The Life and Works of English Authors
- Question: Who is the author of Utopia?
- Answer: Sir Thomas More, an English cleric, wrote Utopia in the 1500s. He was executed by King Henry VIII.
- Question: What was the name of Ebenezer Scrooge’s business partner?
- Answer: In Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol, the ghost of his business partner, Jacob Marley, comes back to haunt Scrooge one Christmas Eve.
- Question: Which of these characters is not in Alice in Wonderland?
- Answer: Peter Rabbit figures in stories by Beatrix Potter, the English writer. Lewis Carroll, another English writer, wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
- Question: Which of these was not written by Virginia Woolf?
- Answer: Ulysses is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. English novelist Virginia Woolf wrote many classic books in the early 20th century.
- Question: Which of these English writers was born in France?
- Answer: W. Somerset Maugham, the English novelist, was born in France in 1874.
- Question: In what year did Charles Dickens die?
- Answer: Charles Dickens died on June 9, 1870.
- Question: Who wrote Tess of the D’Urbervilles?
- Answer: Thomas Hardy was a great English novelist of the Victorian era. Among his many novels is Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
- Question: Who was the 19th-century author of novels about England’s social woes?
- Answer: In many of his later books, English author Charles Dickens wrote about social problems. His book Hard Times (1854) is about problems faced by factory workers.

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