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Literature Multiple Choice #1
Can you answer these multiple choice questions about famous works of literature?
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1.
What did the raven say in Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven"?
A pox on both your houses
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Can I have some more, please?
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Caw!
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Nevermore
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2.
What is Atticus Finch's profession in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Baseball player
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Doctor
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Lawyer
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Pastry chef
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3.
In the novel "Heart of Darkness", what was the profession of Kurtz?
Author
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Christian missionary
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Ivory trader
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Soldier
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4.
Which of the following WASN'T written by Jane Austen?
Emma
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Pride and Prejudice
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Sense and Sensibility
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Wuthering Heights
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5.
Who was the main character of J.D. Salinger's "A Catcher in the Rye"?
Dean Moriarty
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Gregor Samsa
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Holden Caulfield
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Humbert Humbert
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6.
In Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", what did the main character metamorphosize into?
A 6 inch tall person
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A giant bug
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A woman
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An angel
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7.
Which of these English kings did Shakespeare NOT write a play about?
Henry VIII
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Richard III
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William the Conqueror
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8.
Which one of these authors was a man?
A. A. Milne
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George Eliot
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George Sand
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Harper Lee
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9.
Who was Don Quixote's squire?
Carlos Santander
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Lucrezia Borgia
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Rodrigo Suerte
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Sancho Panza
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10.
Which of these is NOT a character in "Les Misérables"?
Cosette
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Inspector Javert
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Jean Valjean
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Madame Defarge
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Madame Defarge appears in "A Tale of Two Cities"
11.
What was the war in "War and Peace"?
Crimean War
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Napoleon's invasion of Russia
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U.S. Civil War
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World War One
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12.
Who killed Hector?
Achilles
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Helen
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Julius Caesar
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He killed himself
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13.
Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?
Geoffrey Chaucer
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John Bunyan
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Virginia Woolf
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V. S. Naipaul
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14.
In the story "Maltilda" by Roald Dahl, what supernatural power does Matilda have?
Precognition
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Telekinesis
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Telepathy
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Telekinesis is the ability to move objects with one's mind
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Where did James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" take place?
Athens
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Dublin
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New York City
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The Moon
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One could claim that this is an English speaking site and English literature should be given preference. But to pretend that this test is somehow a good representation of world's literature is just delusional.
Kurtz from Heart of Darkness was neither a colonel, nor a soldier.