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1
The
Left Behind
series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins is based mainly on which book of the bible?
Revelation
Job
Genesis
Mark
2
In Mario Puzo’s
The Godfather
, Vito (the Don) has three sons, one daughter, and a godson. Who is Vito’s godson?
Johnny
Fredo
Sonny
Michael
3
Jean M. Auel’s novel
Clan of the Cave Bear
is an example of what fairly niche literary subgenre?
Steampunk
Prehistoric Fiction
NeoWestern Adventure
Rural Romance
4
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
what is the answer to the "Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, & Everything"?
42
Thanks for all the fish!
Bring a Towel
Don’t Panic
5
Robert R. McCammon’s
Swan Song
tied with which Stephen King novel for the 1987 Bram Stoker Award?
Pet Semetary
The Stand
Misery
It
6
Which of the following is the title of Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich's 1984 debut novel?
The Night Watchman
Love Medicine
Future Home of the Living God
The Bingo Palace
7
What household chore does Tom Sawyer trick the neighborhood children into completing for him?
Whitewashing a fence
Painting a chicken coop
Raking Leaves
Collecting eggs
8
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s
One Hundred Years of Solitude
is a primary example of the literary subgenre:
Dystopia
Magical realism
Gothic horror
Historical romance
9
The Alchemist
, by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, is seen as fitting into the genre of:
Science fiction
Self-help
Romance
Horror
10
Dean Koontz, prolific author of suspense thrillers like
Watchers
, has a known love for this type of dog:
Poodles
Chihuahuas
Beagles
Golden Retrievers
11
The
Harry Potter Series
was published between the years of 1997-2007. During what years does the series take place?
1981-2007
1991-1998
1997-2004
1981-2017
12
In S.E. Hinton’s novel
The Outsiders
Johnny telling Ponyboy to “Stay gold” is a reference to what?
Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
“The Touch of Midas” by Walt Whitman
The Gold that Lives Forever by Charles Foster Kane
“Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost
13
Cartoonist Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir
Fun Home
has been adapted to what medium?
A Broadway Musical
A Feature Film
A Television Series
A Miniseries
14
In Miguel de Cervantes’
Don Quixote
, our hero fights ferocious giants that are actually:
Trees
Towers
Windmills
Statues
15
What is the first message Charlotte the spider weaves into her web in E.B. White’s
Charlotte’s Web
?
Radiant
Great Pig
Some Pig
Humble
16
Sandra Cisneros' novel
The House on Mnago Street
is comprised of short interconnected segments called what?
Short Stories
Vingettes
Chapters
Story Cycles
17
Canadian author, Margaret Atwood set this feminist near-future dystopian novel in the fictional city of Gilead.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Divergent
A School for Good Mothers
The Handmaid’s Tale
18
In Gillian Flynn’s
Gone Girl
, Amy is the inspiration for this series of children’s books written by her parents:
Amazing Amy
Astonishing Amy
Awesome Amy
Astounding Amy
19
In
Where the Red Fern Grows
, hound dogs Little Ann and Old Dan save their owner Billy, from what sort of predator?
bobcat
coyote
mountain lion
wolf
20
What 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Larry McMurtry went on to be a popular miniseries starring Tommy Lee Jones?
The Streets of Loredo
The Thorn Birds
Birdsong
Lonesome Dove
21
From what year does Claire first travel to 1743 in Diana Gabaldon’s
Outlander
series?
1991
1950
1945
1969
22
Herman Melville dedicated his 1851 novel
Moby-Dick
to which popular 19th century author?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Louisa May Alcott
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
23
Robert Jordan’s
The Eye of the World
is the first book in what popular high fantasy series?
The Wheel of Time
A Game of Thrones
The Kingkiller Chronicles
Shannara
24
True or False: In Alice Sebold’s
The Lovely Bones
, the murderer is caught and prosecuted for their crimes.
False
True
25
Zora Neale Hurston’s
Their Eyes Were Watching God
is considered a classic of which literary and artistic movement?
Expressionism
Surrealism
Harlem Renaissance
Los Contemporaneos
26
True or false: Mark Haddon used prime numbers for chapter numbers in
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
True
False
27
How many characters are named Catherine in Emily Bronte’s
Wuthering Heights
?
2
1
3
4
28
Actress Octavia Spencer won her first Academy Award for her role in the film adaptation of what Kathryn Stockett novel?
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Help
The Kitchen House
29
Toni Morrison’s
Beloved
was adapted into a 1998 film starring:
Whoopi Goldberg
Halle Barry
Oprah Winfrey
Jennifer Hudson
30
What is the birth order of the March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s
Little Women
from oldest to youngest?
Beth, Jo, Amy, Meg
Jo, Meg, Beth, Amy
Meg, Jo, Amy, Beth
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy
31
Andy Weir, author of
The Martian
, has a background in what field?
Computer science
Electrical engineering
Particle physics
Rocket science
32
Of what grand estate is Fitzwilliam Darcy master in Jane Austen’s
Pride and Prejudice
?
Netherfield Park
Rosings
Longbourn
Pemberley
33
What is the name of the protagonist dog in Jack London’s
Call of the Wild
?
Nan
Old Dan
Buck
Turk
34
The Pevensie siblings discover what magical world in C.S. Lewis’
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
The Witch’s Forest
Middle Earth
Aslan
Narnia
35
What dystopian novel opens with the line
“
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”?
1984
The Hunger Games
Cat’s Cradle
Brave New World
36
Stephanie Meyer said the initial idea for the
Twilight
series came to her:
in the shower
in a dream
on a walk
while stuck in traffic
37
Gilead
, the 2004 novel by Marilynne Robinson, is also the name of the fictional totalitarian theocratic nation in:
The Handmaid's Tale
Station Eleven
Brave New World
The Hunger Games
38
What is the first color Jonas begins to see in Lois Lowry’s classic dystopian novel
The Giver
?
green
blue
red
gold
39
Which British novelist penned
Jane Eyre?
George Eliot
Emily Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
40
Jason Reynolds is the author of a novel based on which Marvel Comics’ Afro-Puerto Rican teen character?
Miles Morales (Spider-Man)
Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel)
America Chavez (Miss America)
Peter Parker (Spider-Man)
41
At the opening of Daphne Du Maurier’s
Rebecca,
the Second Mr. de Winter reveals that she has once again dreamt of where?
Lowood
Pemberly
Manderlay
Highclere
42
Ayn Rand’s
Atlas Shrugged
famously asks “Who is [BLANK] [BLANK]?”
Hank Reardon
Atlas Strong
John Galt
the one
43
William P. Young’s
The Shack
became a bestseller for all the following reasons except:
Church networks
Being picked up by a major publisher
Blog mentions
Word-of-mouth
44
In Ernest Cline’s
Ready Player One
, Wade Watts and his friends plug into a virtual universe called:
UNIVRS
HALLAND
3ARTH
OASIS
45
Alexander Dumas, author of
The Three Musketeers
also penned this revenge fueled novel.
Moby Dick
The Scarlet Letter
Murder on the Orient Express
The Count of Monte Cristo
46
Which of the following DOES NOT run a celebrity book club?
Emma Watson
Jimmy Fallon
Reese Witherspoon
Michelle Obama
47
Jonathan Swift wrote
Gulliver’s Travels
in:
The early 2000s
The 1800s
The 1900s
The 1700s
48
In Gary Paulsen’s
Hatchet
, how old is main character Brian when he learns to survive in the wild after a plane crash?
21 years old
30 years old
13 years old
18 years old
49
Charles Dodgson wrote what popular children’s book under the pen name “C.S. Lewis”?
The Wizard of Oz
The Chronicles of Narnia
Peter Pan
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
50
True or False: Angie Thomas' young adult novel
The Hate U Give
debuted at #1 on the New York Times Bestsellers List
True
False
51
Stephanie Meyer's
Twilight
series features vampires that differ from general vampire lore in the following ways except:
Can sleep through the night
Can drink animal blood as well as human blood
Strong piercing teeth rather than fangs
Glitter in sunlight instead of burn
52
This popular 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger has a history of being connected to violent crimes.
Franny & Zooey
Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters
To Kill a King
The Catcher in the Rye
53
In the bestseller
The Da Vinci Code¸
main character Robert Langdon is a professor of what subject at Harvard University?
Theology
Art History
History
Symbology
54
This novel was named America’s #1 favorite read in the 2018 PBS special
The Great American Read
:
Pride and Prejudice
The Color Purple
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
To Kill a Mockingbird
55
What dramatic article of clothing has Miss Havisham never removed in Charles Dickens’ novel
Great Expectations
?
a wedding dress
a masquerade costume
a mourning veil
a debutant gown
56
On what Canadian island does L.M. Montgomery’s
Anne of Green Gables
take place?
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Avonlea
Mackinac Island
57
Hermann Hesse’s
Siddhartha
was originally published in what language?
German
Sanskrit
Dutch
French
58
Which of Amy Tan’s novels chronicles the lives of a group of immigrant mothers & their American born daughters
A Kind of Paradise
The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Joy Luck Club
The Hundred Thousands
59
Chinua Achebe’s 1958 milestone novel
Things Fall Apart
helped pave the way for other writers from this continent:
Asia
South America
Europe
Africa
60
Nicholas Sparks’
The Notebook
was adapted into a film in 2004 starring:
Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey
Kate Bosworth and Topher Grace
Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams
Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock
61
What author, best known for their prolific horror bibliography penned the apocalyptic dark fantasy
The Stand
in 1978?
Neil Gaiman
Shirley Jackson
Stephen King
Anne Rice
62
This
And Then There Were None
author has been widely considered the most read author in the world.
William Shakespeare
Agatha Christe
James Patterson
E.L. James
63
In what Brooklyn neighborhood do the Nolans live in Betty Smith’s coming of age classic
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
?
Bushwick
Williamsburg
Flatbush
Brooklyn Heights
64
The
Alex Cross
series is authored by which extremely prolific writer?
James Patterson
Tom Clancy
John Grisham
Michael Connelly
65
Who is the object of Jay Gatsby’s obsession in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
The Great Gatsby
?
Zelda Sayre
Daisy Buchannan
Jordan Baker
Meyer Wolfsheim
66
Armistead Maupin’s
Tales of the City
series takes place in what American city?
Los Angeles
New York City
Chicago
San Francisco
67
Published posthumously, John Kennedy Toole’s
A Confederacy of Dunces
earned what major literature award in 1981?
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Booker Prize
Nobel Prize for Literature
68
Legendary romance novelist Barbara Cartland was the step-grandmother to what pop culture icon?
Paul McCartney
Madonna
Elton John
Diana Spencer
69
Ralph Ellison’s
Invisible Man
won the _____ in 1953, making him the first African American writer to win the award.
Pulitzer Prize
Nobel Prize
PEN/Faulkner Foundation Award
U.S. National Book Award
70
Michael Crichton’s
Jurassic Park
was adapted into one of the most successful films of all time and was directed by:
Robert Zemeckis
Steven Spielberg
Richard Donner
George Lucas
71
True or False: author Michael Crichton wrote
The Lost World
, sequel to
Jurassic Park
, at Steven Spielberg's request.
True
False
72
In what two languages was Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella
The Little Prince
first published?
Portuguese & French
English & German
French & English
German & French
73
Author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is arguably best known for _____, “one of the most enduring antiwar novels of all time”.
Piano Player
Slaughterhouse-Five
Canary in a Cat House
Cat's Cradle
74
Though Joseph Conrad wrote
Heart of Darkness
in English, his native spoken language was:
Russian
French
Polish
German
75
In
Gone with the Wind
Scarlett and Rhett's daughter is named Eugenia Victoria, but she is more commonly referred to as:
Genie O
Pitty Pat
Bonnie Blue
Genie Girl
76
V. C. Andrews’ well-known Gothic novel
Flowers in the Attic
involves two characters falling in that love that are:
Parent/Child
Teacher/Student
Cousins
Siblings
77
True or false:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
was Oscar Wilde’s only novel.
False
True
78
In Frank Herbert’s
Dune
the desert planet Arrakis is home to what fictional precious life extending commodity?
Spice
Unobtanium
Elixir
Life Water
79
Alice Walker’s
The Color Purple
is categorized as an “epistolary novel” meaning that the story unfolds through what?
interviews
letters & documents
poems
illustrations & photographs
80
Ernest Hemingway’s
The Sun Also Rises
references “The Lost Generation”, the generation that entered adulthood during:
World War II
The Vietnam War
The Mexican Revolution
World War I
81
True or False: In the
Twilight
series, Alice Cullen can see everyone's future.
True
False
82
This 1997 novel by Arthur Golden was adapted into a 2005 Academy Award winning film directed by Rob Marshall
Munich
Capote
Memoirs of a Geisha
Brokeback Mountain
83
Tom Clancy’s
Hunt for Red October
introduced readers to this iconic character for the first time:
Jack Reacher
Harry Bosch
Alex Cross
Jack Ryan
84
Which is the first book James Patterson wrote in the
Alex Cross
series?
Along Came a Spider
Kiss the Girls
London Bridge
Pop Goes the Weasel
85
____ is the author of popular novels
The Underground Railroad
,
The Nickel Boys
, and
Harlem Shuffle
.
Tommy Orange
Richard Powers
Colson Whitehead
Noah Hawley
86
In Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games
Katniss volunteers as tribute to spare her sister a certain death, what is her name?
Peeta
Effie
Rue
Primrose
87
In the 1851 novel Moby-Dickby Herman Melville, from which famous whaling port did the Pequod depart?
Bridgeport
Nantucket
Mystic
New Bedford
88
E. L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey series was originally developed from _____ fan fiction.
Harry Potter
Percy Jackson
Marvel
Twilight
89
What Nobel Prize winning American novelist won the Pulitzer Prize for literature for the 1939 novel
Grapes of Wrath
?
Herman Melville
Dorothy Parker
Flannery O’Connor
John Steinbeck
90
Death itself is the unconventional narrator of what young adult historical novel written by Mark Zusak?
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner
Death with Interruptions
The Downstairs Girl
The Book Thief
91
Ken Follet’s 1989 novel
The Pillars of the Earth
is set during which century?
12th century
20th century
31st centuty
16th century
92
Frodo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkein’s
Lord of the Rings
is a relation of what character from his prior novel
The Hobbit
?
Rosie Baggins
Bilbo Baggins
Thorin Oakenshield
Gandalf the Grey
93
Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote
Crime and Punishment
following his return from ten years of exile in:
Central Asia
The Russian Far East
Kazakhstan
Siberia
94
Mary Shelley was how old when she completed the first edition of
Frankenstein
?
22
19
34
53
95
John Green, author of
Looking for Alaska
, also wrote all but one of the following:
Turtles All the Way Down
Paper Towns
The Fault in Our Stars
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing