WORLD LITERATURE
1. The novel by Victor Hugo which serves
as the vehicle for his social ideas; Mon are essentially equal; the poor are
crushed by the prejudices of organized society; etc. is
a. The Hunchback of Notredame
b. Songs of the Orient
c. Les Miserable
d. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. The story written by Washington
Irving, which tells of a man who slept for twenty years while hunting on the
Catskill Mountain in
a. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
b. Rip Van Winkle
c. The Cask of Amontillado
d. The Wooden Horse
3. The Epic of England
a. Le Morte de Arthur
b. Beowulf
c. Canterburry Tales
d. Robin Hood
4. The Epic of France is a
a. Song of Roland
b. Les Miserables
c. The Count of Monte Cristo
d. Autumn Leaves
5. The Epic of Spain
a. Song of Roland
b. Beowulf
c. Don Quixote de la Mancha
d. El Cid
6. The Epic of Rome is
a. Odyssey
b. Aeneid
c. Iliad
d. Divine Comedy
7. The Epic of Germany
a. The Song of Roland
b. Nibelungenlied
c. Beowulf
d. Mein Kamft
8. The World’s Longest Epic
a. Ramayana
b. Iliad
c. Odyssey
d. Mahabharata
9. The epic of the Philippines
a. Aligayon
b. Biag ni Lam-ang
c. Handiong
d. Bantugan
10. The Colombian writer of the Novel
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” who popularized magical realism
a. Pablo Neruda
b. Artemio Cruz
c. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
d. Cesar Fuentes
11. The Spanish novel which mocks
chivalry and examines different appearances of reality
a. El cid
b. Don Quixote de la Mancha
c. Cosa Nostra
d. Los Perros
12. A NOVEL ORIGINATED IN Spain; one
which present society through the eyes of Rogue and usually includes biting
satire or moral commentary
a. Social novel
b. Satirical novel
c. Picaresque novel
d. Postmodern novel
13. Dante Alighieri’s most noted work
which was an outgrowth of the political strife of his period and his great love
for Beatrice whom he worshipped from a distance.
a. Decameron
b. Divine Comedy
c. Federogo’s Falcon
d. Swiss Family Robinson
14. Daniel Defoe’s novel about the life
of a civilized man’s survival on an island with primitive resources.
a. Robinson Crusoe
b. Gulliver’s Travels
c. Castaway
d. Swiss Family Robinson
15. The Bard from avon and England’s
greatest dramatist
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. Sir Walter Releigh
c. William Shakespeare
d. Lord Alfred Tennyson
16. The Epic of Persia
a. Epic of Gilgamesh
b. Arabian Nights
c. Shah Namah
d. Sinbad the Sailor
17. The Father of Greek Tragedy
a. Euripides
b. Sophocles
c. Aristophanes
d. Aeschylus
18. The Italian writer who wrote the
political treatise “ The Prince”
a. Francesco Petrach
b. Niccolo Machiavelli
c. Giovanni Boccaccio
d. Dante Alighieri
19. The Novel of Revenge by Alexander
Dumas from which Jose Rizal Patterned his “El Filibusterismo”
a. The Count of Monte Cristo
b. Les Miserables
c. Hayden Christenson
d. Hans Christian Andersen
20. The Danish poet, novelist, and
dramatist who told fairy tales that fascinated the world
a. Leo Tolstoy
b. Anton Chekov
c. Hayden Christensen
d. Hans Christian Andersen
21. Leo Tolstoy’s novel that openly
defies the established code of marriage and explores the powers love
a. War and Peace
b. Anna Karenina
c. God sees the truth but waits
d. The Angels among us
22. The English poet and critic who
proposed a literary canon by saying “Literature is the best that is ever
thought of and written”
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Terry Eagleton
c. Wilfred Owen
d. T. S. Elliot
23. The English Writer who popularized
epigrams in his essays
a. Alexander Pope
b. John Donne
c. Sir Francis Bacon
d. Sir Walter Leigh
24. The Irish Dramatist who popularized
the “theatre of the absurd” with his “waiting for Godot”
a. Eugene O Neill
b. Joseph Conrad
c. Arthur Miller
d. Samuel Beckett
25. A group of stories written by
Chancer, presumably from those told by people on a a pilgrimage while resting
at Tabard Inn
a. General Prologue
b. Canterbury Tales
c. Troilus and Criseyde
d. Romance of the Rose
26. A psychological novel by Feodor
Dostoevsky which combines his interests in the multiple personality, the
obscure and continued motivations of human action with his other chief
theme-moral redemption through suffering
a. Crime and Punishment
b. The Brothers Karamasov
c. The House of the Dead
d. Eve
27. The English Novelist who wrote
poverty in most of his works as “David Copperfield,” Oliver Twist.”
a. Mark Twain
b. Emily Bronte
c. Charles Dickens
d. Thomas Hardy
28. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans who
wrote “Adam Bede,” Silas Marner,” the Mill on the Floss,” etc..
a. T. S. Elliot
b. Jane Eyre
c. Virginia Woolf
d. George Eliot
29. The American born writer who later
became a naturalized Englishman who posited the idea of “Objective
correlative” in writing poetry
a. George Eliot
b. T. S. Elliot
c. Edmund Spenser
d. Robert Browning
30. The Greek Philosopher who wanted
literature to be banished from the state since it distracts the citizen from
performing his duties to the state.
a. Aristotle
b. Socrates
c. Plato
d. Pythagoras
31. Aristotle’s work that rescued
literature by refuting Plato’s argument against it
a. Poetics
b. The Republic
c. The Prince
d. Politics
32. A collection of tales in Arabic said
to have been told by Scherezade to save her life
a. Epic of Gilgamesh
b. The Book of the Dead
c. Arabian Nights
d. The Rubaiyat
33. The Epic of Egypt
a. Epic of Gilgamesh
b. The book of the Dead
c. Arabian Nights
d. Ali Baba
34. Dubbed as “the children’s poet”
a. Ralf Waldo Emerson
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Walt Whitman
d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
35. The poem by Edwin Markham that
touches on agrarian problem and inspired by a painting depicting a farmer in
hard labor
a. Invictus
b. The Man with the Hole
c. Chicago
d. Leaves of Grass
36. A pl;ay by Christo[pher Marlowe about
a man who sold his soul for wealth, power and glory
a. Jabberwocky
b. All for Love
c. The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus
d. A Doll’s House
37. The pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson, the witer of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and “ through the
Looking Glass.”
a. Charles Dickens
b. Mark Twain
c. Henry
d. Lewis Caroll
38. The Novel written by George Orwell
which tells of a big Brother constantly monitoring his subjects and is an
indictment against a totalitarian society
a. 1984
b. Animal Farm
c. The Sun also Rises
d. The Grapes of Wrath
39. Mark Twain’s Novel which presents a
story indicting the idea of royalty with humanitarian viewpoints though the eys
of an uneducated backwoods boy
a.
A.
the adventures of Tom Sawyer
b.
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c.
Corrupted
Handleyburg
d.
The
Prince and Pauper
40. The master of the short story in
French Literature
a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Emile Zola
c. Guy de Maupassant
d. Jean Jacques Rousseau
41. The novel for which Herman Melville
is remembered today. It is said to be partly autobiographical as it tells of
the whaling experiences of the central character, which mirrors Melville’s own
a.
The
Miser
b.
A
Second Defense
c.
Treasure
Island
d.
Moby
Dick
42. The French writer who wrote and
published the first collection of prose called “Essais”
a.
Michel
de Montaigne
b.
Jean
Jacques Rousseau
c.
Jacques
Derrida
d.
Michael
Foucault
43. “The Tale of Genji” reputed to be the
world’s first real novel was written by
a.
Daniel
Defoe
b.
Yukio
Mishima
c.
Lady
Shikibu Murasaki
d.
Kazuo
Ishiguro
44. The first Asian to win the much
coveted Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) he was cited for “Gitanjali”
a.
Kazuo
Ishiguro
b.
Rabindranath
Tagore
c.
Yasunari
Kawabata
d.
Wole
Soyinka
45. An extended lyric poem showing an
exalted emotion and dealing in a dignified tone with a serious theme.
a.
Song
b.
Eulogy
c.
Elegy
d.
Ode
46. Literally meaning “Quantrains,” this
collection of verses by Omar Khayyam, a noted Persian poet, Mathematician and
Philosopher, tells of epicurean delight in the sensous joys of the world
intertwined with a prevailing sense of melancholy
a.
Rubaiyat
b.
Sonnets
from the Portuguese
c.
Leaves
of Grass
d.
Songs
Offerings
47. Literally meaning “Five Headings” in
Sanskrit, this a collection of fables in Sanskrit
a.
Bhagavad-Gita
b.
Panchatantra
c.
Upanishads
d.
Subhasitanatnakosa
48. The Novel by Boris Pasternak for
which he was cited by the Nobel committee in 1958. It is set against a
background of Russian history and places emphasis on individual integrity,
compassion, spiritual understanding and exposes and exposes the cruelty of
revolution
a.
War
and peace
b.
The
Brothers Karamasov
c.
Notes
from the Underground
d.
Doctor
Shivago
49. If Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was
inspired by his love for Beatrice, Petrarch’s sonnet were inspired by his love
for
a.
Maria
b.
Laura
c.
Ana
d.
Celia
50. According to Plato, Literature is
a.
An
exact representation of reality
b.
Twice
removed from reality
c.
A
full rendition of what is
d.
Thrice
removed from reality
51. A poem which uses the rustic rural
life for its setting and shepherds as characters but actually presents a
clever, sophisticated point of view
a.
Pastoral
poem
b.
Ode
c.
Sonnet
d.
Lyric
52. One of the Greek Mytology’s greatest
heroes, he is son of Zeus by Danae and slayer of Medusa
a.
Mercury
b.
Ares
c.
Perseus
d.
Hercules
53. The daughter of Demeter (ceres)
abducted and made wife by hades, the God of the underworld
a.
Diana
b.
Persephone
c.
Helen
d.
Artemis
54. Henry Jame’s novel which tells how a
free-spirited American girl with a quality of innocence rises above the
civilized complexities of the Europeans despite a tragic error she committed
a.
Haide
b.
Portrait
of the Artist
c.
Madame
Bovary
d.
Portrait
of a Lady
55. Jane Austen’s novel which is widely
considered as a “comedy of manners” in which Austen pokes fun at the human frailties of her
characters such as stupidity and servility, snobbery, etc..
a.
Pride
and Prejudice
b.
June
Eyre
c.
Wuthering
Heights
d. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Answer
Key
1.
C
2.
B
3.
B
4.
A
5.
D
6.
B
7.
B
8.
D
9.
B
10. C
11. B
12. C
13. B
14. A
15. C
16. C
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. D
21. B
22. A
23. C
24. D
25. B
26. A
27. C
28. D
29. B
30. C
31. A
32. C
33. B
34. D
35. –
36. C
37. D
38. A
39. B
40. C
41. D
42. A
43. C
44. B
45. C
46. A
47. B
48. D
49. B
50. D
51. A
52. C
53. B
54. D
55. A
