Books & Literature Trivia Quiz

1. Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

1. Charlotte Brontë
2. Emily Brontë
3. George Eliot
4. Jane Austen

2. Which Shakespeare play contains the line 'To be, or not to be, that is the question'?

1. Hamlet
2. King Lear
3. Macbeth
4. Othello

3. Who wrote 'Don Quixote', often called the first modern novel?

1. Federico García Lorca
2. Gabriel García Márquez
3. Miguel de Cervantes
4. Pablo Neruda

4. In which country was the Harry Potter series set primarily?

1. England
2. Ireland
3. Scotland
4. Wales

5. Who wrote '1984', the dystopian novel about Big Brother?

1. Aldous Huxley
2. George Orwell
3. H.G. Wells
4. Ray Bradbury

6. Which novel begins with the line: 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?

1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. Bleak House
3. Great Expectations
4. Oliver Twist

7. What is the name of the whale in Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick'?

1. Moby-Dick
2. The Great White
3. The Leviathan
4. The White Shark

8. Who wrote 'The Alchemist', the bestselling Brazilian novel about following your dreams?

1. Jorge Amado
2. José Saramago
3. Machado de Assis
4. Paulo Coelho

9. In which Shakespeare play do the characters Romeo and Juliet appear?

1. A Midsummer Night's Dream
2. Much Ado About Nothing
3. Romeo and Juliet
4. Twelfth Night

10. Which author created the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes?

1. Agatha Christie
2. Arthur Conan Doyle
3. G.K. Chesterton
4. Raymond Chandler

11. Which novel by George Orwell features a dystopian farm where 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'?

1. Animal Farm
2. Down and Out in Paris and London
3. Homage to Catalonia
4. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

12. What nationality was author Leo Tolstoy, who wrote 'War and Peace'?

1. French
2. German
3. Polish
4. Russian

13. What is the name of the main character in 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald?

1. Jay Gatsby
2. Jordan Baker
3. Nick Carraway
4. Tom Buchanan

14. Which children's classic features a girl called Alice who falls down a rabbit hole?

1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
2. Peter Pan
3. The Wizard of Oz
4. Through the Looking Glass

15. Which famous novel was written in diary format and begins on 3 May with a journey to Transylvania?

1. Dracula
2. Frankenstein
3. The Picture of Dorian Gray
4. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

16. Who wrote the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy?

1. C.S. Lewis
2. J.K. Rowling
3. J.R.R. Tolkien
4. Terry Pratchett

17. In which city is the story of 'Les Misérables' primarily set?

1. Bordeaux
2. Lyon
3. Marseille
4. Paris

18. Who wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', the iconic novel of magical realism?

1. Carlos Fuentes
2. Gabriel García Márquez
3. Isabel Allende
4. Mario Vargas Llosa

19. What is the name of the orphan boy in Charles Dickens' novel who asks for more food?

1. David Copperfield
2. Nicholas Nickleby
3. Oliver Twist
4. Pip Pirrip

20. Which American author wrote the semi-autobiographical novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird'?

1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Harper Lee
3. John Steinbeck
4. Truman Capote