QUIZOPHILE week 7
A weekly quiz prepared and presented by The Alitheian Circle

Topic : The World of Literature
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1.  Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie appearing in her 33 novels, 2 plays, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975.  Which upcoming American mystery thriller based on Agatha Christie's novel of the same name will feature this veteran detective again?
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2. The title of this novel is a metaphor to describe the author's experience of mental breakdown. It refers to the private vacuum inside which a mentally ill person is confined. The author also used it as a metaphor for society at large, for the way that people can be trapped inside stale social conventions and expectations. Which famous novel is being talked about?
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3. In 2008, an enormously popular Assamese novel was staged by a mobile theatre group of Assam called the Kohinoor theatre. In July 15, 2020 this novel celebrated 75th anniversary of its publication and continues to rule the heart of lakhs of readers. The author of this novel was a renowned artist and painter who also served as a member of the Film Finance Board of Assam Government. Which novel?
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4. The Apu Trilogy, directed by Satyajit Ray, comprising three Indian Bengali language films: Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956) and Apur Sansar (1959), is a milestone in Indian cinema and remains one of the most acclaimed works in the Parallel Cinema movement. The trilogy is based on two autobiographical Bengali novels written by which famous Bengali author?
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5. The Myth of X is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. Camus uses the Greek legend of X who is condemned by the gods for eternity to repeatedly roll a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down again once he got it to the top, as a metaphor for the individual's persistent struggle against the essential absurdity of life. The absurd movement of literature is usually traced to this famous work of Camus. Who is this famous Greek mythology character (X) ?
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6. X is a Persian word, originally used as a title for a contractor, writer, or secretary, and later used in the Mughal Empire and British India for native language teachers, teachers of various subjects. Premchand, one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent also holds this title. Which title?
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7.  "Love in the Time  of Insurgency" is the English translation of an Assamese novel which had won the Sahitya Academy award in 1961. Till now the novel has been translated into Gujarati, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu as "Praja nu Raj", "Praja ka Raj", "Lok raj" etc. The novel was based on the Nagas, Tangkhul Nagas in particular, and dealt with the historical moment between the middle of the 1940s and the 1950s. Who is the author of this novel?
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8. “You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”. Which famous known professional rival of Lord Byron, and one of the main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets said this?
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9. In the early 19th century, married British women did not have the legal power to sign contracts, and it was common for a woman wishing to publish to have a male relative represent her to sign the contract. this is the reason why during her lifetime, all X works were published anonymously. Her first published novel X was credited to “A Lady”, and her next book was credited to “The Author of X”. Who is this author?
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10. On January 5, 1886, this novel by a Scottish author was published which followed the adventures of a legal practitioner in London who investigates a friend. The novel had such an impact that the names of the two central characters entered the English language as a phrase to refer to people with an unpredictably dual nature. What are the two names?
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