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literature by year - pre-1800 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 40 times
- The average score is 10 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| circa 8th century bce | an epic poem set during the Trojan War about conflict between King Agamemnon and Achilles | The Iliad | 100%
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| 1605 | the story of a nobleman convinced he is a knight errant, this is sometimes considered the first modern novel | Don Quixote | 94%
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| circa 700–1000 | written anonymously, this Old English epic poem follows a hero of the Goths who slays three monstrous foes | Beowulf | 91%
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| circa 1400 | a set of 24 stories, mostly written in verse, with a frame narrative about travelers exchanging stories while on a pilgrimage | The Canterbury Tales | 88%
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| 1719 | the "autobiography" of a fictional castaway who lived for decades on a remote island | Robinson Crusoe | 84%
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| 1726 | the first-person narrative of a man who visits remote and fantastical regions of the world | Gulliver's Travels | 81%
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| 1667 | a blank verse epic poem about the fallen angel Satan and his temptation of Adam and Eve | Paradise Lost | 81%
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| circa 1321 | an exploration of the Christian afterlife via narrative poem | The Divine Comedy | 81%
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| early 1590s | likely the first play by an extremely famous playwright, the story follows an unpleasant woman whose behavior is reformed by her husband | The Taming of the Shrew | 81%
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| 1759 | a French satirical novella about the evolving philosophical outlook of a young student | Candide | 53%
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| 1740 | an epistolary novel that tells the story of a teenaged maidservant who becomes the object of her employer's sexual advances | Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded | 50%
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| 1470s | one of the most famous collections of tales about a mythical British king, written in Middle English | Le Morte d'Arthur | 44%
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| early 11th century | considered by some to be the world's first novel, it focuses on the life of a Japanese emperor's son who has been demoted to the status of commoner | The Tale of Genji | 44%
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| 1774 | an epistolary novel composed mostly of letters between two former lovers about their meddling in the lives, especially sexual lives, of others | Les Liaisons dangereuses | 41%
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| 1712 | a mock heroic poem about a noblewoman a lock of whose hair is cut off without permission by a suitor | The Rape of the Lock | 31%
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