Picaresque novel - Quiz
Picaresque novel
  • 1. Who authored the novel Kvachi Kvachantiradze?
A) Mikheil Javakhishvili
B) Umberto Eco
C) Saul Bellow
D) Ilya Ilf
  • 2. In what year was Kvachi Kvachantiradze published?
A) 1928
B) 1924
C) 1953
D) 1942
  • 3. Which novel's protagonist is described as a swindler and a Georgian Felix Krull?
A) The Twelve Chairs
B) The Tin Drum
C) Baudolino
D) Kvachi Kvachantiradze
  • 4. Who wrote The Twelve Chairs and The Little Golden Calf?
A) John Barth
B) Ilf and Petrov
C) Thomas Mann
D) Sánchez Ferlosio
  • 5. In what year was The Little Golden Calf published?
A) 1928
B) 1960
C) 1931
D) 1954
  • 6. Who wrote The Projects and Wanderings of Alfanhui?
A) Luis Zapata
B) Arto Paasilinna
C) Camilo José Cela
D) Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
  • 7. In what year was The Projects and Wanderings of Alfanhui published?
A) 1975
B) 1943
C) 1965
D) 1953
  • 8. Who authored The Family of Pascual Duarte?
A) Ralph Ellison
B) Camilo José Cela
C) John A. Lee
D) Saul Bellow
  • 9. In what year was The Family of Pascual Duarte published?
A) 1960
B) 1942
C) 1954
D) 1952
  • 10. Who wrote Invisible Man?
A) William S. Burroughs
B) John Barth
C) Ralph Ellison
D) Saul Bellow
  • 11. In what year was Invisible Man published?
A) 1965
B) 1944s
C) 1952
D) 1953
  • 12. Who is the author of The Adventures of Augie March?
A) Jerzy Kosinski
B) Günter Grass
C) Iris Murdoch
D) Saul Bellow
  • 13. Who wrote Shining with the Shiner?
A) John Kennedy Toole
B) John A. Lee
C) Thomas Mann
D) Umberto Eco
  • 14. What is the name of the New Zealand folk hero featured in Shining with the Shiner?
A) Ned Slattery
B) Ignatius J. Reilly
C) Baudolino
D) Ivan Chonkin
  • 15. What are the birth and death years of Ned Slattery as mentioned in the text?
A) 1840–1927
B) 1830–1915
C) 1860–1940
D) 1850–1930
  • 16. Who wrote Confessions of Felix Krull?
A) Mikheil Javakhishvili
B) Thomas Mann
C) Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
D) Arto Paasilinna
  • 17. In what year was Confessions of Felix Krull published?
A) 1964
B) 1974
C) 1954
D) 1944
  • 18. Who wrote Under the Net?
A) John Barth
B) Vladimir Voinovich
C) Günter Grass
D) Iris Murdoch
  • 19. Who wrote the German picaresque novel The Tin Drum?
A) Günter Grass
B) Umberto Eco
C) Thomas Mann
D) Jerzy Kosinski
  • 20. In what year was The Tin Drum published?
A) 1953
B) 1969
C) 1959
D) 1960
  • 21. Who authored The Sot-Weed Factor?
A) John Barth
B) William S. Burroughs
C) Aravind Adiga
D) John Kennedy Toole
  • 22. In what year was The Sot-Weed Factor published?
A) 1970
B) 1980
C) 1960
D) 1950
  • 23. Who wrote The Painted Bird?
A) Luis Zapata
B) Jerzy Kosinski
C) Vladimir Voinovich
D) Arto Paasilinna
  • 24. In what year was The Painted Bird published?
A) 1975
B) 1965
C) 1969
D) 1980
  • 25. Who wrote The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin?
A) Mikheil Javakhishvili
B) José Baroja
C) Vladimir Voinovich
D) Arto Paasilinna
  • 26. In what year was The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin published?
A) 1980
B) 1969
C) 1975
D) 1965
  • 27. Who wrote The Year of the Hare?
A) John Kennedy Toole
B) Arto Paasilinna
C) Aravind Adiga
D) Umberto Eco
  • 28. In what year was The Year of the Hare published?
A) 1975
B) 1969
C) 1965
D) 1980
  • 29. Who authored A Confederacy of Dunces?
A) Thomas Nashe
B) John Barth
C) John Kennedy Toole
D) Jerzy Kosinski
  • 30. In what year was A Confederacy of Dunces published?
A) 1980
B) 1981
C) 1979
D) 2000
  • 31. What award did A Confederacy of Dunces win in 1981?
A) Nobel Prize in Literature
B) National Book Award
C) Booker Prize
D) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  • 32. What is the name of the protagonist in A Confederacy of Dunces?
A) Baudolino
B) Kvachi Kvachantiradze
C) Ignatius J. Reilly
D) Ivan Chonkin
  • 33. Who wrote the novel Baudolino?
A) Joaquín Edwards
B) Aravind Adiga
C) Manuel Rojas
D) Umberto Eco
  • 34. In what year was Baudolino published?
A) 2008
B) 2000
C) 1975
D) 1980
  • 35. Who wrote The White Tiger?
A) Umberto Eco
B) Luis Zapata
C) Aravind Adiga
D) Elena Poniatowska
  • 36. What prestigious award did The White Tiger win in 2008?
A) National Book Award
B) Nobel Prize
C) Booker Prize
D) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  • 37. Where did William S. Burroughs give a series of lectures on picaresque novels in 1979?
A) Harvard University
B) Naropa University in Colorado
C) Oxford University
D) Sorbonne University
  • 38. According to William S. Burroughs, what is impossible to separate from the picaresque novel?
A) The historical setting
B) The anti-hero
C) The romantic interest
D) The tragic ending
  • 39. According to William S. Burroughs, what are protagonists in picaresque novels by their nature?
A) Scholars
B) Outsiders
C) Aristocrats
D) Warriors
  • 40. Who wrote the ancient novel Satyricon included in Burroughs' list?
A) Thomas Nashe
B) Denton Welch
C) Jane Bowles
D) Petronius
  • 41. What are the estimated dates for Petronius' novel Satyricon as given in the text?
A) 1594 AD
B) 1943 AD
C) 1936 AD
D) 54–68 AD
  • 42. Who wrote The Unfortunate Traveller in 1594?
A) Petronius
B) Louis-Ferdinand Céline
C) Manuel Rojas
D) Thomas Nashe
  • 43. Who wrote Maiden Voyage (1943) and A Voice Through a Cloud (1950)?
A) José Baroja
B) Denton Welch
C) Louis-Ferdinand Céline
D) Jane Bowles
  • 44. Who wrote Two Serious Ladies (1943)?
A) Iris Murdoch
B) Denton Welch
C) Elena Poniatowska
D) Jane Bowles
  • 45. Who wrote Death on Credit (1936)?
A) Petronius
B) Louis-Ferdinand Céline
C) Thomas Nashe
D) William S. Burroughs
  • 46. Who authored Hijo de ladrón (1951)?
A) Luis Zapata
B) Joaquín Edwards
C) José Baroja
D) Manuel Rojas
  • 47. Who wrote El roto (1968)?
A) Joaquín Edwards
B) Manuel Rojas
C) Elena Poniatowska
D) Luis Zapata
  • 48. Who wrote Hasta no verte Jesús mío (1969)?
A) Joaquín Edwards
B) Luis Zapata
C) Elena Poniatowska
D) Manuel Rojas
  • 49. Who wrote Las aventuras, desventuras y sueños de Adonis García, el vampiro de la colonia Roma (1978)?
A) Elena Poniatowska
B) Luis Zapata
C) Manuel Rojas
D) José Baroja
  • 50. Who wrote Un hijo de perra (2017)?
A) Elena Poniatowska
B) Luis Zapata
C) José Baroja
D) Joaquín Edwards
  • 51. What kind of social class does a typical picaresque hero belong to?
A) Wealthy merchant class
B) High clergy
C) Aristocratic nobility
D) Low social class
  • 52. How does a picaresque hero generally survive in a corrupt society?
A) By holding a steady office
B) Through manual labor
C) By his wits
D) Through inherited wealth
  • 53. What narrative form do picaresque novels typically adopt?
A) Strictly unified dramatic plot
B) Allegorical fable
C) Episodic prose narrative
D) Epistolary verse
  • 54. Which Spanish novel is credited with beginning the picaresque genre?
A) Guzmán de Alfarache
B) El Buscón
C) Don Quixote
D) Lazarillo de Tormes
  • 55. In what year was Lazarillo de Tormes published?
A) 1626
B) 1599
C) 1504
D) 1554
  • 56. Why was Lazarillo de Tormes published anonymously?
A) Because of its anticlerical content
B) Because the publisher stole the manuscript
C) Because the author forgot to sign it
D) Because the author was illiterate
  • 57. During which historical period was Lazarillo de Tormes published?
A) The Enlightenment
B) Middle Ages
C) Victorian Era
D) Spanish Golden Age
  • 58. Who wrote The Golden Ass?
A) Apuleius
B) Francisco de Quevedo
C) Petronius
D) Mateo Alemán
  • 59. According to scholars like F.W. Chandler and A. Marasso, which work remains the primary antecedent influence for the picaresque genre?
A) Satyricon
B) The Golden Ass
C) Lazarillo de Tormes
D) El Buscón
  • 60. Who wrote El Buscón?
A) Francisco de Quevedo
B) Mateo Alemán
C) Petronius
D) Apuleius
  • 61. For how many years did the picaresque genre flourish throughout Europe following the Spanish example?
A) Exactly 50 years
B) Exactly 100 years
C) More than 200 years
D) Less than 20 years
  • 62. According to the traditional view of Thrall and Hibbard published in 1936, how many qualities distinguish the picaresque narrative form?
A) Seven
B) Ten
C) Three
D) Five
  • 63. In what person is a picaresque narrative usually written?
A) Third person omniscient
B) Third person limited
C) First person
D) Second person
  • 64. What is true about character development in the main character of a picaresque novel?
A) The character undergoes a profound moral redemption
B) The character transforms from a rogue into a king
C) The character learns selflessness and humility
D) There is little if any character development
  • 65. What style of language is used to tell the pícaro's story?
A) Plainness of language or realism
B) Metaphorical romanticism
C) Obscure allegorical symbolism
D) High ornate poetic verse
  • 66. How does the behavior of a picaresque protagonist relate to criminality?
A) It stops just short of criminality
B) It is strictly governed by state laws
C) It is completely law-abiding and virtuous
D) It always involves violent felonies
  • 67. How does carefree or immoral rascality position the picaresque hero in society?
A) As an influential political leader
B) As a respected pillar of the community
C) As a universally hated criminal locked in prison
D) As a sympathetic outsider untouched by false rules
  • 68. In the English-speaking world, how is the term picaresque often used loosely?
A) To refer exclusively to 19th-century poetry
B) To mean any tragic romance
C) To describe strict historical biographies
D) To refer to novels containing some elements, like adventures on the road
  • 69. Which work by Miguel de Cervantes is sometimes described as containing elements of the picaresque genre?
A) Persiles y Sigismunda
B) La Galatea
C) Don Quixote
D) Novelas Ejemplares
  • 70. Which work by Charles Dickens is sometimes used to describe works containing some picaresque elements?
A) The Pickwick Papers
B) Great Expectations
C) A Tale of Two Cities
D) Oliver Twist
  • 71. In what year did the word pícaro first start to appear in Spain with its current meaning?
A) 1545
B) 1810
C) 1599
D) 1554
  • 72. Did the word pícaro appear in Lazarillo de Tormes?
A) Yes
B) Only in the title
C) Only in the final chapter
D) No
  • 73. In what year was the expression picaresque novel coined?
A) 1810
B) 1936
C) 1626
D) 1545
  • 74. What did contemporaries call Guzmán de Alfarache?
A) La historia del pícaro
B) El libro del pícaro
C) El pícaro andaluz
D) Las aventuras de Guzmán
  • 75. Outside of Spain, in which city under Spanish rule was Lazarillo de Tormes also published in 1554?
A) Rome
B) Antwerp
C) Lisbon
D) Paris
  • 76. What is the name of the protagonist in Lazarillo de Tormes?
A) Lázaro
B) Guzmán
C) Pablos
D) Don Quixote
  • 77. What kind of country does Lázaro live in that is full of hypocrisy?
A) A wealthy and generous empire
B) A purely egalitarian utopia
C) An industrialized nation
D) An impoverished country
  • 78. What Spanish word does Lázaro use to describe the deception and falsehood he overcomes?
A) Engaño
B) Maqāmāt
C) Al-Andalus
D) Pícaro
  • 79. Which character from Petronius's Satyricon shares some traits with Lázaro?
A) Giton
B) Ascyltus
C) Encolpius
D) Trimalchio
  • 80. What was Encolpius's former profession in Satyricon?
A) Merchant
B) Gladiator
C) Priest
D) King
  • 81. From whose comedies does Lazarillo borrow the figure of the parasite and the supple slave?
A) Petronius
B) Chaucer
C) Apuleius
D) Plautus
  • 82. What popular genre in the classical world do Satyricon and The Golden Ass belong to?
A) Milesian tale
B) Pastoral romance
C) Tragic drama
D) Epic poetry
  • 83. Upon what are the principal episodes of Lazarillo based?
A) Nordic myths
B) Celtic legends
C) Slavic fairy tales
D) Arabic folktales
  • 84. What influence may account for the negative portrayal of priests and church officials in Lazarillo?
A) Arabic influence
B) English influence
C) Roman influence
D) Slavic influence
  • 85. Who is credited with inventing the literary genre of maqāmāt?
A) Hanna Diyab
B) Ibn al-Astarkuwi
C) Antoine Galland
D) Al-Hamadhani
  • 86. Where was Al-Hamadhani from?
A) Hamadhan, Iran
B) Burgos, Spain
C) Antwerp, Belgium
D) Rome, Italy
  • 87. Who, along with Al-Hamadhani, wrote in the maqāmāt genre comparable to later European picaresque?
A) Petronius
B) Charles Perrault
C) Ibn al-Astarkuwi
D) Plautus
  • 88. During which century did Islamic picaresque tales find renewed popularity in Western Europe?
A) 15th century
B) 19th century
C) 13th century
D) 17th century
  • 89. Which character from The One Thousand and One Nights is mentioned as a roguish and cunning protagonist?
A) Sinbad the Sailor
B) Don Quixote
C) Hercules
D) Encolpius
  • 90. Which female character from The One Thousand and One Nights is noted for succeeding by subverting social conventions and guile?
A) Morgiana the Slave-Girl
B) Scheherazade
C) Madame de Staël
D) Madame d'Aulnoy
  • 91. The new popularity of The Thousand and One Nights coincided with the development of what genre?
A) Fairy tale
B) Epic poetry
C) Gothic horror
D) Scientific treatise
  • 92. What type of loanwords in the text of Lazarillo suggests the influence of medieval Slavic tales?
A) Arabic loanwords
B) Russian loanwords
C) German loanwords
D) Greek loanwords
  • 93. Under which emperor were diplomatic ties established between Germany and Spain, allowing Slavic tales to be read in Italian translations?
A) Charles V
B) Napoleon Bonaparte
C) Charlemagne
D) Augustus Caesar
  • 94. What Catholic Revival doctrine clashed with the idea of determinism used to cast the pícaro as a victim?
A) Divine right
B) Predestination
C) Original sin
D) Free will
  • 95. In what year was Guzmán de Alfarache published?
A) 1613
B) 1604
C) 1599
D) 1699
  • 96. According to Francisco Rico, in what year was El Buscón written?
A) 1715
B) 1613
C) 1604
D) 1599
  • 97. Who considers El Buscón to be the absolute masterpiece of the genre because of its baroque style and study of delinquent psychology?
A) M. H. Abrams
B) Francisco Rico
C) Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen
D) A. A. Parker
  • 98. Who described Don Quixote as a "quasi-picaresque narrative"?
A) A. A. Parker
B) M. H. Abrams
C) Francisco Rico
D) Mateo Alemán
  • 99. In Don Quixote, who is the hero instead of a rogue?
A) A delinquent
B) A foolish knight
C) A court page
D) A German soldier
  • 100. What historical group's circumstances are essential to understand the development of Spanish picaresque novels?
A) Aristocrats
B) Conversos
C) Monks
D) Foreign merchants
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