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General Literature Quiz

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1. What is the family name of the founder of Macondo?
Marquez ✓
Maconda ✓
Buendia ✓
Quixote ✓
2. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
Down and out in Paris and London ✓
A Tale of Two Cities ✓
Love in the Time of Cholera ✓
The Bell Jar ✓
3. Fahrenheit ___
471 ✓
451 ✓
911 ✓
351 ✓
4. Protagonist in 'The Hunger Games'
Katniss Everdeen ✓
John Snow ✓
Seneca Crane ✓
Primrose Everdeen ✓
5. What is Oliver's last name?
Twist ✓
Wirl ✓
Oliverson ✓
Dickens ✓
6. Severus ____
Malfoy ✓
Slytherin ✓
Snake ✓
Snape ✓
7. Little girl who discovers life of the nutcracker in Alexandre Dumas' edition
May ✓
Clara ✓
Mary ✓
Elizabeth ✓
8. Character who finds an insane woman in her fiance's attic
Emily Bronte ✓
Mrs Crowley ✓
Feyre Archeron ✓
Jane Eyre ✓
9. "It was a bright cold day in April and ________"
The birds sung sweetly ✓
Her life was over ✓
The clocks were striking thirteen ✓
The snow began to fall in sheets ✓
10. "13 men on a dead man's chest. Yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum!"
20'000 Leagues Under the Sea ✓
Moby Dick ✓
The Old Man and the Sea ✓
Treasure Island ✓
11. Considered the oldest piece of literature
The Canterbury Tales ✓
The Arabian Nights ✓
Beowulf ✓
The Epic of Gilgamesh ✓
12. Who killed Achilles?
Troy ✓
Helen ✓
Athena ✓
Paris ✓
13. How many circles of hell are in Dante's 'Inferno'?
8 ✓
7 ✓
9 ✓
6 ✓
14. Which of the following is NOT a circle of hell?
Treachery ✓
Violence ✓
Jealousy ✓
Heresy ✓
15. Who is the protagonist in 'The Alchemist'?
José Arcadio ✓
Othello ✓
Santiago ✓
Narcissus ✓
16. Who wrote 'David Copperfield'?
Mark Twain ✓
Charles Dickens ✓
Oscar Wilde ✓
Marc Antony ✓
17. Who is 'the Shrew' in 'Taming of the Shrew'?
Elizabeth ✓
Valencia ✓
Bianca ✓
Katherine ✓
18. How many daughters does 'King Lear' have?
3 ✓
4 ✓
2 ✓
1 ✓
19. Who was responsible for the murder on the orient express?
Mr Mcqueen ✓
Mary ✓
Everyone ✓
No one ✓
20. According to Douglas Adams, what is widely regarded as 'a bad move'?
3 part series; 'Where God Went Wrong', 'Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes", and 'Who is this God Person Anyway" ✓
Marvin the manically depressed robot ✓
The creation of the universe ✓
The destruction of Earth for a hyperspace bypass ✓
21. Who went on an adventure to Wonderland?
John ✓
Alice ✓
Lucy ✓
Dorothy ✓
22. Who are the two immortal protagonists from 'Good Omens'?
Aziraphale and Crowley ✓
Gabriel and Beelzebub ✓
Angel and snake ✓
Jehovah and Lucifer ✓
23. Who wrote 'One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich'?
Fyodoor Dostoyevsky ✓
Leo Tolstoy ✓
Alexander Pushkin ✓
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ✓
24. Who's party was the result of extreme thought and trial?
Mr Green ✓
Mrs Roshill ✓
Mrs Dalloway ✓
Mr Darcy ✓
25. Who was the wild companion of King Gilgamesh?
Enkidu ✓
Shamat ✓
Ishtar ✓
Utnapishtim ✓
26. Which patriarch dies after years of being tied to a chestnut tree?
José Arcadio ✓
Winston Smith ✓
Long John Silver ✓
The Alchemist ✓
27. Name one character who lived in Slaughterhouse Five
Billy Pilgrim ✓
Maxwell O'Hare ✓
Guy Montag ✓
Jonathan Heller ✓
28. Which classic novel features Meg, Amy, Beth, and Jo
Pride and Prejudice ✓
Wuthering Heights ✓
Little Women ✓
Picnic at Hanging Rock ✓
29. Which 20th century novel begins with the story of Narcissus, a lake, and a mysterious character?
The Alchemist ✓
His Dark Materials ✓
Apocalypse Now ✓
The Picture of Dorian Grey ✓
30. 2001 post-apocalyptic novel featuring a historian and a wild, scar-faced women
A Court of Thorns and Roses ✓
Frostblood ✓
Mortal Engines ✓
Bustown ✓
31. Which is the sequel to the above novel?
Fireblood ✓
Predator's Gold ✓
A Court of Mist and Fury ✓
Fever Crumb ✓
32. Which debut novel focused on the final months of Icelander, Agnes Magnusdottir, and the people she lives with?
The Good People ✓
Burial Rites ✓
Animal Farm ✓
Love in the Time of Cholera ✓
33. The answer to life, the universe, and everything is?
Reading ✓
42 ✓
Eleanor ✓
Love ✓
34. Which American horror short story features the relationship between the protagonist and a man he does not realise is actually dead?
Cool Air ✓
The Mountains of Madness ✓
The Dunwich Horror ✓
The Shadow Over Innsmouth ✓
35. What did the Ghost of Christmas Future vaguely resemble?
Stock standard ghost ✓
A jolly, gigantic man ✓
A formless, ethereal woman ✓
Death ✓
36. Which Stephen King novel features an author who was saved from an auto wreck by a psychotic fan?
Misery ✓
Pet Sematary ✓
Carrie ✓
Mr Mercedes ✓
37. Which children's book series features a boy who's father is Poseidon?
Harry Potter ✓
The Kane Chronicles ✓
Percy Jackson ✓
His Dark Materials ✓
38. Which award winning novel features a teenage boy who interacts with a humanoid yew tree, and struggles to accept the imminent mortality of his mother?
Five Feet Apart ✓
A Monster Calls ✓
Blue Fish ✓
A Darkling Plain ✓
39. Who famously collected an archive of verbal fairytales?
Sylvia Plath ✓
The Brothers Grimm ✓
Hans Christian Anderson ✓
H.P Lovecraft ✓
40. Which John Green novel features a maths obsessed teenager who has dated 17 women of the same name?
An Abundance of Katherines ✓
Let It Snow ✓
Will Grayson, Will Grayson ✓
Looking for Alaska ✓
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