Second Only to Shakespeare?

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1. Fyodor Dostoevsky is best known for "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brothers Karamazov", but he also wrote other works. Which of the following is NOT one of them? The Double The House of the Dead The Gambler The Plague

2. Leo Tolstoi is best known for "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina". Which of the following of his works was banned when first published? The Counterfeiters The Penal Colony I Accuse What I Believe

3. Victor Hugo is best known for "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables". His life - like his writing - was dramatic. His wedding day was marred by what personal tragedy? The mental breakdown of his brother Abandonment by his wife-to-be The death of his father Receipt of devastating financial news

4. Charles Dickens is certainly one of the most prolific of the "great writers". Poe's raven may have been inspired by "Grip", the raven that belonged to Barnaby Rudge (in Dickens' novel of the same name.) What may accurately be said about the character, Rudge? Foolish Sinister Power-hungry Greedy

5. Dante is best known for "The Divine Comedy". Beatrice was one of the "guides" in that work; which of the following was also a "guide"? Plato Cicero Virgil Seneca

6. John Milton is best known for "Paradise Lost". Which of the following is NOT one of his works? Lycidas Areopagitica Il Penseroso De Profundis

7. John Donne is perhaps best known for his poetry, but man does not live by poetry alone. Which of the following statements about him is accurate? He was appointed Royal Philosopher He was appointed Royal Chaplain He was appointed Royal Physician He was appointed Royal Barrister

8. Thomas Mann is best known for "Death in Venice". Which of the following is NOT one of his works? Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game) Buddenbrooks The Magic Mountain Dr. Faustus

9. Eugene O'Neill is America's foremost dramatist. Which of these plays by O'Neill does not deal with sailors and the sea? The Long Voyage Home Long Day's Journey Into Night The Hairy Ape Anna Christie

10. Arthur Miller is also a great American dramatist. Which of the following of his works is a (somewhat) autobiographical look at one of his marriages? The Ride Down Mt. Morgan The Crucible The Price After the Fall