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1
Oscar Wilde wrote which novel exploring themes of immortality?
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Happy Prince
2
Which of these famous short stories did American author Ernest Hemingway write?
The Dead
The Tell-Tale Heart
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Hills Like White Elephants
3
Which twentieth century writer originally wrote the line “not all those who wander are lost…”?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
J. R. R. Tolkien
Robert Frost
Maya Angelou
4
What was the full name of British novelist C. S. Lewis?
Christopher Stevens Lewis
Carter Samuel Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis
Charles Scott Lewis
5
Who wrote the 1897 classic “Dracula”?
Bram Stoker
Mark Twain
Oscar Wilde
Arnold Paole
6
Which novel begins “it was a pleasure to burn”?
Brave New World
Animal Farm
1984
Fahrenheit 451
7
In George Orwell’s “1984”, what is the name for the superstate that was once Great Britain?
Atlantis
Mordor
Oceania
Pangea
8
What family does the 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” follow?
Smith
Marquez
Buendia
Garcia
9
Complete the line: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, ____.”
“the meaning of the universe”
“nevermore”
“weak and weary”
“a certain query”
10
Who wrote the 1818 classic “Frankenstein”?
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Charlotte Lennox
H. G. Wells
11
Which of these novels begins “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities
Wuthering Heights
12
What is the first name of Scrooge from “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens?
Marley
Robert
Ebenezer
McDuck
13
“O, beware, my lord, of jealousy: it is the green-eyed monster” warns Iago in which Shakespearean play?
King Lear
Othello
The Tempest
Hamlet
14
In Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” which character turns into a wolf?
Mina Harker
Dracula
Lucy Westerna
Abraham Van Helsing
15
Which Brontë sister wrote “Jane Eyre”?
Emily
Elizabeth
Charlotte
Anne
16
What was the “Scarlet Letter” in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s historical fiction novel by the same name?
B
C
S
A
17
Who is the author of the novella “The Metamorphosis” (1915)?
Edgar Allan Poe
Franz Kafka
T. S. Eliot
Ernest Hemingway
18
The hero Beowulf in a poem by the same name fought a monster by which name?
The Minotaur
Hrothgar
Grendel
Heorot
19
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the prince of which country?
Denmark
England
Scotland
Sweden
20
Which of these is not a Shakespeare comedy?
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Merchant of Venice
21
Who said: “‘Classic: a book which people praise and don’t read”?
John Key
Jane Austen
Mark Twain
Michael Jordan
22
Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about which of these iconic characters from classic literature?
Gandalf
Oliver Twist
Jay Gatsby
Sherlock Holmes
23
Which of these Jane Austen novels was published posthumously (after she died)?
Emma
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
24
Which novel begins “here is a small fact: you are going to die”?
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Book Thief
25
“The Grapes of Wrath” centers on a family of tenant farmers during which historical time period?
The Civil War
The Second World War
The Great Depression
The Gold Rush
26
Sir Walter Scott wrote his historical novels about which country?
England
Germany
Ireland
Scotland
27
Quasimodo is a fictional character from which Victor Hugo novel?
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
History of a Crime
Les Miserables
Toilers of the Sea
28
Aldous Huxley wrote the novel “Fahrenheit 451.” True or false?
False
True
29
What is the name of Captain Nemo’s submarine in Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”?
The Nautilus
The Black Pearl
The Pequod
USS Walrus
30
“It was a queer, sultry summer…” begins which famous American novel?
The Bell Jar
Little Women
The Great Gatsby
Beloved
31
Markus Zusack’s novel “The Book Thief” is narrated by who?
Liesel Meminger
Death
Hans Hubermann
God
32
During which century was John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” published?
18th
15th
16th
17th
33
Which was the first of Stephen King’s novels to be published?
Pet Semetary
It
The Shining
Carrie