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  1. Which poet wrote the epic poem Pan Tadeusz, which begins with the invocation 'Lithuania, my homeland'?
  2. Which writer received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his epic narrative work, including the novel Quo Vadis?
  3. Which Renaissance poet wrote a cycle of nineteen laments after the death of his young daughter?
  4. How many grammatical cases does the Polish language have?
  5. In which novel does Stanislaw Wokulski, a merchant, fall in love with the aristocrat Izabela Lecka?
  6. Which literary period in Poland followed the failure of the January Uprising of 1863 and stressed work, science and social progress?
  7. What is the name of the Polish national anthem's opening line in English, based on the song written in 1797?
  8. Which letter set includes extra letters such as a with an ogonek, l with a stroke and z with a dot?
  9. In Mickiewicz's drama Forefathers' Eve (Dziady) Part III, what is the Great Improvisation?
  10. Which novel by Wladyslaw Reymont, awarded the Nobel Prize in 1924, follows a village through the four seasons?
  11. Which poet won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996 and wrote 'The End and the Beginning'?
  12. Which Polish author won the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2018, announced in 2019?
  13. Which work by Stanislaw Wyspianski, first staged in Krakow in 1901, shows a wedding where guests meet symbolic figures?
  14. Which writer wrote the satirical novel Ferdydurke, published in 1937?
  15. Which book by Aleksander Kaminski tells the story of young scouts in the Grey Ranks resisting the occupation in World War II?
  16. Which poet is known for the character Mr Cogito, a thinker facing a harsh century?
  17. What does the term 'epic' mean in Polish literary studies when applied to Pan Tadeusz?
  18. Which author wrote the Trilogy made of With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe (Pan Wolodyjowski)?
  19. Which Polish writer and priest of the Enlightenment wrote the Fables and Parables and the comic epic The Monachomachia?
  20. Which of these is the oldest known Polish religious song, sung by knights before battle in the Middle Ages?
  21. Which author's collection Medallions describes the Nazi occupation in short, documentary-style accounts?
  22. A passage contrasts a hero who dreams of a national rising with a world that rewards compromise, and ends with a sleeping Poland. Which period and tradition best fit it?
  23. In a Positivist novel, a character spends savings on schools for peasants and refuses to join an armed rising. Which writer's ideas does this reflect?
  24. A poem uses the line 'a single sun and a single death' and repeated images ending in a quiet irony. Which device best describes the repeated closing of each stanza?
  25. Which pairing of work and its main theme is correct?
  26. A student writes an essay on Pan Tadeusz arguing that the poem is both an epic and a nostalgic picture of a way of life that was vanishing. Which fact best supports the second claim?
  27. Which feature distinguishes a sonnet from a ballad in the Polish tradition?
  28. Which interpretation of Kochanowski's Laments is best supported by the cycle's development?
  29. A poem written in 1940s Warsaw addresses a young speaker who faces death and describes the city in ruins. Which poet's work best matches this wartime voice?
  30. Which statement best distinguishes Polish Young Poland (Mloda Polska) from Positivism?
  31. What is the term for a figure of speech in which a thing is described through a different thing without 'like' or 'as'?
  32. Who is the author of The Captive Mind, a 1953 essay collection about intellectuals under communism?
  33. Which Polish science fiction author wrote Solaris, published in 1961?
  34. Which of these features of Polish pronunciation and spelling is correct?
  35. What was Mikolaj Rej's contribution to Polish literature in the sixteenth century?

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