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Literature Trivia

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
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1.

Which of these works does not have the same author as the others?

a)

Madame Bovary

b)

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

c)

Les Misérables

d)

The Man Who Laughs

2.

The Brontë sisters published their works under which pseudonym?

a)

Bell

b)

Brunt

c)

Burke

d)

Bend

3.

What is the name of the mood-enhancing drug used prominently in Brave New World?

a)

Soma

b)

Puce

c)

Munn

d)

Roka

4.

Who guided Dante throughout the poem Inferno?

a)

Virgil

b)

Homer

c)

Pliny the Elder

d)

Plato

5.

Stefan Zweig's The Royal Game takes place during which conflict?

a)

World War II

b)

The Crusades

c)

The War of the Roses

d)

The French Revolution

6.

Which of these plays was not written by Shakespeare?

a)

Edward II

b)

Henry V

c)

Richard II

d)

King John

7.

Which captain sailed The Nautilus?

a)

Captain Nemo

b)

Captain Ahab

c)

Captain Smollett

d)

Captain Hook

8.

Which French writer penned the poem The Flowers of Evil (Le Fleurs du mal)?

a)

Charles Baudelaire

b)

Voltaire

c)

Victor Hugo

d)

Jules Verne

9.

Who kills the hero Beowulf at the end of the story?

a)

The Dragon

b)

Grendel

c)

Grendel's Mother

d)

King Hrothgar

10.

The author of the short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" went on to write which classic?

a)

The Catcher in the Rye

b)

The Great Gatsby

c)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

d)

The Old Man and the Sea

11.

Which influential novelist wrote "Native Son"?

a)

Richard Wright

b)

James Baldwin

c)

Claude McKay

d)

Zora Neale Hurston

12.

The title of the play "A Raisin in the Sun" comes from a poem by which writer?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Arna Bontemps

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

Gwendolyn Brooks

13.

Which novel includes an antagonist named, appropriately, Chillingworth?

a)

The Scarlet Letter

b)

Great Expectations

c)

Sons and Lovers

d)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

14.

Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize?

a)

Edith Wharton

b)

Virginia Woolf

c)

Alice James

d)

Louisa May Alcott

15.

Which is generally regarded to be the final Canterbury Tale?

a)

The Parson's Tale

b)

The Knight's Tale

c)

The Wife of Bath's Tale

d)

The Miller's Tale

16.

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is the opening line from which novel?

a)

Lolita

b)

Anna Karenina

c)

Sense and Sensibility

d)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

17.

Which of these plays is one of Shakespeare's "problem plays" due to its ambiguous, shifting tones?

a)

Love's Labour's Lost

b)

Much Ado About Nothing

c)

All's Well that Ends Well

d)

The Taming of the Shrew

18.

The Edgar Awards are given annually for works of which genre?

a)

Horror

b)

Mystery

c)

Science Fiction

d)

Fantasy

19.

Which novel did John Steinbeck consider his magnum opus?

a)

Of Mice and Men

b)

Tortilla Flat

c)

The Grapes of Wrath

d)

East of Eden

20.

Which Dickens novel was not finished at the time of his death?

a)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

b)

David Copperfield

c)

Our Mutual Friend

d)

Bleak House

21.

From which play does this line originate: "Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war"

a)

Julius Caesar

b)

King Lear

c)

Macbeth

d)

Hamlet

22.

This is the final line of which novel: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

a)

Moby Dick

b)

The Great Gatsby

c)

A Tale of Two Cities

d)

War and Peace

23.

Which novel infamously begins with the line "It was a dark and stormy night..."?

a)

Paul Clifford

b)

The Vampyre

c)

Sons and Lovers

d)

The House of the Seven Gables

24.

Who is the eldest March sister in the novel Little Women?

a)

Beth

b)

Jo

c)

Meg

d)

Amy

25.

Which titular figure is named Edmond Dantès?

a)

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

b)

The Count of Monte Cristo

c)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

d)

The Invisible Man