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Literature Multiple Choice #3

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about famous works of literature?
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1. Which of these characters is from the region known as La Mancha?
Sinbad
Don Quixote
D'Artagnan
Othello
2. Which story tells of the author's travels through the three realms of the dead: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise?
Gulliver's Travels
The Odyssey
The Divine Comedy
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
3. Which of these is a single novel rather than a collection of stories?
One Thousand and One Nights
The Canterbury Tales
The Decameron
The Pickwick Papers
4. Which of these is not one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature?
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Dream of the Red Chamber
The Book of Five Rings
Journey to the West
The fourth one is Water Margin.
5. Who were the Three Musketeers?
D'Artagnan, Porthos, and Aramis
Porthos, Athos, and D'Artagnan
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis
Aramis, D'Artagnan, and Athos
6. Okonkwo is the protagonist of which novel?
Roots
Cry, the Beloved Country
Things Fall Apart
The Color Purple
7. Who lives at the address 221B Baker Street?
Henry Jekyll
Sherlock Holmes
Ebenezer Scrooge
Phileas Fogg
8. Who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther?
Franz Kafka
Hans Christian Andersen
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hermann Hesse
9. Who wrote the Greek tragedies Oedipus Rex and Antigone?
Homer
Sophocles
Sappho
Euripides
10. Which of these is considered the oldest surviving great work of literature?
Water Margin
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Beowulf
The Iliad
11. Which of these characters is not a pirate?
Clement Cleveland
Long John Silver
Captain Nemo
Captain Hook
Captain Nemo is the captain of the submarine Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
12. Who told a new tale every night, but always stopped in the middle so that the king would wait for her to finish instead of executing her?
Scheherazade
Nitocris
Penelope
Circe
13. Which of these is not a pen name?
George Orwell
Edgar Allan Poe
Mark Twain
Lewis Carroll
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens. George Orwell's real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Dodgson.
14. One Hundred Years of Solitude is the multi-generational story of what family?
Trask
Buendía
Santiago
Trueba
15. Who wrote Le Morte d'Arthur?
Thomas Malory
Alexandre Dumas
Geoffrey Chaucer
Daniel Defoe
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Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
This quiz was created after someone commented that my first literature multiple choice quiz was too anglocentric. I agreed with them, and this is the result.
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Level 74
Dec 3, 2020
It's good :)
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Level 66
Dec 10, 2020
Thanks!
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Level 37
Jan 5, 2021
I think the pirate question is not clear cut. Captain Nemo engages in actions that are piratical including attacking and sinking ships. In his role in the League of Extraordinary Gentleman he is clearly described as a pirate. I would replace him with someone like Jack Aubrey in the quiz.
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Level 66
Jan 16, 2021
That's what I get for using a character from a book I haven't read, I guess.

Jack Aubrey is from the Patrick O'Brian novels that begin with Master and Commander, right? I haven't read those either, but I vaguely remember the movie with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany.

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Level 74
Jun 18, 2021
Agreed. Nemo attacks without warning, sinks his enemies, and doesn't represent a country. Arguably a pirate.

Jack Aubrey spent some time as a privateer ... not a pirate but pretty close. I suggest replacing Nemo with Horatio Hornblower.

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Level 58
Jan 19, 2022
I also thought about that and since I didn't knew Clement Cleveland it was sort of a 50/50 between those two.

But since I don't remember Nemo ever intentionally hunting down other ships to rob them, I decided to see him more like an embittered rebel than a pirate.

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Level 80
Nov 2, 2022
He definitely hunted down other ships. He was a pirate, though he would not consider himself one.
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Level 76
Jan 9, 2023
I don't think Nemo stole from the other ships, though.

Also, taking a loose comic book adaptation as source instead of the actual original book is questionable at the very least.