The document contains questions from multiple choice quizzes about novels and their authors. It asks the test taker to identify authors based on descriptions of their works, novels referenced in other books, first appearances of characters, slogans from famous dystopian novels, and novels not written by certain prolific authors.

1. Quiz on Books You Have Read
Classics
&
Modern

2. 1. This writer published five novels from1905 to 1924…’Where
Angels Fear to Tread’, ‘ A Room with a View’, ‘The Longest
Journey’, ‘Howards End’, and ‘A Passage to India’..and never
finished another piece of fiction. Which writer is this, known for
his Modern themes of hypocrisy and irreconcilable class conflict?
A) GRAHAM GREENE
B) E. M FORSTER
C) IRIS MURDOCH
D) GEORGE GISSING

3. 2. In Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist,
what food does Oliver famously ask for
more of when he says: “ Please, Sir, I
want some more”?
 A) Bread
 B) Soup
 C) Cheese
 D) Gruel

4. 3. Who is the author of The Time
Machine?
 A) Jules Verne
 B) J. K. Rowling
 C) Jonathan Swift
 D) H. G. Wells

5. 4. In what novel published in 1949 by an
embittered man dying of tuberculosis would a
reader encounter the following party slogan:
“ WAR IS PEACE/ FREEDOM IS SLAVERY/
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH’?
 A) 1984
 B) A Clockwork Orange
 C) Brave New World
 D) Animal Farm

6. 5. Ruskin Bond is a Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan
and was awarded Sahitya Academy Award for his
novel Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra. Which of the
the following book isn’t written by him?
 A) A Room with a View
 B) The Blue Umbrella
 C) The Room on the Roof
 D) A Flight of Pigeons

7. 6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock
Holmes made his first appearance in print
with which novel?
 A) The Sign of the Four
 B) The Valley of Fear
 C) The Hound of Baskervilles
 D) A Study in Scarlet

8. 7. True or False: Agatha Christie wrote
romantic books under a pseudonym.
 A) True
 B) False

9. 8. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel explores a
number of themes, including class conflict,
the power of family and friendship, and
immigration to a new land. Name the book.
 A) And the Mountains Echoed
 B) Kite Runner
 C) A Thousand Splendid Suns
 D) Sea Prayer

10. Choose…
Which is not authored

11. 1. What among this was not written by
the Bronte Sisters?
 A) Wuthering Heights
 B) Jane Eyre
 C) Pride and Prejudice
 D) The Bronte Sisters

12. 2. Which of the following is not a novel of
Charles Dickens?
 A) Great Expectations
 B) Crime and Punishment
 C) David Copperfield
 D) The Pickwick Papers

13. 3. E. L James’s books are the best
selling provocative romance stories.
Which book is not authored by her?
 A) Fifty Shades of Life
 B) Fifty Shades of Grey
 C) Fifty Shades Darker
 D) Fifty Shades Freed

14. 4. Name that Book which is not a novel C.
S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia series.
 A) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
 B) The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
 C) The Space Trilogy
 D) The Silver Chair

15. 5. Which novel is not a work of J.R.R.
Tolkien’s ?
 A) The Hobbit
 B) The Hunger Games
 C) The Lord of the Rings
 D) The Two Towers

16. 6. John Green has penned LGBT-themed young adult
novel. Which novel is not authored by him?
 The Fault in Our Stars
 Looking for Alaska
 Turtles all the Way Down
 Three Thousand Stitches

17. 7. Sudha Murthy’s books rejuvenates our souls and she
has written many story books. Which book is not
written by her?
 The Three Mistakes of my Life
 The Day I stopped Drinking Milk
 House of Cards
 How I taught my Grandmother to Read

18. 8. Jnanpith awardee, Amitav Ghosh’s work deals with
historical settings of Indian sub-continent. Which of
the books is not penned by him?
 The Hungry Tide
 A Suitable Boy
 Sea of Poppies
 The Shadow Lines

19. Partial Covers…
Guess the
Author

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28. Guess the Book