IF YOU feel at all cocky over your knowledge of English literature have a look at this catechism. The authors may spare the local teaser about who killed Kit Marlowe, but they have up their sleeve a few new ones that would make a Divisional paper blush.

Speaking of this book and Divisional Examinations in the same breath is something more than a broad hint. The head of the English Department at Hunter College and John Macy offer their work to the public as the latest contribution to the "Ask Me Another" game and then go on to hope it may "lure the reader into further readings". Without attempting to discredit this landable ambition, suffice it to say that "Do You Know English Literature?" is just the sort of thing for those frantic hours when "further readings" is impractical.

Aside from any last minute merit the volume possesses, it also has value as legitimate review. Used for individual study or with a group, this question and answer survey of the field of English should prove an excellent means of marshalling up one's knowledge. The material for the most part is well organized and of the type suitable for college students. If there are any outstanding weak spots they are to be found in the treatment of the drama, particularly Shakespeare. But, by and large, it presents sound factual information made unusually accessible. It is a book to place in the bookcase next to Professor Greenlaw's "Syllabus", and no man taking English courses will regret having it haudy.