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• 1984 by George Orwell
• A Tale of Two Cities
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• The Life and Works of Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Life and Works of Charles Dickens
• The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway
• The Life and Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Life and Works of Fyodor Dostoevsky
• The Life and Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Life and Works of JRR Tolkien
• The Life and Works of Leo Tolstoy
• The Life and Works of Mark Twain
• The Life and Works of Oscar Wilde
• The Life and Works of Walt Whitman
• The New Testament
• The Odyssey
• The Old Testament
• Voice Acting Theory and Techniques
• Voice Pedagogy
• Zen Buddhism

Sample Language & Literature Questions

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1. 1.This author wrote the dystopian novel 1984, published in 1949.

   • George Orwell
   • Aldous Huxley
   • Ray Bradbury
   • H.G. Wells

   From 1984 by George Orwell Trivia →

2. 2.This English author penned A Tale of Two Cities, published in 1859.

   • Charles Dickens
   • William Thackeray
   • Thomas Hardy
   • George Eliot

   From A Tale of Two Cities Trivia →

3. 3.This poet wrote "The Road Not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," often exploring rural New England themes.

   • Walt Whitman
   • Emily Dickinson
   • Robert Frost
   • Carl Sandburg

   From American Literature Trivia →

4. 4.This thinker, forced to drink hemlock in 399 BCE, never wrote down his teachings but influenced Western thought through his famous student's dialogues.

   • Anaximander
   • Pythagoras
   • Socrates
   • Thales

   From Ancient Greek Philosophy Trivia →

5. 5.This sacred time period, central to Aboriginal spirituality, is when ancestral beings created the world, landforms, and all living things.

   • The Dreamtime
   • The Spirit Era
   • The Creation Epoch
   • The Ancestor Age

   From Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology Trivia →

6. 6.Born a prince named Siddhartha Gautama, this spiritual teacher founded one of the world's major religions after achieving enlightenment under a tree.

   • Confucius
   • Mahavira
   • Laozi
   • The Buddha

   From Buddhism Trivia →

7. 7.This little pig's house of bricks was the only one that could withstand the Big Bad Wolf's huffing and puffing.

   • The First Little Pig
   • The Second Little Pig
   • The Third Little Pig
   • The Fourth Little Pig

   From Children's Literature Trivia →

8. 8.This ancient Chinese philosopher, born around 551 BCE in the state of Lu, is credited as the founder of a major Eastern philosophical tradition.

   • Mencius
   • Zhuangzi
   • Confucius
   • Laozi

   From Confucianism Trivia →