1. He is the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize. 18.

18. He is the first man to replace myth with natural

(Rabindranath Tagore) laws.
2. He is considered as the greatest English writer and (Thales of Melitus)
also known as the “Bard of Avon”. 19. This is a collection of Indian sacred hymns.
(William Shakespeare) (RigVeda)
3. This Shakespeare’s play is a story of a man whose 20. This is a collection of Indian religious text.
downfall was caused by overwhelming ambition for (Upanishad)
power. 21. He is regarded as the greatest haiku poet.
(Macbeth) (Matsuo Basho)
4. He is known as the father of horror stories. 22. He is recognized as the father of American
(Edgar Allan Poe) literature.
5. He is known as the Father of Essays. (Washington Irving)
(Francis Bacon) 23. He was the first mythical geographer who was
6. This Omar Khayam’s work has the theme “Grasping recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and
pleasure while you can”. people encountered by his hero, Ulysses.
(Rubaiyat) (Homer)
7. This short story by Edgar Allan Poe has the theme 24. He is a famous composer from Angono, Rizal, and
which is similar to the theme of “Poison Tree”. was given a National Artist Award.
(The Cask of Amontillado) (Luis San Pedro)
8. He is a Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict 25. This is regarded as the most influential book in the
Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and traditions. history of English civilization.
(Nick Joaquin) (The King James Bible)
9. He was the first Filipino National Artist for Literature 26. This is a popular Philippine secular poetry in
awarded in 1973. octosyllabic quatrains.
(Jose Garcia Villa) (Korido)
10. He is a Filipino migrant whose fiction stories reflect 27. It is a medieval German epic.
the Filipino’s concept of American culture. (Nibelungenlied)
(Bienvenido Santos) 28. He is known as the master of “local color” because
11. He is called a “comma poet” because he used of his Pickwick Papers.
commas extensively in his works. (Charles Dickens)
(Jose Garcia Villa) 29. It is a story of a man’s effort to save his King from a
12. This is a collection of Indian beast fables originally monster.
written in Sanskrit. (Beowulf)
(Panchatantra) 30. It is Jonathan Swift’s satire on human folly and
13. This is the first great work of English literature. stupidity.
(Beowulf) (Gulliver’s Travel)
14. This is the greatest lyric poem in the literature of the 31. He is a Philippine National Artist awardee for
world. Literature, and used free verse and espoused the
(Psalms of King David) dictum, "Art for art's sake“.
15. This is a folk song that originated in Pampanga. (Jose Garcia Villa)
(Atin Cu PungSingsing) 32. This is known as epic of Ifugao.
16. He is known as the greatest Indian writer of all (Hud-hud)
time.” 33. These poems are often erotic and espouse CARPE
(Kalidasa) DIEM or “seize the day”.
17. He is called the “Morning Star” of English literature. (Cavalier Poems)
(Geoffrey " Chaucer)
34. This is known to be the very first successful short (Wole Soyinka)
story in English written in 1925 by Paz Marquez Benitez. 50. This is an epic of Ilocanos.
(Dead Stars) (Biag Ni Lam-Ang)
35. She wrote the most exquisite love poems of her 51. What is Stevan Javellana’s 1947 novel that captured
time in “Sonnets from the Portuguese”. the moving tale of the cruelty and the bravery of the
(Elizabeth Barrett Browning) war years?
36. This is a very long poem about a pilgrimage from (Without Seeing the Dawn)
London to Canterbury. 52. What is Carlos Bulosan’s 1946 literary work that tells
(Canterbury Tales) about the painful reality of the American dream?
37. He is a Japanese poet who won the Nobel Prize for (America Is in the Heart)
literature in 1968. 53. He has been described as "arguably the most
(Yasunari Kawabata) distinguished man of letters in English history”.
38. This Indian epic which is considered as the longest (Samuel Johnson)
poem ever written is made up of almost 100,000 54. This is the National Epic of America.
couplets divided into 18 parvans or sections. (The Song of Hiawatha)
(Mahabharata) 55. This poem commemorates the life of a public
39. This was the era of knights, chivalry, and castles in leader,
English literature. Abraham Lincoln.
(Middle Ages) (O Captain! My Captain!)
40. This is known as epic of Visaya. 56. This literary work is believed to have triggered the
(Maragtas) American Civil War.
41. This a popular Philippine secular poetry in (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
dodecasyllabic quatrains.
(Awit)
42. He is popularly known as “Huseng Sisiw”.
(Jose Corazon de Jesus)
43. This period of English literature literally means
“rebirth” in French.
(Renaissance)
44. This is the first novel in English written by a Filipino
writer in 1921.
(Child of Sorrow, Zoilo Galang)
45. From which Francis Bacon’s essay is this line taken
“Some books are to be tasted, others are to be
swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested”?
(Of Studies)
46. This is the National Epic of England.
(Beowulf)
47. He is known as the Father of Tragedy.
(Christopher Marlowe)
48. From which Shakespeare’s play are these lines taken
“Good night, good night! Parting is such a sweet sorrow
that I shall say good night till it be morrow”?
(Romeo and Juliet)
49. He is the first black Nigerian writer to be awarded
the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986.