1. The language of the Rom, or Gypsy, people comes from India.

Answer: True
Romany is an Indo-Aryan language. The Rom, or Gypsy, people migrated
from India about a thousand years ago.
2. English is related to German.
Answer: True

German, English, and even Hindi are all part of a great family of languages
called Indo-European. They descended from a common ancestor many
thousands of years ago.
3. The poet W. B. Yeats was from England.
Answer: False

William Butler Yeats, famed as the poet of “Easter, 1916” and “The Second
Coming,” was born in Dublin, Ireland, and spent his life in that country.

4. Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o always writes in English.

Answer: False

Ngugi wa Thiongo has written in English, but he began to write only in his
native Kikuyu in the 1990s. His 2004 novel “Wizard of the Crow” was written
in Kikuyu and then translated into English.

5. The “Sound and the Fury” is a sonnet by William Shakespeare.

Answer: False

The Sound and the Fury (1929) is a novel by American writer William
Faulkner. Its title is a quote from a monologue in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

6. No South African has won a Nobel Prize in literature.

Answer: False

In 1991 the novelist and short-story writer Nadine Gordimer became the first
South African to win the Nobel Prize for literature. J. M. Coetzee won in
2003.

7. The words chortle and galumph were both invented by Lewis Carroll.
Answer: True

Chortle and galumph were first used in Carroll’s 1871 nonsense poem
“Jabberwocky”. They are both portmanteau words—that is, new words
made up by combining parts of other words.
8. The Brothers Grimm, authors of fairy tales such as “Hansel and Gretel,” were
from Germany.
Answer: True

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German academics who collected fairy
tales, among them “Hansel and Gretel” and “Snow White.”

9. Jeppe Aakjær was a noted Danish explorer.

Answer: False

A poet and novelist, Jeppe Aakjær (1866–1930) was a leading exponent of

Danish regional literature. He also promoted the literature of social
consciousness

10. Agatha Christie wrote only novels.

Answer: False

Agatha Christie wrote many novels but also wrote plays. The latter include
The “Mousetrap” (1952), which set a world record for the longest continuous
run at one theater, and “Witness for the Prosecution” (1953; film, 1957).