Classic Novels Quiz

Question 1

Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Accepted Answer

Jane Austen

Answer

Charlotte Brontë

Answer

George Eliot

Answer

Elizabeth Gaskell

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A Christmas Carol

Answer

Oliver Twist

Answer

Great Expectations

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David Copperfield

Question 3

Who is the author of 'War and Peace'?

Accepted Answer

Leo Tolstoy

Answer

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Answer

Ivan Turgenev

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Anton Chekhov

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Moby-Dick

Answer

Great White

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The White Whale

Answer

Leviathan

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Hamlet

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Macbeth

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Othello

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King Lear

Question 6

Who wrote 'Jane Eyre'?

Accepted Answer

Charlotte Brontë

Answer

Jane Austen

Answer

George Eliot

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Emily Brontë

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

The Great Gatsby

Answer

Tender Is the Night

Answer

This Side of Paradise

Answer

The Beautiful and Damned

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

Thornfield Hall

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Pemberley

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Mansfield Park

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Wuthering Heights

Question 9

Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment'?

Accepted Answer

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Answer

Leo Tolstoy

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Ivan Goncharov

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Nikolai Gogol

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A Tale of Two Cities

Answer

Bleak House

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David Copperfield

Answer

Great Expectations

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

The Modern Prometheus

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The Monster Within

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A Gothic Tale

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Creation and Destruction

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Anna Karenina

Answer

War and Peace

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The Brothers Karamazov

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Dead Souls

Question 13

In which century did William Shakespeare live and write?

Accepted Answer

16th–17th century

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14th–15th century

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15th–16th century

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17th–18th century

Question 14

Who wrote 'Wuthering Heights'?

Accepted Answer

Emily Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë

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Anne Brontë

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George Eliot

Question 15

In which Dickens novel does the character Miss Havisham appear?

Accepted Answer

Great Expectations

Answer

Bleak House

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Dombey and Son

Answer

Our Mutual Friend

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Miguel de Cervantes

Answer

Lope de Vega

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Francisco de Quevedo

Answer

Baltasar Gracián

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Nick Carraway

Answer

Jay Gatsby

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Tom Buchanan

Answer

Jordan Baker

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Animal Farm

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Brave New World

Answer

We

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

George Eliot

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Jane Austen

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Thomas Hardy

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Mrs Gaskell

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Penelope

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Calypso

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Circe

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Helen