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