- 1. In which year was Margaret Atwood born?
A) 1980
B) 1939
C) 1950
D) 1965
- 2. Which of the following novels by Margaret Atwood is often cited as a dystopian masterpiece?
A) Alias Grace
B) Oryx and Crake
C) Cat's Eye
D) The Handmaid's Tale
- 3. Which prestigious literary award did Margaret Atwood win for her novel 'The Blind Assassin'?
A) National Book Award
B) Nobel Prize
C) Booker Prize
D) Pulitzer Prize
- 4. In which Canadian city was Margaret Atwood born?
A) Vancouver
B) Toronto
C) Ottawa
D) Montreal
- 5. What is the title of Margaret Atwood's collection of poems published in 1966?
A) Eating Fire
B) You Are Happy
C) Morning in the Burned House
D) The Circle Game
- 6. Margaret Atwood wrote a retelling of which famous Shakespeare play?
A) The Tempest
B) Macbeth
C) Romeo and Juliet
D) Hamlet
- 7. Which Margaret Atwood novel features the character Grace Marks, an Irish-Canadian housemaid who becomes a murderess?
A) Alias Grace
B) Oryx and Crake
C) The Blind Assassin
D) The Handmaid's Tale
- 8. Margaret Atwood was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize in which year?
A) 2008
B) 2016
C) 2000
D) 1995
- 9. In Margaret Atwood's novel 'Cat's Eye', the protagonist, Elaine Risley, is famous for her work in which artistic field?
A) Poetry
B) Painting
C) Sculpture
D) Dance
- 10. Margaret Atwood served as the president of which international literary organization from 1984 to 1986?
A) The Royal Society of Literature
B) The Society of Authors
C) The Authors Guild
D) PEN International
- 11. What is the title of the sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale', published in 2019?
A) The Testaments
B) Alias Grace
C) MaddAddam
D) Oryx and Crake
- 12. In Margaret Atwood's novel 'MaddAddam', what is the name of the genetically engineered species of humanoids?
A) God's Gardeners
B) Skirtflappers
C) Painballers
D) Crakers
- 13. In which Margaret Atwood novel do genetically modified creatures play a central role in the story?
A) Oryx and Crake
B) Alias Grace
C) The Blind Assassin
D) The Heart Goes Last
- 14. Margaret Atwood was awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in which year?
A) 2017
B) 1998
C) 2012
D) 2003
- 15. Margaret Atwood published a retelling of 'The Odyssey' from the perspective of which female character?
A) Circe
B) Calypso
C) Penelope
D) Helen
- 16. Which Margaret Atwood novel is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'?
A) Hag-Seed
B) The Year of the Flood
C) MaddAddam
D) Stone Mattress
- 17. In which year did Margaret Atwood publish 'The Handmaid's Tale'?
A) 1985
B) 1979
C) 2002
D) 1994
- 18. What is the title of Margaret Atwood's collection of essays on science fiction and speculative fiction?
A) Playing in the Dark
B) In Other Worlds
C) The Situation and the Story
D) On Writing
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