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Which language is the official language of Iran?
Turkish
Arabic
Urdu
Farsi
Who is the author of \'American Psycho\'?
Irvine Welsh
Jay McInerney
Chuck Palahniuk
Bret Easton Ellis
What is the study of the origin of words called?
Etymology
Entomology
Morphology
Phonology
Who wrote \'The Remains of the Day\'?
Julian Barnes
Ian McEwan
Salman Rushdie
Kazuo Ishiguro
Who wrote \'A Farewell to Arms\'?
Jack London
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Who wrote \'Little Women\'?
Louisa May Alcott
Edith Wharton
Emily Dickinson
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Who wrote \'The Odyssey\'?
Euripides
Virgil
Sophocles
Homer
What is the term for a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet?
Anagram
Oxymoron
Pangram
Palindrome
What is the official language of Egypt?
Turkish
Farsi
Coptic
Arabic
Which language is spoken in the Maldives?
Sinhala
Dhivehi
Tamil
Malay
In which language was the \'Iliad\' originally written?
Ancient Greek
Old English
Sanskrit
Latin
What is the name of the protagonist in \'The Hunger Games\'?
Katniss Everdeen
Gale Hawthorne
Primrose Everdeen
Peeta Mellark
Who wrote \'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\'?
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
Bram Stoker
Who wrote \'The Stranger\'?
Simone de Beauvoir
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Jean-Paul Sartre
Who wrote \'Brave New World\'?
Ray Bradbury
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Kurt Vonnegut
Which language is the official language of Pakistan?
Urdu
Hindi
Bengali
Punjabi
Who wrote \'The Pillars of the Earth\'?
John Grisham
Jeffrey Archer
Ken Follett
Dan Brown
Which language is the second most spoken native language in the world?
English
Spanish
Arabic
Hindi
Who is the author of \'The Color Purple\'?
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
What is the term for the origin of a word?
Morphology
Semantics
Etymology
Syntax
What is the term for a comparison that does not use \like\ or \as\?
Synecdoche
Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Who is the author of \'The Da Vinci Code\'?
Dan Brown
James Patterson
John Grisham
Stephen King
What is the term for a word that is spelled the same backwards and forwards?
Anagram
Homonym
Palindrome
Antonym
Who wrote \'The Satanic Verses\'?
Salman Rushdie
Vikram Seth
Anita Desai
V.S. Naipaul
Who is the author of \'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\'?
Oscar Hijuelos
Julia Alvarez
Junot Díaz
Sandra Cisneros
Which language is the official language of Hungary?
Hungarian
Finnish
Estonian
Turkish
Who wrote \'Robinson Crusoe\'?
Samuel Richardson
Henry Fielding
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Who is the author of \'The Handmaid\'s Tale\'?
Sylvia Plath
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Margaret Atwood
Who wrote \'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter\'?
Carson McCullers
Eudora Welty
Flannery O\'Connor
Harper Lee
Which language is the official language of Japan?
Thai
Japanese
Korean
Chinese
Who wrote \'Waiting for the Barbarians\'?
J.M. Coetzee
Wole Soyinka
Chinua Achebe
Nadine Gordimer
What is the term for a word that sounds like what it represents?
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
Who wrote \'The Wind in the Willows\'?
Kenneth Grahame
Roald Dahl
A.A. Milne
Beatrix Potter
What is the term for a figure of speech where an object is given human traits?
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Who wrote \'Life of Pi\'?
Rohinton Mistry
Yann Martel
Aravind Adiga
Vikram Seth
Who wrote \'The Sound and the Fury\'?
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Sinclair Lewis
What is the name of the farm in \'Animal Farm\'?
Animal Farm
Pinchfield
Manor Farm
Foxwood
What is the name of the fictional town in \'To Kill a Mockingbird\'?
Macondo
Maycomb
Milton
Middlemarch
Who is the author of \'Beloved\'?
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
James Baldwin
Toni Morrison
What is the term for the literal, dictionary definition of a word?
Etymology
Connotation
Syntax
Denotation
What is the name of the school in \'Jane Eyre\'?
Gateshead
Ferndean
Lowood
Thornfield
What is the name of the plantation in \'Gone with the Wind\'?
Pemberley
Tara
Twelve Oaks
Manderley
Who is the author of \'The Joy Luck Club\'?
Amy Tan
Jung Chang
Maxine Hong Kingston
Pearl S. Buck
Who wrote \'A Clockwork Orange\'?
Anthony Burgess
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
William Golding
In \'The Chronicles of Narnia\', who is the Great Lion?
Tumnus
Reepicheep
Caspian
Aslan
Who wrote \'The Power and the Glory\'?
Evelyn Waugh
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
E.M. Forster
Who wrote \'Wuthering Heights\'?
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Austen
Anne Brontë
What is the name of the boy in \'The Jungle Book\'?
Tarzan
Kim
Mowgli
Abu
Who wrote \'The Poisonwood Bible\'?
Toni Morrison
Barbara Kingsolver
Alice Walker
Margaret Atwood
Who wrote \'The Waste Land\'?
W.B. Yeats
Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
T.S. Eliot
What is the term for a character who changes throughout a story?
Static Character
Flat Character
Stock Character
Dynamic Character
Who is the author of \'Cloud Atlas\'?
Ian McEwan
Julian Barnes
David Mitchell
Kazuo Ishiguro
Which country is the setting for \'Hamlet\'?
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
England
Which language is spoken in the African country of Senegal?
French
Dutch
Spanish
English
Who is the author of \'The Road\'?
Don DeLillo
Cormac McCarthy
Thomas Pynchon
Philip Roth
Who wrote the poem \'The Raven\'?
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Frost
What is the term for a story where animals act as humans and convey a moral?
Satire
Epic
Fable
Parody
Who is the author of \'The Old Man and the Sea\'?
Ernest Hemingway
Jack London
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Who wrote \'The Hobbit\'?
C.S. Lewis
Enid Blyton
Roald Dahl
J.R.R. Tolkien
Who wrote the fantasy series \'A Song of Ice and Fire\'?
Robert Jordan
C.S. Lewis
George R.R. Martin
J.R.R. Tolkien
Which language is the official language of Denmark?
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Icelandic
Which language is the primary language of the Roman Empire?
Greek
Coptic
Latin
Aramaic
Which language is the most common second language in the world?
Spanish
English
French
Mandarin
Which letter is the most used in the English language?
A
I
T
E
What is the term for an ending that resolves the plot?
Climax
Inciting Incident
Exposition
Resolution
Who wrote the classic novel \'1984\'?
Ray Bradbury
H.G. Wells
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
What is the Roman name for the Greek hero Odysseus?
Aeneas
Ulysses
Achilles
Hercules
Who is the author of \'The Golden Notebook\'?
Muriel Spark
Doris Lessing
Iris Murdoch
Virginia Woolf
Who is the author of \'To the Lighthouse\'?
D.H. Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
James Joyce
E.M. Forster
Who is the author of \'The Da Vinci Code\'?
Dan Brown
John Grisham
James Patterson
Stephen King
Who wrote \'The Canterbury Tales\'?
Christopher Marlowe
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Who is the author of \'The Secret History\'?
Zadie Smith
Sally Rooney
Donna Tartt
Gillian Flynn
Who wrote \'The Bluest Eye\'?
Zora Neale Hurston
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Alice Walker
What is the term for the set of rules that govern the structure of sentences?
Phonology
Semantics
Morphology
Syntax
Which language is spoken in the African country of Angola?
French
Dutch
Portuguese
Spanish
Who wrote \'Breakfast at Tiffany\'s\'?
Jack Kerouac
Harper Lee
Truman Capote
J.D. Salinger
What is the name of the pig in \'Charlotte\'s Web\'?
Old Major
Porky
Wilbur
Babe
What is the name of the hobbit in \'The Hobbit\'?
Bilbo Baggins
Samwise Gamgee
Frodo Baggins
Peregrin Took
Who is the author of \'The Namesake\'?
Jhumpa Lahiri
Anita Desai
Arundhati Roy
Kiran Desai
What is the term for the study of speech sounds?
Semantics
Phonetics
Morphology
Syntax
Who wrote \'The Giver\'?
J.K. Rowling
Suzanne Collins
Lois Lowry
Veronica Roth
Who wrote \'Animal Farm\'?
George Bernard Shaw
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
Aldous Huxley
Who is the author of \'Little House on the Prairie\'?
Louisa May Alcott
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who wrote \'The Secret Garden\'?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Beatrix Potter
Enid Blyton
Who wrote \'On the Road\'?
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
William S. Burroughs
Neal Cassady
What is the name of the school in \'Harry Potter\'?
Durmstrang
Beauxbatons
Ilvermorny
Hogwarts
Who wrote \'Middlemarch\'?
George Eliot
Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
Virginia Woolf
What is the name of the land where \'Gulliver\'s Travels\' begins?
Houyhnhnm
Laputa
Lilliput
Brobdingnag
Who is the author of \'Gone with the Wind\'?
Edith Wharton
Flannery O\'Connor
Harper Lee
Margaret Mitchell
What is the name of the protagonist in \'Metamorphosis\'?
Josef K.
Karl Rossmann
Franz Kafka
Gregor Samsa
Which language is spoken in the Netherlands?
Danish
Deutsch
Low German
Dutch
What is the name of the diary kept by a Jewish girl during WWII?
Night
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Wall
The Book Thief
Who wrote \'The Unbearable Lightness of Being\'?
Franz Kafka
Thomas Mann
Milan Kundera
Hermann Hesse
Who is the author of \'Animal Farm\'?
Ray Bradbury
George Bernard Shaw
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Who is the author of \'Sense and Sensibility\'?
Jane Austen
Emily Brontë
Mary Shelley
Charlotte Brontë
Who wrote \'The Big Sleep\'?
Dashiell Hammett
Arthur Conan Doyle
Raymond Chandler
Agatha Christie
Who wrote \'Paradise Lost\'?
William Blake
John Keats
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Milton
What is the term for a story within a story?
Allegory
Frame Story
Novella
Vignette
Which country’s literature includes the \'Epic of Gilgamesh\'?
Mesopotamia
Egypt
India
Greece
Who wrote \'The Call of the Wild\'?
Ernest Hemingway
Jack London
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
Which language is the most widely spoken in the world by total number of speakers?
Mandarin
Hindi
English
Spanish
Which language is spoken in the region of Catalonia, Spain?
Spanish
Basque
Galician
Catalan
Who wrote \'A Room with a View\'?
James Joyce
D.H. Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
E.M. Forster
Who is the author of \'Americanah\'?
Taiye Selasi
Zadie Smith
Yaa Gyasi
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Which language is the official language of South Korea?
Japanese
Chinese
Thai
Korean
Which language is spoken in Ethiopia?
Swahili
Amharic
Hausa
Zulu
Who is the author of \'The Picture of Dorian Gray\'?
Henry James
Bram Stoker
Oscar Wilde
Robert Louis Stevenson
In \'Moby-Dick\', what kind of animal is Moby Dick?
Sperm Whale
Great White Shark
Blue Whale
Giant Squid
Who wrote \'To Kill a Mockingbird\'?
Maya Angelou
Harper Lee
Toni Morrison
Flannery O\'Connor
Who wrote \'The House of the Spirits\'?
Pablo Neruda
Laura Esquivel
Gabriel García Márquez
Isabel Allende
What is the term for the dictionary meaning of a word?
Denotation
Connotation
Syntax
Etymology
Who wrote \'Fahrenheit 451\'?
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
George Orwell
Isaac Asimov
Who is the author of \'The Bell Jar\'?
Anne Sexton
Virginia Woolf
Sylvia Plath
Joan Didion
Which language is the official language of Vietnam?
Vietnamese
Khmer
Thai
Lao
What is the term for a comparison that lasts over several lines?
Extended Metaphor
Simile
Hyperbole
Synecdoche
Who wrote \'Wuthering Heights\'?
Jane Austen
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Who wrote \'Anna Karenina\'?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Turgenev
Anton Chekhov
Who wrote \'The Sun Also Rises\'?
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Sinclair Lewis
Who wrote \'The Chronicles of Narnia\'?
C.S. Lewis
Roald Dahl
J.R.R. Tolkien
Enid Blyton
Who wrote \'The Good Earth\'?
Ernest Hemingway
Sinclair Lewis
John Steinbeck
Pearl S. Buck
Who is the author of \'Atlas Shrugged\'?
Aldous Huxley
George Orwell
Ayn Rand
Ray Bradbury
What is the name of the magical school in \'Harry Potter\'?
Harrow
Eton
Hogwarts
Smeltings
What is the name of the plantation in \'Gone with the Wind\'?
Pemberley
Manderley
Twelve Oaks
Tara
Who wrote \'The Age of Innocence\'?
Henry James
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sinclair Lewis
Edith Wharton
Who wrote \'Watership Down\'?
E.B. White
Roald Dahl
Richard Adams
Kenneth Grahame
What is the name of the captain in \'Moby-Dick\'?
Captain Nemo
Captain Morgan
Captain Ahab
Captain Hook
What is the term for a novel about the formative years of a person?
Bildungsroman
Novella
Epistolary
Picaresque
Who wrote \'Frankenstein\'?
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
Mary Shelley
Which novel begins with the line, \Call me Ishmael\?
Heart of Darkness
The Old Man and the Sea
Ulysses
Moby-Dick
Who wrote \'Great Expectations\'?
George Meredith
William Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy
Who is the author of \'The Great Gatsby\'?
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Which language is the official language of Norway?
Norwegian
Danish
Swedish
Finnish
Who wrote \'The Grapes of Wrath\'?
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Sinclair Lewis
Which language is the official language of Sweden?
Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
What is the name of the woman Hamlet loves?
Gertrude
Desdemona
Ophelia
Portia
Which language is the official language of Cambodia?
Lao
Thai
Vietnamese
Khmer
What is the name of the ship in \'Treasure Island\'?
Endeavour
Hispaniola
Bounty
Discovery
What is the setting of \'The Lord of the Flies\'?
A forest
An island
A desert
A mountain
What is the term for the choice and use of words in writing?
Diction
Style
Tone
Syntax
Which language is spoken in the Philippines?
Javanese
Tagalog
Vietnamese
Malay
What is the term for the emotional atmosphere of a story?
Theme
Mood
Setting
Tone
What is the name of the protagonist in \'Great Expectations\'?
Pip
Charles
David
Oliver
What is the name of the monster in Mary Shelley’s \'Frankenstein\'?
Frankenstein
Igor
The Golem
The Creature
What is the name of the play featuring the characters Vladimir and Estragon?
The Birthday Party
The Crucible
Endgame
Waiting for Godot
What is the name of the Greek goddess of wisdom?
Artemis
Aphrodite
Athena
Hera
Which language is spoken by the most people as a first or second language?
Mandarin
English
Hindi
Spanish
Who is the author of \'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\'?
Mark Twain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Jack London
What is the name of the protagonist in \'The Catcher in the Rye\'?
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Jay Gatsby
Holden Caulfield
What is the term for a word formed from the initial letters of other words?
Anagram
Acronym
Palindrome
Synonym
Which language is spoken in Switzerland?
All of these
French
German
Italian
What is the official language of Israel?
Arabic
Hebrew
Ladino
Yiddish
Which language is an isolate, meaning it has no known relatives?
Finnish
Estonian
Basque
Hungarian
What is the term for a word that is spelled differently but sounds the same?
Homophone
Homograph
Anagram
Homonym
Which language is spoken in the Austrian capital, Vienna?
German
Austrian
Dutch
Swiss
What is the term for a story that has a second, deeper meaning?
Epic
Allegory
Satire
Fable
Who is the author of \'The Kite Runner\'?
Vikram Seth
Arundhati Roy
Salman Rushdie
Khaled Hosseini
What is the name of the whale in \'Moby-Dick\'?
Ishmael
Queequeg
Ahab
Moby Dick
Which language is the official language of Thailand?
Thai
Burmese
Lao
Khmer
Which language is spoken in the country of Afghanistan?
Arabic
Urdu
Farsi
Pashto
Who is the author of \'Things Fall Apart\'?
Ben Okri
Chinua Achebe
Wole Soyinka
Ngugi wa Thiong\'o
What is the term for a brief reference to a famous person, place, or event?
Allegory
Analogy
Alliteration
Allusion
Who wrote \'The Great Gatsby\'?
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Which language is spoken in the country of Laos?
Thai
Khmer
Lao
Vietnamese
Who is the author of \'The Handmaid\'s Tale\'?
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Margaret Atwood
Sylvia Plath
What is the term for the perspective from which a story is told?
Point of View
Theme
Setting
Plot
Which language uses the Hangul alphabet?
Chinese
Thai
Korean
Japanese
Who wrote \'The Woman in White\'?
Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
What is the name of the school in \'Matilda\'?
Hogwarts
Greyfriars
Smeltings
Crunchem Hall
Who wrote \'Les Misérables\'?
Honoré de Balzac
Émile Zola
Gustave Flaubert
Victor Hugo
Which language is the official language of the Vatican City?
Italian
German
French
Latin
What is the term for the main character in a story?
Narrator
Protagonist
Antagonist
Static Character
What is the term for an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally?
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Irony
Which language is spoken in the country of Georgia?
Greek
Russian
Armenian
Georgian
What is the name of the land where \'The Lord of the Rings\' takes place?
Middle-earth
Neverland
Oz
Narnia
Which language is spoken in the country of Myanmar?
Burmese
Lao
Khmer
Thai
Who wrote \'The Grapes of Wrath\'?
John Dos Passos
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
What is the term for a story written in the form of letters?
Picaresque
Bildungsroman
Epistolary
Vignette
What is the term for the atmosphere of a piece of writing?
Setting
Mood
Theme
Tone
Who wrote \'Jane Eyre\'?
Charlotte Brontë
Anne Brontë
George Eliot
Emily Brontë
Which language is the official language of Greece?
Turkish
Greek
Latin
Italian
Who wrote \'The Red Badge of Courage\'?
Jack London
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
Stephen Crane
Who wrote \'To Kill a Mockingbird\'?
Flannery O\'Connor
Maya Angelou
Toni Morrison
Harper Lee
Which language is the official language of Iceland?
Danish
Swedish
Icelandic
Norwegian
Who wrote \'Babbitt\'?
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Sinclair Lewis
What is the term for a poem of 14 lines?
Ode
Limerick
Sonnet
Haiku
Which language is spoken in the country of Bhutan?
Hindi
Nepali
Dzongkha
Tibetan
Who is the author of \'Foucault\'s Pendulum\'?
Primo Levi
Italo Calvino
Dario Fo
Umberto Eco
Which language is spoken in Quebec, Canada?
Spanish
Dutch
English
French
What is the term for a humorous poem of five lines?
Sonnet
Limerick
Haiku
Ode
Who wrote \'The Unbearable Lightness of Being\'?
Milan Kundera
Franz Kafka
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Who wrote the play \'Romeo and Juliet\'?
John Webster
Ben Jonson
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Which language uses the Cyrillic alphabet?
Russian
Turkish
Greek
Polish
Who is the author of \'The Picture of Dorian Gray\'?
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
W.B. Yeats
James Joyce
Who wrote \'Catch-22\'?
Norman Mailer
James Jones
Kurt Vonnegut
Joseph Heller
Who wrote \'Lolita\'?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Nabokov
Ivan Turgenev
What is the name of the captain in \'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea\'?
Captain Ahab
Captain Morgan
Captain Hook
Captain Nemo
What is the term for an exaggerated statement?
Hyperbole
Irony
Simile
Metaphor
Who is the author of \'White Teeth\'?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Andrea Levy
Zadie Smith
Monica Ali
Who wrote \'The Outsiders\'?
J.D. Salinger
Jack Kerouac
S.E. Hinton
Lois Lowry
Who wrote \'The Sun Also Rises\'?
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote \'The Martian\'?
Andy Weir
Philip K. Dick
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Who wrote the \'Divine Comedy\'?
Machiavelli
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Who wrote \'Death of a Salesman\'?
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Eugene O\'Neill
Edward Albee
What is the term for the set of vowels and consonants used in a language?
Morphology
Phonology
Syntax
Alphabet
Who is the author of \'Don Quixote\'?
Lope de Vega
Gabriel García Márquez
Miguel de Cervantes
Federico García Lorca
Who is the author of \'Life of Pi\'?
Yann Martel
Rohinton Mistry
Mohsin Hamid
Aravind Adiga
Who is the author of \'The Secret Life of Bees\'?
Alice Walker
Margaret Atwood
Sue Monk Kidd
Toni Morrison
Which language is the official language of Romania?
Bulgarian
Russian
Romanian
Hungarian
What is the name of the detective in Arthur Conan Doyle\'s stories?
Sherlock Holmes
Sam Spade
Hercule Poirot
Miss Marple
What is the name of the imaginary world in \'Alice in Wonderland\'?
Neverland
Narnia
Wonderland
Oz
What is the name of the kingdom in \'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\'?
Neverland
Oz
Middle-earth
Narnia
Who is the author of \'Cloud Atlas\'?
David Mitchell
Ian McEwan
Julian Barnes
Kazuo Ishiguro
Who wrote \'The Picture of Dorian Gray\'?
W.B. Yeats
George Bernard Shaw
Oscar Wilde
James Joyce
Which language is the official language of Somalia?
Arabic
Somali
Amharic
Swahili
Who is the author of \'Midnight\'s Children\'?
Salman Rushdie
V.S. Naipaul
Vikram Seth
Arundhati Roy
Who wrote \'Lolita\'?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ivan Turgenev
Leo Tolstoy
Vladimir Nabokov
What is the name of the servant in \'Robinson Crusoe\'?
Saturday
Friday
Monday
Sunday
Who is the author of \'Normal People\'?
Gillian Flynn
Sally Green
Zadie Smith
Sally Rooney
Who is the author of \'Emma\'?
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Charlotte Brontë
George Eliot
What is the term for a story where characters represent abstract ideas?
Epic
Allegory
Fable
Satire
Who wrote \'The Catcher in the Rye\'?
Harper Lee
J.D. Salinger
Jack Kerouac
Truman Capote
Which language is the official language of the Czech Republic?
Czech
Polish
German
Slovak
Which language is the official language of Brazil?
Portuguese
French
Italian
Spanish
What is the name of the punctuation mark used to indicate a pause between parts of a sentence?
Colon
Semicolon
Hyphen
Comma
Who is the author of \'The Trial\'?
Thomas Mann
Hermann Hesse
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Who is the author of \'Atonement\'?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Ian McEwan
Martin Amis
Julian Barnes
Who is the author of \'The Alchemist\'?
Paulo Coelho
Jorge Luis Borges
Gabriel García Márquez
Isabel Allende
Who wrote \'The Glass Menagerie\'?
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller
Eugene O\'Neill
Edward Albee
What is the name of the cat in \'Alice in Wonderland\'?
Dinah
Tom
Cheshire Cat
Sylvester
Who is the author of \'Ulysses\'?
Samuel Beckett
James Joyce
W.B. Yeats
Oscar Wilde
Who is the author of \'The Alchemist\'?
Gabriel García Márquez
Paulo Coelho
Isabel Allende
Jorge Luis Borges
Who wrote \'Sophie\'s Choice\'?
Saul Bellow
John Updike
Philip Roth
William Styron
What is the term for a self-contradictory statement?
Irony
Paradox
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Who wrote \'One Hundred Years of Solitude\'?
Julio Cortázar
Gabriel García Márquez
Mario Vargas Llosa
Pablo Neruda
Which language is spoken in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?
Telugu
Hindi
Tamil
Malayalam
Which language is the official language of Turkey?
Farsi
Turkish
Kurdish
Arabic
Who wrote \'Under the Volcano\'?
E.M. Forster
Malcolm Lowry
Graham Greene
Joseph Conrad
Which language is the official language of Haiti?
French
Spanish
Dutch
English
Who wrote \'Heart of Darkness\'?
Joseph Conrad
E.M. Forster
H.G. Wells
Graham Greene
Which language is the official language of Poland?
Ukrainian
German
Polish
Russian
Which language has the largest number of words?
Spanish
French
English
German
What is the term for the use of symbols to represent ideas?
Symbolism
Allegory
Metaphor
Irony
What is the term for a common expression that doesn\'t mean what it says?
Idiom
Simile
Paradox
Metaphor
What is the most widely spoken native language in the world?
English
Hindi
Spanish
Mandarin Chinese
Who wrote \'Great Expectations\'?
George Meredith
Thomas Hardy
William Thackeray
Charles Dickens
What is the name of the detective in Agatha Christie\'s \'The Mysterious Affair at Styles\'?
Hercule Poirot
Sherlock Holmes
Miss Marple
Sam Spade
What is the name of the king in \'The Tempest\'?
Sebastian
Prospero
Ferdinand
Alonso
Who wrote \'One Hundred Years of Solitude\'?
Isabel Allende
Pablo Neruda
Mario Vargas Llosa
Gabriel García Márquez
Who is the author of \'The Road\'?
Don DeLillo
Thomas Pynchon
Philip Roth
Cormac McCarthy
Who wrote \'The Catcher in the Rye\'?
Harper Lee
J.D. Salinger
Truman Capote
Jack Kerouac
Who wrote \'Dubliners\'?
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Beckett
W.B. Yeats
James Joyce
What is the term for a short, descriptive story or sketch?
Epic
Vignette
Novella
Folklore
Who is the author of \'Life of Pi\'?
Rohinton Mistry
Vikram Seth
Aravind Adiga
Yann Martel
Who wrote \'Kim\'?
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Conrad
Graham Greene
E.M. Forster
Who wrote \'The Hobbit\'?
Roald Dahl
C.S. Lewis
Ursula K. Le Guin
J.R.R. Tolkien
Who is the author of \'Dracula\'?
Edgar Allan Poe
Bram Stoker
Oscar Wilde
Mary Shelley
What is the term for a play on words?
Paradox
Pun
Metaphor
Irony
What is the term for a figure of speech that compares two things using \like\ or \as\?
Hyperbole
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Who is the author of \'The God of Small Things\'?
Arundhati Roy
Vikram Seth
Salman Rushdie
Anita Desai
Who wrote \'The Metamorphosis\'?
Jean-Paul Sartre
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Thomas Mann
What is the name of the protagonist in \'The Catcher in the Rye\'?
Jay Gatsby
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Holden Caulfield
What is the term for the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a sequence of words?
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Who wrote \'The Shadow of the Wind\'?
Mario Vargas Llosa
Isabel Allende
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Gabriel García Márquez
What is the name of the detective created by Agatha Christie?
Sherlock Holmes
Hercule Poirot
Sam Spade
Philip Marlowe
What is the name of the city in \'Romeo and Juliet\'?
Verona
Rome
Venice
Florence
Who wrote \'Crime and Punishment\'?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
Nikolai Gogol
Leo Tolstoy
Which language is the root of all Romance languages?
Latin
Germanic
Greek
Sanskrit
What is the term for a group of lines in a poem?
Verse
Canto
Chorus
Stanza
Which language is the official language of Mozambique?
French
Swahili
Portuguese
Spanish
Who wrote \'The Old Man and the Sea\'?
John Steinbeck
Jack London
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
What is the name of the island in \'Treasure Island\'?
Skeleton Island
Treasure Island
Skull Island
Isla Nublar
What is the term for the high point or turning point in a story?
Climax
Exposition
Resolution
Rising Action
Who wrote \'A Moveable Feast\'?
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
What is the term for words that sound the same but have different meanings?
Anagrams
Antonyms
Homophones
Synonyms
Who wrote \'The Jungle Book\'?
Jack London
Joseph Conrad
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
What is the term for a book that is a collection of maps?
Atlas
Almanac
Encyclopedia
Dictionary
Who wrote \'A Tale of Two Cities\'?
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins
Charles Dickens
What is the name of the butler in \'The Remains of the Day\'?
Alfred
Jeeves
Stevens
Carson
Who is the author of \'Never Let Me Go\'?
Ian McEwan
Julian Barnes
Kazuo Ishiguro
David Mitchell
What is the term for the repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words?
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Consonance
Alliteration
Which language is the official language of Austria?
Austrian
French
German
Dutch
Who wrote \'The House of Mirth\'?
Sinclair Lewis
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Who wrote \'The Screwtape Letters\'?
C.S. Lewis
G.K. Chesterton
J.R.R. Tolkien
T.S. Eliot
Which language family does English belong to?
Germanic
Romance
Semitic
Slavic
Which Greek epic poem tells the story of the fall of Troy?
The Odyssey
The Theogony
The Aeneid
The Iliad
What is the term for a word that has the same meaning as another word?
Antonym
Homonym
Acronym
Synonym
What is the longest novel ever written, according to Guinness World Records?
War and Peace
Les Misérables
Clarissa
In Search of Lost Time
What is the term for the study of the meaning of words?
Phonology
Morphology
Syntax
Semantics
What is a Japanese poem consisting of 17 syllables called?
Haiku
Limerick
Sonnet
Ode
Who created the detective Sherlock Holmes?
Dashiel Hammett
Agatha Christie
Raymond Chandler
Arthur Conan Doyle
Which language is the official language of Finland?
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Swedish
What is the term for a word that means the opposite of another word?
Acronym
Synonym
Homonym
Antonym
Who wrote \'The Tale of Genji\', often considered the first novel?
Sei Shonagon
Murasaki Shikibu
Akutagawa
Matsuo Basho
Who wrote \'Slaughterhouse-Five\'?
Joseph Heller
Kurt Vonnegut
Thomas Pynchon
Ken Kesey
What is the name of the land where \'The Wizard of Oz\' takes place?
Oz
Neverland
Narnia
Wonderland
Which language is written from right to left?
Arabic
Vietnamese
Hindi
Russian
Who is the author of \'Pride and Prejudice\'?
Charlotte Brontë
George Eliot
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
Who wrote \'Middlemarch\'?
Jane Austen
George Eliot
Charlotte Brontë
Virginia Woolf
What is the name of the protagonist in \'Moby-Dick\'?
Ahab
Ishmael
Starbuck
Queequeg
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