Terms: |American Fiction| |J D Salinger|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
After being expelled from school, Holden Caulfield drifts through New York and reflects bitterly on the hypocrisy of the adult world in one of America’s best-known novels of adolescence. What is the title of this novel by J. D. Salinger?
The Catcher in the Rye
Terms: |Albert Camus| |Existentialism| |French Literature| |Philosophical Fiction|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
The protagonist of Camus’s The Stranger is emotionally detached, and after his mother’s death and a later murder on an Algerian beach he becomes one of literature’s best-known existentialist characters. What is his last name?
Meursault
Terms: |Existential Fiction| |Franz Kafka| |Modern Literature|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
In Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, the protagonist awakens one morning as a gigantic insect-like being, and from that moment his relationship with his family grows steadily more distressing. What is the name of this travelling salesman and central character?
Gregor Samsa
Terms: |Dystopian Novel| |George Orwell| |Modern Classics|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
Winston Smith, Big Brother, the Ministry of Truth, and Room 101 belong to one of the best-known dystopian novels of the twentieth century. What number appears in the title of Orwell’s book?
1984
Terms: |Dystopian Fiction| |George Orwell|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
In Orwell’s allegorical novel about a farm rising up against human rule, the animals at first dream of a more just society, but the new leadership soon begins acting just like the old one. Which animals eventually seize the main political power on the farm?
Pigs
Terms: |Modern History| |Political Philosophy| |Political Theory|
Published: 28. 4. 2026.
In The End of History and the Last Man, its author looked at the defeats of communist systems at the beginning of the 1990s and proclaimed the end of history together with the victory of liberal democracy. What is the name of this American political philosopher of Japanese origin?
Francis Fukuyama
Terms: |French Literature| |Humanism| |Novels| |Renaissance| |Satire|
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
The Renaissance produced the first truly great name of French literature, and his life’s major work was the fantastic satirical novel Gargantua and Pantagruel, in which he expressed ideas of justice, goodness, humanity, culture, and tolerance. Who was he?
François Rabelais
Terms: |Drama| |French Literature| |Theatre| |Tragedy|
Published: 17. 4. 2026.
Together with Molière and Corneille, the dramatist in this question forms the great trio of seventeenth-century French theatre. He wrote mostly tragedies, and his most famous works include Andromaque and Phèdre. Who is he?
Jean Racine
Terms: |Jonathan Swift|
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Journey to Brobdingnag and Journey to Lilliput are two sections of which famous satirical book in four parts?
Gulliver’s Travels
Terms: |Nobel Prize|
Published: 13. 4. 2026.
Pygmalion, the romantic and linguistic tale of Professor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, is likely the most famous work of the Irish playwright who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. His first names were George and Bernard. What was his surname?
Shaw