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1 Which character in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland suffered from the mercury poisoning characteristic of his trade?
A The mad hatter
2 Which book concerns the degeneration into savagery of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a Pacific island after an atomic war?
A Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
3 Who wrote the words `Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; / I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him`?
A William Shakespeare
4 Which Irish town gives its name to a five-line humorous verse?
A Limerick
5 Which one of the three Bronte sisters wrote the novel Jane Eyre?
A Charlotte (1847)
6 What kind of snake does Cleopatra use to take her life in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra?
A Asp
7 The title of which American novel has passed into the language to describe a “no-win” situation?
A Catch 22 (1961), by Joseph Heller
8 Which 19th century romantic Lakeland poet “wandered lonely as a cloud”?
A William Wordsworth
9 To which book does The Miller’s Tale belong?
A Canterbury Tales, a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer
10 Which Australian author wrote The Female Eunuch in 1970?
A Germaine Greer