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Famous Authors and Characters Quiz

Total questions: 92

Worksheet time: 1hrs 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Magic spells, flying broomsticks, and a school called Hogwarts — who gave us Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone?

a)

Rick Riordan

b)

Enid Blyton

c)

J.K. Rowling

d)

Roald Dahl

2.

Golden tickets and Oompa Loompas! Who is the genius behind Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

a)

Roald Dahl

b)

J.R.R. Tolkien

c)

C.S. Lewis

d)

Mark Twain

3.

It’s the real diary of a brave girl hiding during a war. Who wrote The Diary of a Young Girl?

a)

Malala Yousafzai

b)

Anne Frank

c)

Helen Keller

d)

R.J. Palacio

4.

Meet Mowgli, Baloo, and Bagheera in the wild! Who created The Jungle Book?

a)

Lewis Carroll

b)

Rudyard Kipling

c)

E.B. White

d)

Enid Blyton

5.

Who wrote the thrilling mystery adventures of Julian, Dick, Anne, George, and Timmy in The Famous Five series?

a)

Enid Blyton

b)

Carolyn Keene

c)

J.K. Rowling

d)

R.L. Stine

6.

From a small town to the sky and beyond — who wrote the autobiography Wings of Fire?

a)

Ratan Tata

b)

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

c)

Sudha Murty

d)

Abdul Sattar Edhi

7.

A hobbit, a magic ring, and a grand adventure! Who gave us The Hobbit?

a)

Rick Riordan

b)

J.R.R. Tolkien

c)

C.S. Lewis

d)

Suzanne Collins

8.

Who introduced us to Greek gods, monsters, and a demigod named Percy in Percy Jackson and the Olympians?

a)

Jeff Kinney

b)

Rick Riordan

c)

Veronica Roth

d)

Suzanne Collins

9.

"Choose kind." Who wrote the touching and powerful story Wonder?

a)

Jacqueline Wilson

b)

R.J. Palacio

c)

Lois Lowry

d)

Judy Blume

10.

A magical wardrobe leads to a snowy world and a lion king. Who wrote The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?

a)

J.K. Rowling

b)

J.R.R. Tolkien

c)

C.S. Lewis

d)

E.B. White

11.

Set in the Alps, full of warmth and sunshine — who wrote the sweet story Heidi?

a)

Johanna Spyri

b)

Louisa May Alcott

c)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

d)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

12.

Creepy dolls, haunted masks, and things that go bump in the night! Who wrote the Goosebumps series?

a)

R.L. Stine

b)

Jeff Kinney

c)

Roald Dahl

d)

Dan Gutman

13.

Who gave us the clever, magical little girl in Matilda?

a)

Judy Blume

b)

Roald Dahl

c)

Jacqueline Wilson

d)

L.M. Montgomery

14.

The March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy – came alive in Little Women. Who was their creator?

a)

Louisa May Alcott

b)

Jane Austen

c)

Charlotte Brontë

d)

Emily Dickinson

15.

Secret keys, hidden gardens, and new beginnings — who wrote The Secret Garden?

a)

Frances Hodgson Burnett

b)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

c)

Louisa May Alcott

d)

L.M. Montgomery

16.

"I killed a mockingbird — not with a weapon, but with judgment. My father, a lawyer, taught me how to look at life from another person’s shoes."  To Kill a Mockingbird

a)

Cassie Logan

b)

Scout Finch

c)

Francie Nolan

d)

Esther Greenwood

17.

"My creator abandoned me. I tried to find love and acceptance but ended up being feared and hated — even though I never asked to be born."  Frankenstein

a)

Dorian Gray

b)

Edward Hyde

c)

Frankenstein’s Monster

d)

Grendel

18.

"I live in West Egg and throw the most extravagant parties, all for the hope that a green light across the bay might bring her back."  The Great Gatsby

a)

Nick Carraway

b)

Jay Gatsby

c)

Tom Buchanan

d)

Holden Caulfield

19.

"I’m sharp, damaged, and I work for a paper that thrives on crime stories. But behind my cold eyes lies trauma I’ve never shared — except in cutting scars."  Sharp Objects

a)

Camille Preaker

b)

Lisbeth Salander

c)

Amy Dunne

d)

Eleanor Oliphant

20.

"I live in a future where firemen burn books, and I began to question everything when I met a girl who asked, 'Are you happy?'"  Fahrenheit 451

a)

Jonas

b)

Winston Smith

c)

Guy Montag

d)

Offred

21.

"I became obsessed with a painting of a woman in a yellow dress, but the real story is what I did with the truth I discovered in a letter."  Atonement

a)

Briony Tallis

b)

Daisy Buchanan

c)

Esther Greenwood

d)

Celie

22.

"I helped my brother escape slavery. I ran, I disguised myself, and I saw America through the eyes of someone born invisible to it."  Kindred

a)

Janie Crawford

b)

Cora

c)

Eliza

d)

Dana Franklin

23.

"I was an orphan, and a thief, until I found my home with a blacksmith. I helped a convict, and it changed my life forever."  Great Expectations

a)

Oliver Twist

b)

Pip

c)

Heathcliff

d)

David Copperfield

24.

"I created a version of myself that was perfect. Too perfect. In the end, she was my revenge against a cheating husband."  Gone Girl

a)

Esther Greenwood

b)

Amy Dunne

c)

Daisy Buchanan

d)

Lily Bart

25.

"I never said a word. But my silence held the weight of racism, grief, and a voice that changed my community forever."  The Color Purple

a)

Celie

b)

Sethe

c)

Pecola

d)

Hushpuppy

26.

"I was only 15 when I found a notebook that could kill. I believed I could become a god. But I was just a boy with a pen."  Death Note

a)

L Lawliet

b)

Light Yagami

c)

Araragi

d)

Kaz Brekker

27.

"I live in a dystopia where women are property. My memories of life before — of love, of reading, of having a name — are what keep me sane."  The Handmaid’s Tale

a)

Tris

b)

Offred

c)

Clarisse

d)

Julia

28.

"I was brilliant, rebellious, and broken. They called me mad, but I understood the logic of magic and science in ways no one else dared."  The Kingkiller Chronicle

a)

Victor Frankenstein

b)

Kvothe

c)

Dorian Gray

d)

Howl

29.

"I was bred to be gifted, but I ran away from perfection. My best friend gave me her memories so I could feel what it means to live."  The Giver

a)

Winston

b)

Ender

c)

Jonas

d)

Wade Watts

30.

"You’ve probably read my story, but not from me. I was called the villain, the madwoman in the attic. But I had a voice, too."  Wide Sargasso Sea / Jane Eyre

a)

Clarissa Dalloway

b)

Bertha Mason

c)

Cathy Earnshaw

d)

Lady Macbeth

31.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."  Pride and Prejudice

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32.

"So it goes."  Slaughterhouse-Five

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33.

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."  A Tale of Two Cities

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34.

"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."  To Kill a Mockingbird

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35.

"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."  Persuasion

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36.

"If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content."  Anna Karenina

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37.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."  The Fellowship of the Ring

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38.

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."  Wuthering Heights

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39.

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."  Their Eyes Were Watching God

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40.

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."  The Gunslinger

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41.

"Call me Ishmael."  Moby-Dick

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42.

"Pain demands to be felt."  The Fault in Our Stars

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43.

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."  I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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44.

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink."  I Capture the Castle

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45.

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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46.

Authors: A) Arundhati Roy B) Kazuo Ishiguro C) Salman Rushdie D) Alice Munro E) Jhumpa Lahiri Awards: 1. Nobel Prize in Literature (2013) 2. Booker Prize for The God of Small Things (1997) 3. Nobel Prize in Literature (2017) 4. Booker Prize for Midnight’s Children (1981) 5. Pulitzer Prize for Interpreter of Maladies (2000) Options: A) A–2, B–3, C–4, D–1, E–5

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47.

Authors: A) Harper Lee B) Kiran Desai C) Orhan Pamuk D) Toni Morrison E) Margaret Atwood Awards: 1. Nobel Prize in Literature (1993) 2. Pulitzer Prize for To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) 3. Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss (2006) 4. Nobel Prize in Literature (2006) 5. Booker Prize for The Testaments (2019) Options: A) A–2, B–3, C–4, D–1, E–5

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48.

Identify the literary work from the given clues. "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

a)

Macbeth

b)

Hamlet

c)

As You Like It

d)

Twelfth Night

49.

This ancient epic tells the story of the Greek hero’s long journey home after the Trojan War.

a)

The Iliad

b)

The Aeneid

c)

The Odyssey

d)

Oedipus Rex

50.

This classical tragedy features a king who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother.

a)

Oedipus Rex

b)

Antigone

c)

Medea

d)

The Bacchae

51.

Which Renaissance play features a man who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power?

a)

Doctor Faustus

b)

The Tempest

c)

King Lear

d)

Utopia

52.

This work describes a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

a)

The Aeneid

b)

The Divine Comedy

c)

The Canterbury Tales

d)

The Consolation of Philosophy

53.

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

a)

Othello

b)

Hamlet

c)

Macbeth

d)

Julius Caesar

54.

In this satirical novel, a knight attacks windmills he believes are giants.

a)

The Faerie Queene

b)

Don Quixote

c)

The Decameron

d)

Everyman

55.

This epic poem features Satan’s rebellion and Adam and Eve’s temptation.

a)

Inferno

b)

Paradise Lost

c)

The Divine Comedy

d)

Confessions

56.

This tragic play ends with the deaths of a Moorish general and his innocent wife.

a)

King Lear

b)

Othello

c)

Antony and Cleopatra

d)

Macbeth

57.

Which medieval work features tales told by pilgrims traveling to a shrine?

a)

The Divine Comedy

b)

The Canterbury Tales

c)

Piers Plowman

d)

The Song of Roland

58.

This Roman epic tells the story of a Trojan hero who founds Rome.

a)

The Iliad

b)

The Aeneid

c)

The Odyssey

d)

Metamorphoses

59.

In which tragedy do two star-crossed lovers take their lives in Verona?

a)

Romeo and Juliet

b)

The Winter’s Tale

c)

Cymbeline

d)

Much Ado About Nothing

60.

Which Renaissance work describes an imaginary island with an ideal society?

a)

The Republic

b)

Utopia

c)

Leviathan

d)

The City of the Sun

61.

This Roman comedy inspired Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.

a)

Amphitryon

b)

The Menaechmi

c)

Pseudolus

d)

Miles Gloriosus

62.

Which Greek tragedy focuses on a mother who kills her children for revenge?

a)

Electra

b)

Medea

c)

Antigone

d)

Lysistrata

63.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now, and live in it forever."

a)

Augustus Waters

b)

Eleanor Douglas

c)

Peeta Mellark

d)

Charlie Kelmeckis

64.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "That's my gift. I let people see who they really are."

a)

Stargirl Caraway

b)

Melinda Sordino

c)

Violet Markey

d)

Luna Lovegood

65.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "I’d rather die on an adventure than live standing still."

a)

Jude Duarte

b)

Alina Starkov

c)

Lila Bard

d)

Feyre Archeron

66.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

a)

Beth March

b)

Jo March

c)

Meg March

d)

Amy March

67.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

a)

The Father

b)

The Boy

c)

The Narrator

d)

The Man

68.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve... Either you're his true love, or you killed him."

a)

Blue Sargent

b)

Ronan Lynch

c)

Lily Owens

d)

Gemma Doyle

69.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "You could rattle the stars... You could do anything, if only you dared."

a)

Tessa Gray

b)

Aelin Galathynius

c)

Annabeth Chase

d)

Karou

70.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you."

a)

Hazel Grace

b)

Tris Prior

c)

Nora Grey

d)

Lily Bloom

71.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "I must be a mermaid... I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

a)

Esther Greenwood

b)

Anna Karenina

c)

Edna Pontellier

d)

Madame Bovary

72.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic."

a)

Matilda

b)

Kvothe

c)

Morrigan Crow

d)

The Mad Hatter

73.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "We accept the love we think we deserve."

a)

Charlie Kelmeckis

b)

Augustus Waters

c)

Patrick Bateman

d)

Holden Caulfield

74.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

a)

Atticus Finch

b)

Santiago

c)

Jay Gatsby

d)

Jean Valjean

75.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me."

a)

Elizabeth Bennet

b)

Jane Eyre

c)

Catherine Earnshaw

d)

Scarlett O’Hara

76.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

a)

Dracula

b)

Frankenstein’s Monster

c)

Dorian Gray

d)

Mr. Hyde

77.

Identify the character based on their famous quote. "I would always rather be happy than dignified."

a)

Emma Woodhouse

b)

Jane Eyre

c)

Jo March

d)

Anne Shirley

78.

Identify the person based on the description of their biography/autobiography. This autobiography traces the life of a boy from southern India who became a scientist and later a president.

a)

Homi Bhabha

b)

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

c)

Verghese Kurien

d)

Jawaharlal Nehru

79.

This memoir recounts a life under racial oppression, imprisonment, and leadership of a nation.

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Nelson Mandela

d)

Desmond Tutu

80.

This book reflects on a young girl’s inner world while hiding from authorities during war.

a)

Anne Frank

b)

Zlata Filipović

c)

Malala Yousafzai

d)

Corrie ten Boom

81.

This autobiography was written by someone who lost sight and hearing as a child but later studied at Harvard.

a)

Temple Grandin

b)

Helen Keller

c)

Anne Sullivan

d)

Frida Kahlo

82.

This memoir tells the story of a girl shot for advocating education, who later won the Nobel Peace Prize.

a)

Emma González

b)

Greta Thunberg

c)

Malala Yousafzai

d)

Kailash Satyarthi

83.

This memoir tells the story of a girl shot for attending school, who later addressed the UN and won the Nobel Peace Prize.

a)

Emma González

b)

Greta Thunberg

c)

Kailash Satyarthi

d)

Malala Yousafzai

84.

This reflective work captures an American novelist’s life in 1920s Paris, blending literature and personal struggles.

a)

Ernest Hemingway

b)

F. Scott Fitzgerald

c)

J.D. Salinger

d)

Gertrude Stein

85.

This political leader’s autobiography emphasizes nonviolent resistance and "experiments with truth."

a)

Jawaharlal Nehru

b)

Subhas Chandra Bose

c)

Sardar Patel

d)

Mahatma Gandhi

86.

This memoir explores a Black woman’s trauma, silence, and self-expression through poetry.

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Alice Walker

c)

Audre Lorde

d)

Toni Morrison

87.

This autobiography details how a man revolutionized India’s dairy industry through cooperatives.

a)

M.S. Swaminathan

b)

Verghese Kurien

c)

Narayana Murthy

d)

Ratan Tata

88.

This scientist’s memoir recounts discovering radium and becoming the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Jane Goodall

d)

Rachel Carson

89.

This leader’s autobiography describes his journey from a prisoner to South Africa’s first Black president.

a)

Desmond Tutu

b)

Nelson Mandela

c)

Steve Biko

d)

Thabo Mbeki

90.

This memoir by a Holocaust survivor details surviving Auschwitz and his work as a neurologist.

a)

Elie Wiesel

b)

Viktor Frankl

c)

Primo Levi

d)

Anne Frank

91.

This autobiography chronicles a comedian’s rise from poverty to global fame, tackling race and identity.

a)

Dave Chappelle

b)

Trevor Noah

c)

Richard Pryor

d)

Chris Rock

92.

This memoir by a chef explores addiction, redemption, and the chaos of professional kitchens.

a)

Gordon Ramsay

b)

Anthony Bourdain

c)

Julia Child

d)

Marco Pierre White