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1. What is your favourite book? Summarise the story in ONE
sentence.
2. Name a book character that is just like someone you know
(your father / sister / friend, etc.) and exp
3. Which is the best film made from a book? Tell us why.
4. Where is the best place to be when you are reading, and
why?
5. Which character from a book would you like to be, and
why?
Test your knowledge of Literature
1.
Which of
the following is not generally regarded as one of Shakespeare’s greatest
tragedies?
a.
Hamlet b. Romeo and
2.
A sonnet
is a poem that is made up of __________.
a.
10 lines b. 12 lines c.
14 lines d. 16 lines
3.
Who is
the au
a.
Jane
Austen b. William Blake c. Wilkie
Collins d. Charles Dic
4.
Which of
the following was not written by Charles Dic
a.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes b. Bleak House c.
A Christmas Carol d. David Copperfield
5.
Which
writer became a poet after publishing extensively as a novelist?
a.
T. S.
Eliot b. E. M. Forster c. George Gissing d.
Thomas Hardy
6.
Who of
the following is not known as a horror stories writer?
a.
M. R.
James b. Stephen
7.
Who is
the au
a.
Lewis
Carroll b. C. S. Lewis c. Philip Pullman d.
J. R. R. Tolkien
8.
Which
novel is set in the city of
a. James Joyce’s Ulysses
b. Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis c.
D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers d.
W. Somerset Maugham’s The Moon and
Sixpence
9.
The film The Hours was inspired by __________.
a.
Horace
Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto b. Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
c. William Wordsworth’s The Prelude d.
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs
Dalloway
10.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was written by
__________.
11.
Hayao Miyazaki’s film Howl’s
Moving Castle is based on the book bearing the same name by ___.
a.
Hans
Christian Andersen b. Roald Dahl c.
Diana Wynne Jones d. J. K. Rowling
12.
The film
a. Dante’s Inferno b. Homer’s The Illiad c. Plato’s The Republic d. Virgil’s Aeneid