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Made for #middleschool #literaturequizbowl practice.
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1
Johanna first appears in this middle novel of the Hunger Games trilogy. What novel is it?
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
2
Name the epic by Homer that describes a man’s 20-year quest to get home after the Trojan War.
Oedipus Rex
Beowulf
Hercules
Odyssey
3
Name this detective faithfully accompanied by John Watson.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Irene Adler
Sherlock Holmes
Professor Moriarty
4
Edmond Dantes is the protagonist of The Count of Monte Cristo, which was written by who?
Shakespeare
Arthur Miller
Victor Hugo
Alexandre Dumas
5
This book ends with Jonah and Gabe fleeing the dystopian society they live in.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Ender's Game
Gathering Blue
The Giver
6
In this play, the Danish prince seeks revenge on his uncle Claudius and is in love with Ophelia
Othello
Julius Caesar
Macbeth
Hamlet
7
Name this Italian epic consisting of the sections Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven.
The Canterbury Tales
Dante's Inferno
The Banquet
The Divine Comedy
8
Author of the story The Fantastic Mister Fox.
Natalie Babbit
Walt Whitman
Roald Dahl
Arthur Conan Doyle
9
Play: the Thane of Cawdor conspires with his wife to kill the Scottish king, Banquo & MacDuff.
Hamlet
Macbeth
Shakespeare
Othello
10
Identify this American author of 'Of Mice and Men' and 'The Grapes of Wrath'.
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Mark Twain
John Steinbeck
11
Name this Roman leader who was assassinated by Brutus on the Ides of March.
Pontius Pilate
Hamlet
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
12
Author of "Rappaccini's Daughter" & 'The House of the Seven Gables' wrote 'The Scarlet Letter.'
Mark Twain
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Austen
Arthur Miller
13
Novel about the London underworld in which Mr. Brownlow adopts an orphan, teaches him to steal
A Tale of Two Cities
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Hard Times
14
Who wrote The Hunger Games trilogy?
George R. R. Martin
Suzanne Collins
Jane Austen
Orson Scott Card
15
Who wrote the play Julius Caesar?
Goethe
Jane Austen
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
16
Author of 'The adventures of Huckleberry Finn' and 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'
Shakespeare
Jane Austen
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
17
Who is the author of Sherlock Holmes?
T.S. Eliot
Jane Austen
John Watson
Arthur Conan Doyle
18
Who wrote 'Oliver Twist', 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Hard Times'?
John Steinbeck
Herman Melville
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
19
In this play, the treachery of Iago causes the Moor to smother his wife Desdemona.
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Julius Caesar
20
Identify the author who wrote 'Number the Stars', 'Gathering Blue', and 'The Giver'.
Mark Twain
Lois Lowry
Orson Scott Card
J.K. Rowling
21
Name this title character of plays by Sophocles, including one in which he is Rex, or The King.
Plato
Aristotle
Oedipus
Odysseus
22
Who wrote the Alex Rider series?
Brian Selznick
Brandon Mull
Orson Scott Card
Anthony Horowitz
23
American Playwright who wrote "The Crucible" and "Death of a Salesman."
Shakespeare
Tennessee Williams
Tony Kushner
Arthur Miller
24
Name this teenager who battles a Portuguese man'o'war in the book Stormbreaker.
Tulip Jones
Alan Blunt
Jack Starbright
Alex Rider
25
'The View From Saturday' was written by this author of 'Silent to the Bone.' Who is the author?
Elaine Lobl Konigsburg
Natalie Babbit
Mark Twain
Charlotte Bronte
26
Name this Shakespeare tragedy of a doomed romance between the two title “star-crossed lovers.”
Hamlet
All's Well that Ends Well
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
27
Name this novel that sees Jim & the friend of Tom Sawyer travel down the Mississippi River.
Life on the Mississippi
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
28
Story about an animal who steals from the farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean
Peter Rabbit
Zootopia
The Fantastic Mister Fox
The Velveteen Rabbit
29
Name this figure who beheaded Medusa.
Plato
Oedipus
Zeus
Perseus
30
Name this man who had to perform 12 labors in order to make up for killing his wife & children.
Zeus
Hercules
Athena
Poseidon