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1
 

In which book by which author is the following quote?

'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'

A

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

B

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

C

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

 
 

2
 

Which man is generally considered to be Britain's first novelist?
 

A

Daniel Defoe

B

Henry Fielding

C

Samuel Richardson

 
 

3
 

What relates James Joyce and Virginia Woolf?
 

A

They both had eleven toes

B

They both had eleven fingers

C

They were born and died in the same years as each other

 
 

4
 

Which character in which book says the following words?

'All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.'

A

Oliver in Oliver Twist

B

Captain Ahab in Moby Dick

C

Mr Micawber in David Copperfield

 
 

5
 

What phrase is generally used to describe an attempt to recreate in words a person's free, natural thought processes?
 

A

Psychological imitations

B

Stream of consciousness

C

Stream of thinking

 
 

6
 

How many words are defined in Johnson's dictionary?
 

A

30,000

B

40,000

C

50,000

 
 

7
 

What happened to EM Forster in 1922?
 

A

King's College, Cambridge, where he had been a student, gave him an honorary fellowship and a permanent home

B

He was awarded the Order of Merit

C

His Egyptian lover Mohammed el Adl died

 
 

8
 

What was the name of Laurence Sterne's wife?
 

A

Elizabeth Lumley

B

Elizabeth Lovelace

C

Elizabeth Loxley

 
 

9
 

Whose middle name was Makepeace?
 

A

EM Forster

B

Herman Melville

C

William Thackeray

 
 

10
 

What was William Faulkner's original last name?
 

A

Falkiner

B

Falkner

C

Faulkinski

 
 

 

Henry James (1843-1916)

Henry James explored the landscape of the mind, paying special attention to fine shades of emotion and perception