The works by pre-Victorian writers such as _____ and Walter Scott had perfected both closely observed social satire and historical fiction.

A. George Eliot
B. Jane Austen
C. Hardy
D. Dickens

Answer

B. Jane Austen

Epiphany is the term used by which author to describe the artistic revelation of the inner radiance of an object or event?

A. James Joyce
B. Gustave Flaubert
C. Robert Proust
D. Marcel Proust

Answer

A. James Joyce

James Joyce’s work was banned in the United States until a court decision in 1933 for having pornographic content in the book?

A. Ulysses
B. Dubliners
C. Finnegans Wake
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Answer

A. Ulysses

Jane Austen’s novel that is a parody of the popular Gothic Novels of her day?

A. Northanger Abbey
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Mansfield Park
D. Emma

Answer

A. Northanger Abbey

Which one of these is a 20th-century Novelist?

A. James Joyce
B. Henry James
C. Jane Austen
D. All of these

Answer

A. James Joyce

Which one the Irish-born writers produced extraordinary achievements in poetry, drama, and fiction?

A. William Butler Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. John Millington
D. All of these

Answer

D. All of these

Which one of these is a “BIOGRAPHERS”?

A. The Life of Samuel Johnson
B. Ben Jonson: A Life
C. James Joyce
D. All of these

Answer

D. All of these

“About thirty years age, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram “. This is the beginning of which novel by Jane Austen?

A. Sandition
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Sense and Sensibility
D. Mansfield Park

Answer

D. Mansfield Park

James Joyce’s Ulysses is based on the pattern of Homer’s which work?

A. The Iliad
B. Odyssey
C. Margites
D. None of these

Answer

B. Odyssey