Literature
Literature quiz
Novels, poets, playwrights, famous first lines, characters, and prize winners. World classics and widely taught works, not obscure citation contests.
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Question 1 · medium
Which Nigerian author’s novel Things Fall Apart is considered the first major work of modern African literature in English?
- A.Chinua AchebeCorrect
- B.Wole Soyinka
- C.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- D.Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Question 2 · hard
In which Gabriel García Márquez novel does the character Colonel Aureliano Buendía appear?
- A.Love in the Time of Cholera
- B.One Hundred Years of SolitudeCorrect
- C.Chronicle of a Death Foretold
- D.The Autumn of the Patriarch