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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
What is the title of the poem?
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“Laughers”
“I, too, sing America”
“Life is Fine”
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Who is the author of this poem?
a) Langston Hughes
b) Alain LeRoy Locke
c) Richard Wright
d) Zora Neal Hurston
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
What is the title of the poem?
“I, too, sing America”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“Laughers”
“Life is Fine”
About which book did Richard Wright assert that it “carries no theme, no message, no thought,” but is like a minstrel show?
“Their Eyes were Watching God”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“Laughers”
“Life is Fine”
Dream singers,
Storytellers,
Dancers,
Laud laughers in the hand of fate –
My people.
Who is the author of this poem?
Langston Hughes
Alain LeRoy Locke
Richard Wright
Zora Neal Hurston
Dream singers,
Storytellers,
Dancers,
Laud laughers in the hand of fate –
My people.
What is the title of the poem?
“Laughers”
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
“I, too, sing America”
“Life is Fine”
Thomas Bigger is the main character of the novel ____________ by Richard Wright.
“Native Son”
“Black Boy”
“I, too, sing America”
“Life is Fine”
Who is the daughter of Mr. Dalton and killed by pressing pillow of Bigger and then burnt the body in the house’s furnace?
Mary
Bessie
Vera
Buddy
What is the collection of four short stories by Richard Wright gained national attention?
“Uncle Tom’s Children”
“Native Son”
“Black Boy”
“Tragic America”
What does the title “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury refer to?
The temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns
Aliens number
Another planet
Robot understanding
In “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, what are considered dangerous and therefore are illegal and no one can own them?
Books
Weapons
Televisions
Drugs
Firefighters do not stop fires; they start them. They are the happiness squad. They destroy books when found and often the homes of those who have the contraband. Which book gives this information?
“Fahrenheit 451”
“Martians”
“I, Robot”
Green Miles”
Who is the main character of “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury?
Guy Montag
Mildred Montag
Captain Beatty
Professor Faber
Find out one of many repeated, mantra-like words and phrases that run through Kurt Vonnegut’s books
“So it goes”
“What happened?”
“Who is who?”
“Let me see”
Billy Pilgrim, the novel’s protagonist, has become “unstuck in time.” He travels between periods of his life, unable to control which period he lands in. As a result, the narrative is not chronological or linear. Instead, it jumps back and forth in time and place. Which book does this information refer to?
“Slaughterhouse-Five”
“Mother Night”
“Cat’s Cradle”
“Cruel Germany”
The night after his daughter’s wedding in 1967, as he later reveals on a radio talk show, Billy is kidnapped by two-foot-high aliens who resemble upside-down toilet plungers, who he says are called _____________. (“Slaughter House Five”)
Tralfamadorians
Martians
People
Polinesians
The Tralfamadorians explain to Billy their perception of time, how its entire sweep exists for them simultaneously in the fourth dimension. When someone dies, that person is simply dead at a particular time. Somewhere else and at a different time he or she is alive and well. Tralfamadorians prefer to look at life’s ___________ moments. (“Slaughter House Five”)
Nicer
Dangerous
War
Birthday
The novel’s author and a minor character was a prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden, and he periodically inserts himself in the narrative, as when he becomes the incontinent soldier in the latrine in the German prison camp. This authorial presence reappears throughout the novel, particularly in the refrain “So it goes” that follows each mention of death in “Slaughter House Five” by _______________________.
Kurt Vonnegut
Ray Bradbury
Isaac Asimov
Stephen King
Who is the author of the book “Ten Days that Shook the World”?
John Sailes Reed
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair Lewis
Stephen Crane
Which work belongs to James Jones?
“ From Here to Eternity”
“The Naked and the Dead”
“Catch 22”
“The Young Lines”
______________ is the novel describing the process of awakening and becoming collectivism among small farmers.
“Grapes of Wrath”
“The Naked and the Dead”
“Catch 22”
“The Young Lines”
Which work does belong to the eighth century?
“Beowulf”
“Canterbury Tales”
“Paradise Lost”
“Robinson Crusoe”
What kind of information does “Beowulf” give us?
c and d
It gives us vital information about old Scottish history and social life
It gives us vital information about old English social life and old English politics
It gives us vital information about old Germen tribes and scientific investigations
What does the word “mead” mean?
Beer
Wolf
Butterfly
Fox
Where do Grendel and his equally monstrous mother live?
At the bottom of a foul lake
On the pick of a high mountains
At the cave beneath the ground
At home as common people
What literary and phonetic devices are used in this epic poem?
Kenning, alliteration, litotes
Metonymy, synecdoche, metaphor
Irony, allusion, alliteration
Hyperbole, allusion, antonomasia
Who were called “scribes”?
Writers
Warriors
Singers
Priests
…….. –called druids –made sacrifices in forest shrines
Priests
Warriors
Singers
Writers
When was Britain conquered by Rome?
In the 4th century
In the 1st century
In the 2nd century
In the 3rd century
The Anglo-Saxons were advanced people and by the time they conquered Britain, they had already their own ……….. called “runes”.
Letters
Books
Teachers
Schools
What is the major theme in Romanticism?
Nature
Money
Home
Relation
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work “The Scarlet Letter”, what does this letter refer to?
Adultery
Anecdote
Asylum
Appreciation
Find out the author of historical books depicted American history.
J.F. Cooper
N. Hawthorne
H. Melville
A. E. Poe
The period of his literary career was rather brief but he wrote three hundred short stories and his first novel “Cabbages and Kings” appeared in 1904. Who is this author?
O’Henry
Mark Twain
Dreiser
S. Maugham
What is the first satirical story by Mark Twain?
“The Gilded Age”
“A Tramp Abroad”
“Municipal Corruption”
“The Enterprise”
Find out the war novel by William Faulner.
“Soldier’s Pay”
“As I Lay Dying”
“Absalom, Absalom”
“Sanctuary”
Who is the author of the book “Poor White”?
Sherwood Anderson
Mark Twain
Dreiser
S. Maugham
In which book did Ernest Hemingway divide the whole world into two parts –the world of the rich and the world of the poor?
“To Have and Have Not”
“The Old Man and the Sea”
“Men at War”
“A Farewell to Arms”
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