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1. In which work would you find the Red Cross Knight?
2. Who wrote the work in which the Houyhnhnms appear?
3. Aphra Behn was the first English woman to make a living from what literary activity?
4. Who wrote the sonnet in which the following line appears: 'I am a little world made cunningly'?
5. In a classic epic poem, who is described as 'For contemplation he and valor formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace'?
6. Which medieval character wed five 'husbands at church door'?
7. Which REAL English county is the basis for the fictional 'Wessex' of Thomas Hardy's novels?
8. Mrs. Radcliffe's novel "The Italian" was a response to what sensational Gothic novel?
9. Who wrote the narrative poem "The Rape of Lucrece"?
10. Which of the following titles was not written by E.M. Forster?
11. "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" was written in which narrative form or style?
12. Which one of the following novels by Graham Swift won the Booker Prize for Fiction?
13. Julian of Norwich, the 15th-century mystic who wrote "Revelations", lived her life as what?
14. Lady Mary Wroth was the niece of what other Renaissance poet?
15. Which well-known poet wrote a 20th-century translation of an old English epic?
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