Quiz "Book Zone"

Some people are fond of reading, while others consider it to be a waste of time.

What kind of reader are you?

If you find reading an amusing and worthy pastime, then join our quiz “The Book Zone”.

Let’s get started.

1. What do all these people have in common?

a) they were the first to print books

b) they were all famous poets

c) they were the first to invent the alphabet

Correct answer is a. Ivan Fyodorov was the first to print books in Russia in 1564. The first printing press in England was set up by William Caxton at Westminster in 1476. Johann Gutenberg from Germany invented the printing press in 1450.

2. Where was the paper invented?

a) in China

b) in Japan

c) in Greece

Correct answer is a. Paper was invented around 100 BC in China.

3. When is the World Book Day celebrated?

a) June, 12

b) April, 23

c) September, 6

Correct answer is b. April, 23

4. Put all these genres of books into two columns.

Now check your answers.

Fiction: novel, fairy-tale, fantasy, thriller, adventure, detective

Non-fiction: dictionary, atlas, encyclopedia, biography, diary.

5. In which of the non-fiction books would you:

a. look up the meaning of a word?

b. look up the height of Niagara Falls?

c. find a detailed map of Russia?

a) dictionary

b) encyclopedia

c) atlas

6. Which of the following books would you buy in the situations below:
a cookery book / a travel guide / a children's book / an autobiography?

1. You don't like fiction. You prefer to read about the life stories of real people, written by the people themselves.

2. You are 20 years old and are leaving home to share a flat with some friends. You've never cooked for yourself before.

3. You don't know what to buy your seven-year-old nephew for his birthday.

4. You are going to Barcelona for holidays. You've never been there before.

Now check yourselves.

1.                an autobiography

2.                a cookery book

3.                a children's book

4.                a travel guide

7. Match the authors and their books.

8. Do you know where the term Yahoo comes from?

a) Yahoos are the human-like creatures in the novel Gulliver's Travels by Johann Swift.

b) Yahoo! is an Internet portal. The term was invented by its founders Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994.

c) Yahoo is the name of the city in South America.

Correct answer is a. Nowadays the term is used to a person who is very rude, loud, or stupid.

9. What is the size of the smallest book in the world?

a) 1mm x 1mm

b) 5mm x 5mm

c) 1 cm x 1 cm

Correct answer is a. The smallest book in the Welsh National Library is Old King Cole. It measures 1mm x 1mm and the pages can only be turned with a needle.

10. Ernest Vincent is an author of the novel “Gadsby” (1939). It contains 50,000 words. What is his novel famous for?

a) It has no ending.

b) There is no the ‘e’ letter in the whole novel;

c) It was Vincent’s 7 years old son, who wrote the book.

Correct answer is b. There is no the ‘e’ letter in the whole novel.

11. Look at this scrambled picture. What well known English writer is depicted in it?

a) Anna Akhmatova

b) Agatha Christie

c) William Shakespeare

Correct answer is b) Agatha Christie

12. Read the poems, which became popular in England in the early 18th century.

There was an Old Man of Peru,

Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.

He awoke in the night

In a terrible fright

And found it was perfectly true!

There was a Young Lady of Niger,

Who smiled as she rode on a tiger;

They returned from the ride

With the Lady inside,

And the smile on the face of the tiger.

What is this form of poem called?

a) sonnet

b) limerick

c) haiku

13.

Complete the saying: Don’t judge a book by its ________. Find all the words on the topic “Books and Reading” and make up the key word from the rest of the letters.

Now let’s check:

title, content, volume, page, review, essay, epigraph, plot, character, print.

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

14.

Are the statements True or False? Follow the arrows and pick up the letters. The letters spell the word.

Now follow the right way.

1) A myth is a funny story with a happy ending. False

2) A drama is a serious and emotional play, written for the theatre, television or radio. True

3) False Othello killed Hamlet in Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Othello”.

Othello killed Desdemona. in Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Othello”.

4) False A biography is an exciting story about a hero who goes on an unusual journey and does new and dangerous things.

An adventure is an exciting story about a hero who goes on an unusual journey and does new and dangerous things.

5) Famous German writer Remarque Erich Maria was a man. True

6) Fiction is a branch of literature which describes events that are not true at the time of writing. True

7) False Joanne Rowling wrote “The Lord of the Rings”.

JRR Tolkien wrote “The Lord of the Rings”.

8) False Alexander Pushkin died because he was seriously ill.

Pushkin was fatally wounded in a duel with his brother-in-law Georges Dantes.

9) Leo Tolstoy had 13 children. True

10) Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky is a pen-name of Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneychukov. True

So, the key word is a bestseller.

15. Read the following extract and guess its genre:

At 11 o’clock the family went to bed, and by half-past all the lights were out. Some time after, Mr Otis woke up because of the noise outside his room. It sounded like the clank of metal. he got up at once, struck a match, and looked at the time. It was exactly one o’clock. Mr Otis was quite calm. The strange noise continued, and with it he heard the sound of footsteps. He put on his slippers, took a small bottle out of his dressing case, and opened the door. Right in front of him he saw an old man. He looked terrible. His eyes were red; is hair was long and grey; his clothes were old-fashioned and dirty, and there were handcuffs and rusty chains on his wrists and ankles.

(Oscar Wilde, “The Canterville Ghost”)

“The Canterville Ghost” is a mystery.

16. What do you call someone who finds all books worth reading. He feels interested whatever, whenever and wherever he reads.

a) a bookeater

b) a bookdust

c) a bookworm

Correct answer is c) a bookworm.

17. Who of these famous British bookish characters:

1. solves crimes with a partner

2. is always neat and tidy

3. travels in a submarine

a) Hercule Poirot

b) Sherlock Holmes

c) Captain Nemo

Check your answers.

18. Complete the words by R.D. Cumming: A good book has no ____________.

a) price

b) value

c) ending

I hope that most of you answered the questions correctly and the quiz was a good exercise to your mind.

Or even if you gave a couple of wrong answers, you’ve learnt something new.

What are you doing tonight?

Read a book!