Really? 15 questions. 1 book in Classic Greek, 1 in German, 1 in French, 1 in Spanish, 1 in Russian, 10 in English.
One could claim that this is an English speaking site and English literature should be given preference. But to pretend that this test is somehow a good representation of world's literature is just delusional.
It doesn't say anywhere that it represents world literature. Really it represents the Anglophone canon pretty well. The problem is that the Anglophone canon is terrible where translated works are concerned.
Great quiz! And I was pleased to see from the scores that we seem to be a literary bunch as well, as opposed to just sports, geography, and history nerds :-D
One could claim that this is an English speaking site and English literature should be given preference. But to pretend that this test is somehow a good representation of world's literature is just delusional.
Kurtz from Heart of Darkness was neither a colonel, nor a soldier.