Subject: LITERATURE
(e.g., Who was “The Merchant of Venice”? Answer: Antonio.)
Freshman Level
1. What is the view in the novel “A Room With a View”?
2. This classic work was written by English historian Edward Gibbon.
3. Provide the writer’s last name: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills ____.
Graduate Level
4. This novel is about seven generations of the Buendia family in the town of Macondo.
5. What is the setting for the play “Journey’s End”?
6. “Barretts of Wimpole Street” is based on the romance of this couple.
Ph.D. Level
7. By what name is the character Evangeline St. Clare better known?
8. Who is better known by her pen name George Eliot?
9. This novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver.
Answers:
1. Florence, Italy.
2. “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
3. Wilde.
4. “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”
5. Trenches of World War I.
6. Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett.
7. Little Eva (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”).
8. Mary Ann Evans.
9. “The Mill on the Floss.”
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