Literary Club - Quiz

In which of the following countries was 'Alice in the Wonderland' banned because it features talking animals? 

• Japan

• China

• South Korea

• Vietnam

Which of the following is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? 

• Selma Lagerlöf

• Edna Ferber

• Edith Wharton

• Ellen Glasgow

Which author won the Booker Prize in 1997 for the novel 'God of Small Things'? 

• Arundhati Roy

• Anita Desai

• Indu Sundaresan

• Sudha Murthy

Identify the Author

• Franz Kafka

• Haruki Murakami

• Friedrich Nietzsche

• Walter Benjamin

Which ancient university and Buddhist monastic center, dating to the time of the Buddha (6th–5th century BCE), continued to flourish as a center of learning until circa 1200?

• Sahitya Kala Akademi

• Kolkata

• Nalanda

• Maulana Azad

Which of the following books end with the sentence 'He loves Big Brother.'? 

• Brave New World

• 1984

• Animal Farm

Which of the following authors is considered to be the creator of the Science Fiction genre?

• Mary Shelley

• Alan Edgar Poe

• Isaac Asimov

• Jules Verne

Which of the following is considered to be the oldest surviving dated printed book in the world. 

• The Miroslav Gospel

• Gutenberg Bible

• Diamond Sutra

• Siddur

Which of the following  the three cantos of The Divine Comedy in the correct order.

• Paradiso, Purgatorio, Inferno

• Inferno, Limbo, Paradiso

• Purgatorio, Inferno, Limbo

• Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso

 In Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, what food does Oliver famously ask for more of when he says: “Please, Sir, I want some more”?

• Bread

• Soup

• Cheese

• Gruel