1. Who wrote 'The Canterbury Tales'? William Shakespeare William Faulkner Christopher Marlowe Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Who won a Nobel Prize for his novel 'Dr. Zhivago', but was forced by the Soviet government to turn it down? Answer: (First and or last name accepted)

3. Which of the following was written by Nobel prizewinning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Riki-Tiki-Tavi Palace Walk I, Rigoberta Menchu

4. What German author won a Nobel Prize for literature in the 1990s? Guenter Grass Thomas Mann Helmut Kohl Goethe

5. Which of Homer's works deals DIRECTLY with the Trojan War (not just its aftermath)? Answer: (one or two words (the _____))

6. What play, starring a character named Viola, is William Shakespeare depicted as beginning at the END of the movie 'Shakespeare in Love' (NOT during the rest of the movie)? Richard III Romeo and Juliet Twelfth Night Hamlet

7. Under what king's direction was the King James translation of the Bible developed? The Tsar-Liberator of Russia King James II of England King James I of England King James III of Scotland

8. Who wrote the play 'A Doll's House', featuring Nora Helmer and her husband Torvald? Arthur Miller Christopher Marlowe Lope de Vega Henrik Ibsen

9. In what language did Lope de Vega, one of the most prolific playwrights of all time, write his plays? Answer: (One Word)

10. About whom did Abraham Lincoln say, 'So this is the little lady who started the big war'? Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Tubman Anne Sullivan Mary Surratt

11. Who wrote 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'? T.S. Eliot Herman Melville Samuel Coleridge William Blake

12. What famous children's book did L. Frank Baum write -- a book that would become the first of a series of fourteen? Answer: (Four Words -- don't forget 'the'!)

13. What member of the Quiche people in Guatemala won the Nobel Peace Prize in part for her autobiography? Mother Teresa Diana Spenser Agnes Gonxhiu Rigoberta Menchu

14. Who wrote the mock heroic poem 'Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes'? Jonathan Swift Thomas Gray Alexander Pope Homer

15. What Shakespearean play is parodied in a scene in the Arnold Schwarzenegger flop 'Last Action Hero', widely criticized as rotten? Romeo and Juliet Twelfth Night Hamlet As You Like It

16. What is Dr. Seuss's real name? Jack Kerouac Seuss James Seuss Thurber Theodor Seuss Geisel Seuss Truman Capote

17. Who wrote the classic children's novel 'Matilda' and entitled his autobiography 'Boy'? George Sands Roald Dahl Rudyard Kipling A. A. Milne

18. Whose 'Origin of Species' began a debate between science and religion that is still going on today? John Scopes Adam Smith Clarence Darrow Charles Darwin

19. In a similar vein, the play 'Inherit the Wind' deals with what famous trial? Plessy v. Ferguson Sweet trial Scopes monkey trial Brown v. Board

20. You're almost done! So pat yourself on the back and answer one last, hopefully easy question: what was the name of the man who wrote the 'Divine Comedy' which included the famous 'Inferno'? Dante Bacon Shakespeare Marlowe