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1. In Charles Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby", a young man finds himself the chief means of support for his mother and sister after the death of his father. Of course, there must be a villain in the story. Which character is Nicholas' main antagonist?
2. Sherlock Holmes employed a page boy to run errands for him. What was the name of this ambitious young man?
3. William Wordsworth is considered one of the founders of the Romantic movement in English literature. Which other poet is regarded by literary scholars as the co-founder?
4. In Chaucer's narrative "The Canterbury Tales", who is the hero in the Nun's Priest's story?
5. Which Scottish writer penned this phrase - "Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung"?
6. "I married him" is the concluding remark of what 19th Century novel?
7. Who was the first English author to win a Nobel Prize for Literature?
8. The UK banned publication of D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" for how many years?
9. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), was an author and mathematician. He is best known for his nonsensical stories and poems like "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "The Jabberwocky". Which of these is not one of his works?
10. How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote her most famous novel, "Frankenstein"?
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