Literature Classics

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1.Which novel imagines a society that manufactures its citizens?
- A. Crime and Punishment
- B. The Great Gatsby
- C. The Catcher in the Rye
- D. Brave New World
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Brave New World
Did you know? Aldous Huxley published Brave New World in 1932.
2.Which literary character is a pirate cook with a parrot and one leg?
- A. Pinocchio
- B. Quasimodo
- C. the three musketeers
- D. Long John Silver
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Long John Silver
Did you know? Long John Silver appears in Treasure Island.
3.Which novel is told through letters and diary entries?
- A. The Stranger
- B. Dracula
- C. Anna Karenina
- D. Les Misérables
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Dracula
Did you know? Bram Stoker published Dracula in 1897.
4.Which literary character is the lawyer father in To Kill a Mockingbird?
- A. Atticus Finch
- B. Sun Wukong
- C. the three musketeers
- D. Tarzan
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Atticus Finch
Did you know? Atticus Finch is the father of Scout.
5.Which novel strands a group of boys on an island?
- A. One Hundred Years of Solitude
- B. The Lord of the Rings
- C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- D. Lord of the Flies
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Lord of the Flies
Did you know? William Golding published Lord of the Flies in 1954.
6.Which literary character rings the bells of Notre-Dame?
- A. Tarzan
- B. Quasimodo
- C. Sherlock Holmes
- D. the three musketeers
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Quasimodo
Did you know? Quasimodo appears in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo.
7.Which novel is narrated by a child named Scout?
- A. The Old Man and the Sea
- B. The Little Prince
- C. To Kill a Mockingbird
- D. Dracula
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Did you know? Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960.
8.Which literary character is a vampire count from Transylvania?
- A. Count Dracula
- B. Captain Nemo
- C. Sun Wukong
- D. Peter Pan
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Count Dracula
Did you know? In the novel, Dracula lives in a castle in the Carpathian Mountains.
9.Which novel follows the monkey king Sun Wukong on a pilgrimage?
- A. Journey to the West
- B. The Old Man and the Sea
- C. Brave New World
- D. Anna Karenina
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Journey to the West
Did you know? Journey to the West is one of the four great classical novels of China.
10.Which literary character is shipwrecked alone on an island?
- A. Robinson Crusoe
- B. Elizabeth Bennet
- C. Romeo and Juliet
- D. Captain Ahab
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Robinson Crusoe
Did you know? Daniel Defoe published Robinson Crusoe in 1719.
11.Which novel follows the student Raskolnikov in Saint Petersburg?
- A. The Catcher in the Rye
- B. Fahrenheit 451
- C. Anna Karenina
- D. Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment
Did you know? Fyodor Dostoevsky published Crime and Punishment in 1866.
12.Which characters serve their king alongside young d'Artagnan?
- A. the three musketeers
- B. Sun Wukong
- C. Captain Ahab
- D. Captain Nemo
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the three musketeers
Did you know? The three musketeers are Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.
13.Which author was a Japanese court lady who wrote the world's first novel?
- A. Murasaki Shikibu
- B. Agatha Christie
- C. Mary Shelley
- D. Gabriel García Márquez
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Murasaki Shikibu
Did you know? Murasaki Shikibu lived around the year 1000.
14.Which book a giant atlas from the 1660s held the record as the world's largest book?
- A. Cubism
- B. the bento box
- C. the Klencke Atlas
- D. the Pentagon
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the Klencke Atlas
Did you know? The Klencke Atlas is kept in the British Library.
15.Which epic poem tells of a Sumerian king's quest for immortality?
- A. The Epic of Gilgamesh
- B. The Tale of Genji
- C. Phileas Fogg
- D. hair
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Did you know? The Epic of Gilgamesh is often called the oldest surviving great work of literature.
16.Which Russian novel's hero is the saintly Prince Myshkin?
- A. War and Peace
- B. Crime and Punishment
- C. Dead Souls
- D. The Idiot
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The Idiot
Did you know? Dostoevsky wrote The Idiot in 1869.
17.Which novel is set on the Yorkshire moors?
- A. Wuthering Heights
- B. Treasure Island
- C. War and Peace
- D. Oliver Twist
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Wuthering Heights
Did you know? Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847.
18.Which poet wrote "The Waste Land"?
- A. W.B. Yeats
- B. T.S. Eliot
- C. Ezra Pound
- D. Walt Whitman
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T.S. Eliot
Did you know? Eliot published the poem in 1922.
19.Which novel follows a governess at Thornfield Hall?
- A. Wuthering Heights
- B. Jane Eyre
- C. Pride and Prejudice
- D. 1984
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Jane Eyre
Did you know? Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre in 1847.
20.Which playwright wrote "A Doll's House"?
- A. Anton Chekhov
- B. George Bernard Shaw
- C. Oscar Wilde
- D. Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Did you know? Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright.
21.Which novel tells of a doctor's wife who dreams of romance?
- A. Madame Bovary
- B. Oliver Twist
- C. The Lord of the Rings
- D. Moby-Dick
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Madame Bovary
Did you know? Gustave Flaubert published Madame Bovary in 1856.
22.Which novel follows the life of a Japanese prince at court?
- A. One Hundred Years of Solitude
- B. The Tale of Genji
- C. Gulliver's Travels
- D. Pride and Prejudice
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The Tale of Genji
Did you know? The Tale of Genji, written around the year 1000, is often called the world's first novel.
23.Which novel opens with a famous line about unhappy families?
- A. Journey to the West
- B. Anna Karenina
- C. Crime and Punishment
- D. Jane Eyre
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Anna Karenina
Did you know? Anna Karenina begins: "Happy families are all alike."
24.Which novel opens with the line "Mother died today"?
- A. Crime and Punishment
- B. Oliver Twist
- C. The Catcher in the Rye
- D. The Stranger
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The Stranger
Did you know? Albert Camus published The Stranger in 1942.

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