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William Faulkner is the author of _________. a. For From the Madding Crowd b. The Sound and Fury c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. The Scarlet Letter 2. Robert Frost is a famous __________. a. novelist b. Playwright c. poet d. literary critic 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by _________. a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens c.Samuel Coleridge d. Ernest Hemingway 4. Which of the following poets is different from the others? a. John Donne. b. John Keats. c. Lord Byron. d. Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare? a. Othello. b. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus. c. Romeo and Juliet. d. The Twelfth Night. 6. Beowulf narrates a story taking palce in _______. a. the Mediterranean b. Northern Europe c. England d. Scandinavia 7. __________ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. a. Allegory b. Conflict c. Irony d.Flashback 8. William Wordsworth is an English ___________. a. poet b. novelist c. playwright d. critic 9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is __________. a. Nature b. Walden c. Experience d. Essays 10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT________. a. Dubliners b. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man c. Jude the Obscure d. Ulysses 11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT _______. a. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall b. Jane Eyre c. Wuthering Heights d. Agnes Grey 12. In which novel can “Yahoo” be found? a. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. b. Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen. c. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. d. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. 13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _________, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. a. pessimism b. naturalism c. modernism d. critical realism 14. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of Amer