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Question #101
'The Art of War' is an ancient Chinese text by whom?
A. Lao Tzu
B. Confucius
C. Sun Tzu
D. Sun Bin
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Sun Tzu wrote 'The Art of War', a treatise on military strategy.
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Question #102
Who wrote 'The Prince'?
A. Thomas Hobbes
B. Niccolò Machiavelli
C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D. John Locke
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Niccolò Machiavelli wrote 'The Prince', a political treatise.
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Question #103
'Leviathan' is a book by which political philosopher?
A. John Locke
B. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
C. Montesquieu
D. Thomas Hobbes
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Thomas Hobbes wrote 'Leviathan'.
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Question #104
Who wrote 'Two Treatises of Government'?
A. Montesquieu
B. Thomas Hobbes
C. John Locke
D. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
John Locke wrote 'Two Treatises of Government'.
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Question #105
'The Social Contract' is a work by which French philosopher?
A. Montesquieu
B. Denis Diderot
C. Voltaire
D. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote 'The Social Contract'.
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Question #106
Who wrote 'The Spirit of the Laws'?
A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
B. Montesquieu
C. John Locke
D. Voltaire
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Montesquieu wrote 'The Spirit of the Laws'.
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Question #107
'Common Sense' is a pamphlet by which American revolutionary?
A. John Adams
B. Thomas Jefferson
C. Benjamin Franklin
D. Thomas Paine
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Thomas Paine wrote 'Common Sense'.
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Question #108
Who wrote 'The Federalist Papers' (with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison)?
A. John Jay
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. John Adams
D. Thomas Jefferson
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
The Federalist Papers were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.
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Question #109
'Walden' is a book by which American transcendentalist?
A. Walt Whitman
B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Henry David Thoreau wrote 'Walden' about his simple living in nature.
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Question #110
Who wrote 'Civil Disobedience'?
A. John Rawls
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Henry David Thoreau wrote 'Civil Disobedience', an essay on resisting unjust government.
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Question #111
'Leaves of Grass' is a poetry collection by which poet?
A. Robert Frost
B. Carl Sandburg
C. Walt Whitman
D. Emily Dickinson
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Walt Whitman wrote 'Leaves of Grass'.
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Question #112
Who wrote 'The Waste Land'?
A. Ezra Pound
B. T.S. Eliot
C. D.H. Lawrence
D. W.B. Yeats
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
T.S. Eliot wrote 'The Waste Land', a landmark modernist poem.
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Question #113
'Ulysses' is a novel by which Irish author?
A. W.B. Yeats
B. James Joyce
C. Samuel Beckett
D. Oscar Wilde
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses', a modernist novel set in Dublin.
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Question #114
Who wrote 'Dubliners'?
A. Seamus Heaney
B. James Joyce
C. Edna O'Brien
D. Roddy Doyle
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
James Joyce wrote 'Dubliners', a collection of short stories.
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Question #115
'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' is by which author?
A. James Joyce
B. Virginia Woolf
C. James Joyce (again) - but we'll specify.
D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
James Joyce wrote 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'.
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Question #116
Who wrote 'Finnegans Wake'?
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Ezra Pound
C. Samuel Beckett
D. James Joyce
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
James Joyce wrote 'Finnegans Wake'.
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Question #117
'Waiting for Godot' is a play by which author?
A. Jean Genet
B. Samuel Beckett
C. Eugene Ionesco
D. Arthur Miller
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Samuel Beckett wrote 'Waiting for Godot', an absurdist play.
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Question #118
Who wrote 'The Importance of Being Earnest'?
A. Oscar Wilde
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. W. Somerset Maugham
D. Noël Coward
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Oscar Wilde wrote 'The Importance of Being Earnest'.
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Question #119
'Pygmalion' is a play by which author?
A. Oscar Wilde
B. George Bernard Shaw
C. Anton Chekhov
D. Henrik Ibsen
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
George Bernard Shaw wrote 'Pygmalion'.
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Question #120
Who wrote 'A Doll's House'?
A. August Strindberg
B. Anton Chekhov
C. Henrik Ibsen
D. Henrik Ibsen (yes)
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Henrik Ibsen wrote 'A Doll's House'.
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