The Novel

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