wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Guess that European book!

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

"Las cosas difíciles parecen posibles en cuanto se las piensa un poco, pero se hacen imposibles si se las piensa de más.”

(Difficult things seem possible when you think about them a little, but they become impossible if you think about them more.)

a)

On Friendship, Michel de Montaigne

b)

Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare

c)

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

d)

Javier Marìas, A Heart So White

2.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

“Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.“

(All happy families are similar to each other, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.)

a)

And Quiet Flows the Don,

Mikhail Sholokhov

b)

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

c)

Doctor Zhivago,

Boris Pasternak

d)

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky

3.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

“Parce que c’était lui, parce que c’était moi.”

(Because it was him, because it was me.)

a)

1984, George Orwell

b)

Red Queen, Victoria Aveyard.

c)

On Friendship, Michel de Montaigne

d)

The Moral Maxims and Reflections, François de La Rochefoucauld

4.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

“On ne peut répondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais été dans le péril.”

(We cannot answer for our courage when we have never been in danger)

a)

Les Miserables, Victor Hugo

b)

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

c)

The Moral Maxims and Reflections, François de La Rochefoucauld

d)

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

5.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

"Personne n'est plus arrogant envers les femmes, plus agressif ou méprisant, qu'un homme inquiet pour sa virilité."

(No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.)

a)

Le Deuxième Sexe, Simone de Beauvoir

b)

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

c)

The Stranger, Albert Camus

d)

Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

6.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

"La verdad puede extenderse demasiado, pero nunca se rompe, y siempre sale a la superficie por encima de las mentiras, como el aceite flota en el agua"

(The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.)

a)

The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas

b)

Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes

c)

The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

d)

Fictions, Jorge Luis Borges

7.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

“Ich fürchte die Gefahr nur dort, wo ich sie fürchten möchte.“

(I fear danger only where I want to fear it.)

a)

The Tin Drum

Novel by Günter Grass

b)

The Trial,

Franz Kafka

c)

On Nihilism,

Friedrich Nietzsche

d)

Siddhartha,

Hermann Hesse

8.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

"La muerte no existe, la gente solo muere cuando la olvidan; si puedes recordarme siempre estaré contigo.”

(Death does not exist, people only die when they are forgotten; if you can remember me I will always be with you.)

a)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,

Junot Díaz

b)

Eva Luna,

Isabel Allende

c)

2666,

Roberto Bolaño

d)

The Shadow of the Wind,

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

9.

GUESS THAT EUROPEAN BOOK:

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

a)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

b)

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

c)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe,

CS Lewis

d)

Animal Farm,

George Orwell

10.

GUESS THE EUROPEAN BOOK:

“On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.”

(One sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.)

a)

Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

b)

The Trial, Franz Kafka

c)

The Moral Maxims and Reflections, François de La Rochefoucauld

d)

Le deuxième sexe, Simone de Beauvoir