Trivia Quiz on 20th Century Literature

1. Which Somerset Maughn novel is considered autobiographical

A) The Moon and Sixpence

B) The Painted Veil

C) The Constant Wife

D) Of Human Bondage

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2. Whose autobiographical novel was called The Bell Jar

A) Sylvia Plath

B) Virginia Woolf

C) Anne Frank

D) Maya Angelou

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3. Who wrote The Little Prince

A) Victor Hugo

B) Antoine de saint-exupery

C) Marcel Proust

D) Gabriel García Márquez

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4. Who wrote 'The Sun Also Rises'

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) John Steinbeck

C) William Faulkner

D) Ernest hemingway

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5. Who wrote '1984'

A) Aldous Huxley

B) Ray Bradbury

C) George orwell

D) Margaret Atwood

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6. Who wrote the book 'Something Happened'

A) Kurt Vonnegut

B) Joseph heller

C) George Orwell

D) Philip Roth

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7. Who wrote the novel brighton rock

A) Ian McEwan

B) Anthony Burgess

C) James Joyce

D) Graham greene

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8. The book called 'the cocktail party' was written by _________

A) Virginia Woolf

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) Ts eliott

D) James Joyce

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9. Duffy: The Good Earth

A) Orwell

B) Hemingway

C) Doyle

D) Buck

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10. Who wrote Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn

A) F. Scott Fitzgerald

B) Henry Miller

C) Ernest Hemingway

D) James Joyce

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11. Who wrote "titus groan"

A) J.R.R. Tolkien

B) Mervyn peake

C) C.S. Lewis

D) Neil Gaiman

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12. What was the fat boy's nickname in Lord of the Flies

A) Piggy

B) Fatty

C) Slim

D) Butterball

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13. Who wrote Fahrenheit 451

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Ray bradbury

D) Jules Verne

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14. What novel contains the line: "who promoted major major"

A) Slaughterhouse-Five

B) Catch 22

C) The Stranger

D) 1984

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15. Under what name is thomas lanier williams better known

A) Arthur Miller

B) Harold Pinter

C) Tennessee williams

D) George Bernard Shaw

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16. Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel 'Of Human Bondage

A) George Orwell

B) Charles Dickens

C) Somerset maughan

D) Jane Austen

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17. What links Samuel Delaney, Fredrick Pohl, Harlan Ellison

A) Speculative fiction

B) Pulps

C) Horror

D) Science Fiction

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18. Humbert Humbert' is a character in which book

A) Pale Fire

B) Lolita

C) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

D) The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

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19. Creator of Perry Mason

A) Arthur Conan Doyle

B) Agatha Christie

C) Raymond Chandler

D) Erle stanley gardner

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20. Who wrote 'shogun'

A) Harold Robbins

B) Ken Follett

C) James Clavell

D) Ryotaro Shiba

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21. Which country was the setting for The Flame Trees of Thika

A) Uganda

B) Tanzania

C) South Africa

D) Kenya

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22. Who wasn't afraid to call James Joyce 'A greasy undergraduate'

A) Ezra Pound

B) George Bernard Shaw

C) Virginia wolfe

D) T. S. Eliot

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23. Who wrote Finnegan's Wake in 1939

A) H. P. Lovecraft

B) Virginia Woolf

C) James Joyce

D) Samuel Beckett

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24. Which author wrote 'The Cruel Sea'?

A) C.S. Forester

B) Patrick O'Brian

C) Alistair MacLean

D) Nicholas Monsarrat

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25. In Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis Gregor Samsa wakes up as?

A) A cockroach

B) An Insect

C) A mouse

D) A spider

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26. Who wrote the post nuclear war novel On the Beach

A) Nevill Shute

B) John Wyndham

C) H. G. Wells

D) Neville Schute

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27. Arthur Sarsfield Ward the creator of Fu Man Chu is which author

A) Sax Rohmer

B) H. Rider Haggard

C) John Buchan

D) E. Phillips Oppenheim

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28. Who wrote the classic war novel "All Quiet on the Western Front"

A) Leo Tolstoy

B) George Orwell

C) Virginia Woolf

D) Erich maria remarque

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29. In the play, "Death of a Salesman", what was the name of the salesman

A) Willy Lomax

B) Willie Loman

C) Willy loman

D) Willy Loman

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30. Who wrote the classic spy novel "The Thirty-nine Steps"

A) Ian Fleming

B) John le Carré

C) Robert Ludlum

D) John Buchan

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31. Which author sold most books in the first half of 20th century

A) Agatha Christie

B) H.G. Wells

C) Edgar Rice Burroughs

D) Jules Verne

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32. Edith Knight wrote which classic story (later filmed)

A) Lassie come home

B) Black Beauty

C) Old Yeller

D) The Call of the Wild

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33. What was the first James Bond book

A) Dr. No

B) Casino Royal

C) Moonraker

D) Goldfinger

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34. Name the British novelist, a successful member of the Bloomsbury Group, who drowned herself in 1942

A) Daphne du Maurier

B) E. M. Forster

C) Vita Sackville-West

D) Virginia woolf

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35. What's unusual about Ernest Vincent Wrights 50000 word novel

A) It is written in a single extremely long sentence.

B) It is written entirely without punctuation.

C) No letter E

D) The author published it under a pseudonym to hide his identity.

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36. Which New Zealand novelist won the Booker Prize with her novel The Bone People

A) Witi Ihimaera

B) Keri Hulme

C) Janet Frame

D) Patricia Grace

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37. Who wrote The Poseidon Adventure

A) H. G. Wells

B) James Patterson

C) Dan Brown

D) Paul Gallico

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38. In which country was Graham Greene's novel 'A Burnt Out Case' set

A) Republic of the Congo

B) Belgian congo

C) Egypt

D) Kenya

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39. Which book caused a minor controversy in 1997 when a survey of Waterstone's customers voted it the best book of the twentieth century

A) Ulysses

B) 1984

C) Lord of the rings

D) The Great Gatsby

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40. Virginia Woolf always did it standing up - did what

A) Wrote her books

B) Wrote poetry

C) Painted portraits of her characters

D) Translated novels into French

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41. Who wrote Beau Geste

A) Rudyard Kipling

B) John Buchan

C) H. Rider Haggard

D) P C Wren

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42. What do the letters 'T' and 'S' stand for in T. S. Eliot's name

A) Thomas Stephen

B) Thomas stearns

C) Thomas Stanley

D) Thomas Samuel

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43. What company was founded by Sir Allan Lane in 1935

A) Penguin Random House

B) Faber and Faber

C) Doubleday

D) Penguin books

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44. Who wrote "The Glass Menagerie"

A) Arthur Miller

B) August Wilson

C) Tennessee Williams

D) William Inge

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45. Whose last unfinished novel was The Last Tycoon

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) F Scott Fitzgerald

C) Thomas Wolfe

D) John Steinbeck

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46. Who won a place in the Guinness Book of Records for writing 26 books in 1983?

A) Enid Blyton

B) Barbara Cartland

C) Agatha Christie

D) Stephen King

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47. In Which Story Does The Schoolboy (Piggy) Star

A) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B) The Catcher in the Rye

C) Lord Of The Flies

D) To Kill a Mockingbird

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48. Name the author of 'The Catcher in the Rye'

A) George Orwell

B) J.D. Salinger

C) Harper Lee

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49. Who wrote 'To Kill A Mockingbird'?

A) Mark Twain

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Harper Lee

D) John Steinbeck

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50. Author of "The Lighthouse" and "Eminent Victorians"?

A) Virginia Woolf

B) Lytton Strachey

C) James Joyce

D) D. H. Lawrence

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