Trivia Quiz on 20th Century Novels

1. Which novel of the Russian Revolution did Boris Pasternak write

A) And Quiet Flows the Don

B) Dr zhivago

C) War and Peace

D) The Master and Margarita

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2. Who wrote the Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda

A) Ian McEwan

B) Peter carey

C) Hilary Mantel

D) Salman Rushdie

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3. By what name is Harry Angstrom known in the titles of John Updike's trilogy

A) Harry Angstrom

B) Rabbit

C) Rabbit Angstrom

D) Hap Angstrom

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4. What country is the setting for The Thorn Birds

A) Australia

B) New Zealand

C) England

D) Canada

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5. Novel gave Hemmingway nick speaker of the lost generation

A) For Whom the Bell Tolls

B) A Farewell to Arms

C) The Old Man and the Sea

D) The Sun Also Rises

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6. Whose novels include 'The Cement Garden' and 'Comfort of Stangers'

A) Kazuo Ishiguro

B) Ian mcewan

C) Margaret Atwood

D) Julian Barnes

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7. Who was the author of catcher in the rye

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) F. Scott Fitzgerald

C) Jd salinger

D) John Steinbeck

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8. Which Latin American author wrote 'The War of the End of the World'

A) Isabel Allende

B) Gabriel Garcia Marquez

C) Mario vargas llosa

D) Carlos Fuentes

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9. Who wrote a series of novels about the Ballentines of Africa

A) H. Rider Haggard

B) Edgar Rice Burroughs

C) Wilber Smith

D) Michael Crichton

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10. Who wrote "The Old Man and the Sea"

A) Ernest Hemingway

B) Mark Twain

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) John Steinbeck

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11. Name the South African author of 'Cry, the Beloved Country'

A) Alan paton

B) Nadine Gordimer

C) J. M. Coetzee

D) Athol Fugard

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12. Duffy: A Confederacy of Dunces

A) James Joyce

B) John kennedy toole

C) Cormac McCarthy

D) Edgar Allan Poe

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13. Who wrote the best selling book on which the film 'Jurassic Park was based'

A) Stephen King

B) James Cameron

C) Michael crichton

D) Dan Brown

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14. Who wrote Of Human Bondage and The Moon and Sixpence

A) Charles Dickens

B) Somerset Maugham

C) Jane Austen

D) Thomas Hardy

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15. Who was the author of 'Of Mice and Men'

A) John Steinbeck

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) F. Scott Fitzgerald

D) William Faulkner

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16. Who wrote Dr Zhivago

A) Leo Tolstoy

B) Anton Chekhov

C) Fyodor Dostoevsky

D) Boris Pasternak

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17. In literature who taught at the Marcia Blain school for Girls

A) Miss Mackay

B) Miss Rose Sutherland

C) Miss Annie MacLeod

D) Miss Jean Brodie

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18. Hemmingway's Old Man and the Sea is set in which country

A) Mexico

B) Spain

C) Cuba

D) United States

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19. Who Wrote The 1951 Novel The Catcher in the Rye?

A) George Orwell

B) Harper Lee

C) J.D Salinger

D) F. Scott Fitzgerald

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20. Which Author Wrote The Sound & The Fury, The Wild Palms, And As I Lay Dying

A) William Faulkner

B) Ernest Hemingway

C) James Joyce

D) John Steinbeck

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21. Which Algerian Born French Authors Works Included L'Etranger & La Peste

A) Assia Djebar

B) Mohamed Dib

C) Albert Camus

D) Mouloud Mammeri

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22. Who is the author of "Brave New World" ?

A) Aldous Huxley

B) George Orwell

C) Margaret Atwood

D) Ray Bradbury

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23. Name the author of his famous and only novel 'Doctor Zhivago', which presents a panoramic view of Russian society at the time of the 1917 Revolution.

A) Leo Tolstoy

B) Boris Pasternak

C) Fyodor Dostoevsky

D) Vladimir Nabokov

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24. Who Wrote (Brave New World)

A) George Orwell

B) Aldous Huxley

C) Ray Bradbury

D) Margaret Atwood

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25. Which Author Wrote To Books The Shining And Pet Sematary

A) Dean Koontz

B) Neil Gaiman

C) Michael Crichton

D) Stephen King

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26. Faulkner penned this book with 4 distinctive sections: the Benjy section, Quentin's section, Jason and then Dilsey's sections.

A) As I Lay Dying

B) Light in August

C) Absalom, Absalom!

D) The Sound and the Fury

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27. Author of such works as Gravity's Rainbow, V, The Crying of Lot 49 and most recently, Mason & Dixon?

A) Thomas Pynchon

B) Don DeLillo

C) David Foster Wallace

D) William Gibson

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28. Which American Author Wrote Jaws

A) Peter Benchley

B) Michael Crichton

C) Herman Melville

D) Ernest Hemingway

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