Question 1
Which English playwright wrote a tragedy about two young lovers from feuding families in Verona?
- William Shakespeare
- Oscar Wilde
- Ben Jonson
- Christopher Marlowe
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William Shakespeare
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Question 2
Who is traditionally credited with the ancient Greek epic about Odysseus's long journey home after the Trojan War?
- Aristotle
- Homer
- Sophocles
- Virgil
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Homer
Question 3
Which writer created the detective Hercule Poirot?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Dorothy L. Sayers
- Agatha Christie
- P. D. James
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Agatha Christie
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