Literature Quiz Alpha

I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er ________ and hills.

• Dales

• Vales

• Fields

• Voles

Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?

• Emily Brontë

• Jane Austen

• Harper Lee

• D. H. Lawrence

Who wrote 'The War of the Worlds'?

• George Orwell

• H. G. Wells

• Orson Welles

• Arthur C. Clarke

There exists a 50,000-word novel that does not contain the letter 'E'.

• True

• False

Before it was published, 'Moby-Dick' had to have half its pages removed, as it was too long.

• True

• False

Who famously wrote that

"time is money"?

• Aesop

• King Edward VII

• Bill Gates

• Benjamin Franklin

Which is the most-performed Shakespeare play?

• A Midsummer Night's Dream

• Romeo and Juliet

• Hamlet

• Macbeth

Which of these was Stephen King's first published novel?

• Carrie

• 'Salem's Lot

• The Shining

• The Gunslinger

Who wrote the 1845 poem 'The Raven'?

• Arthur Conan Doyle

• William Wordsworth

• Edgar Allan Poe

• James Russell Lovell

Which of these is the longest fantasy novel series? (by page count)

• Dune

• Discworld

• Harry Potter

• The Dark Tower