1. France has a literary tradition unsurpassed by any nation. Match the French authors with their works.

   A. Gustave Flaubert	1. Nausea
   B. Jean-Paul Sartre	2. Germinal
   C. &Eacutemile Zola	3. Madame Bovary

2. True or false: The all-time best-selling German fiction writer is Karl May, author of Wild West adventures.

3. Match the following Caribbean authors (and their works) with their island homes.

   A. Austin Chesterfield Clarke, Growing Up Stupid under the Union Jack	1. St. Kitts
   B. Michelle Cliff, Claiming an Identity They Taught Me To Despise	2. Guadeloupe
   C. Pedro Mir, Cuando Amaban las Tierras Comuneras	3. Barbados
   D. Caryl Phillips, A State of Independence	4. Dominican Republic
   E. Simone Schwarz-Bart, Between Two Worlds	5. Jamaica

4. True or false: V.S. Naipaul, author of A Turn in the South and An Area of Darkness, is a native of Trinidad and Tobago.

5. Isabel Allende, acclaimed author of The House of the Spirits and The Stories of Eva Luna, is the niece of the late president of which Latin American country:

   A. Argentina

   B. Brazil

   C. Colombia

   D. Chile

6. The novels of B. Wongar were hailed as the work of a talented Australian Aborigine. Many Australians were outraged when it was revealed that "Birimbir Wongar" was not Aboriginal at all, but of European descent. True or false: B. Wongar's true ancestry is Irish.

7. While all of these authors are of Irish descent, none lives in Ireland. Match the authors with their long-time countries of residence.

   A. Patrick O'Brian, the Aubrey/Maturin series	1. United States
   B. Edna O'Brien, Time and Tide	2. France
   C. John O'Brien, Leaving Las Vegas	3. England

8. An insult match between two characters in a long (usually epic) poem is known as:

   A. Leitmotif

   B. Roman à clef

   C. Flyting

   D. Feuilleton

9. Belgian author Georges Simenon wrote at least 250 novels under many pseudonyms, seventy-six of which featured the Parisian inspector Maigret. True or false: Like his fictional creation Maigret, Simenon was a man devoted and faithful to his wife.

10. Which Japanese author won the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature?

    A. Yukio Mishima

    B. Masuji Ibuse

    C. Kenzaburo Oe

    D. Kobo Abe

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