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Literature Quiz Alpha

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Dales

b)

Vales

c)

Fields

d)

Voles

2.

Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?

a)

Emily Brontë

b)

Jane Austen

c)

Harper Lee

d)

D. H. Lawrence

3.

Who wrote 'The War of the Worlds'?

a)

George Orwell

b)

H. G. Wells

c)

Orson Welles

d)

Arthur C. Clarke

4.

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

a)

True

b)

False

5.

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

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Who famously wrote that

"time is money"?

a)

Aesop

b)

King Edward VII

c)

Bill Gates

d)

Benjamin Franklin

7.

Which is the most-performed Shakespeare play?

a)

A Midsummer Night's Dream

b)

Romeo and Juliet

c)

Hamlet

d)

Macbeth

8.

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

a)

Carrie

b)

'Salem's Lot

c)

The Shining

d)

The Gunslinger

9.

Who wrote the 1845 poem 'The Raven'?

a)

Arthur Conan Doyle

b)

William Wordsworth

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

James Russell Lovell

10.

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

a)

Dune

b)

Discworld

c)

Harry Potter

d)

The Dark Tower