Mock 18 – Genres, Prizes & Popular Fiction

Assertion (A): The best-known mystery and miracle cycles come from York, Wakefield and Chester. Reason (R): King Alfred encouraged the vernacular in the late ninth century as second best to Latin.

Which statements are correct?

1. A. The Kailyard school produced sentimental, idealised novels of Scottish small-town life in the 1890s.
2. B. 'Kailyard' means cabbage patch, suggesting parochial concerns.
3. C. Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a lower-class detective novel titled Peter Pan.
4. D. J. I. M. Stewart's Lament for a Maker features Lord Peter Wimsey.
5. E. Barrie's A Window in Thrums is the best-known Kailyard text.

Assertion (A): The 9/11 attacks defined the early twenty-first century. Reason (R): Christopher Brookmyre's A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, published just before them, was prescient.

Who is considered 'the father of South African English poetry'?

The term Erziehungsroman means:

Arrange the following poems by W. B. Yeats in chronological order:

1. A. 'Adam's Curse'
2. B. 'Among School Children'
3. C. 'The Second Coming'
4. D. 'The Wild Swans at Coole'
5. E. 'Under Ben Bulben'

Which of the following statements about Virgil's Aeneid are true?

1. A. It gathers legends of Aeneas and makes him the founder of Roman greatness.
2. B. It tells of the founding of Rome itself.
3. C. It tells of the legendary founding of Lavinium.
4. D. Books 1–6 recount Aeneas' wanderings on the pattern of the Odyssey.
5. E. Books 7–12 recount Aeneas' wanderings on the pattern of the Odyssey.

Godwin's Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) was written to expose:

Which of the following are NOT by Mary Wollstonecraft?

1. A. The Wrongs of Man
2. B. A Vindication of the Rights of Men
3. C. Thoughts on the Education of Sons
4. D. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
5. E. The Wrongs of Woman

In which work did Sherlock Holmes first appear?

Which statement about the Booker Prize is NOT correct?

What is the title of Mary Wollstonecraft's autobiographical novel?

Match List I with List II:

Arrange the following books in chronological order of publication:

1. A. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2. B. Northern Lights
3. C. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
4. D. The Hobbit
5. E. Lord of the Flies

Which of the following won the Nobel Prize in Literature?

1. A. Orhan Pamuk
2. B. Somerset Maugham
3. C. Harold Pinter
4. D. Margaret Atwood
5. E. Herta Müller

Which of the following statements about Rudyard Kipling are true?

1. A. He was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay.
2. B. He received the Nobel Prize in 1907.
3. C. The Jungle Books comprise four collections.
4. D. The stories are originally set in the Shivalik hills.
5. E. The Jungle Book was published in 1894.

Which of the following statements are NOT true?

1. A. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell, won the 2023 International Booker Prize.
2. B. The Booker Prize is awarded for the best sustained work of fiction written in English.
3. C. The International Booker Prize was instituted in 2002.
4. D. The Booker Prize is for fiction in English published in the UK and Ireland.
5. E. The International Booker is awarded for the finest single work of fiction translated into English.

Which of the following plays belong to Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy?

1. A. Agamemnon
2. B. The Libation Bearers
3. C. Antigone
4. D. Oedipus at Colonus
5. E. Electra

Which of the following author–work pairs are correct?

1. A. Roddy Doyle – The Barrytown Trilogy
2. B. Bram Stoker – Confessions of an Irish Rebel
3. C. C. S. Lewis – The Chronicles of Narnia
4. D. Brendan Behan – Dracula
5. E. Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl

Which of the following are works by Irvine Welsh?

1. A. The Acid House
2. B. Trainspotting
3. C. Beside the Ocean of Time
4. D. Filth
5. E. Mavis Belfrage

Which of the following novels use magic realism?

1. A. The Shadow Lines
2. B. One Hundred Years of Solitude
3. C. Midnight's Children
4. D. Beloved
5. E. Kanthapura

Who among the following has NOT received the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Arrange the following poems of Yeats in chronological order:

1. A. 'The Wild Swans at Coole'
2. B. 'The Second Coming'
3. C. 'Among School Children'
4. D. 'Adam's Curse'

Which of the following may be said of the journal begun at Bowling Green University in the late 1960s, with essays on Spider-Man comics, rock music and detective films?

1. A. It highlighted the importance of popular culture.
2. B. It highlighted the importance of elite culture.
3. C. It buttressed the canon by making it more elitist.
4. D. It broke down the dominance of 'high' culture.

Which Sherlock Holmes story refers to a significant event in English history?

Match List I with List II: