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