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The Odd one out
100

Who wrote Moon Palace?

Paul Auster

100

Which movement celebrates emotions, imagination and nature?  

Romanticism 

100

The wind wispered through the trees. 

Personnification 

100

In which country did women first obtain the right to vote nationally?

New Zealand

100

Which one is the odd one out and WHY ? 

  • 1984
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • Brave New World
  • The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby (not a dystopia) 

200

Who wrote 1984? 

George Orwell 

200

Which movement sought to represent ordinary life and social realities rather than idealised worlds?   

Realism 

200

Her smile was like sunshine

Simile (like or as) 

200

Which event is associated with the beginning of the Great Depression?

The Wall Street crash of 1929
200

Which one is the odd one out and WHY?

  • Nature
  • Emotion
  • Individualism
  • Industrial efficiency

Industrial efficiency (not from Romanticism) 

300

Who wrote Frankenstein? 

Mary Shelley

300

Which movement explores the subconscious, dreams and irrationality?

Surrealism

300

Lend me your ear 

Metonymy 

300

Which Supreme Court decision declared school segregation unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of Education

300

Which one is the odd one out and WHY ? 

  • Siegfried Sassoon
  • Wilfred Owen
  • Rupert Brooke
  • George Orwell

George Orwell (not from WWI) 

400

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

F.  Scott Fitzgerald

400

Which literary movement often challenges objective truth and stable identities? 

Post Modernism

400

I have told you a million times 

Hyperbole 

400

What was D-Day?

The Allied landing in Normandy on 6 June 1944.

400

Which one is the odd one out and WHY ? 

  • Virginia Woolf
  • James Joyce
  • T. S. Eliot
  • William Wordsworth

William Wordworth (not from Modernism) 

500

Who wrote The Handmaid's Tale?  

Margaret Atwood? 

500

Which movement would most likely depict an individual crushed by social forces?

Naturalism

500

War is peace, freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength

Paradox

500

What was Prohibition?

The ban on alcohol in the United States (1920–1933).

500

Which one is the odd one out and WHY ? 

  • Moon Palace
  • Into the Wild
  • The Catcher in the Rye
  • 1984

1984 (not journey of self-discoveries)