Classic Novels Quiz

1. Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

1. Charlotte Brontë
2. Elizabeth Gaskell
3. George Eliot
4. Jane Austen

2. In which Charles Dickens novel does the character Ebenezer Scrooge appear?

1. A Christmas Carol
2. David Copperfield
3. Great Expectations
4. Oliver Twist

3. Who is the author of 'War and Peace'?

1. Anton Chekhov
2. Fyodor Dostoevsky
3. Ivan Turgenev
4. Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

6. Who wrote 'Jane Eyre'?

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

7. In which novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald does the title character throw lavish parties at his Long Island mansion?

1. Tender Is the Night
2. The Beautiful and Damned
3. The Great Gatsby
4. This Side of Paradise

8. What is the main setting of Charlotte Brontë's 'Jane Eyre'?

1. Mansfield Park
2. Pemberley
3. Thornfield Hall
4. Wuthering Heights

9. Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky
2. Ivan Goncharov
3. Leo Tolstoy
4. Nikolai Gogol

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

1. A Tale of Two Cities
2. Bleak House
3. David Copperfield
4. Great Expectations

11. What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?

1. A Gothic Tale
2. Creation and Destruction
3. The Modern Prometheus
4. The Monster Within

12. Which Russian novel follows Anna Karenina's tragic love affair while contrasting it with Levin's search for meaning?

1. Anna Karenina
2. Dead Souls
3. The Brothers Karamazov
4. War and Peace

13. In which century did William Shakespeare live and write?

1. 14th–15th century
2. 15th–16th century
3. 16th–17th century
4. 17th–18th century

14. Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?

1. Anne Brontë
2. Charlotte Brontë
3. Emily Brontë
4. George Eliot

15. In which Dickens novel does the character Miss Havisham appear?

1. Bleak House
2. Dombey and Son
3. Great Expectations
4. Our Mutual Friend

16. Which author wrote 'Don Quixote', often considered the first modern novel?

1. Baltasar Gracián
2. Francisco de Quevedo
3. Lope de Vega
4. Miguel de Cervantes

17. What is the name of the narrator in 'The Great Gatsby'?

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

18. Which novel by George Orwell depicts a totalitarian society surveilled by 'Big Brother'?

1. Animal Farm
2. Brave New World
3. Nineteen Eighty-Four
4. We

19. Who wrote 'Middlemarch', described by Virginia Woolf as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people'?

1. George Eliot
2. Jane Austen
3. Mrs Gaskell
4. Thomas Hardy

20. In Homer's 'The Odyssey', who is Odysseus trying to return home to?

1. Calypso
2. Circe
3. Helen
4. Penelope