Art and Literature Multiple Choice Quiz 1 NewHard
30 questions about 40 minutes 14/11/2026
1. Who painted "The Garden of Earthly Delights"?A Hieronymus BoschB Pieter Bruegel the ElderC Jan van EyckD Albrecht Dürer
2. Which novel opens by saying that happy families are all alike?A War and PeaceB Anna KareninaC Madame BovaryD Crime and Punishment
3. Which group of artists was founded in Munich in 1911 by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc?A Die BrückeB De StijlC BauhausD Der Blaue Reiter
4. Who wrote "The Master and Margarita"?A Boris PasternakB Nikolai GogolC Mikhail BulgakovD Vladimir Nabokov
5. Who painted "The Arnolfini Portrait"?A Hans Holbein the YoungerB Hans MemlingC Rogier van der WeydenD Jan van Eyck
6. Which Dickens novel features the endless lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce?A Little DorritB Bleak HouseC Our Mutual FriendD Hard Times
7. Who made the bronze "David" of about 1440, often called the first free-standing nude statue since ancient times?A MichelangeloB BerniniC DonatelloD Verrocchio
8. Who wrote "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?A Gabriel García MárquezB Mario Vargas LlosaC Jorge Luis BorgesD Isabel Allende
9. Who wrote the poem "The Waste Land"?A Ezra PoundB W.B. YeatsC W.H. AudenD T.S. Eliot
10. In which museum does Picasso's "Guernica" hang?A The PradoB Museu Picasso, BarcelonaC Museo Reina SofíaD Guggenheim Bilbao
11. Under which pen name did Mary Ann Evans write?A George SandB George EliotC Currer BellD Ouida
12. Which Japanese artist made the print "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"?A HokusaiB HiroshigeC UtamaroD Kuniyoshi
13. Who wrote "The Tin Drum"?A Heinrich BöllB Thomas MannC Hermann HesseD Günter Grass
14. Who painted "The Laughing Cavalier"?A RembrandtB Jan SteenC Frans HalsD Johannes Vermeer
15. Which is Shakespeare's shortest play?A MacbethB The Comedy of ErrorsC The TempestD A Midsummer Night's Dream
16. Who painted "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"?A Georges SeuratB Paul SignacC Camille PissarroD Paul Cézanne
17. Who wrote "The Remains of the Day"?A Ian McEwanB Julian BarnesC Kazuo IshiguroD Graham Swift
18. Who wrote the epic poem "The Faerie Queene"?A John MiltonB Sir Philip SidneyC Christopher MarloweD Edmund Spenser
19. Who painted "The Raft of the Medusa"?A Eugène DelacroixB Théodore GéricaultC Jacques-Louis DavidD Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
20. In Homer's "Odyssey", who is the son of Odysseus?A TelemachusB AstyanaxC NeoptolemusD Orestes
ANSWERS
1. A) Hieronymus Bosch
2. B) Anna Karenina
3. D) Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider")
Die Brücke was the other great German Expressionist group, founded in Dresden in 1905.
4. C) Mikhail Bulgakov
5. D) Jan van Eyck
6. B) Bleak House
7. C) Donatello
All four sculptors made a famous David. Michelangelo's marble giant dates from 1504.
8. A) Gabriel García Márquez
9. D) T.S. Eliot
Ezra Pound edited the poem heavily, and Eliot dedicated it to him.
10. C) Museo Reina Sofía
The painting was kept in New York until 1981, as Picasso did not want it in Spain under Franco. It moved from the Prado to the Reina Sofía in 1992.
11. B) George Eliot
Currer Bell was the pen name of Charlotte Brontë.
12. A) Hokusai
13. D) Günter Grass
14. C) Frans Hals
It hangs in the Wallace Collection in London. The sitter is not actually laughing, and nobody knows who he was.
15. B) The Comedy of Errors
Macbeth is the shortest of the tragedies.
16. A) Georges Seurat
17. C) Kazuo Ishiguro
18. D) Edmund Spenser
19. B) Théodore Géricault
20. A) Telemachus
Astyanax is the son of Hector, Neoptolemus of Achilles and Orestes of Agamemnon.
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