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John Keats

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Who authored the science fiction novel Jurassic Park which was adapted by Steven Spielberg into a blockbuster film?

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Micheal Crichton

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Which character in Shakespeare’s Roman play Julius Caesar delivers the speech beginning “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”?

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Mark Antony

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Which popular writer of crime stories is known as the “Queen of Crime”?

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Agatha Christie

51
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Macbeth

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The title of a play written by William Shakespeare

52
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British novelist

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Charles Dickens
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Emily Bronte

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Not a British novelist

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Paulo Coelho

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