John Hawkes

1) John Hawkes was a …………………. era novelist.

a) Postmodern b) Modern c) Victorian d) Georgian

2) The first novel of John Hawkes was ………………….

a) The Lime twig b) The Beetle Leg c) The Cannibal d) The Blood Oranges

3) John Hawkes was a/an ………………. Novelist

a) British b) American c) Russian d) French

4) The two novellas of Hawkes, The Goose on the Grave and The Owl, both have a/an
……………. setting.

a) French b) Spanish c) Italian d) American

5) One of Hawkes most famous books, The Lime twig, was a …………………

a) Comedy b) Horror Fiction c) Historical Fiction d) Fable

6) Hawkes’s novel ………………. was later adapted to a film

a) The Lime Twig b) The Blood Oranges c) An Irish Eye d) Death, Sleep and the
Travel

7) The novel ………………………… by John Hawkes is a fable

a) The Frog b) The Owl c) Sweet William d) The Lime twig

8) Which one of the following is not a John Hawkes Novel?

a) Travesty b) Whistlejacket c) Island Fire d) Briar Rose

9) The collection of Hawkes’s four short plays is called

a) The Traveller b) The Innocent Party c) Hawkes Scrapbook d) Lunar Landscapes

10) John Hawkes was born in the year ………………….

a) 1930 b) 1927 c) 1925 d) 1920

11) Most of Hawkes’s works were of the genre ……………….

a) Avant-garde b) Experimental literature c) both a and b d) neither a nor b

12) The Beetle Leg, which was Hawkes’s second novel, due to being set in the state of
……………… had intensely surrealistic western characteristics.

a) Connecticut b) Texas c) Maine d) Montana

13) Hawkes was a follower of……………….., a Russian-American trans lingual author,

whose literature hugely inspired him.

a) Ivan Turgenev b) Nikolai Gogol c) Vladimir Nabokov d) Fyodor Dostoevsky

14) The University where John Hawkes both taught and got educated was
……………………………….

a) Harvard University b) Brown University c) Princeton University d) Oxford

University
15) Many critics called the novel ……………… by John Hawkes as one of the novels
that became landmarks in the 20th century American literature.

a) The Beetle Leg b) The Blood Oranges c) The Lime Twig d) An Irish Eye

16) Hawkes’s novel ……………………………. won the award ‘Prix du Meilleur Livre
étranger’.

a) The Irish Eye b) The Blood Oranges c) Island Fire d) The Owl

17) Hawkes’s first ever novel was published in the year …….

a) 1947 b)1952 c)1941 d)1949

18) In 1965 John Hawkes’s novel …………………….. was nominated for the National
Book Award.

a) The Cannibal b) Travesty c) Second Skin d) The Beetle leg

19) The Frog by John Hawkes, in addition to being a Fantasy Fiction, is also a
…………………..

a) Parable b) Mystery c) Romance d) None of these

20) Hawkes died in the year ……… in Providence

a) 1991 b) 1998 c)2001 d) 1995

Key :-

1) a 2) c 3) b 4) c 5) b 6) b 7) c