Majorship by: Earl Cabil Amorio

1. Identify the author of this literary

work: MEN WITHOUT WOMEN

a. Ernest Hemingway
b. Benjamin Disraeli
c. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
d. E.M. Forster
1. - Men Without Women (1927) is a
collection of short stories written by American
author Ernest Hemingway. The volume
consists of fourteen stories, ten of which had
been previously published in magazines.

The story subjects include bullfighting,

infidelity, divorce and death. “The Killers”,
“Hills Like White Elephants” and “In Another
Country” are considered to be among
Hemingway’s best work.
2. PILGRIMS PROGRESS was written by:

a. John Bunyan
b. Jack London
c. Henry Fielding
d. Stendhal
2. - The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World to
That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written
by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is
regarded as one of the most significant works of
religious English literature, has been translated into
more than 200 languages, and has never been out of
print.

Pilgrim’s Progress is an allegory of a Christian’s

journey (here represented by a character called
‘Christian’) from the “City of Destruction” to the
“Celestial City”. Along the way he visits such locations
as the Slough of Despond, Vanity Fair, the Doubting
Castle, and the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
3. DON QUIXOTE

a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Joseph Condrad
c. Miguel de Cervantes
d. D.H. Lawrence
3. – Don Quixote, fully titled The Ingenious
Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha, is a novel
written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.

Cervantes created a fictional origin for the

story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don
Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published
in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and
1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work
of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the
Spanish literary canon.
4. Which of the following works by DANIEL
DEFOE features a castaway who spends 28
years on a remote tropical island near
Venezuela, encountering Native
Americans, captives, and mutineers before
being rescued?

a. Memoirs of a Cavalier
b. Robinson Crusoe
c. Moll Flanders
d. Captain Singleton
4. – ROBINSON CRUSOE was published in 1917, the story was
likely influenced by the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish
castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called “Más a
Tierra” (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island),
Chile.
CAPTAIN SINGLETON (1720), is a bipartite adventure story
whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half
taps into the contemporary fascination with piracy. It has been
commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship
between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker,
William Walters, one which appears homoerotic to many modern
readers.
MEMOIRS OF A CAVALIER (1720) is a work of historical fiction
by Daniel Defoe, set during the Thirty Years’ War and the English
Civil Wars.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
(commonly known as simply “MOLL FLANDERS”) is a novel written by
Daniel Defoe in 1722.
5. VANITY FAIR is a novel satirizing
society in early 19th-century Britain.
Who wrote this classic?

a. Daniel Defoe
b. Wikie Collins
c. Herman Melville
d. William Makepeace Thackeray
5. – Vanity fair refers to a stop along
the pilgrim’s progress: a never-ending
fair held in a town called Vanity, which is
meant to represent man’s sinful
attachment to worldly things.

It was written by William Makepeace

Thackeray and was first published in
1847.
6. JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT

a. Wikie Collins
b. Herman Melville
c. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
d. Franz Kafka
6. – Journey to the End of Night (Voyage au bout de
la nuit, 1932) is the first novel of Louis-Ferdinand
Céline. This semi-autobiographical work describes
antihero Ferdinand Bardamu. His surname, Bardamu, is
derived from the French words Barda—the “pack” carried
by World War I soldiers—and mu, the past participle of
the verb mouvoir, meaning to move.

Bardamu is involved with World War I, colonial

Africa, and post-World War I America (where he works
for the Ford Motor Company), returning in the second
half of the work to France, where he becomes a medical
doctor and establishes a practice in a poor Paris suburb,
the fictional La Garenne-Rancy.
7. AS I LAY DYING

a. William Faulkner
b. Jerome K. Jerome
c. Erskine Childers
d. George Grosmith
7. – As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William
Faulkner. The novel was written in six weeks while Faulkner was
working at a power plant, published in 1930, and described by
Faulkner as a “tour-de-force.” It is Faulkner’s fifth novel and
consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th century
literature.

The title derives from Book XI of Homer’s The Odyssey,

wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: “As I lay dying, the
woman with the dog’s eyes would not close my eyes as I descended
into Hades.”

The novel is known for its stream of consciousness writing

technique, multiple narrators, and varying chapter lengths; the
shortest chapter in the book consists of just five words, “My mother
is a fish.”
8. THE TRIAL is a novel which tells the story of
a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote,
inaccessible authority, with the nature of his
crime never revealed either to him or the
reader. Who is the writer of this novel?

a. Henry James
b. Franz Kafka
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Fyodor Dostoevsky
8. – The Trial (German: Der Prozeß) is
a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in
1925. Like his other novels, The Trial was
never completed, although it does include
a chapter which brings the story to an
end.

After his death in 1924, Kafka’s

friend and literary executor Max Brod
edited the text for publication.
9. THE GREAT GATSBY

a. Ford Madox Fod

b. F. Scott Fitzgerald
c. D.H. Lawrence
d. Joseph Condrad
9. – The Great Gatsby is a novel
by the American author F. Scott
Fitzgerald.

First published on April 10,

1925, it is set on Long Island’s
North Shore and in New York City
during the summer of 1922. It is a
critique of the American Dream.
10. A PASSAGE TO INDIA is about the
racial tensions and prejudices between
indigenous Indians and the British
colonists who rule India. Who wrote this
novel?
a. Virginia Woolf
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Jack London
d. E. M. Forster
10. – A Passage to India (1924) is a novel
by E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the
British Raj and the Indian independence
movement in the 1920s.

It was selected as one of the 100 great

works of English literature by the Modern
Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black
Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine
included the novel in its “TIME 100 Best
English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”
11. MRS. DALLOWAY is a novel that details
a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in
post-World War I England. Who is its
author?

a. Virginia Woolf
b. Charlotte Bronte
c. Mary Shelley
d. Emily Bronte
11. – Mrs. Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925)
is a novel by Virginia Woolf. It was created from two
short stories, “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street” and the
unfinished “The Prime Minister”, the novel’s story is of
Clarissa’s preparations for a party of which she is to
be hostess.

With the interior perspective of the novel, the

story travels forwards and back in time and in and out
of the characters’ minds to construct an image of
Clarissa’s life and of the inter-war social structure.
12. ULYSSES chronicles the passage of
Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an
ordinary day, 16 June 1904.The title
alludes to Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s
Odyssey. Name the author of Ulysses.

a. Anthony Trollope
b. Kenneth Grahame
c. Laurence Strene
d. James Joyce
12. – Ulysses is a novel by the Irish
author James Joyce, first serialised in parts
in the American journal The Little Review
from March 1918 to December 1920, then
published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on
2 February 1922, in Paris.

One of the most important works of

Modernist literature, it has been called “a
demonstration and summation of the
entire movement”.
13. THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS features the
adventures of Richard Hannay, an all-
action hero with a stiff upper lip. Who
wrote this novel?

a. Honore De Balzac
b. Samuel Richardson
c. John Buchan
d. Thomas Love Peacock
13. – The Thirty-Nine Steps is an
adventure novel by the Scottish author
John Buchan, first published in 1915 by
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.

It is the first of five novels featuring

Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a
stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for
getting himself out of sticky situations.
14. THE GOOD SOLDIER’s original title
was The Saddest Story, but after the
onset of World War I, the publishers
asked its author for a new title. What is
the name of its author?

a. Gustave Flaubert
b. Henry Fielding
c. Ford Madox Ford
d. Samuel Richardson
14. – The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion is a 1915
novel by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It is set just
before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the
lives of two seemingly perfect couples.

The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in

non-chronological order, a literary technique pioneered
by Ford. It also makes use of the device of the
unreliable narrator, as the main character gradually
reveals a version of events that is quite different from
what the introduction leads you to believe. The novel
was loosely based on two incidents of adultery and on
Ford’s messy personal life.
15. THE RAINBOW is a novel with a frank
treatment of sexual desire and the power it
plays within relationships as a natural and
even spiritual force of life. Who is its author?

a. D. H. Lawrence
b. Jonathan Swift
c. Alexandre Dumas
d. Daniel Defoe
15. – The Rainbow is a 1915 novel
by British author D. H. Lawrence or
David Herbert Richards Lawrence.

It follows three generations of

the Brangwen family, particularly
focusing on the sexual dynamics of,
and relations between, the
characters.
16. IN THE SEARCH OF LOST TIME

a. Laurence Sterne
b. Marcel Proust
c. Jack London
d. Thomas Hardy
16. – In Search of Lost Time or Remembrance of
Things Past is a semi-autobiographical novel in seven
volumes by Marcel Proust. His most prominent work, it
is popularly known for its extended length and the
notion of involuntary memory, the most famous
example being the “episode of the madeleine”.

The novel is still widely referred to in English as

Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of
Lost Time, a more accurate rendering of the French, has
gained in usage since D.J. Enright’s 1992 revision of the
earlier translation by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence
Kilmartin. The complete story contains nearly 1.5 million
words and is one of the longest novels ever written.
17. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS is a
classic of children’s literature which was
adapted partly on stage as Toad of Toad
Hall in 1929. Name its author.

a. Kenneth Grahame
b. E.M. Foster
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Erskine Childers
17. – The Wind in the Willows is a classic of
children’s literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published
in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it
focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in
a pastoral version of England.

The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism,

adventure, morality, and camaraderie.
18. NOSTROMO features Señor Gould, a
native Costaguanero of English descent
who owns the silver-mining concession in
Sulaco. Name the author of this novel.

a. Joseph Condrad
b. Samuel Richardson
c. George Elliot
d. Thomas Hardy
18. – Nostromo is a 1904 novel by
Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad,
set in the fictitious South American
republic of “Costaguana.”

It was originally published serially in

two volumes of T.P.’s Weekly.
19. THE CALL OF THE WILD is known for its
dog protagonist. It is sometimes classified as
a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is
dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of
cruelty and violence. Who wrote this novel?

a. Oscar Wilde
b. Jack London
c. Henry James
d. Kenneth Grahame
19. – The Call of the Wild is a 1903 novel by
American writer Jack London.

The plot concerns a previously domesticated

dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts
return after a series of events leads to his serving
as a sled dog in the Yukon during the 19th-
century Klondike Gold Rush, in which sled dogs
were bought at generous prices.
20. THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS is an early
example of the espionage novel, with a
strong underlying theme of militarism. It has
been made into a film and TV film. Who
wrote this novel?

a. Erskine Childers
b. William Faulkner
c. Jerome K. Jerome
d. Honore De Balzac
20. – The Riddle of the Sands: A
Record of Secret Service is a 1903 novel
by Erskine Childers.
It is a novel that “owes a lot to the
wonderful adventure novels of writers
like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of
Victorian Britain”; perhaps more
significantly, it was a spy novel that
“established a formula that included a
mass of verifiable detail, which gave
authenticity to the story.
21. JUDE THE OBSCURE, include themes
such as class, scholarship, religion,
marriage, and the modernisation of
thought and society. Name its author.

a. Samuel Richardson
b. Franz Kafka
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Joseph Condrad
21. – Jude the Obscure, the last of Thomas
Hardy’s novels, began as a magazine serial
and was first published in book form in 1895.

The book was burned publicly by William

Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, in that
same year. Its hero, Jude Fawley, is a working-
class young man who dreams of becoming a
scholar. The two other main characters are his
earthy wife, Arabella, and his cousin, Sue.
22. THE DIARY OF A NOBODY has spawned the
word “Pooterish” to describe a tendency to take
oneself excessively seriously.Who is the author
of this novel?

a. John Buchan
b. George Grossmith
c. Anthony Trollope
d. Samuel Richardson
22. – The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written
by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith with
illustrations by Weedon, first appeared in the magazine Punch in
1888 – 89, and was first printed in book form in 1892. It is
considered a classic work of humour and has never been out of
print.

The diary is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life

of Mr. Charles Pooter, a middle aged city clerk of lower middle-
class status but significant social aspirations, living in the fictional
‘Brickfield Terrace’ in Upper Holloway which was then a typical
suburb of the impecuniously respectable kind. Other characters
include his wife Carrie (Caroline), his son Lupin, his friends Mr
Cummings and Mr Gowing, and Lupin’s unsuitable fiancée, Daisy
Mutlar.
23. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is
about a young man who sold his soul to
the devil to ensure his portrait would age
rather than himself. Which of the
following is its author?

a. Herman Melville
b. Oscar Wilde
c. Jonathan Swift
d. Wikie Collins
23. – The Picture of Dorian Gray is the
only published novel by Oscar Wilde,
appearing as the lead story in Lippincott’s
Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed
as the July 1890 issue of this magazine.

Wilde later revised this edition, making

several alterations, and adding new chapters;
the amended version was published by Ward,
Lock, and Company in April 1891. The title is
sometimes rendered incorrectly as The
Portrait of Dorian Gray.
24. THREE MEN IN A BOAT was initially
intended to be a serious travel guide with
accounts of local history along the route. Who
wrote this novel?

a. Benjamin Disraeli
b. Jerome K. Jerome
c. Laurence Stern
d. Marcel Proust
24. – Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing
of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous
account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating
holiday on the Thames between Kingston and
Oxford.

One of the most praised things aboutthe

novel is how undated it appears to modern
readers — the jokes seem fresh and witty even
today.
25. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is about
a London lawyer named Gabriel John
Utterson who investigates strange
occurrences between his old friend, Dr
Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic
Edward Hyde. Who is its author?

a. James Joyce
b. Jack London
c. Robert Louis Stevenson
d. Stendhal
25. – Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde is the original title of a novella
written by the Scottish author Robert
Louis Stevenson and first published in
1886.
The work is known for its vivid
portrayal of a split personality, split in the
sense that within the same person there is
both an apparently good and an evil
personality each being quite distinct from
the other.
26. Which of the following is a work
of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?

a. Animal Farm
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c. The Scarlet Letter
d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
26. – Samuel Langhorne Clemens is well known
by his pen name Mark Twain. He is noted for his
novel ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (1884).

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; or, Life Among the Lowly

is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

ANIMAL FARM is a novel by Eric Blair,

commonly known as George Orwell.

SCARLET LETTER is a novel by Nathaniel

Hawthorne also known as Ashley A. Royce.
27. Which is a HENRY JAMES masterpiece?

a. Vanity Fair
b. The Portrait of Dorian Gray
c. The Portrait of a Lady
d. David Copperfield
27. – THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY is a novel by
Henry James. It is one of his most popular long
novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.

The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited

young American woman, Isabel Archer, who “affronts
her destiny” and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a
large amount of money and subsequently becomes
the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American
expatriates.

The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a novel by OSCAR

WILDE. Vanity Fair was written by WILLIAM
MAKEPEACE THACKERY.
28. Which novel features JOSEPHINE
“JO” MARCH?

a. Wuthering Heights
b. Little Women
c. Sense and Sensibility
d. Scarlet Letter
28. – Josephine “Jo” March is the
protagonist of Little Women and is the
autobiographical depiction of the writer,
Louisa May Alcott, herself.

In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

featured CATHERINE EARNSHAW as the
female protagonist.

ELIZABETH BENNET hails froms Jane

Austen’s Pride and Prejudice while HESTER
PRYNNE came alive in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
Scarlet Letter.
29. Which is an HONORE DE BALZAC novel?

a. The Black Sheep

b. The Charterhouse of Parma
c. The Count of Monte Cristo
d. Dangerous Laisons
29. – La Rabouilleuse (THE BLACK SHEEP), is a 1842 novel by
Honoré de Balzac as part of his series La Comédie humaine. The
Black Sheep is the title of the English translation by Donald Adamson
published by Penguin Classics. It tells the story of the Bridau family,
trying to regain their lost inheritance after a series of unfortunate
mishaps.

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO is an adventure novel by

Alexandre Dumas.

THE CHARTERHOUSE PARMA is a novel published in 1839 by

Stendhal.

DANGEROUS LIAISONS is play by Christopher James Hampton.

30. Which of the following gothic authors
wrote the THE INTERVIEW WITH A
VAMPIRE?

a. Anne Rice
b. Mary Shelley
c. Bram Stoker
d. Gaston Leroux
30. – Gaston Leroux, a French novelist,
wrote THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Bram Stoker is known for his novel

DRACULA while Mary Shelley wrote
FRANKENSTEIN during the Year without
Summer in Europe.

Anne Rice is the only non-classic

writer in the options. She wrote THE
INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE IN 1973.