LET Reviewer major in English (Literature) Questions with 100% Correct Answers Latest Version 2024

Who wrote this line? "Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise". - William Shakespeare What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, writer of 'Treasure Island'? - Scottish Which Bronte writer authored "Jane Eyre"? - Charlotte In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written? - 14th The following taboo phrases were used by which writer? "I fart at thee", "shit on your head', "dirty bastard" - Ben Johnson In the book' The Lord of the Rings', who or what is Bilbo Baggins? - hobbit Name the book which opens with the line 'All children, except one grew up'? - Peter Pan How many lines does a sonnet have? - 14 Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'? - Lewis Carroll "Cabbages and Kings" (1904) is either a novel or a collection of related short stories written by O. Henry. In it, he coined the phrase "banana republic." On what was his title based? - Lewis Carroll's poem "The Walrus and the Carpenter"Two versions of Robert A. Heinlein's novel "Stranger in a Strange Land" have been published: the edited version first published in 1961 and the original full-length (60,000 words longer) published posthumously in 1991. From what does the title derive? - The Old Testament Book of Exodus Southern American poet, novelist and literary critic Robert Penn Warren wrote "All the King's Men" in 1946. The novel won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On what is the book's title based? - A verse in the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" Which novel, eventually published in 1945, was rejected by a New York publisher stating 'it is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA'? - Animal Farm 14. Which writer of spy fiction, and creator of Smiley, was rejected with the words 'you are welcome to **** - he hasn't got any future'? - John le Carré 'The Good Earth' was rejected fourteen times, before being published and going on to win the Pulitzer Prize. Who was the author? - Pearl S. Buck Irving Stone's 'Lust for Life' was rejected sixteen times, with one rejection stating 'a long, dull, novel about an artist'. Which artist did the book feature? - Vincent Van Gogh Who is presented as the most honest and moral of Chaucer's pilgrims? - The Parson Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the most corrupt? - The Pardoner He translated "The Fall of Princes" from the French. - John Lydgate What work contains these lines: "There hurls in at the hall-door an unknown rider . . . Half a giant on earth I hold him to be." - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight She was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature. - Charlotte's Jane Eyre