Statistics for literature by year - pre-1800

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Hint		Answer	% Correct
1605	the story of a nobleman convinced he is a knight errant, this is sometimes considered the first modern novel	Don Quixote	100%
circa 8th century bce	an epic poem set during the Trojan War about conflict between King Agamemnon and Achilles	The Iliad	100%
circa 700–1000	written anonymously, this Old English epic poem follows a hero of the Goths who slays three monstrous foes	Beowulf	92%
1719	the "autobiography" of a fictional castaway who lived for decades on a remote island	Robinson Crusoe	85%
circa 1400	a set of 24 stories, mostly written in verse, with a frame narrative about travelers exchanging stories while on a pilgrimage	The Canterbury Tales	85%
circa 1321	an exploration of the Christian afterlife via narrative poem	The Divine Comedy	85%
early 1590s	likely the first play by an extremely famous playwright, the story follows an unpleasant woman whose behavior is reformed by her husband	The Taming of the Shrew	77%
1667	a blank verse epic poem about the fallen angel Satan and his temptation of Adam and Eve	Paradise Lost	69%
1726	the first-person narrative of a man who visits remote and fantastical regions of the world	Gulliver's Travels	62%
1740	an epistolary novel that tells the story of a teenaged maidservant who becomes the object of her employer's sexual advances	Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded	54%
1712	a mock heroic poem about a noblewoman a lock of whose hair is cut off without permission by a suitor	The Rape of the Lock	46%
early 11th century	considered by some to be the world's first novel, it focuses on the life of a Japanese emperor's son who has been demoted to the status of commoner	The Tale of Genji	46%
1759	a French satirical novella about the evolving philosophical outlook of a young student	Candide	38%
1470s	one of the most famous collections of tales about a mythical British king, written in Middle English	Le Morte d'Arthur	31%
1774	an epistolary novel composed mostly of letters between two former lovers about their meddling in the lives, especially sexual lives, of others	Les Liaisons dangereuses	31%

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