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  1. Which writer wrote the historical novel The Knights of the Cross (Krzyzacy), set in the years before the Battle of Grunwald?
  2. Which author wrote the novel In Desert and Wilderness (W pustyni i w puszczy), about the children Stas and Nel?
  3. Which novel by Boleslaw Prus is set in ancient Egypt and follows the young ruler Ramesses XIII?
  4. Which author wrote the novel The Coming Spring (Przedwiosnie), whose hero is Cezary Baryka?
  5. Which writer is the author of the epic novel On the Niemen (Nad Niemnem), a major work of Polish Positivism?
  6. Which Romantic poet wrote the drama Kordian, whose hero stands on Mont Blanc?
  7. Which Romantic playwright wrote The Undivine Comedy (Nie-Boska komedia), a drama about revolution?
  8. Which writer is best known for the comedies The Revenge (Zemsta) and Maiden Vows (Sluby panienskie)?
  9. Which Polish poet wrote the poem Chopin's Piano (Fortepian Szopena)?
  10. Which Renaissance author wrote The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (Odprawa poslow greckich), the first Polish tragedy in the Renaissance style?
  11. Which Jesuit preacher is the author of the Sejm Sermons (Kazania sejmowe)?
  12. Which Polish writer and artist from Drohobycz wrote the story collection Cinnamon Shops, published in 1934?
  13. Which poet wrote the postwar poem The Survivor (Ocalony), a short poem about a man who has lived through the war?
  14. Which Polish poet and essayist, who lived in exile in the United States, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980?
  15. Which playwright wrote the grotesque drama Tango, about a family in which the young rebel against freedom?
  16. Which Polish journalist wrote The Emperor (Cesarz), a book about the court of Haile Selassie?
  17. Which Polish fantasy author wrote the Witcher (Wiedzmin) saga about Geralt of Rivia?
  18. Which educator and writer wrote the children's novel King Matt the First (Krol Macius Pierwszy)?
  19. Which poet is the author of the children's poem The Locomotive (Lokomotywa)?
  20. Which author wrote the Chronicle (Gesta principum Polonorum), the earliest chronicle of Poland, in the early twelfth century?
  21. Which book of short stories by Tadeusz Borowski describes camp life through the eyes of a prisoner, and includes the story This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen?

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