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  • A. Leo Tolstoy
  • B. Alexander pope
  • C. Emile Zola
  • D. Khalid Hosseini

Explanation: Emile Zola wrote the French novel La Joie de vivre, whose English title is commonly rendered as The Joy of Life or Zest for Life.

Correct answer: Emile Zola
  • A. Napoleon Hill
  • B. Newton
  • C. Paulo Coelho
  • D. Helen Frowe

Explanation: The Alchemist is a widely read novel by the Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, first published in Portuguese in 1988.

Correct answer: Paulo Coelho
  • A. Thomas Hardy
  • B. R R Tolkien

Explanation: J. R. R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, the high-fantasy trilogy set largely in Middle-earth.

Correct answer: R R Tolkien
  • A. Mrs. Morel
  • B. Annie
  • C. Miriam
  • D. Clara Dawes

Explanation: Clara Dawes is portrayed as an independent-minded woman associated with the women's-rights movement in Sons and Lovers.

Correct answer: Clara Dawes
  • A. The Return of the Native
  • B. Desperate Remedies
  • C. A Pair of Blue
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Desperate Remedies, published in 1871, was Thomas Hardy’s first published novel.

Correct answer: Desperate Remedies
  • A. The Poor Man and the Lady
  • B. The Return of Native
  • C. The Woodlanders
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: All three titles are associated with Thomas Hardy: The Poor Man and the Lady was an early unpublished novel, while The Return of the…

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Chinua Achebe
  • B. Toni Morrison
  • C. Ahmed Sulman Rushdie
  • D. Sylvia Plath

Explanation: The Bluest Eye, correctly titled without the final plural s, was Toni Morrison’s first novel and appeared in 1970.

Correct answer: Toni Morrison
  • A. Chinua Achebe
  • B. Toni Morrison
  • C. Ahmed Salman Rushdie
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Shame is a 1983 novel by Salman Rushdie, set in a fictionalized version of Pakistan and concerned with political and social shame.

Correct answer: Ahmed Salman Rushdie
  • A. Shakespeare
  • B. William Hudson
  • C. George Orwell
  • D. None of these

Explanation: George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, a political allegorical novel published in 1945. Shakespeare and William Hudson did not write this work.

Correct answer: George Orwell
  • A. Under the floorboards.
  • B. With a friend.
  • C. In the stables.
  • D. In a remote cabin.

Explanation: Linda hides with a friend during her attempt to escape Dr Flint's pursuit.

Correct answer: With a friend.
  • A. Her own memories of slavery.
  • B. Stories her grandmother told her.
  • C. The television series Roots.
  • D. Slave narratives.

Explanation: Morrison drew on slave narratives and the historical account of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman whose story inspired Sethe in the…

Correct answer: Slave narratives.
  • A. To describe the horrors of life on the Post-bellum plantation.
  • B. To explain his religious views.
  • C. To amuse the narrator's sickly wife.
  • D. So they won't interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.

Explanation: Uncle Julius uses the tale of the enchanted grapes to prevent the Northern owners from exploiting the neglected vineyard, which helps…

Correct answer: So they won't interrupt his income from the neglected grape harvest.
  • A. Its character's movement from slavery to freedom.
  • B. Its emphasis on Christian ideals.
  • C. The novel's sensationalist scenes of violence.
  • D. Its didactic (teaching) tone of voice.Explore Top Audiobooks

Explanation: Like a slave narrative, Oxherding Tale follows a enslaved character's movement toward freedom, although Johnson reshapes that journey…

Correct answer: Its character's movement from slavery to freedom.
  • A. The scene invokes audience sympathy.
  • B. The heroine has to balance autonomy with self-denial.
  • C. The heroine conquers her passions.
  • D. A and B
  • E. B and C

Explanation: The chapter uses the sentimental novel's appeal to the reader's sympathy and presents the heroine's struggle between personal autonomy and…

Correct answer: A and B
  • A. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • B. Richard Wright
  • C. Frederick Douglass
  • D. Phillis Wheatley

Explanation: Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, the influential 1852 novel that exposed the cruelty of American slavery.

Correct answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • A. Mystery.
  • B. Science Fiction.
  • C. Horror.
  • D. Tragedy.

Explanation: “Bloodchild” is science fiction because it imagines an extraterrestrial society, alien reproduction, and a human community living under…

Correct answer: Science Fiction.
  • A. She tries to pass as White.
  • B. She washes clothes for White women.
  • C. She lets a man help her out.
  • D. She marries a Black man.

Explanation: Mag Smith is condemned by the surrounding white community for marrying Jim, a Black man, despite her own poverty and vulnerability.

Correct answer: She marries a Black man.
  • A. Discussion of race relations in the North and South.
  • B. Condemnation of the plantation myth.
  • C. Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
  • D. Insistence on desegregation.

Explanation: Beloved represents the neo-slave narrative by showing how slavery continues to damage memory, identity, family bonds, and psychological…

Correct answer: Examination of the psychological damage of slavery.
  • A. William Wells Brown
  • B. Nella Larsen.
  • C. Charles Chesnutt
  • D. James Weldon Johnson

Explanation: Passing was published in 1929 by Nella Larsen, a major Harlem Renaissance novelist.

Correct answer: Nella Larsen.
  • A. The Rainbow
  • B. Ullysses
  • C. Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • D. Sons and Lovers

Explanation: *Ulysses* is a modernist novel by James Joyce, not D. H. Lawrence. Lawrence wrote *The Rainbow*, *Lady Chatterley's Lover*, and *Sons and…

Correct answer: Ullysses

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