Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
1. The novel by Victor Hugo which serves as the vehicle for his social ideas; Mon are
essentially equal; the poor are crushed by the prejudices of organized society; etc. is
a. The Hunchback of Notredame
b. Songs of the Orient
c. Les Miserable
d. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. The story written by Washington Irving, which tells of a man who slept for twenty years
while hunting on the Catskill Mountain in
a. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
b. Rip Van Winkle
c. The Cask of Amontillado
d. The Wooden Horse
10. The Colombian writer of the Novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” who popularized
magical realism
a. Pablo Neruda
b. Artemio Cruz
c. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
d. Cesar Fuentes
11. The Spanish novel which mocks chivalry and examines different appearances of reality
a. El cid
b. Don Quixote de la Mancha
c. Cosa Nostra
d. Los Perros
12. A NOVEL ORIGINATED IN Spain; one which present society through the eyes of Rogue and
usually includes biting satire or moral commentary
a. Social novel
b. Satirical novel
c. Picaresque novel
d. Postmodern novel
13. Dante Alighieri’s most noted work which was an outgrowth of the political strife of his
period and his great love for Beatrice whom he worshipped from a distance.
a. Decameron
b. Divine Comedy
c. Federogo’s Falcon
d. Swiss Family Robinson
14. Daniel Defoe’s novel about the life of a civilized man’s survival on an island with primitive
resources.
a. Robinson Crusoe
b. Gulliver’s Travels
c. Castaway
d. Swiss Family Robinson
18. The Italian writer who wrote the political treatise “ The Prince”
a. Francesco Petrach
b. Niccolo Machiavelli
c. Giovanni Boccaccio
d. Dante Alighieri
19. The Novel of Revenge by Alexander Dumas from which Jose Rizal Patterned his “El
Filibusterismo”
a. The Count of Monte Cristo
b. Les Miserables
c. Hayden Christenson
d. Hans Christian Andersen
20. The Danish poet, novelist, and dramatist who told fairy tales that fascinated the world
a. Leo Tolstoy
b. Anton Chekov
c. Hayden Christensen
d. Hans Christian Andersen
21. Leo Tolstoy’s novel that openly defies the established code of marriage and explores the
powers love
a. War and Peace
b. Anna Karenina
c. God sees the truth but waits
d. The Angels among us
22. The English poet and critic who proposed a literary canon by saying “Literature is the best
that is ever thought of and written”
a. Matthew Arnold
b. Terry Eagleton
c. Wilfred Owen
d. T. S. Elliot
25. A group of stories written by Chancer, presumably from those told by people on a a
pilgrimage while resting at Tabard Inn
a. General Prologue
b. Canterbury Tales
c. Troilus and Criseyde
d. Romance of the Rose
26. A psychological novel by Feodor Dostoevsky which combines his interests in the multiple
personality, the obscure and continued motivations of human action with his other chief
theme-moral redemption through suffering
a. Crime and Punishment
b. The Brothers Karamasov
c. The House of the Dead
d. Eve
27. The English Novelist who wrote poverty in most of his works as “David Copperfield,”
Oliver Twist.”
a. Mark Twain
b. Emily Bronte
c. Charles Dickens
d. Thomas Hardy
28. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans who wrote “Adam Bede,” Silas Marner,” the Mill on the
Floss,” etc..
a. T. S. Elliot
b. Jane Eyre
c. Virginia Woolf
d. George Eliot
29. The American born writer who later became a naturalized Englishman who posited the
idea of “Objective correlative” in writing poetry
a. George Eliot
b. T. S. Elliot
c. Edmund Spenser
d. Robert Browning
30. The Greek Philosopher who wanted literature to be banished from the state since it
distracts the citizen from performing his duties to the state.
a. Aristotle
b. Socrates
c. Plato
d. Pythagoras
31. Aristotle’s work that rescued literature by refuting Plato’s argument against it
a. Poetics
b. The Republic
c. The Prince
d. Politics
32. A collection of tales in Arabic said to have been told by Scherezade to save her life
a. Epic of Gilgamesh
b. The Book of the Dead
c. Arabian Nights
d. The Rubaiyat
35. The poem by Edwin Markham that touches on agrarian problem and inspired by a
painting depicting a farmer in hard labor
a. Invictus
b. The Man with the Hole
c. Chicago
d. Leaves of Grass
36. A pl;ay by Christo[pher Marlowe about a man who sold his soul for wealth, power and
glory
a. Jabberwocky
b. All for Love
c. The Tragedy of Dr. Faustus
d. A Doll’s House
37. The pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the witer of “Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland” and “ through the Looking Glass.”
a. Charles Dickens
b. Mark Twain
c. Henry
d. Lewis Caroll
38. The Novel written by George Orwell which tells of a big Brother constantly monitoring his
subjects and is an indictment against a totalitarian society
a. 1984
b. Animal Farm
c. The Sun also Rises
d. The Grapes of Wrath
39. Mark Twain’s Novel which presents a story indicting the idea of royalty with
humanitarian viewpoints though the eys of an uneducated backwoods boy
a. A. the adventures of Tom Sawyer
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c. Corrupted Handleyburg
d. The Prince and Pauper
41. The novel for which Herman Melville is remembered today. It is said to be partly
autobiographical as it tells of the whaling experiences of the central character, which mirrors
Melville’s own
a. The Miser
b. A Second Defense
c. Treasure Island
d. Moby Dick
42. The French writer who wrote and published the first collection of prose called “Essais”
a. Michel de Montaigne
b. Jean Jacques Rousseau
c. Jacques Derrida
d. Michael Foucault
43. “The Tale of Genji” reputed to be the world’s first real novel was written by
a. Daniel Defoe
b. Yukio Mishima
c. Lady ShikibuMurasaki
d. Kazuo Ishiguro
44. The first Asian to win the much coveted Nobel Prize in Literature (1913) he was cited for
“Gitanjali”
a. Kazuo Ishiguro
b. Rabindranath Tagore
c. Yasunari Kawabata
d. Wole Soyinka
45. An extended lyric poem showing an exalted emotion and dealing in a dignified tone with a
serious theme.
a. Song
b. Eulogy
c. Elegy
d. Ode
46. Literally meaning “Quantrains,” this collection of verses by Omar Khayyam, a noted
Persian poet, Mathematician and Philosopher, tells of epicurean delight in the sensous joys of
the world intertwined with a prevailing sense of melancholy
a. Rubaiyat
b. Sonnets from the Portuguese
c. Leaves of Grass
d. Songs Offerings
47. Literally meaning “Five Headings” in Sanskrit, this a collection of fables in Sanskrit
a. Bhagavad-Gita
b. Panchatantra
c. Upanishads
d. Subhasitanatnakosa
48. The Novel by Boris Pasternak for which he was cited by the Nobel committee in 1958. It is
set against a background of Russian history and places emphasis on individual integrity,
compassion, spiritual understanding and exposes and exposes the cruelty of revolution
a. War and peace
b. The Brothers Karamasov
c. Notes from the Underground
d. Doctor Shivago
49. If Dante’s “Divine Comedy” was inspired by his love for Beatrice, Petrarch’s sonnet were
inspired by his love for
a. Maria
b. Laura
c. Ana
d. Celia
51. A poem which uses the rustic rural life for its setting and shepherds as characters but
actually presents a clever, sophisticated point of view
a. Pastoral poem
b. Ode
c. Sonnet
d. Lyric
52. One of the Greek Mytology’s greatest heroes, he is son of Zeus by Danae and slayer of
Medusa
a. Mercury
b. Ares
c. Perseus
d. Hercules
53. The daughter of Demeter (ceres) abducted and made wife by hades, the God of the
underworld
a. Diana
b. Persephone
c. Helen
d. Artemis
54. Henry Jame’s novel which tells how a free-spirited American girl with a quality of
innocence rises above the civilized complexities of the Europeans despite a tragic error she
committed
a. Haide
b. Portrait of the Artist
c. Madame Bovary
d. Portrait of a Lady