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A multiple-choice quiz by sampras. Estimated time: 7 mins.

Author
sampras

Time
7 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
31,882

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
3 / 10

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Question 1 of 10

1. C.S. Lewis wrote a series of religious allegories for children known as....?

Answer: (Four Words)

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Question 2 of 10

2. A four-volume, twelve-novel series written by Anthony Powell is known (collectively) as.... Hint

A Dance to the Music of Time

All Is for Naught

Seeming and Being

When Naught Is All

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Question 3 of 10

3. The British author of a tetrology (which includes 'Babel Tower') is the sister of which other notable writer?

Answer: (Her best known work is 'The Millstone'.)

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Question 4 of 10

4. The sister of the author of "Babel Tower" is the editor of which prestigious tome? Hint

The London Library Desk Reference

Bartlett's Quotations

The Oxford Companion to English Literature

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

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Question 5 of 10

5. This writer, critical of Henry James, once said of James: 'He chewed more than he bit off.' Hint

H. L. Mencken

Henry Beerbohm

Thorstein Veblen

Edith Wharton

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Question 6 of 10

6. The 'Deptford Trilogy,' the 'Salterton Trilogy,' and one other trilogy were written by Robertson Davies. What is the name of the other trilogy?

Answer: (Think 'England')

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Question 7 of 10

7. Robertson Davies was from? Hint

the USA

Scotland

England

Canada

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Question 8 of 10

8. He died in 1850 as the conventional Poet Laureate of England, but in 1797, his 'Lyrical Ballads' was considered quite revolutionary. Hint

William Blake

Lord Byron

Samuel Coleridge

William Wordsworth

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Question 9 of 10

9. This brother of a well-known naturalist, Gerald Durrell, wrote a collection of books called....?

Answer: (Three Words)

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Question 10 of 10

10. This 19th century author wrote a book that was made into a Stanley Kubrick blockbuster film in the 1970's.

Answer: (Barry Lyndon Give author's last name)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. C.S. Lewis wrote a series of religious allegories for children known as....?

Answer: The Chronicles of Narnia

Many children adored the stories of Lucy, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and their successors without realizing the Christian undertones.The

2. A four-volume, twelve-novel series written by Anthony Powell is known (collectively) as....

Answer: A Dance to the Music of Time

The series is a thinly-disguised recount of the lives of the author and those surrounding him from the earliest part of the 20th century up until the 1960's.

3. The British author of a tetrology (which includes 'Babel Tower') is the sister of which other notable writer?

Answer: Margaret Drabble

A.S. Byatt is the elder one. The sisters don't get along.

4. The sister of the author of "Babel Tower" is the editor of which prestigious tome?

Answer: The Oxford Companion to English Literature

One of Drabble's many editorial works.

5. This writer, critical of Henry James, once said of James: 'He chewed more than he bit off.'

Answer: Henry Beerbohm

Henry 'Max' Beerbohm once wrote a fabulous parody of James which revolved around two children imagining (or not!) their Christmas joy.

6. The 'Deptford Trilogy,' the 'Salterton Trilogy,' and one other trilogy were written by Robertson Davies. What is the name of the other trilogy?

Answer: The Cornish Trilogy

Davies wrote quite a bit outside of the trilogy convention, but he is best known for these three collections.

7. Robertson Davies was from?

Answer: Canada

8. He died in 1850 as the conventional Poet Laureate of England, but in 1797, his 'Lyrical Ballads' was considered quite revolutionary.

Answer: William Wordsworth

Some critics have found it fit to say that revolutionaries should all die young...

9. This brother of a well-known naturalist, Gerald Durrell, wrote a collection of books called....?

Answer: The Alexandria Quartet

Lawrence Durrell

10. This 19th century author wrote a book that was made into a Stanley Kubrick blockbuster film in the 1970's.

Answer: Thackeray

Kubrick's film'Barry Lyndon,' starring the astonishingly miscast Ryan O'Neal, was a box office flop. Thackeray will perhaps always be best known as the author of 'Vanity Fair' and it's herione, Becky Sharp.

Source: Author sampras

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