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    This document contains a 12 question quiz on English literature. It tests knowledge on subjects like the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Lewis Carroll), characteristics of a sonnet (14 lines), and the writer of the phrase "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise" (Thomas Gray). It also includes questions about the first Harry Potter book, when Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" was written, and the nationality of the author of "Treasure Island" (Robert Louis Stevenson).

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    This document contains a 12 question quiz on English literature. It tests knowledge on subjects like the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Lewis Carroll), characteristics of a sonnet (14 lines), and the writer of the phrase "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise" (Thomas Gray). It also includes questions about the first Harry Potter book, when Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" was written, and the nationality of the author of "Treasure Island" (Robert Louis Stevenson).

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    This document contains a 12 question quiz on English literature. It tests knowledge on subjects like the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (Lewis Carroll), characteristics of a sonnet (14 lines), and the writer of the phrase "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise" (Thomas Gray). It also includes questions about the first Harry Potter book, when Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" was written, and the nationality of the author of "Treasure Island" (Robert Louis Stevenson).

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    ENGLISH LITERATURE QUIZ

    If you'd like to increase your knowledge of ENGLISH LITERATURE visit the extensive English literature
    site on anglik.net!

    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 wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?

    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
    d.

    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. Ane
    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
    d. Hobbit
    e. Man
    f. castle

    11 - The following taboo phrases were used by which writer?

    "I fart at thee", "shit on your head', "dirty bastard"

    a. Ben Johnson
    b. William shakespeare
    c. Henry James
    d. Ernest Hemingway

    12 - Who wrote the crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?

    a. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    b. Irvine Welsh
    c. Agatha Christie
    d. Emile Zola

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