Movements, Awards & History

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1.Which medieval poet was the first buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner?
- A. Geoffrey Chaucer
- B. John Milton
- C. William Shakespeare
- D. Edmund Spenser
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Did you know? Chaucer was buried in the Abbey in 1400, starting the tradition.
2.Which English dictionary took about seventy years to complete?
- A. the Larousse
- B. the Dictionary of National Biography
- C. Webster's Dictionary
- D. the Oxford English Dictionary
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the Oxford English Dictionary
Did you know? The first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was completed in 1928.
3.Which literary award is Brazil's leading literary prize?
- A. the National Book Award
- B. the Prix Goncourt
- C. the Prêmio Jabuti
- D. the Miles Franklin Award
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the Prêmio Jabuti
Did you know? The Jabuti Prize has been awarded in Brazil since 1959.
4.Which literary movement sought truth through suggestion and metaphor?
- A. Realism
- B. Concrete poetry
- C. the Beat Generation
- D. Symbolism
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Symbolism
Did you know? Symbolism arose in late-nineteenth-century French poetry.
5.Which literary award recognizes fiction in English translation?
- A. the Prix Femina
- B. the Prix Goncourt
- C. the Miles Franklin Award
- D. the International Booker Prize
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the International Booker Prize
Did you know? Since 2016 the International Booker has honoured a single translated book.
6.Which literary movement was launched by the 1922 Week of Modern Art?
- A. Brazilian Modernism
- B. the Harlem Renaissance
- C. Romanticism
- D. magical realism
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Brazilian Modernism
Did you know? The Semana de 22 shook São Paulo's Municipal Theatre in February 1922.
7.Which literary award are administered by Columbia University in New York?
- A. the Pulitzer Prizes
- B. the Prix Goncourt
- C. the Nobel Prize in Literature
- D. the Miles Franklin Award
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the Pulitzer Prizes
Did you know? Joseph Pulitzer's bequest founded the prizes in 1917.
8.Which literary award is the highest recognition for children's literature?
- A. the Prix Goncourt
- B. the Prêmio Jabuti
- C. the Hans Christian Andersen Award
- D. the International Booker Prize
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the Hans Christian Andersen Award
Did you know? The biennial Andersen Award is nicknamed the "little Nobel".
9.Which literary movement drew on dreams and the unconscious?
- A. Decadentism
- B. Gothic fiction
- C. the Renaissance
- D. Surrealism
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Surrealism
Did you know? André Breton's 1924 Manifesto launched literary Surrealism.
10.Which literary movement blended horror, mystery, and ruinous castles?
- A. Surrealism
- B. Gothic fiction
- C. Brazilian Modernism
- D. the Beat Generation
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Gothic fiction
Did you know? Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764) is cited as the first Gothic novel.
11.Which literary movement staged plots without logical resolution?
- A. Sturm und Drang
- B. the Harlem Renaissance
- C. the Theatre of the Absurd
- D. Concrete poetry
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the Theatre of the Absurd
Did you know? Beckett and Ionesco are the movement's most cited names.
12.Which literary movement centered on freedom, choice, and absurdity?
- A. Decadentism
- B. Modernism
- C. Existentialism
- D. the Theatre of the Absurd
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Existentialism
Did you know? Sartre and Camus were leading literary existentialists.
13.Which literary movement treated words as visual objects on the page?
- A. Indigenism
- B. Sturm und Drang
- C. Romanticism
- D. Concrete poetry
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Concrete poetry
Did you know? Brazilian concrete poets included Augusto and Haroldo de Campos.
14.Which literary movement championed reason, satire, and reform in the 1700s?
- A. Gothic fiction
- B. the Renaissance
- C. Naturalism
- D. the Enlightenment
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the Enlightenment
Did you know? Voltaire and Swift exemplify Enlightenment-era satire.
15.Which literary movement applied scientific determinism to fiction?
- A. Naturalism
- B. Parnassianism
- C. Romanticism
- D. the Renaissance
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Naturalism
Did you know? Zola was the chief theorist of literary Naturalism.
16.Which literary movement valued formal perfection over sentiment?
- A. Symbolism
- B. Parnassianism
- C. the Theatre of the Absurd
- D. Concrete poetry
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Parnassianism
Did you know? Parnassianism shaped Brazilian poetry in the late 1800s.
17.Which author has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang?
- A. Margaret Atwood
- B. J.M. Coetzee
- C. Peter Carey
- D. Hilary Mantel
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Peter Carey
Did you know? Peter Carey's two Bookers came in 1988 and 2001.
18.Which Renaissance printer's press pioneered the pocket-sized book in Venice?
- A. Christophe Plantin
- B. Johannes Gutenberg
- C. Aldus Manutius
- D. William Caxton
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Aldus Manutius
Did you know? Aldus Manutius's Aldine Press made small-format classics affordable.
19.Which literary award is a leading American prize across fiction, nonfiction, and poetry?
- A. the National Book Award
- B. the Prix Femina
- C. the Miles Franklin Award
- D. the Hans Christian Andersen Award
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the National Book Award
Did you know? The National Book Awards have been presented since 1950.
20.Which literary movement culminated in the 1890s "yellow decade"?
- A. Decadentism
- B. the Theatre of the Absurd
- C. Symbolism
- D. Parnassianism
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Decadentism
Did you know? Huysmans's Against Nature became a Decadent bible.
21.Which prize rewards the year's best writing about totalitarian themes, in Orwell's name?
- A. the Orwell Prize
- B. the Booker Prize
- C. the Samuel Johnson Prize
- D. the Goldsmiths Prize
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the Orwell Prize
Did you know? The Orwell Prize honours political writing in Orwell's spirit.
22.Which literary award is judged each year by an all-women jury?
- A. the Prêmio Jabuti
- B. the International Booker Prize
- C. the Prix Femina
- D. the National Book Award
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the Prix Femina
Did you know? The Femina was founded in 1904 in reaction to the all-male Goncourt jury.
23.Which literary movement romanticized Brazil's native peoples in verse and prose?
- A. Naturalism
- B. Indigenism
- C. Symbolism
- D. the Theatre of the Absurd
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Indigenism
Did you know? José de Alencar's O Guarani is a landmark of Brazilian Indigenism.
24.Which British prize rewards the year's funniest novel, in P.G. Wodehouse's name?
- A. the Wodehouse Prize
- B. the Costa Award
- C. the Booker Prize
- D. the Orwell Prize
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the Wodehouse Prize
Did you know? The Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction has run since 1996.
25.Which literary award honoured books published in Britain and Ireland?
- A. the Prêmio Jabuti
- B. the Miles Franklin Award
- C. the Costa Book Awards
- D. the National Book Award
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the Costa Book Awards
Did you know? The Costa Awards began as the Whitbread Book Awards.
26.Which literary movement was a stormy German proto-Romantic movement?
- A. Symbolism
- B. Decadentism
- C. Sturm und Drang
- D. Parnassianism
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Sturm und Drang
Did you know? Young Goethe belonged to the Sturm und Drang generation.
27.Which literary award is Australia's leading literary prize?
- A. the Miles Franklin Award
- B. the Nobel Prize in Literature
- C. the Prix Femina
- D. the Prêmio Jabuti
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the Miles Franklin Award
Did you know? Stella Miles Franklin's bequest founded the award in 1957.

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