TNTRB ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ENGLISH UNIT III MCQS
UNIT 3 — MCQs SET 1 (Q1–Q100)
AMERICAN LITERATURE — MCQs
(1–50)
1. Who is called the “Father of American Literature”?
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
B. Mark Twain
C. Washington Irving
D. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer: C
Washington Irving is considered the first major American
literary figure.
2. Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” was first published in:
A. 1835
B. 1855
C. 1865
D. 1875
Answer: B
The revolutionary first edition appeared in 1855.
3. “Because I could not stop for Death” is written by:
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Mary Oliver
Answer: A
One of Dickinson’s most famous poems.
4. Who wrote “The Road Not Taken”?
A. Robert Frost
B. Carl Sandburg
C. Wallace Stevens
D. T.S. Eliot
Answer: A
One of Frost’s most anthologized poems.
5. “Song of Myself” is a poem from:
A. The Waste Land
B. The Bridge
C. Leaves of Grass
D. Ariel
Answer: C
Whitman included it in Leaves of Grass.
6. T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” was published in:
A. 1922
B. 1917
C. 1945
D. 1930
Answer: A
Modernist masterpiece from 1922.
7. Which Harlem Renaissance poet wrote “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers”?
A. Langston Hughes
B. Countee Cullen
C. Claude McKay
D. Paul Dunbar
Answer: A
Hughes’ signature poem.
8. Who wrote “I, Too, Sing America”?
A. Robert Hayden
B. Langston Hughes
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
D. Amiri Baraka
Answer: B
Powerful Harlem Renaissance poem.
9. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” ends with the line:
A. “Miles to go before I sleep”
B. “Do I dare to eat a peach?”
C. “I am the poet of the body”
D. “I celebrate myself”
Answer: A
Frost’s famous ending.
10. “Ariel” is a poetry collection by:
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Sylvia Plath
D. Maya Angelou
Answer: C
Published posthumously.
11. Emerson’s essay “Nature” launched which movement?
A. Romanticism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Modernism
D. Realism
Answer: B
Foundational text of Transcendentalism.
12. Who wrote “Walden”?
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Whitman
D. Longfellow
Answer: B
Record of Thoreau’s two-year stay at Walden Pond.
13. Poe’s “The Raven” was published in:
A. 1825
B. 1830
C. 1845
D. 1855
Answer: C
Poe’s most famous poem.
14. “Moby-Dick” is written by:
A. Twain
B. Dickens
C. Herman Melville
D. Hawthorne
Answer: C
Epic whaling novel by Melville.
15. Who wrote “The Scarlet Letter”?
A. Hawthorne
B. Poe
C. Melville
D. Crane
Answer: A
Puritan guilt and sin novel.
16. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is by:
A. Mark Twain
B. Jack London
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. John Steinbeck
Answer: A
Major American realist novel.
17. Which novel starts with “Call me Ishmael”?
A. The Red Badge of Courage
B. The Great Gatsby
C. Moby-Dick
D. Beloved
Answer: C
18. “The Great Gatsby” was published in:
A. 1925
B. 1935
C. 1915
D. 1945
Answer: A
Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel.
19. Who wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire”?
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Eugene O’Neill
D. Edward Albee
Answer: B
20. “Death of a Salesman” is a play by:
A. Albee
B. Miller
C. Williams
D. O’Neill
Answer: B
21. “Long Day’s Journey into Night” is by:
A. O’Neill
B. Miller
C. Williams
D. Shepard
Answer: A
One of O’Neill’s greatest works.
22. Who wrote “The Glass Menagerie”?
A. Miller
B. Albee
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Wilder
Answer: C
23. Who wrote “The Color Purple”?
A. Toni Morrison
B. Alice Walker
C. Zora Neale Hurston
D. Gwendolyn Brooks
Answer: B
24. “Beloved” is a novel by:
A. Alice Walker
B. Maya Angelou
C. Toni Morrison
D. Gloria Naylor
Answer: C
25. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is by:
A. Zora Neale Hurston
B. Morrison
C. Walker
D. Brooks
Answer: A
26. Who wrote “Invisible Man”?
A. Richard Wright
B. Ralph Ellison
C. James Baldwin
D. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Answer: B
27. “The Old Man and the Sea” is by:
A. Hemingway
B. Steinbeck
C. Faulkner
D. Salinger
Answer: A
28. “The Sound and the Fury” is written by:
A. Hemingway
B. Faulkner
C. Fitzgerald
D. Dos Passos
Answer: B
29. “The Grapes of Wrath” was written by:
A. Faulkner
B. Steinbeck
C. Hemingway
D. Wharton
Answer: B
30. “The Catcher in the Rye” is authored by:
A. Updike
B. Salinger
C. Roth
D. Bellow
Answer: B
31. “The Waste Land” begins with:
A. “Because I could not stop for Death”
B. “April is the cruellest month”
C. “Let us go then, you and I”
D. “I sing the body electric”
Answer: B
32. Which novel features Jay Gatsby?
A. East of Eden
B. The Great Gatsby
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. Main Street
Answer: B
33. “Young Goodman Brown” is a story by:
A. Hawthorne
B. Melville
C. Poe
D. Crane
Answer: A
34. Which American poet is known as the “Poet of Democracy”?
A. Frost
B. Whitman
C. Eliot
D. Stevens
Answer: B
35. Who wrote “Annabel Lee”?
A. Poe
B. Longfellow
C. Emerson
D. Bryant
Answer: A
36. Emily Dickinson’s poems often use:
A. Rhyme
B. Dashes & slant rhyme
C. Blank verse
D. Epic structure
Answer: B
37. “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” is by:
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Frost
C. Lowell
D. Williams
Answer: A
38. Who wrote “The Red Badge of Courage”?
A. Crane
B. Melville
C. London
D. Whitman
Answer: A
39. “The Sun Also Rises” is by:
A. Faulkner
B. Fitzgerald
C. Hemingway
D. Steinbeck
Answer: C
40. “Harlem” (“What happens to a dream deferred?”) is by:
A. Baldwin
B. Hughes
C. Hayden
D. Baraka
Answer: B
41. Which novel features Hester Prynne?
A. Moby-Dick
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Bell Jar
D. The Awakening
Answer: B
42. Who wrote “Of Mice and Men”?
A. Steinbeck
B. Hemingway
C. Fitzgerald
D. Salinger
Answer: A
43. “I Hear America Singing” is by:
A. Frost
B. Whitman
C. Eliot
D. Lowell
Answer: B
44. Which novel includes the character Ahab?
A. The Grapes of Wrath
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Moby-Dick
D. Beloved
Answer: C
45. Who wrote “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?
A. Maya Angelou
B. Morrison
C. Hurston
D. Walker
Answer: A
46. “The Bridge” (poem) is by:
A. Ezra Pound
B. Hart Crane
C. Wallace Stevens
D. T.S. Eliot
Answer: B
47. Which novel portrays slavery and haunting?
A. The Awakening
B. Beloved
C. The Good Earth
D. Sister Carrie
Answer: B
48. Who wrote “A Rose for Emily”?
A. Faulkner
B. Hemingway
C. Fitzgerald
D. Henry James
Answer: A
49. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is by:
A. Mark Twain
B. Hawthorne
C. Melville
D. Poe
Answer: A
50. “One Art” (“The art of losing…”) is written by:
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Adrienne Rich
C. Louise Glück
D. Anne Sexton
Answer: A
UNIT 3 — MCQs SET 1 (Q51–Q100)
CANADIAN LITERATURE (51–75)
51. Who is considered the most influential Canadian poet of the
modern era?
A. Al Purdy
B. Irving Layton
C. E.J. Pratt
D. P.K. Page
Answer: C
Pratt is often called the “father of modern Canadian poetry.”
52. Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is an example of:
A. Fantasy
B. Postcolonial fiction
C. Dystopian fiction
D. Realist fiction
Answer: C
Atwood’s famous dystopian novel.
53. Margaret Atwood’s Survival (1972) is:
A. A novel
B. A poem
C. A literary criticism book
D. A short story collection
Answer: C
Key work of Canadian literary criticism.
54. Who wrote “The English Patient”?
A. Rohinton Mistry
B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Alice Munro
D. Timothy Findley
Answer: B
Ondaatje won the Booker Prize for this.
55. “The Stone Angel” is written by:
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Laurence
C. Carol Shields
D. Miriam Toews
Answer: B
56. Which Canadian author is known for short stories?
A. Alice Munro
B. Atwood
C. Ondaatje
D. M.G. Vassanji
Answer: A
Munro is famous as “the master of the contemporary short story.”
57. Who wrote “Life of Pi”?
A. Rohinton Mistry
B. Yann Martel
C. Ondaatje
D. Alice Munro
Answer: B
58. “Two Solitudes” (novel about English & French Canada) is
by:
A. Robertson Davies
B. Hugh MacLennan
C. E.J. Pratt
D. Timothy Findley
Answer: B
59. “Fifth Business” is written by:
A. Timothy Findley
B. Robertson Davies
C. Mistry
D. Atwood
Answer: B
Part of the Deptford Trilogy.
60. Which Canadian poet wrote “The Double Hook”?
A. Robertson Davies
B. Sinclair Ross
C. Sheila Watson
D. Findley
Answer: C
A landmark modernist novel.
61. “As For Me and My House” is by:
A. Sinclair Ross
B. Hugh MacLennan
C. Carol Shields
D. Margaret Laurence
Answer: A
62. Rohinton Mistry’s novel “A Fine Balance” is set in:
A. Canada
B. India
C. Sri Lanka
D. Pakistan
Answer: B
63. Which author wrote “The Blind Assassin”?
A. Munro
B. Laurence
C. Mistry
D. Margaret Atwood
Answer: D
64. Which Canadian Indigenous writer wrote “The Break”?
A. Maria Campbell
B. Eden Robinson
C. Katherena Vermette
D. Lee Maracle
Answer: C
65. “Monkey Beach” is written by:
A. Eden Robinson
B. Campbell
C. Vermette
D. Maracle
Answer: A
66. Which Canadian novel explores immigrant life in Toronto?
A. The English Patient
B. In the Skin of a Lion
C. A Fine Balance
D. Obasan
Answer: B
Ondaatje’s Toronto novel.
67. Joy Kogawa’s “Obasan” deals with the suffering of:
A. Black Canadians
B. Chinese Canadians
C. Japanese Canadians
D. Indigenous Canadians
Answer: C
68. “Who Do You Think You Are?” is by:
A. Atwood
B. Munro
C. Richter
D. Laurence
Answer: B
69. “Dance of the Happy Shades” is a collection by:
A. Carol Shields
B. Alice Munro
C. Ondaatje
D. Atwood
Answer: B
70. Which term best describes Canadian literature?
A. Magical realism
B. Frontier narrative
C. Survival narrative
D. Utopian narrative
Answer: C
Atwood famously said survival is the central Canadian theme.
71. “The Diviners” is by:
A. Laurence
B. Munro
C. Atwood
D. Shields
Answer: A
72. “Barometer Rising” by Hugh MacLennan is set in:
A. Toronto
B. Halifax
C. Montreal
D. Ottawa
Answer: B
73. Carol Shields won the Pulitzer Prize for which novel?
A. Larry’s Party
B. Small Ceremonies
C. The Stone Diaries
D. Happenstance
Answer: C
74. The Confederation Poets include all except:
A. Archibald Lampman
B. Bliss Carman
C. Duncan Campbell Scott
D. Michael Ondaatje
Answer: D
Ondaatje is contemporary.
75. “Green Grass, Running Water” is written by:
A. Thomas King
B. Findley
C. Davies
D. Pratt
Answer: A
⭐ AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE (76–100)
76. Who is Australia’s only Nobel Prize winner in Literature?
A. Peter Carey
B. David Malouf
C. Patrick White
D. Les Murray
Answer: C
77. “Voss” is a novel by:
A. Patrick White
B. Peter Carey
C. Tim Winton
D. David Malouf
Answer: A
78. Peter Carey’s “Oscar and Lucinda” won the:
A. Nobel Prize
B. Pulitzer Prize
C. Booker Prize
D. Miles Franklin Award
Answer: C
79. Tim Winton is best known for:
A. Crime fiction
B. Bush poetry
C. Sea & coastal novels
D. Historical fiction
Answer: C
80. “Cloudstreet” is written by:
A. Patrick White
B. Carey
C. Tim Winton
D. Malouf
Answer: C
81. Who wrote “True History of the Kelly Gang”?
A. Patrick White
B. Peter Carey
C. Les Murray
D. David Malouf
Answer: B
82. “Remembering Babylon” is a novel by:
A. Les Murray
B. Tim Winton
C. Patrick White
D. David Malouf
Answer: D
83. Which Australian poet wrote “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow”?
A. Les Murray
B. John Tranter
C. Bruce Dawe
D. Judith Wright
Answer: A
84. Judith Wright is best known as:
A. A novelist
B. A dramatist
C. A poet & environmental activist
D. A short story writer
Answer: C
85. “The Man Who Loved Children” is written by:
A. Peter Carey
B. Christina Stead
C. Kate Grenville
D. Janet Turner Hospital
Answer: B
86. Which Australian writer wrote “The Secret River”?
A. Grenville
B. Carey
C. White
D. Malouf
Answer: A
87. Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) is known for:
A. Aboriginal poetry
B. Political essays
C. Postmodern fiction
D. War literature
Answer: A
88. “Carpentaria” is by:
A. Richard Flanagan
B. Kim Scott
C. Alexis Wright
D. Kate Grenville
Answer: C
89. Henry Lawson is famous for:
A. Fantasy fiction
B. Bush ballads and stories
C. Crime writing
D. Modernist poetry
Answer: B
90. Banjo Paterson wrote:
A. “My Country”
B. “Clancy of the Overflow”
C. “Five Bells”
D. “The Return”
Answer: B
91. “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith” is a novel by:
A. White
B. Malouf
C. Carey
D. Thomas Keneally
Answer: D
92. The term “Jindyworobak” refers to:
A. A poetry movement celebrating Indigenous culture
B. A realist novel
C. A drama tradition
D. A feminist school
Answer: A
93. Who wrote “Schindler’s Ark” (basis of Schindler’s List)?
A. Malouf
B. Keneally
C. Carey
D. White
Answer: B
94. Les Murray’s poetry is known for:
A. Religious allegory
B. Environmental grief
C. Celebration of rural Australia
D. Science fiction themes
Answer: C
95. Which Tim Winton novel won the Miles Franklin Award?
A. Breath
B. The Riders
C. Cloudstreet
D. Dirt Music
Answer: D
96. David Malouf’s “Fly Away Peter” is set during:
A. WWII
B. WWI
C. Vietnam War
D. Colonial era
Answer: B
97. “My Brilliant Career” is by:
A. Miles Franklin
B. Wright
C. Grenville
D. Oodgeroo
Answer: A
98. Which novel won Peter Carey his second Booker Prize?
A. Bliss
B. Illywhacker
C. True History of the Kelly Gang
D. Parrot & Olivier in America
Answer: C
99. “Benang: From the Heart” is by:
A. Kim Scott
B. Grenville
C. Wright
D. Malouf
Answer: A
100. “Gould’s Book of Fish” is written by:
A. Flanagan
B. Carey
C. Keneally
D. Winton
Answer: A
AMERICAN + CANADIAN + AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE
MCQs 101–150
101. “The Crucible” is an allegory of:
A. Civil War
B. McCarthyism
C. Great Depression
D. WWII
Answer: B
Miller uses Salem witch trials to criticize McCarthy era.
102. Blanche DuBois is a character in:
A. Death of a Salesman
B. Long Day’s Journey into Night
C. A Streetcar Named Desire
D. The Glass Menagerie
Answer: C
103. Who wrote Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
A. O’Neill
B. Miller
C. Albee
D. Williams
Answer: C
104. Which novel ends with “So we beat on, boats against the
current”?
A. Catch-22
B. The Great Gatsby
C. The Road
D. The Sun Also Rises
Answer: B
105. The Transcendental Club was led by:
A. Whitman
B. Emerson
C. Dickinson
D. Melville
Answer: B
106. “Go Down, Moses” is by:
A. Langston Hughes
B. Faulkner
C. Baldwin
D. Wright
Answer: B
107. “The Lottery” is a story by:
A. Kate Chopin
B. Shirley Jackson
C. Flannery O’Connor
D. Mary Wilkins Freeman
Answer: B
108. Which novel depicts Dust Bowl migration?
A. East of Eden
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. Main Street
D. Sister Carrie
Answer: B
109. Which poet wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
A. Eliot
B. Pound
C. Williams
D. Stevens
Answer: A
110. “Bartleby the Scrivener” is by:
A. Poe
B. Hawthorne
C. Emerson
D. Melville
Answer: D
111. The term “Lost Generation” refers to:
A. Post-WWII writers
B. Post-WWI expatriate writers
C. Modern African-American writers
D. Canadian immigrant writers
Answer: B
112. Which novel features a man surviving on a lifeboat with a
tiger?
A. A Fine Balance
B. The English Patient
C. Life of Pi
D. The Stone Diaries
Answer: C
113. Which Canadian author won the Nobel Prize?
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Alice Munro
C. Carol Shields
D. Michael Ondaatje
Answer: B
114. “The Stone Diaries” won the Pulitzer for:
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Carol Shields
C. Munro
D. Ondaatje
Answer: B
115. Patrick White’s novel Voss
explores:
A. Maritime romance
B. Australian desert exploration
C. WWII trauma
D. Crime investigation
Answer: B
116. “We Are Going” (poetry collection) is by:
A. Les Murray
B. Banjo Paterson
C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D. Judith Wright
Answer: C
117. “The Man Who Loved Children” is by:
A. Patrick White
B. Christina Stead
C. Peter Carey
D. Malouf
Answer: B
118. Which character is from Death of a Salesman?
A. Willy Loman
B. Stanley Kowalski
C. Tom Wingfield
D. Biff Braddock
Answer: A
119. “The Ice Storm” is a novel by:
A. Rick Moody
B. Richard Russo
C. Tobias Wolff
D. Franzen
Answer: A
120. “Slaughterhouse-Five” deals with:
A. WWI
B. Korean War
C. WWII Bombing of Dresden
D. Vietnam War
Answer: C
121. Arthur Miller’s All My Sons
deals with:
A. Racism
B. War profiteering
C. Mental illness
D. Divorce
Answer: B
122. The protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye
is:
A. Nick Carraway
B. Holden Caulfield
C. Ishmael
D. Quentin Compson
Answer: B
123. “The Lottery” ends with:
A. A wedding
B. A ritual killing
C. A flood
D. A fire
Answer: B
124. Which Australian writer wrote Cloudstreet?
A. Patrick White
B. Tim Winton
C. Malouf
D. Carey
Answer: B
125. Which Canadian book deals with internment of
Japanese-Canadians?
A. Fifth Business
B. Obasan
C. The Diviners
D. Monkey Beach
Answer: B
126. “O Captain! My Captain!” mourns the death of:
A. Lincoln
B. Kennedy
C. Washington
D. Roosevelt
Answer: A
127. Who wrote Song of Solomon?
A. Zora Neale Hurston
B. Toni Morrison
C. Alice Walker
D. Gwendolyn Brooks
Answer: B
128. “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” is a poem by:
A. Plath
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Hughes
D. Wilbur
Answer: B
129. Which genre best describes The
Handmaid’s Tale?
A. Realist
B. Dystopian
C. Pastoral
D. Postmodern comedy
Answer: B
130. The English Patient
won:
A. Booker Prize
B. Nobel Prize
C. Pulitzer Prize
D. Governor General’s Award
Answer: A
131. “The Loaded Dog” is a story by:
A. Banjo Paterson
B. Henry Lawson
C. Kate Grenville
D. Patrick White
Answer: B
132. Which novel ends with “Yes I said yes I will Yes”?
A. The Grapes of Wrath
B. Ulysses
C. Beloved
D. Main Street
Answer: B
(American movement influence, though Irish author.)
133. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” appears in:
A. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
B. Song of Myself
C. Leaves of Grass (complete)
D. Drum-Taps
Answer: B
134. “Waltzing Matilda” was written by:
A. Lawson
B. Paterson
C. Wright
D. Murray
Answer: B
135. “The Drover’s Wife” was written by:
A. Lawson
B. Paterson
C. Stead
D. Carey
Answer: A
136. Which Canadian novel deals with prairie life?
A. The Stone Angel
B. The Blind Assassin
C. Fifth Business
D. In the Skin of a Lion
Answer: A
137. Which poem begins with “Let us go then, you and I”?
A. The Raven
B. Prufrock
C. The Waste Land
D. Birches
Answer: B
138. “White Noise” is by:
A. DeLillo
B. Pynchon
C. Vonnegut
D. Heller
Answer: A
139. “The Bridge” was written as a response to:
A. Frost’s poetry
B. Eliot’s Waste Land
C. Whitman’s optimism
D. Poe’s Gothicism
Answer: B
140. “The Road” is authored by:
A. Don DeLillo
B. Cormac McCarthy
C. Faulkner
D. Updike
Answer: B
141. Which book features the Joad family?
A. The Great Gatsby
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. Moby-Dick
D. Beloved
Answer: B
142. “Under the Volcano” is written by:
A. Lowry
B. Faulkner
C. Hemingway
D. Fitzgerald
Answer: A
143. Who wrote “The Bluest Eye”?
A. Walker
B. Morrison
C. Hurston
D. Bambara
Answer: B
144. Which Canadian author wrote A
Jest of God?
A. Margaret Laurence
B. Munro
C. Atwood
D. Mistry
Answer: A
145. Who wrote The Removalists?
A. David Williamson
B. Patrick White
C. Tim Winton
D. Les Murray
Answer: A
146. In The Great Gatsby, the
green light symbolizes:
A. Nature
B. Love
C. Dream/future/hope
D. Money
Answer: C
147. “A Passage to India” influenced which American poet?
A. Whitman
B. Stevens
C. Williams
D. Hughes
Answer: A
148. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “March” is by:
A. Kate Grenville
B. Geraldine Brooks
C. Oodgeroo
D. Christina Stead
Answer: B
149. “As I Lay Dying” is authored by:
A. Hemingway
B. Faulkner
C. Steinbeck
D. Fitzgerald
Answer: B
150. “Civil Disobedience” influenced which world leader?
A. Churchill
B. Martin Luther King Jr.
C. Mao
D. Hitler
Answer: B
151. Which American writer coined the term “Lost
Generation”?
A. Hemingway
B. Stein
C. Fitzgerald
D. Faulkner
Answer: B
Gertrude Stein coined it; Hemingway popularized it.
152. “The Road Not Taken” uses which poetic device
heavily?
A. Metaphor
B. Personification
C. Irony
D. Hyperbole
Answer: A
The road is symbolic/metaphoric.
153. “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane is based on:
A. Frontier experience
B. War trauma
C. Real shipwreck
D. Childhood memory
Answer: C
Reflects Crane’s real survival at sea.
154. Who wrote The Confidence-Man?
A. Hawthorne
B. Melville
C. Poe
D. Twain
Answer: B
155. Which novel opens with the line “124 was
spiteful”?
A. The Color Purple
B. Invisible Man
C. Beloved
D. The Bluest Eye
Answer: C
156. Which poet wrote “Sunday Morning”?
A. Stevens
B. Eliot
C. Whitman
D. Frost
Answer: A
157. “To Build a Fire” is set in:
A. Sahara
B. Alaska/Yukon
C. Australia
D. California desert
Answer: B
Jack London sets it in Arctic cold.
158. Which novel is about a failed salesman?
A. Main Street
B. Sister Carrie
C. Death of a Salesman
D. All the King’s Men
Answer: C
159. The character Blanche appears in:
A. Beloved
B. The Bluest Eye
C. A Streetcar Named Desire
D. Death of a Salesman
Answer: C
160. Who wrote “Howl”?
A. Allen Ginsberg
B. Kerouac
C. Burroughs
D. Lowell
Answer: A
161. “Catch-22” is written by:
A. Heller
B. Steinbeck
C. Faulkner
D. Bellow
Answer: A
162. “Go Tell It on the Mountain” is by:
A. Ellison
B. Baldwin
C. Wright
D. Morrison
Answer: B
163. Which short story writer is noted for
minimalism?
A. Carver
B. Updike
C. Mailer
D. Vidal
Answer: A
164. “The Yellow Wallpaper” critiques:
A. Slavery
B. Medical patriarchy
C. Immigration
D. Education
Answer: B
165. Which Canadian author wrote The Diviners?
A. Atwood
B. Laurence
C. Munro
D. Shields
Answer: B
166. “Alias Grace” is a novel by:
A. Munro
B. Laurence
C. Atwood
D. Shields
Answer: C
167. Which Canadian writer authored The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz?
A. Richler
B. Davies
C. MacLennan
D. Findley
Answer: A
168. “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town” is by:
A. Robertson Davies
B. Stephen Leacock
C. Sinclair Ross
D. Hugh MacLennan
Answer: B
169. “The Tin Flute” was written by:
A. Gabrielle Roy
B. Carol Shields
C. Margaret Laurence
D. Alice Munro
Answer: A
170. “Life of Pi” features the tiger named:
A. Shere Khan
B. Richard Parker
C. Bengal Raja
D. Calypso
Answer: B
171. Who wrote Such a Long Journey?
A. Munro
B. Atwood
C. Mistry
D. Ondaatje
Answer: C
172. “Monkey Beach” explores:
A. Prairie life
B. Indigenous identity
C. Dystopia
D. War trauma
Answer: B
173. Patrick White’s The Tree of Man focuses
on:
A. Urban life
B. Rural Australia
C. Desert storms
D. Sea voyages
Answer: B
174. Which Australian writer won TWO Booker Prizes?
A. Tim Winton
B. David Malouf
C. Patrick White
D. Peter Carey
Answer: D
175. “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith” explores:
A. War
B. Aboriginal identity
C. Immigration
D. Romance
Answer: B
176. “Summer of the Seventeenth Doll” is by:
A. David Williamson
B. Ray Lawler
C. Patrick White
D. Tim Winton
Answer: B
177. “We Are Going” was the first poetry collection
by an Aboriginal poet—
A. Kim Scott
B. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
C. Alexis Wright
D. Wright
Answer: B
178. The Australian “Bush Ballad” tradition is
represented by:
A. Leslie Murray
B. Malouf
C. Banjo Paterson
D. Whitlam
Answer: C
179. Miles Franklin wrote:
A. The Secret River
B. My Brilliant Career
C. The Diviners
D. Remembering Babylon
Answer: B
180. Benang (novel of mixed-race identity)
is by:
A. Wright
B. Scott
C. Grenville
D. Flanagan
Answer: B
181. “The Removalists” critiques:
A. Police brutality
B. Racism
C. Marriage law
D. Education
Answer: A
182. Which Australian writer authored Remembering
Babylon?
A. Murray
B. Winton
C. Malouf
D. Carey
Answer: C
183. Which poem ends with “And miles to go before I
sleep”?
A. Prufrock
B. Birches
C. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
D. Mending Wall
Answer: C
184. “The Bridge” poet Hart Crane attempted to:
A. Criticize modernity
B. Replace despair with affirmation
C. Promote political ideology
D. Write anti-war poetry
Answer: B
185. Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape is:
A. Surrealist
B. Expressionist
C. Realist
D. Absurdist
Answer: B
186. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in
1954?
A. Faulkner
B. Hemingway
C. Steinbeck
D. Morrison
Answer: B
187. “The Fire Next Time” is by:
A. Ellison
B. Baldwin
C. Wright
D. Hughes
Answer: B
188. Native Son is written by:
A. Wright
B. Baldwin
C. Ellison
D. Hurston
Answer: A
189. Which novel explores the Dust Bowl?
A. Of Mice and Men
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. East of Eden
D. Main Street
Answer: B
190. “Rabbit, Run” is written by:
A. Roth
B. Bellow
C. Updike
D. Carver
Answer: C
191. “One Hundred Years of Solitude” influenced
which American postmodernists?
A. Pynchon
B. Steinbeck
C. Miller
D. Crane
Answer: A
192. “The Painted Bird” is by:
A. Kosinski
B. Pynchon
C. Vonnegut
D. DeLillo
Answer: A
193. Who wrote Blood Relations (Australian
drama)?
A. Jack Davis
B. Sharon Pollock
C. David Williamson
D. Ray Lawler
Answer: B
194. “Fifth Business” is part of which trilogy?
A. Deptford Trilogy
B. New Canadian Trilogy
C. Prairie Trilogy
D. Toronto Trilogy
Answer: A
195. “Surfacing” is a novel by:
A. Atwood
B. Munro
C. Shields
D. Campbell
Answer: A
196. “Waltzing Matilda” is considered:
A. Australia’s national anthem
B. Australia’s unofficial national song
C. A war song
D. A folk lament
Answer: B
197. Which novel is known for “iceberg theory”
style?
A. Invisible Man
B. Old Man and the Sea
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. Both B and C
Answer: D
198. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set in:
A. Mississippi
B. Alabama
C. Georgia
D. Tennessee
Answer: B
199. “The Shipping News” is by:
A. Annie Proulx
B. Munro
C. Shields
D. King
Answer: A
200. Which Australian author wrote Gould’s Book
of Fish?
A. Thomas Keneally
B. Richard Flanagan
C. Peter Carey
D. Patrick White
Answer: B
Q201. Who wrote Sister Carrie, a landmark
American naturalist novel?
A. Theodore Dreiser
B. Frank Norris
C. Sinclair Lewis
D. Upton Sinclair
Answer: A
Explanation: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (1900) is a foundational
American naturalist text.
Q202. “The Gilded Age” is a term coined by Mark
Twain and which other writer?
A. Henry James
B. Charles Dudley Warner
C. William Dean Howells
D. John DeForest
Answer: B
Explanation: Twain and Warner co-authored the novel The Gilded Age
(1873).
Q203. In The Sound and the Fury, who
narrates the first section?
A. Quentin
B. Jason
C. Dilsey
D. Benjy
Answer: D
Explanation: The first section is narrated by Benjy, using stream of
consciousness.
Q204. Which Canadian poet wrote “The Lonely Land”?
A. E.J. Pratt
B. A.J.M. Smith
C. Irving Layton
D. Margaret Atwood
Answer: B
Explanation: A.J.M. Smith’s poem is key to Canadian modernism.
Q205. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man mainly
explores:
A. Immigration hardships
B. Racial identity and invisibility
C. Urban corruption
D. Environmental issues
Answer: B
Explanation: The novel deals with African-American identity and social
invisibility.
Q206. The central theme of The Grapes of Wrath
is:
A. The Civil War
B. Migration and economic hardship
C. Industrialization
D. World War I
Answer: B
Explanation: Steinbeck’s novel follows the Joad family during the Dust
Bowl migration.
Q207. Who wrote White Noise?
A. Don DeLillo
B. John Updike
C. Thomas Pynchon
D. Saul Bellow
Answer: A
Explanation: White Noise (1985) examines media saturation and
modern anxieties.
Q208. Which Australian writer created the character
Patrick White’s Voss?
A. David Malouf
B. Peter Carey
C. Patrick White
D. Thomas Keneally
Answer: C
Explanation: Patrick White’s Voss (1957) is a major Australian
novel.
Q209. The poem “Howl” belongs to which movement?
A. Harlem Renaissance
B. Beat Generation
C. Black Mountain School
D. San Francisco Renaissance
Answer: B
Explanation: Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” is central to the Beat Generation.
Q210. Which Canadian novelist wrote The Stone
Angel?
A. Margaret Laurence
B. Alice Munro
C. Carol Shields
D. Margaret Atwood
Answer: A
Explanation: Laurence’s The Stone Angel is a canonical Prairie
novel.
Q211. Who wrote The Age of Innocence?
A. Edith Wharton
B. Kate Chopin
C. Willa Cather
D. Sarah Jewett
Answer: A
Explanation: Wharton’s novel critiques upper-class New York society.
Q212. Captain Ahab appears in:
A. Billy Budd
B. Typee
C. Moby-Dick
D. Benito Cereno
Answer: C
Explanation: Ahab is the obsessive captain hunting the white whale.
Q213. Which poem ends with “I shall wear the
bottoms of my trousers rolled”?
A. “Song of Myself”
B. “The Waste Land”
C. “The Red Wheelbarrow”
D. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Answer: D
Explanation: Eliot’s poem features Prufrock’s anxious self-reflection.
Q214. Emily Dickinson is known for all EXCEPT:
A. Slant rhyme
B. Short lyrics
C. Dramatic monologues
D. Unusual punctuation
Answer: C
Explanation: Dickinson wrote lyric poems, not dramatic monologues.
Q215. Which Australian novel features the character
Ned Kelly?
A. Oscar and Lucinda
B. True History of the Kelly Gang
C. Cloudstreet
D. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Answer: B
Explanation: Peter Carey reimagines the bushranger Ned Kelly.
Q216. “Harlem” (“What happens to a dream
deferred?”) is written by:
A. Countee Cullen
B. Langston Hughes
C. Claude McKay
D. James Weldon Johnson
Answer: B
Explanation: Hughes explores postponed dreams of Black Americans.
Q217. Who wrote Fahrenheit 451?
A. Kurt Vonnegut
B. Ray Bradbury
C. Arthur C. Clarke
D. Isaac Asimov
Answer: B
Explanation: Bradbury’s novel warns against censorship and
anti-intellectualism.
Q218. The term “Lost Generation” was popularized
by:
A. Ezra Pound
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. T.S. Eliot
Answer: B
Explanation: Hemingway used it to describe post-WWI expatriates.
Q219. Which Canadian poet wrote Bushed?
A. Irving Layton
B. Earle Birney
C. Margaret Avison
D. A.J.M. Smith
Answer: B
Explanation: Birney’s poem is a major work about wilderness isolation.
Q220. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is an
allegory for:
A. The Great Depression
B. McCarthyism
C. World War II
D. Korean War
Answer: B
Explanation: The Salem witch trials symbolize anti-communist hysteria.
Q221. Toni Morrison’s Beloved centers on:
A. Immigration
B. Slavery and trauma
C. Environmental destruction
D. Native American myths
Answer: B
Explanation: The novel explores post-slavery haunting and memory.
Q222. Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in
1962?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Saul Bellow
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
Answer: A
Explanation: Steinbeck won for his realistic and imaginative writings.
Q223. “Life is what happens to you while you’re
busy making other plans” is by:
A. Bob Dylan
B. John Lennon
C. Joni Mitchell
D. Paul Simon
Answer: B
Explanation: From Lennon’s song “Beautiful Boy,” influential in pop
culture studies.
Q224. The Color Purple was written by:
A. Alice Walker
B. Zora Neale Hurston
C. Toni Morrison
D. Gloria Naylor
Answer: A
Explanation: Walker’s novel deals with African-American female
experience.
Q225. Which Australian poet wrote “Five Bells”?
A. Les Murray
B. Judith Wright
C. Kenneth Slessor
D. Lionel Fogarty
Answer: C
Explanation: Slessor’s modernist elegy is central to Australian poetry.
Q226. Hester Prynne is the heroine of:
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Ethan Frome
C. Sister Carrie
D. Daisy Miller
Answer: A
Explanation: Hester bears the embroidered “A” for adultery.
Q227. Who wrote Rabbit, Run?
A. John Updike
B. Philip Roth
C. John Cheever
D. Raymond Carver
Answer: A
Explanation: Updike’s novel begins the Rabbit Angstrom series.
Q228. The line “So much depends upon a red
wheelbarrow” appears in:
A. Pound’s Cantos
B. Stevens’ “Sunday Morning”
C. Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow”
D. Frost’s “Mending Wall”
Answer: C
Explanation: A key imagist poem.
Q229. Which Canadian novel is set during the Riel
Rebellion?
A. Surfacing
B. The Wars
C. Roughing It in the Bush
D. The Last Spike
Answer: B
Explanation: Timothy Findley’s The Wars references Canadian WWI
and historical identity.
Q230. The Harlem Renaissance occurred mainly in:
A. 1890s
B. 1910s–1930s
C. 1940s–1950s
D. 1960s
Answer: B
Explanation: Peak cultural blossoming of African-American arts.
Q231. “The Road Not Taken” deals with:
A. War trauma
B. Choice and ambiguity
C. Childhood memories
D. Love
Answer: B
Explanation: Frost’s poem explores decision-making and uncertainty.
Q232. Who wrote Song of Solomon?
A. Toni Morrison
B. James Baldwin
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Richard Wright
Answer: A
Explanation: Morrison explores African-American identity and folklore.
Q233. Mark Twain’s real name was:
A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
B. Henry Louis Mencken
C. Washington Irving
D. Henry James Sr.
Answer: A
Q234. Which Australian novel explores Aboriginal
identity and injustice?
A. Voss
B. My Brilliant Career
C. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
D. A Fringe of Leaves
Answer: C
Explanation: Thomas Keneally’s novel critiques racism and colonial
violence.
Q235. Go Tell It on the Mountain is a novel
by:
A. James Baldwin
B. Richard Wright
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Ishmael Reed
Answer: A
Explanation: Baldwin’s semi-autobiographical novel on religion and
identity.
Q236. Which Canadian writer is famous for short
stories?
A. Michael Ondaatje
B. Alice Munro
C. Margaret Laurence
D. Robertson Davies
Answer: B
Explanation: Munro is known globally as a master of the short story.
Q237. “Because I could not stop for Death” is by:
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Elizabeth Bishop
D. Marianne Moore
Answer: B
Q238. Which American novelist wrote Blood
Meridian?
A. Cormac McCarthy
B. Thomas Pynchon
C. Don DeLillo
D. Jonathan Franzen
Answer: A
Q239. The concept of “cultural cringe” is
associated with:
A. India
B. Australia
C. Canada
D. Ireland
Answer: B
Explanation: The term describes Australia’s early inferiority complex
toward British culture.
Q240. Which African-American poet wrote “We Real
Cool”?
A. Gwendolyn Brooks
B. Nikki Giovanni
C. Rita Dove
D. Lucille Clifton
Answer: A
Q241. The novel Ordinary People was written
by:
A. Judith Guest
B. Anne Tyler
C. Marilynne Robinson
D. Joan Didion
Answer: A
Q242. The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopian
novel by Canadian writer:
A. Margaret Laurence
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Ann-Marie MacDonald
Answer: B
Q243. Who wrote “Daddy”?
A. Adrienne Rich
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Anne Sexton
D. Elizabeth Bishop
Answer: B
Q244. Which Australian writer authored Cloudstreet?
A. Peter Carey
B. Tim Winton
C. David Malouf
D. Kate Grenville
Answer: B
Q245. “I, Too, Sing America” is a poem by:
A. Claude McKay
B. Langston Hughes
C. Robert Hayden
D. Countee Cullen
Answer: B
Q246. Henry James’ narrative style is most
associated with:
A. Naturalism
B. Psychological realism
C. Futurism
D. Romanticism
Answer: B
Q247. Which Canadian novel features the character
Anne Shirley?
A. The Stone Diaries
B. Surfacing
C. Anne of Green Gables
D. The Handmaid’s Tale
Answer: C
Q248. Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?
A. Tennessee Williams
B. Arthur Miller
C. Eugene O’Neill
D. Edward Albee
Answer: A
Q249. The poem “Dover Beach” influenced which
American novel?
A. Fahrenheit 451
B. Moby-Dick
C. Beloved
D. The Catcher in the Rye
Answer: A
Explanation: Bradbury quotes “Dover Beach” in the novel.
Q250. Which Australian poet wrote “At Cooloola”?
A. Lionel Fogarty
B. Judith Wright
C. Andrew Barton Paterson
D. Henry Lawson
Answer: B
Q251. Which writer created the character Holden
Caulfield?
A. J.D. Salinger
B. Jack Kerouac
C. Norman Mailer
D. Joseph Heller
Answer: A
Explanation: Holden is the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye.
Q252. “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” was written by:
A. T.S. Eliot
B. E.E. Cummings
C. Wallace Stevens
D. William Carlos Williams
Answer: C
Q253. Saul Bellow’s Herzog mainly explores:
A. Environmentalism
B. Intellectual crisis
C. Immigration
D. War
Answer: B
Explanation: The protagonist writes unsent letters expressing
existential crisis.
Q254. Which Canadian writer authored Life of Pi?
A. Rohinton Mistry
B. Yann Martel
C. Michael Ondaatje
D. Robertson Davies
Answer: B
Q255. The American poet associated with the concept
of “The Objective Correlative” is:
A. Robert Lowell
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Ezra Pound
D. Robert Frost
Answer: B
Q256. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is an
example of:
A. Haiku
B. Villanelle
C. Blank verse
D. Free verse
Answer: B
Explanation: A villanelle by Dylan Thomas.
Q257. Which Australian writer wrote My Brilliant
Career?
A. Kate Grenville
B. Dorothy Hewett
C. Miles Franklin
D. Christina Stead
Answer: C
Q258. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass first
appeared in:
A. 1836
B. 1855
C. 1865
D. 1890
Answer: B
Q259. The novel Blood on the Forge deals
with:
A. Native American life
B. Migration of African Americans
C. Feminism
D. World War I
Answer: B
Q260. Which Canadian author wrote Fifth Business?
A. Timothy Findley
B. Robertson Davies
C. Michael Ondaatje
D. Morley Callaghan
Answer: B
Q261. Who wrote the poem “Lady Lazarus”?
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Adrienne Rich
C. Anne Sexton
D. Elizabeth Bishop
Answer: A
Q262. Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into
Night belongs to which genre?
A. Absurd drama
B. Expressionist drama
C. Family tragedy
D. Farce
Answer: C
Q263. The novel Native Son was written by:
A. James Baldwin
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Richard Wright
D. Chester Himes
Answer: C
Q264. Which Australian poet is known as “The Bard
of the Bush”?
A. Les Murray
B. Henry Lawson
C. Banjo Paterson
D. Kenneth Slessor
Answer: C
Q265. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is characterized by:
A. Long epics
B. Dramatic dialogue
C. Short, elliptical lyrics
D. Prose poems
Answer: C
Q266. The Bluest Eye mainly examines:
A. Immigration
B. Beauty standards and racism
C. War
D. Environmentalism
Answer: B
Q267. “The Waste Land” was first published in:
A. 1922
B. 1915
C. 1930
D. 1909
Answer: A
Q268. Which Canadian writer authored Obasan?
A. Joy Kogawa
B. Eden Robinson
C. Anne Michaels
D. Margaret Laurence
Answer: A
Explanation: The novel deals with Japanese Canadian internment.
Q269. Who wrote The Joy Luck Club?
A. Maxine Hong Kingston
B. Amy Tan
C. Jhumpa Lahiri
D. Sandra Cisneros
Answer: B
Q270. The poem “Daddy” is an example of:
A. Confessional poetry
B. Romanticism
C. Symbolist poetry
D. Classical elegy
Answer: A
Q271. Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?
A. Joseph Heller
B. Kurt Vonnegut
C. Thomas Pynchon
D. Ken Kesey
Answer: B
Q272. Which Australian novel is set in the penal
colony era?
A. The Secret River
B. Cloudstreet
C. My Brilliant Career
D. Oscar and Lucinda
Answer: A
Q273. The Great Gatsby is set in which
decade?
A. 1910s
B. 1920s
C. 1930s
D. 1940s
Answer: B
Q274. Which Canadian poet wrote “The Forsaken”?
A. E.J. Pratt
B. Duncan Campbell Scott
C. Irving Layton
D. F.R. Scott
Answer: B
Q275. The Old Man and the Sea won Hemingway
which award?
A. Pulitzer Prize
B. Booker Prize
C. Nobel Prize
D. O’Henry Award
Answer: A
Explanation: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953.
Q276. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” is
from:
A. “The Raven”
B. “Song of Myself”
C. “Mountain Interval”
D. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
Answer: B
Q277. Which Australian poet wrote The Ballad of
the Drover?
A. Henry Lawson
B. Judith Wright
C. A.D. Hope
D. Les Murray
Answer: A
Q278. Invisible Cities was written by:
A. Italo Calvino
B. Gabriel García Márquez
C. Joseph Conrad
D. Saul Bellow
Answer: A
Explanation: Although Italian, the novel influenced North American
postmodernism.
Q279. Who wrote Native Guard?
A. Rita Dove
B. Tracy K. Smith
C. Natasha Trethewey
D. Nikki Giovanni
Answer: C
Q280. The character Nick Carraway acts mostly as:
A. Protagonist
B. Narrator-observer
C. Antagonist
D. Symbolic figure
Answer: B
Q281. Which Canadian Indigenous writer wrote Monkey
Beach?
A. Richard Wagamese
B. Eden Robinson
C. Thomas King
D. Lee Maracle
Answer: B
Q282. The line “so much depends upon…” reflects
which movement?
A. Imagism
B. Confessional poetry
C. Modern Gothic
D. Realism
Answer: A
Q283. Arthur Miller won the Pulitzer Prize for:
A. The Crucible
B. After the Fall
C. Death of a Salesman
D. All My Sons
Answer: C
Q284. Which Australian writer authored Remembering
Babylon?
A. Peter Carey
B. Tim Winton
C. David Malouf
D. Thomas Keneally
Answer: C
Q285. Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings is a:
A. Drama
B. Autobiography
C. Novel
D. Poetry collection
Answer: B
Q286. The Canadian novel The English Patient
was written by:
A. Yann Martel
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Michael Ondaatje
D. Robertson Davies
Answer: C
Q287. The poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening” ends with:
A. “I, too, sing America.”
B. “Miles to go before I sleep.”
C. “Do I dare to eat a peach?”
D. “This is the way the world ends.”
Answer: B
Q288. Who wrote The Portrait of a Lady?
A. Henry James
B. Edith Wharton
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Mary McCarthy
Answer: A
Q289. The Australian epic poem The Man from
Snowy River is by:
A. Banjo Paterson
B. Henry Lawson
C. John Shaw Neilson
D. Kenneth Slessor
Answer: A
Q290. On the Road reflects which movement?
A. Imagism
B. Beat Generation
C. Harlem Renaissance
D. Southern Gothic
Answer: B
Q291. Which Canadian writer authored The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz?
A. Alice Munro
B. Mordecai Richler
C. Robertson Davies
D. Margaret Atwood
Answer: B
Q292. Who wrote “A Supermarket in California”?
A. Allen Ginsberg
B. Charles Olson
C. Denise Levertov
D. Frank O’Hara
Answer: A
Q293. The American novelist Thomas Pynchon is best
known for:
A. Magic realism
B. Postmodern fiction
C. Victorian realism
D. Psychological novels
Answer: B
Q294. Which Australian writer won the Nobel Prize
in 1973?
A. Patrick White
B. Peter Carey
C. Tim Winton
D. Christina Stead
Answer: A
Q295. “I saw the best minds of my generation
destroyed by madness” begins:
A. “Howl”
B. “Daddy”
C. “Lady Lazarus”
D. “The Waste Land”
Answer: A
Q296. The Canadian novel Surfacing was
written by:
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Joy Kogawa
C. Carol Shields
D. Alice Munro
Answer: A
Q297. Tennessee Williams is associated with:
A. Angry Young Men
B. Southern Gothic
C. Modern Absurdism
D. Victorian Drama
Answer: B
Q298. “Because the world is cruel, and God is
absent” is a theme in:
A. The Grapes of Wrath
B. As I Lay Dying
C. Beloved
D. The Road
Answer: D
Q299. Which Canadian poet is associated with the
“Confederation Poets”?
A. Bliss Carman
B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Irving Layton
D. Margaret Avison
Answer: A
Q300. Who wrote the American novel The Sun Also
Rises?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. William Faulkner
Answer: B
Q301. Which American novelist wrote The Jungle
exposing labor exploitation?
A. Upton Sinclair
B. Frank Norris
C. John Steinbeck
D. Sinclair Lewis
Answer: A
Explanation: Exposed meatpacking industry abuses.
Q302. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was written by:
A. Claude McKay
B. Langston Hughes
C. Countee Cullen
D. Robert Hayden
Answer: B
Q303. Which Canadian author wrote No Great
Mischief?
A. Alistair MacLeod
B. Hugh MacLennan
C. Robertson Davies
D. Carol Shields
Answer: A
Q304. The Catcher in the Rye is set mainly
in:
A. Baltimore
B. Los Angeles
C. Chicago
D. New York
Answer: D
Q305. “I am the poet of the body and I am the poet
of the soul” is from:
A. “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”
B. “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”
C. “Song of Myself”
D. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”
Answer: C
Q306. Which Australian novel won the 2014 Booker
Prize?
A. Cloudstreet
B. The Narrow Road to the Deep North
C. Oscar and Lucinda
D. The True History of the Kelly Gang
Answer: B
Explanation: By Richard Flanagan.
Q307. The novel A Farewell to Arms is set
during:
A. Korean War
B. Vietnam War
C. World War I
D. American Civil War
Answer: C
Q308. “Do I dare to eat a peach?” appears in:
A. “The Waste Land”
B. “Howl”
C. “Prufrock”
D. “Birches”
Answer: C
Q309. Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace is based
on:
A. A biblical tale
B. A historical murder case
C. An explorer’s diary
D. A mythological story
Answer: B
Q310. Which American poet wrote “The Red
Wheelbarrow”?
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Ezra Pound
C. William Carlos Williams
D. Robert Creeley
Answer: C
Q311. Invisible Man features which unnamed
narrator?
A. A runaway slave
B. A Harlem activist
C. A southerner moving north
D. A biracial child
Answer: C
Explanation: A young Black man moves north seeking identity.
Q312. Who wrote Angle of Repose?
A. Wallace Stegner
B. John Cheever
C. John Updike
D. Richard Ford
Answer: A
Q313. The bush poet Henry Lawson is best known for:
A. War poetry
B. Love poems
C. Outback realism
D. Historical fantasy
Answer: C
Q314. The Canadian novel The Diviners
focuses on:
A. Colonial America
B. Prairie women’s lives
C. War
D. Toronto immigrants
Answer: B
Q315. Who wrote “Song of the Open Road”?
A. Frost
B. Stevens
C. Whitman
D. Cummings
Answer: C
Q316. Wide Sargasso Sea influenced Canadian
postcolonial writers especially in themes of:
A. Ghosts
B. Exile & identity
C. Humor
D. Technology
Answer: B
Q317. “The Hebrew Bible of the modern age” refers
to:
A. Moby-Dick
B. The Waste Land
C. Leaves of Grass
D. The Great Gatsby
Answer: C
Q318. Who wrote Rabbit Is Rich?
A. John Updike
B. Saul Bellow
C. Philip Roth
D. Mailer
Answer: A
Q319. Which Australian author wrote the memoir Romulus,
My Father?
A. Raimond Gaita
B. David Malouf
C. Peter Carey
D. Richard Flanagan
Answer: A
Q320. The character Sethe appears in:
A. The Color Purple
B. Beloved
C. Native Son
D. Invisible Man
Answer: B
Q321. Which Canadian poet wrote “The City of Saint
John”?
A. Charles G.D. Roberts
B. E.J. Pratt
C. Irving Layton
D. Patrick Lane
Answer: A
Q322. “Everything is broken, but I am not afraid”
is a theme in:
A. The Road
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. Beloved
D. Catcher in the Rye
Answer: A
Q323. The American novel Go Down, Moses is
by:
A. Baldwin
B. Faulkner
C. Morrison
D. Hemingway
Answer: B
Q324. Which Australian poet wrote “The Wanderer”?
A. Kenneth Slessor
B. Judith Wright
C. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
D. David Malouf
Answer: A
Q325. Who wrote Light in August?
A. Hemingway
B. Fitzgerald
C. Faulkner
D. Steinbeck
Answer: C
Q326. Canadian literature’s recurring theme,
according to Atwood, is:
A. Humor
B. Survival
C. Romance
D. Destiny
Answer: B
Q327. Who wrote Cannery Row?
A. Steinbeck
B. Hemingway
C. Faulkner
D. Fitzgerald
Answer: A
Q328. The protagonist Janie appears in:
A. Their Eyes Were Watching God
B. The Color Purple
C. The Bluest Eye
D. Beloved
Answer: A
Q329. Which Canadian book addresses immigrant
experience in Toronto?
A. In the Skin of a Lion
B. A Fine Balance
C. The Diviners
D. The Stone Angel
Answer: A
Q330. The line “April is the cruellest month”
begins:
A. Prufrock
B. The Waste Land
C. The Cantos
D. The Bridge
Answer: B
Q331. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith is set
in:
A. Urban Melbourne
B. 20th-century Sydney
C. Colonial frontier Australia
D. World War II
Answer: C
Q332. Which American author wrote Cold Mountain?
A. Michael Chabon
B. Charles Frazier
C. Cormac McCarthy
D. Stephen Crane
Answer: B
Q333. Who wrote “One Art”?
A. Anne Sexton
B. Adrienne Rich
C. Elizabeth Bishop
D. Sylvia Plath
Answer: C
Q334. The Stone Diaries won which award?
A. Booker Prize
B. Pulitzer Prize
C. Governor General’s Award
D. Giller Prize
Answer: B
Q335. The American poet Marianne Moore is
associated with:
A. Confessional poetry
B. Modernist precision
C. Romanticism
D. Imagism exclusively
Answer: B
Q336. “Willy Loman” symbolizes:
A. American success
B. American failure and disillusionment
C. Immigrant experience
D. Violence
Answer: B
Q337. Which Canadian novel focuses on Japanese
internment?
A. Life of Pi
B. Obasan
C. The Wars
D. Two Solitudes
Answer: B
Q338. Tim Winton often writes about:
A. Business
B. Coastal life & family
C. Space travel
D. Revolution
Answer: B
Q339. Which poet wrote “The Black Riders and Other
Lines”?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Wallace Stevens
C. Stephen Crane
D. Robert Frost
Answer: C
Q340. Who wrote the American absurdist play The
Zoo Story?
A. Miller
B. Albee
C. O’Neill
D. Williams
Answer: B
Q341. “Make it new” was whose slogan?
A. Frost
B. Pound
C. Eliot
D. Stevens
Answer: B
Q342. In Canadian history, the term “First Nations”
refers to:
A. Early Europeans
B. Indigenous peoples
C. African immigrants
D. Colonial governors
Answer: B
Q343. Tristram Shandy influenced which
American postmodernist?
A. Pynchon
B. Updike
C. Bellow
D. DeLillo
Answer: A
Q344. Which Australian novel is based on an
explorer’s doomed expedition?
A. Cloudstreet
B. Voss
C. The Secret River
D. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Answer: B
Q345. Who wrote “The Negro Artist and the Racial
Mountain”?
A. Hughes
B. McKay
C. Baldwin
D. Wright
Answer: A
Q346. The character “Queequeg” appears in:
A. The Old Man and the Sea
B. Moby-Dick
C. The Grapes of Wrath
D. Sister Carrie
Answer: B
Q347. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was
first published in:
A. 1915
B. 1922
C. 1900
D. 1935
Answer: A
Q348. Which Canadian writer authored Running in
the Family?
A. Ondaatje
B. Davies
C. Laurence
D. Mistry
Answer: A
Q349. “Stopping by Woods…” uses:
A. Blank verse
B. Ballad meter
C. Free verse
D. Heroic couplets
Answer: B
Q350. Which Australian poet wrote “Woman to Man”?
A. Oodgeroo
B. Judith Wright
C. Les Murray
D. Bruce Dawe
Answer: B
351. Who wrote The Color Purple?
A. Toni Morrison
B. Alice Walker
C. Gloria Naylor
D. Maya Angelou
Answer: B. Alice Walker
Explores Black womanhood, abuse, and self-empowerment.
352. In Beloved, what does the ghost of
Beloved symbolize?
A. Racial pride
B. Repressed trauma
C. African mythology
D. Political change
Answer: B. Repressed trauma
Represents memory of slavery and psychological haunting.
353. Which novel is
considered Hemingway’s masterpiece of World War I?
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. The Old Man and the Sea
D. The Sun Also Rises
Answer: B. A Farewell to Arms
Centers on war, love, and futility.
354. Who coined the term
“Lost Generation”?
A. Ezra Pound
B. Gertrude Stein
C. T.S. Eliot
D. William Faulkner
Answer: B. Gertrude Stein
Hemingway later popularized it.
355. Which American writer
is known for Southern Gothic style?
A. Mark Twain
B. Flannery O’Connor
C. John Updike
D. Jack London
Answer: B. Flannery O’Connor
Known for grotesque characters and Christian symbolism.
356. Death of a Salesman criticizes which American
ideal?
A. Democracy
B. American Dream
C. Free Market
D. Puritanism
Answer: B. American Dream
Willy Loman is ruined by false success ideals.
357. Who wrote Native Son?
A. James Baldwin
B. Richard Wright
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Langston Hughes
Answer: B. Richard Wright
Seminal work of Black protest literature.
358. Which writer is famous
for Beat Generation poetry?
A. William Carlos Williams
B. Allen Ginsberg
C. Adrienne Rich
D. Robert Lowell
Answer: B. Allen Ginsberg
Author of "Howl".
359. Huck Finn’s moral
conflict centers on ___
A. Religion
B. Slavery
C. Politics
D. Education
Answer: B. Slavery
He battles between law and conscience.
360. Which novel critiques
capitalism using dystopian imagery?
A. White Noise
B. The Jungle
C. The Great Gatsby
D. The Bell Jar
Answer: B. The Jungle
Exposes exploitation in meatpacking industry.
361. Who is the author of Song of Solomon?
A. Edward P. Jones
B. Toni Morrison
C. Ntozake Shange
D. Colson Whitehead
Answer: B. Toni Morrison
362. The Glass Menagerie features which symbol?
A. Rose
B. Unicorn
C. Cross
D. Phoenix
Answer: B. Unicorn
Represents Laura’s fragility.
363. Which American poet
wrote “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”?
A. Robert Frost
B. Wallace Stevens
C. W.C. Williams
D. Carl Sandburg
Answer: A. Robert Frost
364. Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man deals primarily with:
A. Gender oppression
B. Racial invisibility
C. Immigration
D. War heroism
Answer: B. Racial invisibility
365. Who wrote The Catcher in the Rye?
A. J.D. Salinger
B. John Steinbeck
C. Saul Bellow
D. Philip Roth
Answer: A. J.D. Salinger
366. Which novel is based on
the Dust Bowl migration?
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. As I Lay Dying
C. The Grapes of Wrath
D. The Sun Also Rises
Answer: C. The Grapes of Wrath
367. Emily Dickinson’s
poetry is known for:
A. Heroic couplets
B. Slant rhyme
C. Long epic lines
D. Dramatic monologues
Answer: B. Slant rhyme
368. In Moby Dick, the white whale
symbolizes:
A. American nationalism
B. Nature’s mystery
C. Friendship
D. Freedom
Answer: B. Nature’s mystery
369. The Harlem Renaissance
poet who wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”:
A. Countee Cullen
B. Langston Hughes
C. Claude McKay
D. Anne Spencer
Answer: B. Langston Hughes
370. Which play features
Blanche DuBois?
A. Long Day’s Journey into Night
B. A Streetcar Named Desire
C. The Iceman Cometh
D. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Answer: B. A Streetcar Named Desire
371. Which novel is narrated
by Nick Carraway?
A. Tender is the Night
B. The Great Gatsby
C. Main Street
D. Sister Carrie
Answer: B. The Great Gatsby
372. The term “Jazz Age” is
associated with:
A. Steinbeck
B. Faulkner
C. Fitzgerald
D. Hawthorne
Answer: C. Fitzgerald
373. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie searches for:
A. Wealth
B. Freedom & love
C. Education
D. Fame
Answer: B. Freedom & love
374. Thornton Wilder’s Our Town uses:
A. Naturalism
B. Minimalist staging
C. Expressionism
D. Absurdism
Answer: B. Minimalist staging
375. Which novel by
Hawthorne explores guilt and sin?
A. Mosses from an Old Manse
B. The Marble Faun
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. House of Seven Gables
Answer: C. The Scarlet Letter
376. Which American drama
ridicules consumer culture?
A. The Crucible
B. The Zoo Story
C. Glengarry Glen Ross
D. Picnic
Answer: C. Glengarry Glen Ross
377. Who wrote White Noise?
A. Don DeLillo
B. John Barth
C. Thomas Pynchon
D. Paul Auster
Answer: A. Don DeLillo
378. The poem “Daddy” is by:
A. Anne Sexton
B. Adrienne Rich
C. Sylvia Plath
D. Elizabeth Bishop
Answer: C. Sylvia Plath
379. The Awakening is considered:
A. Naturalist novel
B. Feminist novel
C. Modernist novel
D. Gothic novel
Answer: B. Feminist novel
380. The main theme of To Kill a Mockingbird:
A. Immigration
B. Racial injustice
C. Urban greed
D. Capitalist exploitation
Answer: B. Racial injustice
381. Which writer represents
the Transcendentalist movement?
A. Poe
B. Hawthorne
C. Melville
D. Emerson
Answer: D. Emerson
382. Who wrote The House of Mirth?
A. Willa Cather
B. Edith Wharton
C. Sarah Orne Jewett
D. Zona Gale
Answer: B. Edith Wharton
383. Hemingway’s style is
described as:
A. Baroque
B. Minimalistic
C. Symbolist
D. Surrealistic
Answer: B. Minimalistic
384. Which play satirizes
Puritan hysteria?
A. The Crucible
B. The Skin of Our Teeth
C. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
D. The Emperor Jones
Answer: A. The Crucible
385. Which poet wrote Leaves of Grass?
A. Frost
B. Whitman
C. Longfellow
D. Poe
Answer: B. Whitman
386. The Joads are
characters in:
A. East of Eden
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. Of Mice and Men
D. Cannery Row
Answer: B. The Grapes of Wrath
387. Who coined the phrase
“The American Dream”?
A. Arthur Miller
B. James Truslow Adams
C. Henry Adams
D. John Winthrop
Answer: B. James Truslow Adams
388. Which novel uses the
stream-of-consciousness technique?
A. Light in August
B. As I Lay Dying
C. Main Street
D. The Sun Also Rises
Answer: B. As I Lay Dying
389. The Beat Generation
focused on:
A. Technology
B. Spiritual rebellion
C. War politics
D. Aristocratic life
Answer: B. Spiritual rebellion
390. The Sun Also Rises explores:
A. American Civil War
B. Lost Generation disillusion
C. Feminist liberation
D. Immigration struggles
Answer: B. Lost Generation disillusion
391. Which is a postmodern
American novelist?
A. Mark Twain
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Thomas Pynchon
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Answer: C. Thomas Pynchon
392. Whose poetry often uses
maritime imagery?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Walt Whitman
C. Robinson Jeffers
D. Hart Crane
Answer: D. Hart Crane
393. Who wrote Rabbit, Run?
A. John Updike
B. Saul Bellow
C. Norman Mailer
D. Philip Roth
Answer: A. John Updike
394. Which play by O’Neill
is heavily autobiographical?
A. The Hairy Ape
B. Long Day’s Journey into Night
C. Mourning Becomes Electra
D. Desire Under the Elms
Answer: B. Long Day’s Journey into Night
395. Which book is
associated with Naturalism?
A. The Red Badge of Courage
B. Sister Carrie
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Walden
Answer: B. Sister Carrie
396. Who wrote Black Boy?
A. James Baldwin
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Richard Wright
D. Paul Laurence Dunbar
Answer: C. Richard Wright
397. The major theme of The Old Man and the Sea:
A. Greed
B. Individual endurance
C. Wealth
D. Community failure
Answer: B. Individual endurance
398. Fahrenheit 451 is a critique of:
A. Religious authority
B. Censorship
C. Imperialism
D. Racism
Answer: B. Censorship
399. Who wrote A Good Man is Hard to Find?
A. Shirley Jackson
B. Flannery O’Connor
C. Eudora Welty
D. Kate Chopin
Answer: B. Flannery O’Connor
400. In Huckleberry Finn, Jim represents:
A. Superstition
B. Humanity and compassion
C. Violence
D. Rebellion
Answer: B. Humanity and compassion
401. The central theme of Black Elk Speaks is:
A. Feminism
B. Native American spiritual history
C. Immigration
D. Industrial progress
Answer: B. Native American spiritual history
402. Which novel deals with
a whale hunt?
A. Typee
B. Moby Dick
C. Billy Budd
D. Benito Cereno
Answer: B. Moby Dick
403. The protagonist of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn represents:
A. Moral rebellion
B. Wealth & privilege
C. Artistic ambition
D. Scientific curiosity
Answer: A. Moral rebellion
404. Which poet wrote The Waste Land?
A. Walt Whitman
B. Eliot
C. Williams
D. Frost
Answer: B. Eliot
405. Go Tell It on the Mountain is written by:
A. Ralph Ellison
B. James Baldwin
C. Richard Wright
D. Alex Haley
Answer: B. James Baldwin
406. Which American
dramatist wrote Beyond the Horizon?
A. Thornton Wilder
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Edward Albee
Answer: B. Eugene O’Neill
407. “Harlem” (“What happens
to a dream deferred?”) is by:
A. Rita Dove
B. Langston Hughes
C. Amiri Baraka
D. Maya Angelou
Answer: B. Langston Hughes
408. Henry David Thoreau’s
philosophy centers on:
A. Individualism & simple living
B. Wealth accumulation
C. Urban progress
D. Materialism
Answer: A. Individualism & simple living
409. Which play exposes
family disintegration through bitter realism?
A. A Streetcar Named Desire
B. Long Day’s Journey into Night
C. The Zoo Story
D. Picnic
Answer: B. Long Day’s Journey into Night
410. Who wrote The Sound and the Fury?
A. Fitzgerald
B. Faulkner
C. Hemingway
D. Steinbeck
Answer: B. Faulkner
411. The central character
in Invisible Man remains unnamed because:
A. He is a fictional ghost
B. He symbolizes racial invisibility
C. It is a mystery novel
D. It’s part of magical realism
Answer: B. He symbolizes racial invisibility
412. Which work critiques
Puritan repression?
A. Beloved
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Great Gatsby
D. The Awakening
Answer: B. The Scarlet Letter
413. John Steinbeck’s
writing often focuses on:
A. Wealthy aristocrats
B. Working-class struggles
C. Political elites
D. Gothic horror
Answer: B. Working-class struggles
414. Who wrote The Autobiography of Malcolm X?
A. Langston Hughes
B. Alex Haley (as told to)
C. James Baldwin
D. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Answer: B. Alex Haley (as told to)
415. Walt Whitman’s poetic
style emphasizes:
A. Strict rhyme
B. Free verse
C. Haiku forms
D. Sonnets
Answer: B. Free verse
416. The “Lost Generation”
writers were mostly:
A. Postcolonial writers
B. Civil War soldiers
C. WWI-era expatriates
D. Victorian American writers
Answer: C. WWI-era expatriates
417. Beloved is set after which
historical event?
A. World War I
B. Civil War
C. Revolutionary War
D. Vietnam War
Answer: B. Civil War
418. Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?
A. Joseph Heller
B. Kurt Vonnegut
C. Thomas Pynchon
D. Norman Mailer
Answer: B. Kurt Vonnegut
419. The setting of The Great Gatsby symbolizes:
A. Buddhist spirituality
B. East–West class divide
C. Native American culture
D. Feminist revolution
Answer: B. East–West class divide
420. Who is the author of The Color Purple?
A. Toni Cade Bambara
B. Alice Walker
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
D. Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: B. Alice Walker
421. The novel Native Son is associated with:
A. Naturalism
B. Romanticism
C. Minimalism
D. Modernism
Answer: A. Naturalism
422. Which writer celebrated
Black vernacular culture in Their Eyes Were Watching God?
A. Toni Morrison
B. Alice Walker
C. Zora Neale Hurston
D. Paule Marshall
Answer: C. Zora Neale Hurston
423. For Whom the Bell Tolls is set during:
A. Spanish Civil War
B. Korean War
C. Mexican Revolution
D. WWII
Answer: A. Spanish Civil War
424. Tennessee Williams’
plays often deal with:
A. Political corruption
B. Southern decay & psychological trauma
C. War epics
D. Economic theory
Answer: B. Southern decay & psychological trauma
425. Which novelist created
the character Hester Prynne?
A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Mark Twain
D. Kate Chopin
Answer: B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
426. Ray Bradbury’s works
belong to which genre?
A. High fantasy
B. Dystopian science fiction
C. Puritan sermons
D. Epic tragedy
Answer: B. Dystopian science fiction
427. The Old Man and the Sea is about a struggle
between:
A. Man vs God
B. Man vs Nature
C. Man vs Society
D. Man vs Science
Answer: B. Man vs Nature
428. The poem “A Supermarket
in California” was written by:
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Ginsberg
C. Sexton
D. Rich
Answer: B. Ginsberg
429. Which American writer
was a major influence on existentialism?
A. Henry James
B. Jack London
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. John Dos Passos
Answer: C. Ernest Hemingway
430. Who wrote Go Down, Moses?
A. William Faulkner
B. Eudora Welty
C. Toni Morrison
D. Katherine Anne Porter
Answer: A. William Faulkner
431. The Crucible uses witch trials as an
allegory for:
A. Slavery
B. Communism paranoia (McCarthyism)
C. Depression
D. Urban poverty
Answer: B. Communism paranoia (McCarthyism)
432. Which American poet
wrote The Red Wheelbarrow?
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Ezra Pound
C. William Carlos Williams
D. e.e. cummings
Answer: C. William Carlos Williams
433. The character Jay
Gatsby represents:
A. Indigenous values
B. Corrupt wealth & idealism
C. Government control
D. Puritan religion
Answer: B. Corrupt wealth & idealism
434. Which novel won
Faulkner his first Pulitzer Prize?
A. Absalom, Absalom!
B. The Sound and the Fury
C. A Fable
D. Go Down, Moses
Answer: C. A Fable
435. Who wrote Ethan Frome?
A. Edith Wharton
B. Pearl S. Buck
C. Harriet Beecher Stowe
D. Sarah Orne Jewett
Answer: A. Edith Wharton
436. Which novel portrays a
dystopian society obsessed with technology?
A. Fahrenheit 451
B. White Noise
C. Infinite Jest
D. Beloved
Answer: B. White Noise
437. The poem “The Raven”
was written by:
A. Whitman
B. Poe
C. Longfellow
D. Crane
Answer: B. Poe
438. Who wrote The Joy Luck Club?
A. Amy Tan
B. Maxine Hong Kingston
C. Celeste Ng
D. Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: A. Amy Tan
439. O Pioneers! deals with:
A. Urban migration
B. Midwestern immigrant communities
C. War between tribes
D. Puritanism
Answer: B. Midwestern immigrant communities
440. Which novel is about a
young girl in the South suffering racial trauma?
A. The Age of Innocence
B. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
C. To Kill a Mockingbird
D. White Noise
Answer: C. To Kill a Mockingbird
441. Who wrote The Bell Jar?
A. Adrienne Rich
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Anne Sexton
D. Susan Sontag
Answer: B. Sylvia Plath
442. The movement Black Arts
Movement is linked to:
A. 1830s transcendentalism
B. 1960s Black nationalism
C. 1950s Beat literature
D. 1990s minimalism
Answer: B. 1960s Black nationalism
443. Who wrote The Red Badge of Courage?
A. Herman Melville
B. Stephen Crane
C. Jack London
D. William Dean Howells
Answer: B. Stephen Crane
444. The major theme of Billy Budd is:
A. Materialism
B. Justice vs innocence
C. Feminism
D. Greed
Answer: B. Justice vs innocence
445. Who wrote Song of Myself?
A. Carl Sandburg
B. Walt Whitman
C. Robert Frost
D. Edgar Lee Masters
Answer: B. Walt Whitman
446. John Updike’s novels often
explore:
A. Science
B. Suburban life
C. War
D. Gothic themes
Answer: B. Suburban life
447. Who wrote the poetry
collection Harmonium?
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Robert Lowell
C. William Carlos Williams
D. Hart Crane
Answer: A. Wallace Stevens
448. The Weary Blues is written by:
A. Claude McKay
B. Langston Hughes
C. Sterling Brown
D. Gwendolyn Brooks
Answer: B. Langston Hughes
449. A Farewell to Arms ends with:
A. Benny’s victory
B. Catherine’s death
C. Henry’s imprisonment
D. Henry’s promotion
Answer: B. Catherine’s death
450. Who wrote The Human Stain?
A. John Updike
B. Philip Roth
C. Saul Bellow
D. Don DeLillo
Answer: B. Philip Roth
451. Which American novelist
wrote Herzog?
A. John Updike
B. Saul Bellow
C. Philip Roth
D. Toni Morrison
Answer: B. Saul Bellow
Modernist psychological novel about identity.
452. The novel The Handmaid’s Tale is by:
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Ann-Marie MacDonald
Answer: B. Margaret Atwood
Dystopian Canadian fiction.
453. Which poet wrote “The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
A. Robert Frost
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Wallace Stevens
D. Carl Sandburg
Answer: B. T.S. Eliot
Early modernist masterpiece.
454. The novel White Noise was written by:
A. Thomas Pynchon
B. Don DeLillo
C. David Foster Wallace
D. John Barth
Answer: B. Don DeLillo
455. Which Australian writer
authored Cloudstreet?
A. Tim Winton
B. Peter Carey
C. Patrick White
D. David Malouf
Answer: A. Tim Winton
456. The Color Purple is narrated mainly through:
A. Essays
B. Letters
C. Poems
D. Dialogues
Answer: B. Letters
Epistolary structure.
457. “I celebrate myself,
and sing myself” appears in:
A. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
B. Drum-Taps
C. Song of Myself
D. When Lilacs Last…
Answer: C. Song of Myself
458. The Glass Menagerie is written by:
A. Edward Albee
B. Arthur Miller
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Eugene O’Neill
Answer: C. Tennessee Williams
459. Which writer is
associated with “dirty realism”?
A. Raymond Carver
B. Toni Morrison
C. Edith Wharton
D. James Baldwin
Answer: A. Raymond Carver
460. The Stone Angel is a novel by:
A. Margaret Laurence
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Alice Munro
D. Carol Shields
Answer: A. Margaret Laurence
461. The central theme of The Great Gatsby is:
A. American Dream corruption
B. Slavery
C. Gender rights
D. War trauma
Answer: A. American Dream corruption
462. “Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening” was written by:
A. Eliot
B. Frost
C. Pound
D. Stevens
Answer: B. Frost
463. The novel Invisible Man was written by:
A. Baldwin
B. Ellison
C. Wright
D. Haley
Answer: B. Ellison
464. The Road is a dystopian novel by:
A. Cormac McCarthy
B. John Steinbeck
C. Hemingway
D. Faulkner
Answer: A. Cormac McCarthy
465. Who wrote Jazz?
A. Alice Walker
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Toni Morrison
D. Richard Wright
Answer: C. Toni Morrison
466. Breakfast at Tiffany’s was written by:
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald
B. Truman Capote
C. J.D. Salinger
D. Sherwood Anderson
Answer: B. Truman Capote
467. The Australian Nobel
laureate author is:
A. Tim Winton
B. Patrick White
C. Peter Carey
D. Kate Grenville
Answer: B. Patrick White
468. Of Mice and Men explores:
A. Supernatural events
B. Friendship & dreams
C. War tragedy
D. Immigrant culture
Answer: B. Friendship & dreams
469. The Mother of All Questions is by:
A. Susan Sontag
B. Adrienne Rich
C. Rebecca Solnit
D. Joan Didion
Answer: C. Rebecca Solnit
470. Which poet authored Howl?
A. Kerouac
B. Ginsberg
C. Ferlinghetti
D. Burroughs
Answer: B. Ginsberg
471. The Bluest Eye explores:
A. Latin American politics
B. Internalized racism
C. Native rights
D. Gender theory
Answer: B. Internalized racism
472. Who wrote the novel The Blind Assassin?
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Ann-Marie MacDonald
D. Carol Shields
Answer: B. Margaret Atwood
473. The Canadian poet Al
Purdy is associated with:
A. Imagism
B. Nationalist realism
C. Confessional poetry
D. Symbolism
Answer: B. Nationalist realism
474. The Tempest retelling A Tempest was adopted by:
A. Derek Walcott
B. Aimé Césaire
C. Chinua Achebe
D. James Baldwin
Answer: B. Aimé Césaire
(Studied in New Literatures context.)
475. Which American author
wrote White Fang?
A. Stephen Crane
B. Jack London
C. Mark Twain
D. Edgar Allan Poe
Answer: B. Jack London
476. The poem “Daddy” was
written by:
A. Sexton
B. Plath
C. Rich
D. Levertov
Answer: B. Plath
477. A Raisin in the Sun was written by:
A. Lorraine Hansberry
B. Alice Walker
C. Maya Angelou
D. Toni Morrison
Answer: A. Lorraine Hansberry
478. Which novel is set
during the Dust Bowl?
A. Tender Is the Night
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. The Jungle
D. East of Eden
Answer: B. The Grapes of Wrath
479. The Line of Beauty is associated with:
A. Thomas Pynchon
B. Don DeLillo
C. Alan Hollinghurst
D. Jonathan Franzen
Answer: C. Alan Hollinghurst
480. Which American writer
is a leading figure in minimalism?
A. Don DeLillo
B. Raymond Carver
C. Norman Mailer
D. Kurt Vonnegut
Answer: B. Raymond Carver
481. “Because I could not
stop for Death” is by:
A. Frost
B. Dickinson
C. Rich
D. Sexton
Answer: B. Dickinson
482. Animal Dreams was written by:
A. Louise Erdrich
B. Barbara Kingsolver
C. Alice Walker
D. Sandra Cisneros
Answer: B. Barbara Kingsolver
483. Who wrote The Poisonwood Bible?
A. Barbara Kingsolver
B. Alice Munro
C. Margaret Atwood
D. Anne Tyler
Answer: A. Barbara Kingsolver
484. No Country for Old Men belongs to:
A. Joyce Carol Oates
B. Cormac McCarthy
C. John Steinbeck
D. Norman Mailer
Answer: B. Cormac McCarthy
485. The Shipping News is written by:
A. E. Annie Proulx
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Alice Munro
Answer: A. E. Annie Proulx
486. The Beat poet who
emphasized spontaneity and jazz rhythm:
A. Eliot
B. Whitman
C. Kerouac
D. Rich
Answer: C. Kerouac
487. Which novel portrays a
dystopia where books are burned?
A. White Noise
B. Animal Farm
C. Fahrenheit 451
D. Catch-22
Answer: C. Fahrenheit 451
488. Patrick White’s Voss is inspired by:
A. Arctic explorers
B. Spanish voyages
C. Australian explorations
D. Medieval knights
Answer: C. Australian explorations
489. Which author wrote Empire Falls?
A. Jonathan Franzen
B. Richard Russo
C. Philip Roth
D. Don DeLillo
Answer: B. Richard Russo
490. The Joy of Cooking references are seen in
works by:
A. Amy Tan
B. Nora Ephron
C. Maxine Hong Kingston
D. Jhumpa Lahiri
Answer: B. Nora Ephron
491. “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers” was written by:
A. Langston Hughes
B. Baraka
C. Brooks
D. Cullen
Answer: A. Langston Hughes
492. Rabbit, Run is written by:
A. Saul Bellow
B. Philip Roth
C. John Updike
D. Joseph Heller
Answer: C. John Updike
493. Snow Falling on Cedars concerns:
A. African American migration
B. Japanese American internment
C. Native rituals
D. Cuban revolution
Answer: B. Japanese American internment
494. The phrase “make it
new” is associated with:
A. Hemingway
B. Whitman
C. Pound
D. Ashbery
Answer: C. Pound
495. Ceremony was written by:
A. Leslie Marmon Silko
B. Louise Erdrich
C. Sherman Alexie
D. N. Scott Momaday
Answer: A. Leslie Marmon Silko
496. Which American writer
won the Nobel Prize in 1962?
A. Steinbeck
B. Hawthorne
C. Faulkner
D. Morrison
Answer: A. Steinbeck
497. Surfacing is a feminist novel by:
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Pauline Johnson
Answer: B. Margaret Atwood
498. “Do I contradict
myself? Very well then…” is from:
A. Drum-Taps
B. Song of Myself
C. The Leaves Grow
D. The Cantos
Answer: B. Song of Myself
499. The novel The Canada Papers belongs to:
A. Atwood
B. Findley
C. Munro
D. Moore
Answer: B. Timothy Findley
500. The English Patient is by:
A. Yaa Gyasi
B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Rohinton Mistry
D. Robertson Davies
Answer: B. Michael Ondaatje
501. Who wrote The Painted Bird?
A. Jerzy Kosinski
B. Arthur Miller
C. Philip Roth
D. John Updike
Answer: A. Jerzy Kosinski
502. The Poisonwood Bible centers on which country?
A. Liberia
B. Congo
C. Nigeria
D. Uganda
Answer: B. Congo
503. Which American poet
wrote “Sunday Morning”?
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Robert Frost
C. T.S. Eliot
D. Ezra Pound
Answer: A. Wallace Stevens
504. The God of Small Things influenced which Canadian
postcolonial trends?
A. Magical realism
B. Diaspora fiction
C. Eco-fiction
D. Gothic realism
Answer: B. Diaspora fiction
505. The novel The Outsider by Richard Wright is part
of:
A. Naturalism
B. Existentialism
C. Romanticism
D. Transcendentalism
Answer: B. Existentialism
506. Who wrote A Mercy?
A. Alice Walker
B. Toni Morrison
C. Maya Angelou
D. Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: B. Toni Morrison
507. “The Emperor of
Ice-Cream” is associated with:
A. Imagism
B. Modernism
C. Romanticism
D. Confessionalism
Answer: B. Modernism
508. Which Australian author
wrote The Secret River?
A. Patrick White
B. Kate Grenville
C. Richard Flanagan
D. Peter Carey
Answer: B. Kate Grenville
509. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden hates:
A. Rich businessmen
B. Phoniness
C. Politicians
D. Professors
Answer: B. Phoniness
510. Who wrote O Pioneers!?
A. Willa Cather
B. Edith Wharton
C. Kate Chopin
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Answer: A. Willa Cather
511. Life of Pi is a Canadian novel by:
A. Rohinton Mistry
B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Yann Martel
D. M.G. Vassanji
Answer: C. Yann Martel
512. Leaves of Grass promotes:
A. Puritanism
B. Individual freedom
C. War heroism
D. Social hierarchy
Answer: B. Individual freedom
513. Which American writer
is best known for metafiction?
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Don DeLillo
C. John Barth
D. John Steinbeck
Answer: C. John Barth
514. The central character
in The Road is known as:
A. “The Man”
B. Tom
C. James
D. Edward
Answer: A. “The Man”
515. The poem “Diving into
the Wreck” is by:
A. Anne Sexton
B. Adrienne Rich
C. Sylvia Plath
D. Elizabeth Bishop
Answer: B. Adrienne Rich
516. Which Canadian author
wrote The Diviners?
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Margaret Laurence
C. Carol Shields
D. Alice Munro
Answer: B. Margaret Laurence
517. Blood Meridian is written by:
A. John Updike
B. Cormac McCarthy
C. Toni Morrison
D. Don DeLillo
Answer: B. Cormac McCarthy
518. Which American author
wrote Giovanni’s Room?
A. James Baldwin
B. Richard Wright
C. Ralph Ellison
D. John Cheever
Answer: A. James Baldwin
519. Patrick White’s style is
often called:
A. Minimalist
B. Psychological-modernist
C. Poststructuralist
D. Naturalist
Answer: B. Psychological-modernist
520. “The Waste Land”
includes the line:
A. “So much depends…”
B. “April is the cruellest month…”
C. “I saw the best minds…”
D. “Good fences make good neighbors.”
Answer: B. “April is the cruellest month…”
521. The Things They Carried deals with:
A. Slavery
B. Vietnam War
C. The Great Depression
D. Civil Rights Movement
Answer: B. Vietnam War
522. Who wrote The Shipping News?
A. E. Annie Proulx
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Robertson Davies
Answer: A. E. Annie Proulx
523. Which Canadian novel
portrays Japanese internment?
A. The Handmaid’s Tale
B. The Stone Diaries
C. Obasan
D. Life of Pi
Answer: C. Obasan
524. The Beat Generation
emphasized:
A. Order
B. Logic
C. Spontaneity
D. Aristocracy
Answer: C. Spontaneity
525. Who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire?
A. Albee
B. O’Neill
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Arthur Miller
Answer: C. Tennessee Williams
526. Dickinson’s poems are
often about:
A. Political theory
B. Death & immortality
C. Industrial change
D. Epic warfare
Answer: B. Death & immortality
527. The French Lieutenant’s Woman influenced Canadian
postmodernism through:
A. Magic realism
B. Metafiction
C. Ecopoetry
D. Gothic elements
Answer: B. Metafiction
528. Native Son is a key text in:
A. Feminist fiction
B. African American protest literature
C. Environmental writing
D. Western novels
Answer: B. African American protest literature
529. Who wrote the poem “One
Art”?
A. Mary Oliver
B. Elizabeth Bishop
C. Adrienne Rich
D. Sylvia Plath
Answer: B. Elizabeth Bishop
530. “So much depends upon…”
is from:
A. Ezra Pound
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Wallace Stevens
D. Frost
Answer: B. Williams
531. Which Australian novel
is about the Kelly Gang?
A. Cloudstreet
B. True History of the Kelly Gang
C. The Secret River
D. Remembering Babylon
Answer: B. True History of the Kelly Gang
532. Beloved won which award?
A. Pulitzer Prize
B. Booker Prize
C. Nobel Prize
D. National Book Award
Answer: A. Pulitzer Prize
533. Who wrote Rabbit Redux?
A. Updike
B. Roth
C. Bellow
D. Franzen
Answer: A. Updike
534. The novel Invisible Man discusses:
A. Communism
B. Racism & identity
C. Western expansion
D. Feminism
Answer: B. Racism & identity
535. Which American poet
wrote “Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Frost
D. Crane
Answer: B. Walt Whitman
536. Canadian fiction
frequently uses the theme of:
A. Superhuman heroes
B. Wilderness survival
C. Space exploration
D. Urban European life
Answer: B. Wilderness survival
537. Who wrote A Good Man Is Hard to Find?
A. Kate Chopin
B. Flannery O’Connor
C. Alice Walker
D. Mary Wilkins Freeman
Answer: B. Flannery O’Connor
538. “I saw the best minds
of my generation…” is from:
A. Prufrock
B. The Cantos
C. Howl
D. The Bridge
Answer: C. Howl
539. The Man from Snowy River is a classic poem from:
A. David Malouf
B. Henry Lawson
C. Banjo Paterson
D. Judith Wright
Answer: C. Banjo Paterson
540. A Farewell to Arms ends with which tragic
event?
A. Henry’s death
B. Catherine’s death
C. Baby’s survival
D. Italian victory
Answer: B. Catherine’s death
541. Who wrote The Overstory?
A. Michael Ondaatje
B. Richard Powers
C. Philip Roth
D. John Barth
Answer: B. Richard Powers
542. Which American author
wrote The House on Mango Street?
A. Alice Walker
B. Sandra Cisneros
C. Zora Neale Hurston
D. Maya Angelou
Answer: B. Sandra Cisneros
543. Song of Solomon uses:
A. Magical realism
B. Classical tragedy
C. Historical gothic
D. Blank verse
Answer: A. Magical realism
544. Who wrote Cat’s Eye?
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Anne Michaels
Answer: B. Margaret Atwood
545. The novel House Made of Dawn deals with:
A. Black nationalism
B. Native American identity
C. Irish immigrants
D. Australian convicts
Answer: B. Native American identity
546. Which American novella
is about two migrant workers?
A. Of Mice and Men
B. Cannery Row
C. The Pearl
D. Tortilla Flat
Answer: A. Of Mice and Men
547. “The Road Not Taken”
uses:
A. Free verse
B. Blank verse
C. Iambic tetrameter
D. Nursery rhyme pattern
Answer: C. Iambic tetrameter
548. Who wrote The Wars?
A. Robertson Davies
B. Timothy Findley
C. Michael Ondaatje
D. Norman Levine
Answer: B. Timothy Findley
549. The character Ahab in Moby Dick symbolizes:
A. Peace
B. Obsession
C. Humility
D. Surrender
Answer: B. Obsession
550. Which Australian poet
wrote “At Cooloola”?
A. Judith Wright
B. Les Murray
C. A.D. Hope
D. Banjo Paterson
Answer: A. Judith Wright
551. Who wrote The Crossing?
A. Don DeLillo
B. Cormac McCarthy
C. Philip Roth
D. John Updike
Answer: B. Cormac McCarthy
552. “Tell all the truth but
tell it slant—” is written by:
A. Adrienne Rich
B. Elizabeth Bishop
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Sylvia Plath
Answer: C. Emily Dickinson
553. Riders in the Chariot is a novel by which
Australian writer?
A. Patrick White
B. Tim Winton
C. Peter Carey
D. David Malouf
Answer: A. Patrick White
554. The narrator of The Great Gatsby is:
A. Tom Buchanan
B. Daisy
C. Nick Carraway
D. Jordan Baker
Answer: C. Nick Carraway
555. “We Real Cool” was
written by:
A. Gwendolyn Brooks
B. Langston Hughes
C. Rita Dove
D. Natasha Trethewey
Answer: A. Gwendolyn Brooks
556. Which Canadian author
wrote The Stone Diaries?
A. Robertson Davies
B. Carol Shields
C. Margaret Atwood
D. Michael Ondaatje
Answer: B. Carol Shields
557. Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by:
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald
B. William Faulkner
C. John Steinbeck
D. Ernest Hemingway
Answer: B. William Faulkner
558. The Australian novel My Brilliant Career was written by:
A. Christina Stead
B. Miles Franklin
C. Kate Grenville
D. Tim Winton
Answer: B. Miles Franklin
559. “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock” features which style?
A. Confessional poetry
B. Dramatic monologue
C. Pastoral lyric
D. Blank verse
Answer: B. Dramatic monologue
560. Which African-American
writer authored The Fire Next Time?
A. Richard Wright
B. James Baldwin
C. Alex Haley
D. Ralph Ellison
Answer: B. James Baldwin
561. The Shipping News is set in:
A. British Columbia
B. Newfoundland
C. Nova Scotia
D. Ontario
Answer: B. Newfoundland
562. “The Negro Artist and
the Racial Mountain” was written by:
A. Paul Laurence Dunbar
B. Langston Hughes
C. Countee Cullen
D. Claude McKay
Answer: B. Langston Hughes
563. The protagonist Milkman
appears in:
A. Invisible Man
B. Song of Solomon
C. The Bluest Eye
D. Beloved
Answer: B. Song of Solomon
564. Which Australian poet
wrote “Five Bells”?
A. Les Murray
B. Kenneth Slessor
C. Judith Wright
D. A.D. Hope
Answer: B. Kenneth Slessor
565. Cannery Row emphasizes:
A. Industrial greed
B. Community and survival
C. War trauma
D. Religious guilt
Answer: B. Community and survival
566. Who wrote Stranger in the Village (essay)?
A. James Baldwin
B. Richard Wright
C. Amiri Baraka
D. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Answer: A. James Baldwin
567. “Design” and “Birches”
are poems by:
A. Robert Frost
B. Whitman
C. Crane
D. Eliot
Answer: A. Robert Frost
568. The Canadian novel The Wars is set during:
A. World War II
B. Boer War
C. World War I
D. Korean War
Answer: C. World War I
569. The play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is written by:
A. Tennessee Williams
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Edward Albee
D. Arthur Miller
Answer: C. Edward Albee
570. Go Down, Moses deals with the legacy of:
A. Feminism
B. Slavery in the South
C. Industrialization
D. Colonization of Canada
Answer: B. Slavery in the South
571. Which poet wrote “The
Idea of Order at Key West”?
A. William Carlos Williams
B. Ezra Pound
C. Wallace Stevens
D. Robert Frost
Answer: C. Wallace Stevens
572. The Canadian writer
famous for magical realism is:
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Robertson Davies
D. Thomas King
Answer: B. Michael Ondaatje
573. Beloved features the ghost of:
A. Denver
B. Baby Suggs
C. Beloved
D. Sethe’s grandmother
Answer: C. Beloved
574. The American poet Hart
Crane wrote:
A. The Bridge
B. The Cantos
C. Howl
D. Prufrock
Answer: A. The Bridge
575. The Australian novel Remembering Babylon explores:
A. Convict life
B. Colonial fear of outsiders
C. Indigenous mythology
D. Gold rush economics
Answer: B. Colonial fear of outsiders
576. The poem “Daddy” is
associated with:
A. Romanticism
B. Confessional poetry
C. Naturalism
D. Expansionism
Answer: B. Confessional poetry
577. Which American novel
begins with “Call me Ishmael”?
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Moby Dick
C. Billy Budd
D. Walden
Answer: B. Moby Dick
578. The Canadian author
Thomas King is known for:
A. Gothic novels
B. Indigenous storytelling satire
C. War novels
D. Feminist poetry
Answer: B. Indigenous storytelling satire
579. The Sound and the Fury uses:
A. Third-person limited narration
B. Multiple stream-of-consciousness narrators
C. Epistolary style
D. Omniscient comedy
Answer: B. Multiple stream-of-consciousness narrators
580. Who wrote Death Comes for the Archbishop?
A. Edith Wharton
B. Willa Cather
C. Ursula Le Guin
D. Kate Chopin
Answer: B. Willa Cather
581. Judith Wright is known
for poetry about:
A. Science
B. Australian landscape & ecology
C. Urban industrialism
D. European mythology
Answer: B. Australian landscape & ecology
582. The Bell Jar is partly autobiographical
because:
A. It mirrors Plath’s struggles
B. It records family memories
C. It describes a historical event
D. It is about war trauma
Answer: A. It mirrors Plath’s struggles
583. In The Great Gatsby, the eyes of Doctor T.J.
Eckleburg symbolize:
A. God’s judgement
B. Modern medicine
C. Religion
D. Moral purity
Answer: A. God’s judgement
584. The Canadian novel In the Skin of a Lion focuses on:
A. Hollywood
B. Immigrant laborers in Toronto
C. Canadian wilderness
D. Maritime villages
Answer: B. Immigrant laborers in Toronto
585. True History of the Kelly Gang retells:
A. Australian convict history
B. Aboriginal mythology
C. Bushranger Ned Kelly’s life
D. Gold rush migrations
Answer: C. Bushranger Ned Kelly’s life
586. Who wrote The Age of Innocence?
A. Willa Cather
B. Edith Wharton
C. Kate Chopin
D. Elizabeth Gaskell
Answer: B. Edith Wharton
587. The central theme of The Old Man and the Sea is:
A. Loss of freedom
B. Perseverance
C. Family conflict
D. Psychological decay
Answer: B. Perseverance
588. The poem “Harlem” uses:
A. Simplicity and directness
B. Mythological symbols
C. Classical references
D. Pastoral imagery
Answer: A. Simplicity and directness
589. Who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces?
A. John Kennedy Toole
B. Don DeLillo
C. William Styron
D. John Barth
Answer: A. John Kennedy Toole
590. Obasan deals with:
A. African slavery
B. Anti-Japanese internment
C. Ukrainian immigrants
D. Great Depression poverty
Answer: B. Anti-Japanese internment
591. The Color Purple explores:
A. Urban capitalism
B. Black female suffering & resilience
C. Asian immigration
D. Frontier settlement
Answer: B. Black female suffering & resilience
592. The poem “Because I
could not stop for Death” gives death a:
A. Violent image
B. Friendly and civil persona
C. Comic tone
D. Scientific tone
Answer: B. Friendly and civil persona
593. Australian poet Les
Murray is known for:
A. Postmodern satire
B. Landscape & rural identity
C. Psychological narratives
D. High modernism
Answer: B. Landscape & rural identity
594. Song of Solomon includes themes of:
A. Migration
B. Flight and ancestral roots
C. Technology
D. Historical war
Answer: B. Flight and ancestral roots
595. Which Canadian writer
created the Deptford Trilogy?
A. Margaret Atwood
B. Robertson Davies
C. Carol Shields
D. Margaret Laurence
Answer: B. Robertson Davies
596. Moby Dick is narrated by:
A. Ahab
B. Ishmael
C. Starbuck
D. Queequeg
Answer: B. Ishmael
597. The Secret River examines:
A. Space travel
B. Frontier conflict between settlers & Indigenous people
C. Modern technology
D. Victorian marriage
Answer: B. Frontier conflict between settlers & Indigenous people
598. The novel The Jungle exposed horrors of:
A. Slavery
B. Meatpacking industry
C. Immigration
D. Railroad business
Answer: B. Meatpacking industry
599. “So it goes” is
repeated in:
A. Catch-22
B. Howl
C. Slaughterhouse-Five
D. The Bell Jar
Answer: C. Slaughterhouse-Five
600. Which writer uses
nonlinear, fragmented narrative?
A. Steinbeck
B. Faulkner
C. Wharton
D. Twain
Answer: B. Faulkner
601. Which American writer
created the character Sethe?
A. Alice Walker
B. Toni Morrison
C. Octavia Butler
D. Zora Neale Hurston
Answer: B. Toni Morrison
602. “Song of Myself”
appears in:
A. North of Boston
B. Ariel
C. Leaves of Grass
D. Harmonium
Answer: C. Leaves of Grass
603. The Canadian novel Fifth Business belongs to:
A. Robertson Davies
B. Yann Martel
C. Al Purdy
D. Rohinton Mistry
Answer: A. Robertson Davies
604. Henry Miller is best
known for:
A. War fiction
B. Autobiographical erotic novels
C. Gothic horror
D. Detective fiction
Answer: B. Autobiographical erotic novels
605. The American poet who
wrote “Skunk Hour” is:
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Robert Lowell
C. Allen Ginsberg
D. Robert Creeley
Answer: B. Robert Lowell
606. Australian writer Kate
Grenville is famous for:
A. Urban satire
B. Historical fiction
C. Post-apocalyptic writing
D. War poetry
Answer: B. Historical fiction
607. The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize for:
A. Nadine Gordimer
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Alice Munro
D. Carol Shields
Answer: B. Margaret Atwood
608. “Harlem Renaissance
novelist who wrote Passing” refers to:
A. Toni Morrison
B. Nella Larsen
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
D. Maya Angelou
Answer: B. Nella Larsen
609. White Noise was written by:
A. Thomas Pynchon
B. Don DeLillo
C. Jonathan Franzen
D. Cormac McCarthy
Answer: B. Don DeLillo
610. Cloudstreet is a novel by:
A. Peter Carey
B. Tim Winton
C. Patrick White
D. David Malouf
Answer: B. Tim Winton
611. The American Southern
Gothic writer among the following is:
A. Bret Easton Ellis
B. Flannery O’Connor
C. Mark Twain
D. Saul Bellow
Answer: B. Flannery O’Connor
612. “I celebrate myself” is
the opening line of:
A. Walden
B. The Waste Land
C. Song of Myself
D. O Pioneers!
Answer: C. Song of Myself
613. The Canadian poet
Leonard Cohen is also known as:
A. Novelist
B. Singer-songwriter
C. Actor
D. Politician
Answer: B. Singer-songwriter
614. The Catcher in the Rye centers on:
A. Loss and innocence
B. War and peace
C. Race and identity
D. Futuristic politics
Answer: A. Loss and innocence
615. The poem “The Red
Wheelbarrow” is by:
A. Edward Estlin Cummings
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Carl Sandburg
D. Robert Lowell
Answer: B. William Carlos Williams
616. Which Australian
Aboriginal writer authored My Place?
A. Sally Morgan
B. Oodgeroo Noonuccal
C. Kim Scott
D. Alexis Wright
Answer: A. Sally Morgan
617. The novel Blood Meridian is written by:
A. Saul Bellow
B. Thomas Pynchon
C. Cormac McCarthy
D. John Updike
Answer: C. Cormac McCarthy
618. “Because I could not
stop for Death—” is an example of:
A. Confessional poetry
B. Metaphysical poetry
C. Enlightenment satire
D. Romantic imagery
Answer: B. Metaphysical poetry (in Dickinson’s style)
619. Who wrote the Canadian
novel The Handmaid’s Tale?
A. Margaret Laurence
B. Alice Munro
C. Margaret Atwood
D. Carol Shields
Answer: C. Margaret Atwood
620. The Crucible depicts:
A. Cold War paranoia
B. World War I
C. The French Revolution
D. The Civil Rights movement
Answer: A. Cold War paranoia (via Salem witch trials)
621. The American writer
Theodore Dreiser is associated with:
A. Naturalism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Postmodernism
D. Romanticism
Answer: A. Naturalism
622. Australian poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was formerly known as:
A. Carol Lockyer
B. Kathleen Walker
C. Maria Wright
D. Susan Quinn
Answer: B. Kathleen Walker
623. Native Son was written by:
A. James Baldwin
B. Ralph Ellison
C. Richard Wright
D. Claude McKay
Answer: C. Richard Wright
624. House Made of Dawn is by:
A. Louise Erdrich
B. N. Scott Momaday
C. Joy Harjo
D. Leslie Marmon Silko
Answer: B. N. Scott Momaday
625. The Canadian writer
Rohinton Mistry is originally from:
A. Africa
B. India
C. Iran
D. Australia
Answer: B. India
626. “America” is a famous
poem by:
A. Allen Ginsberg
B. Carl Sandburg
C. e.e. cummings
D. Ezra Pound
Answer: A. Allen Ginsberg
627. The Australian novel Eucalyptus is written by:
A. Murray Bail
B. Tim Winton
C. Alexis Wright
D. Peter Carey
Answer: A. Murray Bail
628. The American novel The Sun Also Rises explores:
A. Lost Generation disillusionment
B. Civil War trauma
C. Slavery
D. Technological dystopia
Answer: A. Lost Generation disillusionment
629. The poem “Lady Lazarus”
is by:
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Sylvia Plath
C. H.D.
D. Louise Glück
Answer: B. Sylvia Plath
630. A major theme in
Australian Aboriginal literature is:
A. Space travel
B. Land rights & dispossession
C. Royal courts
D. Medieval war
Answer: B. Land rights & dispossession
631. Henderson the Rain King was written by:
A. Norman Mailer
B. Saul Bellow
C. John Barth
D. Joseph Heller
Answer: B. Saul Bellow
632. "Do I contradict
myself? Very well then I contradict myself..." is from:
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Ariel
C. Good Morning Midnight
D. Drum-Taps
Answer: A. Leaves of Grass
633. Which Canadian novel
features the character Clara Callan?
A. The Diviners
B. Clara Callan
C. Fifth Business
D. Surfacing
Answer: B. Clara Callan
634. The American play Our Town was written by:
A. Eugene O’Neill
B. Thornton Wilder
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Arthur Miller
Answer: B. Thornton Wilder
635. Wide Sargasso Sea (Caribbean, part of New
Literatures) reimagines:
A. Oliver Twist
B. Macbeth
C. Jane Eyre
D. Hamlet
Answer: C. Jane Eyre
636. The Australian novel Benang is by:
A. Peter Carey
B. Kim Scott
C. David Malouf
D. Alexis Wright
Answer: B. Kim Scott
637. The American writer
John Steinbeck often wrote about:
A. High modernism
B. Agricultural workers & social injustice
C. Urban capitalism
D. Gothic romance
Answer: B. Agricultural workers & social injustice
638. “A Supermarket in
California” is about the poet’s encounter with:
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry Thoreau
D. Sylvia Plath
Answer: B. Walt Whitman
639. The Canadian short
story writer who won the Nobel Prize is:
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Ethel Wilson
Answer: A. Alice Munro
640. The American novel As I Lay Dying uses:
A. 15 narrators
B. 5 narrators
C. 3 narrators
D. 1 narrator
Answer: A. 15 narrators
641. Australian writer David
Malouf wrote:
A. The Riders
B. Remembering Babylon
C. Dirt Music
D. Breath
Answer: B. Remembering Babylon
642. The American poet
Marianne Moore is known for:
A. Gothic horror
B. Precision & syllabic verse
C. Romanticism
D. Confessional poetry
Answer: B. Precision & syllabic verse
643. The Poisonwood Bible was written by:
A. Louise Erdrich
B. Barbara Kingsolver
C. Donna Tartt
D. Gloria Naylor
Answer: B. Barbara Kingsolver
644. The Canadian epic poem Brébeuf and His Brethren was written by:
A. E.J. Pratt
B. Atwood
C. Cohen
D. Douglas Coupland
Answer: A. E.J. Pratt
645. Rabbit, Run is a novel by:
A. John Updike
B. Saul Bellow
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. John Cheever
Answer: A. John Updike
646. The poem “Daddy” uses
the metaphor of:
A. A soldier
B. A Nazi–Jew relationship
C. A child’s toy
D. Nature’s cycles
Answer: B. A Nazi–Jew relationship
647. Australian writer
Alexis Wright won the Miles Franklin Award for:
A. That Deadman Dance
B. The Secret River
C. Carpentaria
D. Cloudstreet
Answer: C. Carpentaria
648. The novel Invisible Man belongs to:
A. Alice Walker
B. Ralph Ellison
C. James Baldwin
D. Toni Morrison
Answer: B. Ralph Ellison
649. Canadian writer Ann-Marie
MacDonald wrote:
A. Fall on Your Knees
B. Stone Angel
C. Barney’s Version
D. The English Patient
Answer: A. Fall on Your Knees
650. The American poem
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” ends with:
A. “I shall return”
B. “Miles to go before I sleep”
C. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
D. “So it goes”
Answer: B. “Miles to go before I sleep”
651. Who wrote the American
novel Sister Carrie?
A. Henry James
B. Theodore Dreiser
C. Sinclair Lewis
D. John Dos Passos
Answer: B. Theodore Dreiser
652. “Howl” was first
performed at the Six Gallery Reading in:
A. 1945
B. 1955
C. 1965
D. 1975
Answer: B. 1955
653. Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners belongs to:
A. Manawaka series
B. Deptford Trilogy
C. Border Trilogy
D. Rabbit series
Answer: A. Manawaka series
654. Which Australian author
wrote The Chant of Jimmie
Blacksmith?
A. Thomas Keneally
B. David Malouf
C. Tim Winton
D. Kate Grenville
Answer: A. Thomas Keneally
655. The American poem “One
Art” is by:
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Elizabeth Bishop
C. Adrienne Rich
D. Anne Sexton
Answer: B. Elizabeth Bishop
656. Which novel opens with
“Call me Ishmael”?
A. The Great Gatsby
B. Moby-Dick
C. Huckleberry Finn
D. White Noise
Answer: B. Moby-Dick
657. The Canadian writer of No Great Mischief is:
A. Alistair MacLeod
B. Robertson Davies
C. Yann Martel
D. Leonard Cohen
Answer: A. Alistair MacLeod
658. American play The Iceman Cometh was written by:
A. Arthur Miller
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Thornton Wilder
D. Tennessee Williams
Answer: B. Eugene O’Neill
659. The Road is a novel by:
A. Don DeLillo
B. Cormac McCarthy
C. John Steinbeck
D. Jonathan Franzen
Answer: B. Cormac McCarthy
660. Who wrote the
Australian novel True History of the Kelly
Gang?
A. Peter Carey
B. Alexis Wright
C. Kim Scott
D. Murray Bail
Answer: A. Peter Carey
661. In Beloved, the ghostly character is:
A. Pearl
B. Denver
C. Beloved
D. Amy
Answer: C. Beloved
662. The poem “The Negro
Speaks of Rivers” is by:
A. Langston Hughes
B. Countee Cullen
C. Claude McKay
D. Sterling Brown
Answer: A. Langston Hughes
663. Canadian novel The English Patient was written by:
A. Rohinton Mistry
B. Michael Ondaatje
C. Robertson Davies
D. Al Purdy
Answer: B. Michael Ondaatje
664. Australian poet known
for The Man from Snowy River:
A. A.D. Hope
B. Banjo Paterson
C. Kenneth Slessor
D. Judith Wright
Answer: B. Banjo Paterson
665. The American novel The Color Purple deals with:
A. Industrial poverty
B. African-American female oppression
C. War
D. Immigration
Answer: B. African-American female oppression
666. Blood on the Wattle is a historical account of:
A. American slavery
B. Australian frontier massacres
C. Canadian prairie life
D. New York riots
Answer: B. Australian frontier massacres
667. Author of The Bridge (American epic poem):
A. Wallace Stevens
B. Hart Crane
C. William Carlos Williams
D. Robert Frost
Answer: B. Hart Crane
668. The protagonist of The Old Man and the Sea is:
A. Pedro
B. Santiago
C. Miguel
D. Carlos
Answer: B. Santiago
669. The Canadian writer
with the novel Life of Pi is:
A. Rohinton Mistry
B. Yann Martel
C. Michael Ondaatje
D. Sinclair Ross
Answer: B. Yann Martel
670. Australian writer David
Malouf is best described as:
A. Postmodern satirist
B. Nature poet
C. Historical and lyrical novelist
D. Romance novelist
Answer: C. Historical and lyrical novelist
671. Which American
playwright wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
A. Tennessee Williams
B. Arthur Miller
C. Edward Albee
D. Eugene O’Neill
Answer: A. Tennessee Williams
672. “I saw the best minds
of my generation destroyed by madness” is from:
A. Kaddish
B. Howl
C. A Supermarket in California
D. Sunflower Sutra
Answer: B. Howl
673. Surfacing is a Canadian novel by:
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Ann-Marie MacDonald
Answer: B. Margaret Atwood
674. Cloudstreet deals with two families in:
A. Sydney
B. Melbourne
C. Perth
D. Brisbane
Answer: C. Perth
675. Who wrote the American
novel White Fang?
A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. Jack London
C. Mark Twain
D. Sherwood Anderson
Answer: B. Jack London
676. Canadian poet Al
Purdy’s major theme:
A. Courtly love
B. Working-class life
C. Medieval romance
D. War propaganda
Answer: B. Working-class life
677. The American novel The House of Mirth was written by:
A. Edith Wharton
B. Kate Chopin
C. Willa Cather
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Answer: A. Edith Wharton
678. Australian poet Kenneth
Slessor wrote:
A. Voss
B. “Five Bells”
C. “The Horses”
D. “Crusoe”
Answer: B. “Five Bells”
679. The American novel On the Road is associated with:
A. Transcendentalism
B. Beat Generation
C. Harlem Renaissance
D. Naturalism
Answer: B. Beat Generation
680. Margaret Laurence’s
famous novel:
A. The Diviners
B. Cat’s Eye
C. Away
D. Neighbours
Answer: A. The Diviners
681. Australian novel Voss was written by:
A. Peter Carey
B. Patrick White
C. David Malouf
D. Tim Winton
Answer: B. Patrick White
682. The American poem
“Design” was written by:
A. Robert Frost
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Carl Sandburg
D. Williams
Answer: A. Robert Frost
683. The Canadian writer
behind Fugitive Pieces:
A. Anne Michaels
B. Carol Shields
C. Margaret Atwood
D. Ethel Wilson
Answer: A. Anne Michaels
684. The Corrections is a novel by:
A. Jonathan Franzen
B. John Barth
C. Paul Auster
D. Bret Easton Ellis
Answer: A. Jonathan Franzen
685. Australian poet A.D. Hope
is best known for:
A. Confessional poems
B. Satirical neoclassical style
C. Beat poetry
D. Surrealism
Answer: B. Satirical neoclassical style
686. Which American writer
created the character Willy Loman?
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Eugene O’Neill
D. Edward Albee
Answer: A. Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman)
687. The American novel Invisible Cities is NOT American but:
A. Swiss
B. Italian
C. Spanish
D. German
Answer: B. Italian (by Italo Calvino)
688. The Great Gatsby is narrated by:
A. Daisy Buchanan
B. Jay Gatsby
C. Nick Carraway
D. Tom Buchanan
Answer: C. Nick Carraway
689. Aboriginal Australian
writer Alexis Wright wrote:
A. The Riders
B. Carpentaria
C. The Slap
D. Jasper Jones
Answer: B. Carpentaria
690. The American poet Carl
Sandburg is known for celebrating:
A. Rural England
B. American cities & workers
C. Australian outback
D. British monarchy
Answer: B. American cities & workers
691. The Stone Angel was written by:
A. Carol Shields
B. Margaret Laurence
C. Alice Munro
D. Lucy Maud Montgomery
Answer: B. Margaret Laurence
692. “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock” was first published in:
A. 1915
B. 1925
C. 1935
D. 1945
Answer: A. 1915
693. The Australian novel The Secret River deals with:
A. American slavery
B. Aboriginal dispossession
C. Canadian immigration
D. WWII
Answer: B. Aboriginal dispossession
694. The American play A Streetcar Named Desire is set in:
A. Boston
B. Chicago
C. New Orleans
D. Dallas
Answer: C. New Orleans
695. The Canadian short
story “Boys and Girls” is by:
A. Margaret Laurence
B. Alice Munro
C. Carol Shields
D. Mavis Gallant
Answer: B. Alice Munro
696. Song of Solomon was written by:
A. Maya Angelou
B. Toni Morrison
C. Zora Neale Hurston
D. Paule Marshall
Answer: B. Toni Morrison
697. Australian poet Judith
Wright often wrote about:
A. Science
B. Nature & Aboriginal issues
C. Urban politics
D. High modernism
Answer: B. Nature & Aboriginal issues
698. Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?
A. Kurt Vonnegut
B. Joseph Heller
C. John Irving
D. Philip Roth
Answer: A. Kurt Vonnegut
699. The Canadian author of Barney’s Version:
A. Mordecai Richler
B. Atwood
C. Munro
D. Gallant
Answer: A. Mordecai Richler
700. The American poet
Wallace Stevens belonged to:
A. Confessional school
B. Imagist movement
C. High modernism
D. Harlem Renaissance
Answer: C. High modernism
701. The American novel Go Tell It on the Mountain was written by:
A. Richard Wright
B. James Baldwin
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Toni Morrison
Answer: B. James Baldwin
702. Australian writer Peter
Carey won the Booker Prize for:
A. Cloudstreet
B. Oscar and Lucinda
C. Carpentaria
D. The Riders
Answer: B. Oscar and Lucinda
703. “Do not go gentle into
that good night” was written by:
A. Robert Frost
B. Dylan Thomas
C. Wallace Stevens
D. T.S. Eliot
Answer: B. Dylan Thomas (Welsh poet studied in
American-influence courses.)
704. The novel The Joy Luck Club centers on:
A. Chinese American mothers and daughters
B. Native American myths
C. African American resistance
D. Mexican migration
Answer: A. Chinese American mothers and daughters
705. Australian poet Les
Murray often wrote about:
A. European cities
B. Rural Australia & identity
C. Greek mythology
D. Canadian prairies
Answer: B. Rural Australia & identity
706. Who wrote the American
novel Beloved?
A. Alice Walker
B. Toni Morrison
C. James Baldwin
D. Gloria Naylor
Answer: B. Toni Morrison
707. “April is the cruellest
month” appears in:
A. The Waste Land
B. Howl
C. The Cantos
D. Prufrock
Answer: A. The Waste Land
708. Canadian author
Robertson Davies wrote:
A. The Stone Diaries
B. Fifth Business
C. The Diviners
D. Life of Pi
Answer: B. Fifth Business
709. Australian novel Jasper Jones was written by:
A. Tim Winton
B. Craig Silvey
C. Alexis Wright
D. Peter Carey
Answer: B. Craig Silvey
710. American writer John
Steinbeck is known for:
A. Gothic fiction
B. Depression-era realism
C. Surrealist poetry
D. Science fiction
Answer: B. Depression-era realism
711. “Because I could not
stop for Death—” is a poem by:
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Elizabeth Bishop
D. Mary Oliver
Answer: B. Emily Dickinson
712. The Canadian novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz was written by:
A. Mordecai Richler
B. Alice Munro
C. Carol Shields
D. Margaret Atwood
Answer: A. Mordecai Richler
713. Song of Myself emphasizes:
A. Fear
B. Individualism
C. Colonial guilt
D. War brutality
Answer: B. Individualism
714. Australian writer Tim
Winton wrote:
A. The Riders
B. The Turning
C. Breath
D. All of the above
Answer: D. All of the above
715. The novel Invisible Man deals with:
A. Agriculture
B. Racial invisibility
C. Epic warfare
D. European aristocracy
Answer: B. Racial invisibility
716. The poem “Diving into
the Wreck” is by:
A. Adrienne Rich
B. Plath
C. Sexton
D. Bishop
Answer: A. Adrienne Rich
717. Australian novel Carpentaria is authored by:
A. Les Murray
B. Alexis Wright
C. Kim Scott
D. Peter Carey
Answer: B. Alexis Wright
718. The writer of A Farewell to Arms is:
A. Hemingway
B. Faulkner
C. Fitzgerald
D. Steinbeck
Answer: A. Hemingway
719. Canadian poet E.J.
Pratt is known for:
A. Political satire
B. Epic narrative poetry
C. Gothic fantasy
D. Romantic ballads
Answer: B. Epic narrative poetry
720. American writer Kate
Chopin wrote:
A. The Awakening
B. Beloved
C. The Sound and the Fury
D. White Noise
Answer: A. The Awakening
721. The novel Housekeeping was written by:
A. Anne Tyler
B. Marilynne Robinson
C. Toni Morrison
D. Maxine Hong Kingston
Answer: B. Marilynne Robinson
722. The Australian novel Remembering Babylon explores:
A. Medieval battles
B. Colonial and racial anxiety
C. Romantic courtship
D. Space exploration
Answer: B. Colonial and racial anxiety
723. “I, too, sing America”
was written by:
A. Whitman
B. Hughes
C. Cullen
D. Brooks
Answer: B. Hughes
724. Willa Cather’s My Ántonia celebrates:
A. European nobility
B. Frontier pioneer life
C. Industrial New York
D. Southern Gothic life
Answer: B. Frontier pioneer life
725. Australian writer David
Malouf wrote the novel:
A. Voss
B. Remembering Babylon
C. Benang
D. The Riders
Answer: B. Remembering Babylon
726. The American poet
Marianne Moore is known for:
A. Pastoral romance
B. Syllabic precision
C. Beat improvisation
D. Modernist satire
Answer: B. Syllabic precision
727. The novel The Stone Angel centers on:
A. Hagar Shipley
B. Sethe
C. Janie Crawford
D. Maggie
Answer: A. Hagar Shipley
728. Who wrote The Golden Notebook?
A. Doris Lessing
B. Atwood
C. Munro
D. Morrison
Answer: A. Doris Lessing (Part of New Literatures.)
729. The American poem “Lady
Lazarus” is by:
A. Sexton
B. Plath
C. Rich
D. Bishop
Answer: B. Plath
730. Canadian writer Carol
Shields wrote:
A. Small Ceremonies
B. The Stone Diaries
C. Swann
D. All of the above
Answer: D. All of the above
731. The poem “The Snow Man”
was written by:
A. Stevens
B. Eliot
C. Crane
D. Sandburg
Answer: A. Stevens
732. Australian writer Kim
Scott is known for exploring:
A. Aboriginal identity
B. British imperialism
C. American capitalism
D. Greek tragedies
Answer: A. Aboriginal identity
733. Native Son belongs to which movement?
A. Southern Gothic
B. African-American protest
C. Romanticism
D. Postmodernism
Answer: B. African-American protest
734. The Canadian novel Life of Pi blends:
A. Science fiction
B. Magical realism
C. Gothic romance
D. War realism
Answer: B. Magical realism
735. The American novel The Road is:
A. Post-apocalyptic
B. Romantic
C. Gothic
D. Political satire
Answer: A. Post-apocalyptic
736. “The Love Song of J.
Alfred Prufrock” uses:
A. Pastoral idyll
B. Dramatic monologue
C. Confessional tone
D. Surreal symbolism
Answer: B. Dramatic monologue
737. Australian poet A.D.
Hope often used:
A. Classical allusions
B. Jazz rhythms
C. Free verse
D. Political slogans
Answer: A. Classical allusions
738. The French Lieutenant’s Woman influenced:
A. Gothic poetry
B. Postmodern metafiction
C. Puritan sermons
D. Romantic epics
Answer: B. Postmodern metafiction
739. American author John
Updike wrote:
A. Rabbit, Run
B. The Sound and the Fury
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. Ceremony
Answer: A. Rabbit, Run
740. The Canadian novel A Fine Balance was written by:
A. Anita Rau Badami
B. Rohinton Mistry
C. Michael Ondaatje
D. Dionne Brand
Answer: B. Rohinton Mistry
741. “The Idea of Order at
Key West” is by:
A. Eliot
B. Stevens
C. Frost
D. Bishop
Answer: B. Stevens
742. Australian novel The Slap was written by:
A. Peter Carey
B. Christos Tsiolkas
C. Alexis Wright
D. Tim Winton
Answer: B. Christos Tsiolkas
743. The American writer
Toni Morrison often explores:
A. Medieval mythology
B. African-American trauma & memory
C. War chronicles
D. World travel
Answer: B. African-American trauma & memory
744. The short story “A Good
Man Is Hard to Find” is by:
A. Alice Walker
B. Flannery O’Connor
C. Kate Chopin
D. Shirley Jackson
Answer: B. Flannery O’Connor
745. The Canadian poet
Margaret Atwood wrote primarily:
A. Sonnet sequences
B. Dystopian fiction & feminist poetry
C. Confederate romance
D. Comic fantasy
Answer: B. Dystopian fiction & feminist poetry
746. The Crying of Lot 49 is by:
A. Thomas Pynchon
B. Kurt Vonnegut
C. Philip Roth
D. Saul Bellow
Answer: A. Thomas Pynchon
747. “Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening” features:
A. A nocturnal journey
B. A war memory
C. A childhood dream
D. A political speech
Answer: A. A nocturnal journey
748. Australian Aboriginal
author Sally Morgan wrote:
A. Carpentaria
B. My Place
C. Benang
D. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Answer: B. My Place
749. The American writer
Maxine Hong Kingston authored:
A. The Woman Warrior
B. The Bell Jar
C. The Awakening
D. Song of Solomon
Answer: A. The Woman Warrior
750. Canadian writer Lucy
Maud Montgomery wrote:
A. Green Gables series
B. Fifth Business
C. Clara Callan
D. Barometer Rising
Answer: A. Green Gables series
751. The American poet Allen
Ginsberg belonged to which movement?
A. Imagism
B. Beat Generation
C. Confessionalism
D. Modernism
Answer: B. Beat Generation
752. Canadian author Alice
Munro is famous for:
A. Novels only
B. Short stories
C. Epic poems
D. Drama
Answer: B. Short stories
753. Australian writer
Patrick White won the Nobel Prize in:
A. 1955
B. 1960
C. 1973
D. 1981
Answer: C. 1973
754. The Sound and the Fury is known for its use of:
A. Allegory
B. Stream-of-consciousness
C. Gothic romance
D. Metered verse
Answer: B. Stream-of-consciousness
755. The Canadian novel Barney’s Version is authored by:
A. Alice Munro
B. Mordecai Richler
C. Robertson Davies
D. Carol Shields
Answer: B. Mordecai Richler
756. “Success is counted
sweetest” was written by:
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Anne Sexton
C. Adrienne Rich
D. Elizabeth Bishop
Answer: A. Emily Dickinson
757. Australian author Peter
Carey wrote:
A. Oscar and Lucinda
B. Cloudstreet
C. The Turning
D. Breath
Answer: A. Oscar and Lucinda
758. The main theme of Native Son is:
A. Economic collapse
B. Racial injustice
C. Industrial pollution
D. Immigration
Answer: B. Racial injustice
759. “The Snow Man” was
written by:
A. Eliot
B. Stevens
C. Frost
D. Crane
Answer: B. Wallace Stevens
760. Canadian poet E.J.
Pratt is famous for:
A. Jazz improvisation
B. Epic narrative verse
C. Free-verse confessionals
D. Haiku
Answer: B. Epic narrative verse
761. Tony Morrison’s Sula explores:
A. Religious ritual
B. Female friendship and betrayal
C. War trauma
D. Medieval conflict
Answer: B. Female friendship and betrayal
762. Australian novel Remembering Babylon was written by:
A. Peter Carey
B. David Malouf
C. Tim Winton
D. Murray Bail
Answer: B. David Malouf
763. “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers” celebrates:
A. Modernist alienation
B. African ancestry and heritage
C. British colonialism
D. Urban capitalism
Answer: B. African ancestry and heritage
764. The American novel White Noise explores:
A. Climate change
B. Information overload and death anxiety
C. African migration
D. Feminist movements
Answer: B. Information overload and death anxiety
765. Canadian writer
Rohinton Mistry wrote:
A. No Great Mischief
B. A Fine Balance
C. The Diviners
D. Fugitive Pieces
Answer: B. A Fine Balance
766. Australian writer
Alexis Wright is best known for:
A. Gothic novels
B. Indigenous storytelling
C. War poetry
D. Dystopian fiction
Answer: B. Indigenous storytelling
767. The poem “The Red
Wheelbarrow” uses:
A. Epic structure
B. Imagism
C. Blank verse
D. Dramatic monologue
Answer: B. Imagism
768. The central theme of The Old Man and the Sea is:
A. Capitalism
B. Struggle & endurance
C. Colonialism
D. Court love
Answer: B. Struggle & endurance
769. Who wrote the Canadian
novel The Stone Angels?
A. Thomas King
B. Margaret Laurence
C. Carol Shields
D. Alice Munro
Answer: B. Margaret Laurence (Note: Title is The Stone
Angel)
770. In Beloved, Sethe kills her daughter
because:
A. She was angry
B. She wanted to save her from slavery
C. She wanted revenge
D. She misunderstood a prophecy
Answer: B. She wanted to save her from slavery
771. Australian poet Judith
Wright is known for:
A. Sea adventure poems
B. Nature & Aboriginal themes
C. Religious epics
D. Satirical comedy
Answer: B. Nature & Aboriginal themes
772. The American novel East of Eden was written by:
A. Faulkner
B. Steinbeck
C. Fitzgerald
D. Hemingway
Answer: B. Steinbeck
773. Canadian writer Michael
Ondaatje wrote:
A. Clara Callan
B. Barney’s Version
C. The English Patient
D. Fifth Business
Answer: C. The English Patient
774. “I saw the best minds
of my generation…” is from:
A. Prufrock
B. Howl
C. Harlem
D. Song of Myself
Answer: B. Howl
775. Australian novel The Secret River is about:
A. Urban crime
B. Convict settlement and Indigenous dispossession
C. Postmodern satire
D. Love triangles
Answer: B. Convict settlement and Indigenous dispossession
776. The American poet
Marianne Moore wrote:
A. “Daddy”
B. “The Fish”
C. “Skunk Hour”
D. “The Waste Land”
Answer: B. “The Fish”
777. Canadian writer Carol
Shields wrote:
A. The Stone Diaries
B. The Handmaid’s Tale
C. Life of Pi
D. Anne of Green Gables
Answer: A. The Stone Diaries
778. As I Lay Dying features:
A. One narrator
B. 15 narrators
C. 40 narrators
D. Two narrators
Answer: B. 15 narrators
779. The Aboriginal writer
Kim Scott wrote:
A. Cloudstreet
B. Benang
C. Carpentaria
D. The Secret River
Answer: B. Benang
780. The Great Gatsby explores:
A. Environmental damage
B. The American Dream & decadence
C. The Civil War
D. Colonial frontier life
Answer: B. The American Dream & decadence
781. The poem “Harlem” asks:
A. What is God?
B. What happens to a dream deferred?
C. Why do seasons change?
D. How do rivers flow?
Answer: B. What happens to a dream deferred?
782. Canadian writer
Margaret Atwood is known for:
A. War journalism
B. Dystopian feminist fiction
C. Surreal detective novels
D. Greek translation
Answer: B. Dystopian feminist fiction
783. Australian writer Tim
Winton is best known for:
A. Sci-fi novels
B. Sea-themed realism
C. American protest writing
D. Epic poetry
Answer: B. Sea-themed realism
784. A Farewell to Arms is set during:
A. Korean War
B. World War I
C. Vietnam War
D. Iraq War
Answer: B. World War I
785. Canadian writer Alice
Munro is often compared to:
A. Katherine Mansfield
B. James Joyce
C. William Faulkner
D. Herman Melville
Answer: A. Katherine Mansfield
786. The American poem
“Daddy” is written by:
A. Susan Sontag
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Elizabeth Bishop
D. Anne Sexton
Answer: B. Sylvia Plath
787. Australian writer Peter
Carey also wrote:
A. The Slap
B. True History of the Kelly Gang
C. Benang
D. Carpentaria
Answer: B. True History of the Kelly Gang
788. The American novel Song of Solomon uses:
A. Gothic horror
B. Magical realism
C. Sci-fi futurism
D. Blank verse
Answer: B. Magical realism
789. The Canadian novel Obasan deals with:
A. Japanese Canadian internment
B. The oil boom
C. Indigenous mythology
D. Business politics
Answer: A. Japanese Canadian internment
790. Australian poet Banjo
Paterson wrote:
A. “Five Bells”
B. “Clancy of the Overflow”
C. “Skunk Hour”
D. “Daddy”
Answer: B. “Clancy of the Overflow”
791. Who wrote Billy Budd?
A. Melville
B. Twain
C. Hawthorne
D. Poe
Answer: A. Herman Melville
792. Canadian writer Thomas
King is known for:
A. Gothic fantasy
B. Indigenous humor & satire
C. Beat poetry
D. Confessional novels
Answer: B. Indigenous humor & satire
793. The poem “The Waste
Land” was published in:
A. 1905
B. 1915
C. 1922
D. 1940
Answer: C. 1922
794. Australian writer David
Malouf wrote the novel:
A. Breath
B. Remembering Babylon
C. The Turning
D. Dirt Music
Answer: B. Remembering Babylon
795. The American novel Blood Meridian is about:
A. Space travel
B. The U.S.–Mexico frontier violence
C. Canadian settlers
D. Russian revolution
Answer: B. The U.S.–Mexico frontier violence
796. Canadian poet Leonard
Cohen also wrote the novel:
A. The Diviners
B. Beautiful Losers
C. Clara Callan
D. A Fine Balance
Answer: B. Beautiful Losers
797. Australian writer
Alexis Wright’s work is strongly connected to:
A. Irish politics
B. Aboriginal land rights
C. Medieval Europe
D. Victorian London
Answer: B. Aboriginal land rights
798. The American play The Crucible is set in:
A. Salem, 1692
B. Boston, 1800
C. New York, 1920
D. Louisiana, 1950
Answer: A. Salem, 1692
799. Death of a Salesman was written by:
A. Eugene O’Neill
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Arthur Miller
D. Edward Albee
Answer: C. Arthur Miller
800. Canadian novelist Yann
Martel wrote:
A. The English Patient
B. Life of Pi
C. Barney’s Version
D. Fugitive Pieces
Answer: B. Life of Pi
801. The American novel Invisible Man explores:
A. Native myths
B. Racial invisibility
C. War trauma
D. Feminist utopia
Answer: B. Racial invisibility
802. Australian writer Peter
Carey wrote which postmodern novel?
A. Benang
B. Carpentaria
C. Illywhacker
D. The Handmaid’s Tale
Answer: C. Illywhacker
803. The poem “Skunk Hour”
was written by:
A. Adrienne Rich
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Robert Lowell
D. Allen Ginsberg
Answer: C. Robert Lowell
804. Canadian writer
Margaret Atwood wrote the feminist dystopia:
A. The Stone Diaries
B. The Handmaid’s Tale
C. Life of Pi
D. The Edible Woman
Answer: B. The Handmaid’s Tale
805. Australian writer Tim
Winton often writes about:
A. Mythology
B. Sea, landscape, and spirituality
C. War and politics
D. Technology
Answer: B. Sea, landscape, and spirituality
806. “Harlem” asks about the
fate of:
A. Religion
B. Dreams deferred
C. Civilization
D. Nature
Answer: B. Dreams deferred
807. The American novel Slaughterhouse-Five is about:
A. Vietnam War
B. World War II & bombing of Dresden
C. Cold War
D. Civil War
Answer: B. WWII & Dresden bombing
808. The Canadian novel Obasan deals with:
A. African immigration
B. Japanese-Canadian internment
C. Frontier settlement
D. Irish migration
Answer: B. Japanese-Canadian internment
809. Australian poet Judith
Wright wrote on themes of:
A. Urban technology
B. Nature & Aboriginal issues
C. War propaganda
D. Medieval knights
Answer: B. Nature & Aboriginal issues
810. The American novel The Grapes of Wrath focuses on:
A. Gold rush
B. Dust Bowl migration
C. Civil War
D. Urban New York
Answer: B. Dust Bowl migration
811. “This is the way the
world ends—not with a bang but a whimper” appears in:
A. Howl
B. The Hollow Men
C. Prufrock
D. The Bridge
Answer: B. The Hollow Men
812. Canadian writer Carol
Shields won the Pulitzer for:
A. The Diviners
B. Fugitive Pieces
C. The Stone Diaries
D. Fifth Business
Answer: C. The Stone Diaries
813. Australian writer
Alexis Wright wrote the Miles Franklin winner:
A. Cloudstreet
B. Benang
C. Carpentaria
D. Breath
Answer: C. Carpentaria
814. The American
short-story writer known for minimalism is:
A. John Cheever
B. Raymond Carver
C. Alice Walker
D. Flannery O’Connor
Answer: B. Raymond Carver
815. The English Patient is set during:
A. World War I
B. World War II
C. Vietnam War
D. Gulf War
Answer: B. World War II
816. “Because I could not
stop for Death” personifies death as:
A. A monster
B. A civil gentleman
C. A king
D. A warrior
Answer: B. A civil gentleman
817. Australian writer David
Malouf is known for:
A. Romantic satire
B. Lyrical prose about identity and landscape
C. Comic metaphors
D. Crime writing
Answer: B. Lyrical prose about identity and landscape
818. The American novel On the Road celebrates:
A. Victorian manners
B. Beat freedom & spontaneity
C. Industrial capitalism
D. Scientific progress
Answer: B. Beat freedom & spontaneity
819. The Canadian novel A Fine Balance primarily addresses:
A. Medieval Europe
B. The Emergency in India
C. Canadian oil economy
D. Indigenous mythology
Answer: B. The Emergency in India
820. Australian writer Peter
Carey wrote the crime-inspired novel:
A. The Slap
B. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
C. True History of the Kelly Gang
D. The Turning
Answer: C. True History of the Kelly Gang
821. The American poem “One
Art” deals with:
A. War
B. Loss
C. Joy
D. Nature
Answer: B. Loss
822. Who wrote Beloved?
A. Alice Walker
B. Toni Morrison
C. Maya Angelou
D. Octavia Butler
Answer: B. Toni Morrison
823. The Canadian poet
Leonard Cohen is also known for his:
A. Opera singing
B. Songwriting
C. Film direction
D. Political work
Answer: B. Songwriting
824. Australian poet A.D.
Hope often used:
A. Classical forms
B. Sci-fi metaphors
C. Beat rhythms
D. Dadaist techniques
Answer: A. Classical forms
825. The American novel As I Lay Dying is known for:
A. Contemporary satire
B. Multiple narrators
C. One long monologue
D. Verse structure
Answer: B. Multiple narrators
826. “Nothing gold can stay”
was written by:
A. Whitman
B. Frost
C. Eliot
D. Crane
Answer: B. Robert Frost
827. The Canadian novel Life of Pi mixes:
A. Myth & magical realism
B. Gothic horror
C. Historical drama
D. War reportage
Answer: A. Myth & magical realism
828. Australian writer Kim
Scott is known for:
A. Postmodern comedy
B. Indigenous storytelling
C. Pure fantasy
D. Latin American magical realism
Answer: B. Indigenous storytelling
829. American poet Sylvia
Plath wrote which collection?
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Ariel
C. Harmonium
D. The Cantos
Answer: B. Ariel
830. The Canadian novel Fifth Business belongs to which trilogy?
A. Manawaka trilogy
B. Deptford trilogy
C. Southern trilogy
D. Border trilogy
Answer: B. Deptford trilogy
831. Australian writer Tim
Winton wrote the novel:
A. Breath
B. Cat’s Eye
C. Clara Callan
D. The Blind Assassin
Answer: A. Breath
832. The American novel Invisible Man was written by:
A. Richard Wright
B. Ralph Ellison
C. James Baldwin
D. Ta-Nehisi Coates
Answer: B. Ralph Ellison
833. “The Road Not Taken” is
an example of:
A. Surrealism
B. Symbolism
C. Didactic verse
D. Pastoral romance
Answer: B. Symbolism
834. Canadian writer
Margaret Atwood also wrote:
A. Oryx and Crake
B. East of Eden
C. The Pearl
D. On the Road
Answer: A. Oryx and Crake
835. Australian novel The Riders was written by:
A. Tim Winton
B. Peter Carey
C. Kate Grenville
D. David Malouf
Answer: A. Tim Winton
836. The American novel The Color Purple uses:
A. Gothic narration
B. Epistolary form
C. Sonnets
D. Pastoral lyric
Answer: B. Epistolary form
837. The Canadian novel The Diviners is authored by:
A. Margaret Laurence
B. Carol Shields
C. Margaret Atwood
D. Alice Munro
Answer: A. Margaret Laurence
838. “I celebrate myself” is
a line from:
A. Walden
B. The Waste Land
C. Song of Myself
D. Drum-Taps
Answer: C. Song of Myself
839. Australian poet Kenneth
Slessor is known for:
A. War propaganda
B. Urban modernism
C. Long philosophical epics
D. Gothic satire
Answer: B. Urban modernism
840. American writer John
Updike wrote the series:
A. Border trilogy
B. Rabbit tetralogy
C. Deptford trilogy
D. Manawaka series
Answer: B. Rabbit tetralogy
841. Canadian writer
Ann-Marie MacDonald wrote:
A. Fall on Your Knees
B. Alias Grace
C. Surfacing
D. Obasan
Answer: A. Fall on Your Knees
842. Australian writer A.D.
Hope is considered:
A. Beat poet
B. Modernist satirist
C. Postmodern fabulist
D. Romantic revivalist
Answer: B. Modernist satirist
843. “What happens to a
dream deferred?” is the theme of:
A. Harlem
B. The Fish
C. Daddy
D. The Snow Man
Answer: A. Harlem
844. The American novel The Sun Also Rises is about:
A. Lost Generation expatriates
B. British colonizers
C. Native American history
D. WWII soldiers
Answer: A. Lost Generation expatriates
845. Canadian author
Alistair MacLeod is known for:
A. Maritime short stories
B. Indigenous literature
C. War epics
D. Sci-fi
Answer: A. Maritime short stories
846. Australian writer Peter
Carey is known for:
A. Gothic fantasy
B. Metafiction & satire
C. Environmental science
D. Space fiction
Answer: B. Metafiction & satire
847. American poet Adrienne
Rich wrote about:
A. Feminism & identity
B. War heroism
C. Nature
D. Seafaring
Answer: A. Feminism & identity
848. The Road is a novel of:
A. Post-apocalyptic survival
B. Victorian morality
C. Modern satire
D. Greek myth
Answer: A. Post-apocalyptic survival
849. Canadian writer
Robertson Davies wrote:
A. A Fine Balance
B. Fifth Business
C. The Handmaid’s Tale
D. Anne of Green Gables
Answer: B. Fifth Business
850. Australian novel Cloudstreet primarily depicts:
A. Urban warfare
B. Two working-class families living together
C. European aristocracy
D. Political espionage
Answer: B. Two working-class families living together
851. The American playwright
who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire is:
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee Williams
C. Edward Albee
D. Sam Shepard
Answer: B
852. The Canadian novel Anne of Green Gables was written by:
A. Robertson Davies
B. L.M. Montgomery
C. Alice Munro
D. Carol Shields
Answer: B
853. The poem “Daddy” was
written by:
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Adrienne Rich
D. Marianne Moore
Answer: B
854. Australian writer Kate
Grenville wrote the novel:
A. Cloudstreet
B. The Secret River
C. The Slap
D. Oscar and Lucinda
Answer: B
855. The American novel Native Son is authored by:
A. Toni Morrison
B. Richard Wright
C. Ralph Ellison
D. James Baldwin
Answer: B
856. Canadian writer Yann
Martel is best known for:
A. Surfacing
B. Life of Pi
C. Fugitive Pieces
D. The English Patient
Answer: B
857. American poet Walt
Whitman wrote:
A. North of Boston
B. Leaves of Grass
C. A Boy’s Will
D. The Bridge
Answer: B
858. Australian poet Les
Murray is often called:
A. Father of Indigenous poetry
B. Bush Bard of Australia
C. Postmodern master
D. Poet of the metropolis
Answer: B
859. The American novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is by:
A. Toni Morrison
B. Zora Neale Hurston
C. Alice Walker
D. Octavia Butler
Answer: B
860. Canadian short story
writer Alice Munro is known as:
A. Queen of Sci-Fi
B. Master of the contemporary short story
C. Poet Laureate
D. Southern Gothic specialist
Answer: B
861. The American novel The Scarlet Letter focuses on:
A. Post-war trauma
B. Puritan society
C. Slavery
D. Native myths
Answer: B
862. Australian writer Tim
Winton wrote which short story collection?
A. The Turning
B. Dubliners
C. Runaway
D. Interpreter of Maladies
Answer: B
863. “Howl” criticizes:
A. Technology
B. Capitalist society
C. Victorian morality
D. Environmental decline
Answer: B
864. Canadian poet Michael
Ondaatje is also known for:
A. Film editing
B. Painting
C. Scientific research
D. Athletics
Answer: B
865. The American novel Song of Solomon is by:
A. James Baldwin
B. Toni Morrison
C. Richard Wright
D. Alice Walker
Answer: B
866. Australian novel The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith deals with:
A. Colonial conflict
B. World War I
C. American slavery
D. Urban crime
Answer: B
867. American playwright
Arthur Miller wrote:
A. Buried Child
B. Glengarry Glen Ross
C. Death of a Salesman
D. Waiting for Lefty
Answer: C
868. Canadian novel The Handmaid’s Tale is set in:
A. A post-apocalyptic Africa
B. A theocratic America
C. Victorian England
D. Medieval France
Answer: B
869. The American poem “The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” explores:
A. War propaganda
B. Modern alienation
C. Colonial pride
D. Rural joy
Answer: B
870. Australian writer
Christos Tsiolkas is known for:
A. Postcolonial satire
B. Social realism
C. Magical realism
D. Classical sonnets
Answer: B
871. The American novel The Catcher in the Rye is primarily about:
A. Crime
B. Teenage rebellion
C. War
D. Immigration
Answer: B
872. Canadian Indigenous
writer Thomas King is known for:
A. Novels on climate change
B. Satirical storytelling
C. Feminist epics
D. Victorian drama
Answer: B
873. American writer John
Steinbeck wrote:
A. The Old Man and the Sea
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. A Farewell to Arms
D. The Great Gatsby
Answer: B
874. Australian writer
Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for:
A. Short stories
B. Novels & spiritual vision
C. Plays only
D. Epic poetry
Answer: B
875. The American novel The Old Man and the Sea is about:
A. Technology
B. A fisherman’s endurance
C. Urban poverty
D. War trauma
Answer: B
876. Canadian writer
Margaret Laurence wrote:
A. Fifth Business
B. The Diviners
C. The Golden Notebook
D. Alias Grace
Answer: B
877. American Beat poet
Allen Ginsberg belonged to the:
A. Lost Generation
B. Beat Generation
C. Harlem Renaissance
D. Imagist school
Answer: B
878. Australian novel My Brilliant Career is a:
A. Modernist satire
B. Feminist coming-of-age story
C. War epic
D. Detective novel
Answer: B
879. The American novel Beloved deals with:
A. Native myths
B. Slavery & haunting
C. Urban life
D. Feminist utopia
Answer: B
880. Canadian writer E.
Annie Proulx wrote:
A. Blood Meridian
B. The Shipping News
C. Everything Is Illuminated
D. A Fine Balance
Answer: B
881. American poet Marianne
Moore is known for:
A. Sonnets
B. Syllabic verse
C. Confessional poetry
D. Beat rhythm
Answer: B
882. Australian poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal wrote about:
A. British aristocracy
B. Indigenous rights
C. American politics
D. Romantic love
Answer: B
883. The American play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is by:
A. Tracy Letts
B. Edward Albee
C. Sam Shepard
D. David Mamet
Answer: B
884. Canadian writer
Rohinton Mistry is associated with:
A. Historical satire
B. Diaspora writing
C. Crime drama
D. Sports writing
Answer: B
885. American poet Langston
Hughes belonged to:
A. Imagists
B. Harlem Renaissance
C. Beat poets
D. Postmodernists
Answer: B
886. Australian novel The Slap deals with:
A. Political corruption
B. Social tensions in suburban families
C. Historical war events
D. Environmental issues
Answer: B
887. The American novel To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on:
A. Technology
B. Racial injustice
C. Urban poverty
D. Gender politics
Answer: B
888. Canadian writer Alice
Munro won the Nobel Prize for:
A. Poetry
B. Short stories
C. Drama
D. Novels only
Answer: B
889. American writer Ernest
Hemingway is known for:
A. Heavy symbolism
B. Minimal style
C. Baroque sentences
D. Surreal fantasy
Answer: B
890. Australian poet Judith
Wright wrote extensively about:
A. War victory
B. Landscape & heritage
C. European politics
D. Space exploration
Answer: B
891. The American novel The Great Gatsby critiques:
A. Colonialism
B. The American Dream
C. Slavery
D. Ecological destruction
Answer: B
892. Canadian novel Surfacing is authored by:
A. Carol Shields
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Alice Munro
D. L.M. Montgomery
Answer: B
893. American playwright Sam
Shepard is known for:
A. Naturalistic drama
B. Family dysfunction dramas
C. Greek revivals
D. Romantic farces
Answer: B
894. Australian writer Peter
Carey won the Booker Prize for:
A. Breath
B. Oscar and Lucinda
C. Carpentaria
D. My Place
Answer: B
895. The American poem
“Because I could not stop for Death” explores:
A. Nature
B. The journey toward eternity
C. War
D. Social injustice
Answer: B
896. Canadian author Lucy
Maud Montgomery is best known for:
A. The English Patient
B. Anne of Green Gables
C. Fugitive Pieces
D. Clara Callan
Answer: B
897. Australian writer David
Malouf wrote:
A. The Riders
B. Remembering Babylon
C. True History of the Kelly Gang
D. Carpentaria
Answer: B
898. American writer Edith
Wharton wrote about:
A. Frontier life
B. High society and its moral codes
C. African American life
D. War journalism
Answer: B
899. Canadian writer Dionne
Brand focuses on:
A. Colonial archives
B. Black identity & diaspora
C. Northern frontier
D. Sci-fi dystopia
Answer: B
900. Australian novel Oscar and Lucinda is a:
A. Crime thriller
B. Love story with gambling & glass church imagery
C. War memoir
D. Postmodern fantasy
Answer: B
901. The American novel The Road was written by:
A. Don DeLillo
B. Cormac McCarthy
C. Jonathan Franzen
D. John Updike
Answer: B
902. Canadian writer
Margaret Atwood wrote the novel:
A. The Diviners
B. The Handmaid’s Tale
C. Barney’s Version
D. Surfacing
Answer: B
903. Australian writer Tim
Winton is associated with:
A. Deep sea imagery
B. Medieval allegory
C. War reportage
D. Victorian realism
Answer: A
904. The American poem “Lady
Lazarus” is authored by:
A. Elizabeth Bishop
B. Sylvia Plath
C. Adrienne Rich
D. Anne Sexton
Answer: B
905. Canadian writer Michael
Ondaatje wrote:
A. Life of Pi
B. The English Patient
C. Clara Callan
D. The Stone Diaries
Answer: B
906. Australian novel Carpentaria explores:
A. Irish migration
B. Aboriginal land struggles
C. European courts
D. Sci-fi tropes
Answer: B
907. The American novel Song of Solomon contains elements of:
A. Noir
B. Magical realism
C. Sci-fi
D. Detective fiction
Answer: B
908. Canadian writer
Rohinton Mistry often writes about:
A. Medieval Spain
B. Indian diaspora
C. Japanese politics
D. Australian bush life
Answer: B
909. Australian writer
Patrick White wrote:
A. True History of the Kelly Gang
B. Voss
C. Cloudstreet
D. Breath
Answer: B
910. The American novel Fahrenheit 451 deals with:
A. Censorship & dystopia
B. Indian migration
C. War memoirs
D. Western exploration
Answer: A
911. Canadian poet Leonard
Cohen wrote which novel?
A. Beautiful Losers
B. Fugitive Pieces
C. Fifth Business
D. Clara Callan
Answer: A
912. Australian poet Judith
Wright wrote:
A. “The Horses”
B. “Five Bells”
C. “At Cooloola”
D. “The Slap”
Answer: C
913. The American novel Native Son is a work of:
A. Beat poetry
B. Naturalistic protest fiction
C. Romanticism
D. War literature
Answer: B
914. Canadian novel Alias Grace was written by:
A. Alice Munro
B. Margaret Atwood
C. Carol Shields
D. Ethel Wilson
Answer: B
915. Australian novel The Slap is about:
A. Political corruption
B. A controversial family incident
C. Colonial exploration
D. Magical transformations
Answer: B
916. The American poet
Robert Lowell is associated with:
A. Confessional poetry
B. Beat poetry
C. Metaphysical poetry
D. Imagism
Answer: A
917. Canadian writer Alice
Munro is famous for stories set in:
A. Urban Toronto
B. Small-town Ontario
C. British Columbia
D. Montreal only
Answer: B
918. Australian writer Peter
Carey’s True History of the Kelly
Gang uses:
A. Comic satire
B. Unpunctuated bush dialect
C. Rhymed verse
D. Psychological realism
Answer: B
919. The American novel The Bell Jar was published under:
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Victoria Lucas (pseudonym)
C. Emily Bishop
D. Susan Brown
Answer: B
920. Canadian writer Carol
Shields won the Pulitzer for:
A. Surfacing
B. The Stone Diaries
C. The Blind Assassin
D. A Fine Balance
Answer: B
921. Australian poet Kenneth
Slessor wrote:
A. “Five Bells”
B. “Daddy”
C. “The Fish”
D. “Harlem”
Answer: A
922. The American novel The Color Purple uses:
A. Sonnets
B. Epistolary form
C. Heroic couplets
D. Free verse
Answer: B
923. Canadian writer Dionne
Brand focuses on:
A. European colonialism
B. Black identity and migration
C. Mexican war history
D. American industrialism
Answer: B
924. Australian writer
Alexis Wright is known for:
A. Modernist city poetry
B. Indigenous magical realism
C. World War fiction
D. Romance comedy
Answer: B
925. The American novel Catch-22 was written by:
A. Vonnegut
B. Joseph Heller
C. John Updike
D. Mailer
Answer: B
926. Canadian writer Thomas
King wrote:
A. Green Grass, Running Water
B. The Stone Angel
C. The Golden Notebook
D. The Road
Answer: A
927. Australian writer Tim
Winton wrote:
A. Oryx and Crake
B. Breath
C. Fifth Business
D. Barney’s Version
Answer: B
928. The American novel The Great Gatsby is set during:
A. World War II
B. The Jazz Age
C. The Depression
D. The Civil War
Answer: B
929. Canadian poet Al Purdy
often wrote about:
A. Inner-city violence
B. Working class identity
C. Victorian romance
D. Medieval war
Answer: B
930. Australian poet Les
Murray wrote the poem:
A. “An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow”
B. “Because I could not stop for Death”
C. “Five Bells”
D. “Harlem”
Answer: A
931. The American novel As I Lay Dying was written by:
A. Faulkner
B. Steinbeck
C. Fitzgerald
D. Crane
Answer: A
932. Canadian writer Ethel
Wilson wrote:
A. Swamp Angel
B. Fall on Your Knees
C. A Fine Balance
D. True History of the Kelly Gang
Answer: A
933. Australian writer
Patrick White’s novel Voss is based on:
A. A scientific voyage
B. An explorer’s doomed journey
C. A political upheaval
D. A tribal conflict
Answer: B
934. American poet Carl
Sandburg is known for:
A. Romantic sonnets
B. City and labor imagery
C. Dadaism
D. Gothic decadence
Answer: B
935. Canadian writer
Ann-Marie MacDonald wrote:
A. Alias Grace
B. Fall on Your Knees
C. Beautiful Losers
D. The Turning
Answer: B
936. Australian writer Peter
Carey is strongly associated with:
A. Magic realism & satire
B. Beat poetry
C. Harlem Renaissance
D. Victorian moral fiction
Answer: A
937. The American poem “The
Road Not Taken” is by:
A. Walt Whitman
B. Robert Frost
C. Wallace Stevens
D. Langston Hughes
Answer: B
938. Canadian novel Fugitive Pieces was written by:
A. Anne Michaels
B. Atwood
C. Munro
D. Montgomery
Answer: A
939. Australian Aboriginal
writer Sally Morgan wrote:
A. My Place
B. Carpentaria
C. The Riders
D. Breath
Answer: A
940. The American novel The Grapes of Wrath concerns:
A. Immigration
B. Dust Bowl migrants
C. WWII
D. Native American myths
Answer: B
941. Canadian writer
Robertson Davies wrote:
A. The English Patient
B. Fifth Business
C. Life of Pi
D. The Diviners
Answer: B
942. Australian poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s birth name was:
A. Judith Wright
B. Kath Walker
C. Alexis Wright
D. Kim Scott
Answer: B
943. The American novel Beloved includes themes of:
A. War heroism
B. Slavery and haunting
C. Medieval romance
D. Sci-fi futurism
Answer: B
944. Canadian writer Carol
Shields wrote:
A. The Stone Diaries
B. The Blind Assassin
C. Life of Pi
D. Fifth Business
Answer: A
945. Australian writer David
Malouf wrote the novel:
A. Remembering Babylon
B. Clara Callan
C. A Fine Balance
D. The Slap
Answer: A
946. American writer Baldwin
wrote:
A. Go Tell It on the Mountain
B. Native Son
C. Moby Dick
D. As I Lay Dying
Answer: A
947. Canadian writer Alice
Munro is closest to:
A. Poe
B. Mansfield
C. Eliot
D. Faulkner
Answer: B
948. Australian writer Kim
Scott wrote:
A. Benang
B. Breath
C. True History of the Kelly Gang
D. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Answer: A
949. American writer
Hemingway is known for:
A. Flowery sentences
B. Iceberg theory
C. Symbolist poetry
D. Gothic imagery
Answer: B
950. Canadian writer Michael
Ondaatje won the Booker Prize for:
A. The English Patient
B. Life of Pi
C. The Diviners
D. Surfacing
Answer: A
951. American novelist Toni
Morrison won the Nobel Prize in:
A. 1980
B. 1993
C. 1995
D. 2000
Answer: B
952. Canadian author
Margaret Atwood wrote the dystopian novel:
A. Alias Grace
B. The Handmaid’s Tale
C. The Diviners
D. Clara Callan
Answer: B
953. Australian writer Peter
Carey is best known for:
A. Stream-of-consciousness
B. Metafiction and satire
C. Beat poetry
D. Political essays
Answer: B
954. The American novel Beloved deals primarily with:
A. Spiritual journeys
B. The trauma of slavery
C. Frontier wars
D. Modern technology
Answer: B
955. Canadian writer
Rohinton Mistry’s famous novel is:
A. A Fine Balance
B. Life of Pi
C. In the Skin of a Lion
D. Fifth Business
Answer: A
956. Australian poet Judith
Wright is known for her:
A. Gothic imagery
B. Nature and Aboriginal rights poetry
C. Surrealist experiments
D. Concrete poetry
Answer: B
957. American poet Langston
Hughes belonged to:
A. Imagism
B. Harlem Renaissance
C. Modernism
D. Futurism
Answer: B
958. The Canadian novel The English Patient features which war?
A. WWI
B. WWII
C. Korean War
D. Gulf War
Answer: B
959. Australian writer Tim
Winton wrote:
A. Oscar and Lucinda
B. Breath
C. Alias Grace
D. Barney’s Version
Answer: B
960. The American novel The Road portrays:
A. A civil war
B. A father–son journey in a post-apocalyptic world
C. A comedic romance
D. A historical rebellion
Answer: B
961. Canadian poet Leonard
Cohen is known for his:
A. Novels only
B. Religious treatises
C. Songs and poetry
D. Scientific writing
Answer: C
962. Australian writer
Alexis Wright wrote:
A. The Diviners
B. Carpentaria
C. My Place
D. The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Answer: B
963. American playwright
Arthur Miller wrote:
A. The Iceman Cometh
B. Long Day’s Journey into Night
C. Death of a Salesman
D. A Streetcar Named Desire
Answer: C
964. Canadian writer Alice
Munro is known for:
A. Long epics
B. Short stories
C. Crime novels
D. Westerns
Answer: B
965. Australian poet
Oodgeroo Noonuccal was the first Indigenous person to publish:
A. A novel
B. A poetic volume
C. A political essay
D. A play
Answer: B
966. The American novel The Catcher in the Rye focuses on:
A. Immigration
B. Teenage alienation
C. Industrial work
D. War
Answer: B
967. Canadian writer
Margaret Laurence wrote:
A. Fall on Your Knees
B. The Stone Angel
C. Alias Grace
D. The Handmaid’s Tale
Answer: B
968. Australian writer
Patrick White’s themes often involve:
A. Medieval kings
B. Spiritual quests and isolation
C. Comedy
D. Crime fiction
Answer: B
969. American poet Robert
Frost is associated with:
A. Urban minimalism
B. Rural New England themes
C. Beat poetry
D. Symbolist surrealism
Answer: B
970. Canadian writer Carol
Shields won the Pulitzer Prize for:
A. A Fine Balance
B. The Stone Diaries
C. The English Patient
D. Clara Callan
Answer: B
971. Australian novel True History of the Kelly Gang uses:
A. Victoria-era prose
B. Bushranger dialect and myth
C. Postmodern footnotes
D. Futuristic slang
Answer: B
972. The American novel Go Tell It on the Mountain was written by:
A. Richard Wright
B. James Baldwin
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Toni Morrison
Answer: B
973. Canadian writer Michael
Ondaatje also wrote:
A. The Cinnamon Peeler
B. Cat’s Eye
C. The Slap
D. Benang
Answer: A
974. Australian writer Tim
Winton frequently uses:
A. Whaling metaphors
B. Oceanic imagery
C. Outer-space settings
D. Medieval themes
Answer: B
975. American poet Sylvia
Plath wrote the collection:
A. Harmonium
B. Ariel
C. Leaves of Grass
D. Lunch Poems
Answer: B
976. Canadian writer Thomas
King is a major voice in:
A. Indigenous literature
B. Gothic fiction
C. Space fiction
D. Medieval poetry
Answer: A
977. Australian poet Les Murray
is best described as:
A. Urban poet
B. Bush poet & cultural conservative
C. Confessional poet
D. Imagist
Answer: B
978. American novelist
Steinbeck wrote:
A. Moby Dick
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. The Sound and the Fury
D. Heart of Darkness
Answer: B
979. The Canadian novel Life of Pi features:
A. A boy on a lifeboat with a tiger
B. A war refugee in Africa
C. A detective in Montreal
D. A doctor in India
Answer: A
980. Australian Aboriginal
writer Sally Morgan wrote:
A. Voss
B. My Place
C. Carpentaria
D. Breath
Answer: B
981. The American novel The Sun Also Rises is set in:
A. Spain and France
B. India and Burma
C. Alaska
D. Canada
Answer: A
982. Canadian writer
Ann-Marie MacDonald wrote:
A. Fall on Your Knees
B. Fugitive Pieces
C. Alias Grace
D. The Stone Diaries
Answer: A
983. Australian writer David
Malouf wrote:
A. True History of the Kelly Gang
B. Remembering Babylon
C. Breath
D. Fifth Business
Answer: B
984. American poet Elizabeth
Bishop often wrote about:
A. Tropical and coastal landscapes
B. Medieval allegory
C. European war
D. Urban dystopia
Answer: A
985. Canadian novelist
Robertson Davies wrote:
A. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
B. Fifth Business
C. The Handmaid’s Tale
D. My Ántonia
Answer: B
986. Australian poet Kenneth
Slessor is known for:
A. “Five Bells”
B. “Daddy”
C. “The Fish”
D. “Harlem”
Answer: A
987. The American novel Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize in:
A. 1975
B. 1988
C. 1993
D. 2001
Answer: B
988. Canadian writer
Alistair MacLeod often wrote about:
A. Rural Nova Scotia
B. Victorian London
C. African deserts
D. Australian bush
Answer: A
989. Australian writer
Christos Tsiolkas explores:
A. Suburban multicultural tensions
B. Medieval kings
C. Space exploration
D. Greek mythology exclusively
Answer: A
990. American poet Allen
Ginsberg wrote:
A. “Howl”
B. “Lady Lazarus”
C. “Sunday Morning”
D. “One Art”
Answer: A
991. Canadian writer Carol
Shields’s fiction focuses on:
A. Magical realism
B. Ordinary domestic lives
C. Epic battles
D. Mythology
Answer: B
992. Australian writer Peter
Carey frequently rewrites:
A. Medieval romances
B. National myths and history
C. Native American legends
D. Greek tragedies
Answer: B
993. American author Ralph
Ellison is famous for:
A. The Road
B. Invisible Man
C. Native Son
D. Go Tell It on the Mountain
Answer: B
994. Canadian writer
Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing deals with:
A. Urban riots
B. Loss of identity
C. Victorian manners
D. Sci-fi politics
Answer: B
995. Australian poet Judith
Wright wrote primarily about:
A. Love and war
B. Nature, land, and cultural memory
C. Science
D. Economics
Answer: B
996. The American novel Moby-Dick symbolizes:
A. Cosmology
B. Obsession and fate
C. Feminist critique
D. Colonial failure
Answer: B
997. Canadian poet Leonard
Cohen’s style often blends:
A. Humor and slapstick
B. Spirituality and melancholy
C. Pure political satire
D. Medieval romance
Answer: B
998. Australian writer
Alexis Wright uses:
A. Simple realism
B. Indigenous mythology and epic scope
C. Colonial-era satire
D. Scientific writing
Answer: B
999. American writer Toni
Morrison’s works often return to:
A. European aristocrats
B. Historical African-American trauma
C. Victorian industry
D. Outer space conflicts
Answer: B
1000. Canadian writer
Margaret Atwood is best described as:
A. A romantic poet
B. A feminist dystopian novelist
C. A military historian
D. A children’s author
Answer: B
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