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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which of these works does not have the same author as the others?
Madame Bovary
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Les Misérables
The Man Who Laughs
The Brontë sisters published their works under which pseudonym?
Bell
Brunt
Burke
Bend
What is the name of the mood-enhancing drug used prominently in Brave New World?
Soma
Puce
Munn
Roka
Who guided Dante throughout the poem Inferno?
Virgil
Homer
Pliny the Elder
Plato
Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game takes place during which conflict?
World War II
The Crusades
The War of the Roses
The French Revolution
Which of these plays was not written by Shakespeare?
Edward II
Henry V
Richard II
King John
Which captain sailed The Nautilus?
Captain Nemo
Captain Ahab
Captain Smollett
Captain Hook
Which French writer penned the poem The Flowers of Evil (Le Fleurs du mal)?
Charles Baudelaire
Voltaire
Victor Hugo
Jules Verne
Who kills the hero Beowulf at the end of the story?
The Dragon
Grendel
Grendel's Mother
King Hrothgar
The author of the short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" went on to write which classic?
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Old Man and the Sea
Which influential novelist wrote "Native Son"?
Richard Wright
James Baldwin
Claude McKay
Zora Neale Hurston
The title of the play "A Raisin in the Sun" comes from a poem by which writer?
Langston Hughes
Arna Bontemps
W.E.B. DuBois
Gwendolyn Brooks
Which novel includes an antagonist named, appropriately, Chillingworth?
The Scarlet Letter
Great Expectations
Sons and Lovers
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Edith Wharton
Virginia Woolf
Alice James
Louisa May Alcott
Which is generally regarded to be the final Canterbury Tale?
The Parson's Tale
The Knight's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Miller's Tale
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is the opening line from which novel?
Lolita
Anna Karenina
Sense and Sensibility
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Which of these plays is one of Shakespeare's "problem plays" due to its ambiguous, shifting tones?
Love's Labour's Lost
Much Ado About Nothing
All's Well that Ends Well
The Taming of the Shrew
The Edgar Awards are given annually for works of which genre?
Horror
Mystery
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Which novel did John Steinbeck consider his magnum opus?
Of Mice and Men
Tortilla Flat
The Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Which Dickens novel was not finished at the time of his death?
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
David Copperfield
Our Mutual Friend
Bleak House
From which play does this line originate: "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war"
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Hamlet
This is the final line of which novel: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
Moby Dick
The Great Gatsby
A Tale of Two Cities
War and Peace
Which novel infamously begins with the line "It was a dark and stormy night..."?
Paul Clifford
The Vampyre
Sons and Lovers
The House of the Seven Gables
Who is the eldest March sister in the novel Little Women?
Beth
Jo
Meg
Amy
Which titular figure is named Edmond Dantès?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lady Chatterley's Lover
The Invisible Man
