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WorksheetsFamous Literary Questions
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
Who is the author of the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Homer
Virgil
Dante
Plato
Which English playwright wrote Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet?
William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
George Orwell
What is the famous Spanish novel about a delusional nobleman who fights windmills?
Don Qui'xote
The Divine Comedy
Moby Dick
War and Peace
Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice, which focuses on the Bennet family?
J'ane Austen
Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
George Eliot
Which classic French novel tells the story of the hunchback Quasimodo and the gypsy Esmeralda?
The Hunchback of N'otre Dame
Les Misérables
The Count of Monte Cristo
Madame Bovary
Who wrote the famous collection of fairy tales, including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling"?
Hans Christian Andersen'
The Brothers Grimm
Lewis Carroll
A.A. Milne
Which Italian poet wrote The Divine Comedy, describing a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven?
Dante Alighieri
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Machiavelli
The novel Frankenstein was written by which English author?
Mary Shelley'
Virginia Woolf
Oscar Wilde
Lord Byron
Which Russian author wrote the epic novel War and Peace?
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anton Chekhov
Ivan Turgenev
The story of Ebenezer Scrooge is found in which Christmas novella by Charles Dickens?
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Who is the author of the Gothic novel Dracula?
B'ram Stoker
Edgar Allan Poe
H.P. Lovecraft
Robert Louis Stevenson
Which character in Greek mythology is punished by having to push a boulder up a hill for eternity?
Sisyphus
Hercules
Prometheus
Achilles
Which famous Russian novel begins with the line, "Happy families are all alike..."?
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
The Brothers Karamazov
Dead Souls
Who wrote The Metamorphosis, a story about a man who wakes up as a giant insect?
Franz 'Kafka
Albert Camus
Hermann Hesse
James Joyce
Which classic novel features the young orphan named Pip and the escaped convict Magwitch?
Great Expectations
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Which novel by George Orwell features the famous slogan "Big Brother is Watching You"?
1984
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Who wrote The Old Man and the Sea, about a Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin?
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
John Steinbeck
Which American novel features the narrator Nick Carraway and the mysterious Jay Gatsby?
The Great Gatsby
The Grapes of Wrath
Moby-Dick
The Catcher in the Rye
Which author wrote To Kill a Mockingbird, set in the American South?
Harper Lee
J.D. Salinger
Toni Morrison
Zora Neale Hurston
Who is the author of the children's classic The Little Prince?
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Jules Verne
Victor Hugo
Gustave Flaubert
The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is a key work of which Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author?
Gabriel García Márquez
Pablo Neruda
Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Luis Borges
Which English author wrote The Chronicles of Narnia fantasy series?
C.S. Lewis
J.R.R. Tolkien
Roald Dahl
Philip Pullman
Who wrote the famous collection of poems Leaves of Grass?
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
T.S. Eliot
The character Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of which American novel?
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
Of Mice and Men
Catch-22
Which novel by Chinua Achebe tells the story of Okonkwo and is set in Nigeria?
Things Fall Apart
A Grain of Wheat
The River Between
Season of Migration to the North
Who wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World?
Aldous Huxley
Ray Bradbury
H.G. Wells
Isaac Asimov
The Persian epic poem Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) was written by which poet?
Ferdowsi
Rumi
Hafez
Omar Khayyam
Which play by Samuel Beckett features the two characters Vladimir and Estragon waiting for a person who never arrives?
Waiting for Godot
The Zoo Story
Death of a Salesman
Long Day's Journey into Night
Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about a family fleeing the Dust Bowl...?
John Steinbeck
Ernest Hemingway
Eudora Welty
Pearl S. Buck
Which author created the famous detective character Sherlock Holmes?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Edgar Allan Poe
Dashiell Hammett
What is the original language of the epic poem Beowulf?
Old English
Latin
Middle French
Old Norse
Who wrote the dark and mysterious short story "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
Washington Irving
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what is the name of the prince of Denmark?
Hamlet
Lear
Othello
Macbeth
Which classic novel features the whale Moby Dick and the obsessed Captain Ahab?
Moby-Dick
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Heart of Darkness
The Call of the Wild
Who wrote the philosophical novel The Stranger (L'Étranger)?
Albert Camus
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
André Gide
Which character, the governess of Thornfield Hall, is the protagonist of a novel by Charlotte Brontë?
Jane Eyre
Elizabeth Bennet
Cathy Earnshaw
Emma Woodhouse
Which African-American writer wrote Beloved, a novel about a ghost haunting a home?
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Zora Neale Hurston
Alice Walker
What is the term for a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning...?
Allegory
Simile
Irony
Metaphor
The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is set in what kind of facility?
Mental Institution
Prison
Hospital
Boarding School
Who wrote The House on Mango Street, a coming-of-age novel about a young Latina girl in Chicago?
Sandra Cisneros
Amy Tan
Julia Alvarez
Isabel Allende
Which Latin American writer wrote The Alchemist?
Paulo Coelho
Gabriel García Márquez
Jorge Luis Borges
Carlos Fuentes
In Lord of the Rings, what is the name of the Hobbit who carries the One Ring?
Frodo Baggins
Merry Brandybuck
Samwise Gamgee
Pippin Took
Which Greek philosopher is known for his dialogues, including The Republic?
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Homer
Who is the author of the novel Things Fall Apart?
Chinua Achebe
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Wole Soyinka
Ben Okri
The character Jean Valjean appears in which of Victor Hugo's novels?
Les Misérables
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Man Who Laughs
The Toilers of the Sea
What is a stanza in poetry?
A grouping of lines in a poem
A long narrative poem
A comparison using "like" or "as"
The main idea of a story
What is alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the start of words
The repetition of vowel sounds
An extreme exaggeration
Giving human traits to non-human things
A biography is a true story about:
The life of a different person
The author's own life
A made-up historical event
An imaginary world
What is a theme in literature?
The central, underlying message or idea
The most exciting part of the plot
The author's name
The time and place of the story
A sonnet is a poem with how many lines?
14
10
12
16
