1B. Frankenstein
The first true science-fiction work was Frankenstein (1818), by English author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The novel deals with the ability of science to create a new species of life.
2D. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the first in the Harry Potter series of novels, was published in 1997.
3B. Q & A
Slumdog Millionaire is based on the novel Q & A, by writer Vikas Swarup.
4D. Under the
Greenwood Tree
A pleasant romantic tale set in the Victorian era, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of Thomas Hardy’s most gentle and pastoral novels.
5D. None of the above
Macbeth was written by William Shakespeare, the greatest English playwright, poet and actor.
6B. Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway was published on 14 May 1925. It is Virginia Woolf’s best-known novel and details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England.
7D. The Pantheon
Victor Hugo died on 22 May 1885. At his own request he was buried in a pauper’s coffin. His body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe and it is said that two million people joined his funeral procession. He was buried in the Panthéon, Paris.