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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 ✓
Can I have some more, please? ✓
Caw! ✓
Nevermore ✓
2. What is Atticus Finch's profession in "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Baseball player ✓
Doctor ✓
Lawyer ✓
Pastry chef ✓
3. In the novel "Heart of Darkness", what was the profession of Kurtz?
Author ✓
Christian missionary ✓
Ivory trader ✓
Soldier ✓
4. Which of the following WASN'T written by Jane Austen?
Emma ✓
Pride and Prejudice ✓
Sense and Sensibility ✓
Wuthering Heights ✓
5. Who was the main character of J.D. Salinger's "A Catcher in the Rye"?
Dean Moriarty ✓
Gregor Samsa ✓
Holden Caulfield ✓
Humbert Humbert ✓
6. In Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", what did the main character metamorphosize into?
A 6 inch tall person ✓
A giant bug ✓
A woman ✓
An angel ✓
7. Which of these English kings did Shakespeare NOT write a play about?
Henry VIII ✓
Richard III ✓
William the Conqueror ✓
8. Which one of these authors was a man?
A. A. Milne ✓
George Eliot ✓
George Sand ✓
Harper Lee ✓
9. Who was Don Quixote's squire?
Carlos Santander ✓
Lucrezia Borgia ✓
Rodrigo Suerte ✓
Sancho Panza ✓
10. Which of these is NOT a character in "Les Misérables"?
Cosette ✓
Inspector Javert ✓
Jean Valjean ✓
Madame Defarge ✓
Madame Defarge appears in "A Tale of Two Cities"
11. What was the war in "War and Peace"?
Crimean War ✓
Napoleon's invasion of Russia ✓
U.S. Civil War ✓
World War One ✓
12. Who killed Hector?
Achilles ✓
Helen ✓
Julius Caesar ✓
He killed himself ✓
13. Who wrote "The Canterbury Tales"?
Geoffrey Chaucer ✓
John Bunyan ✓
Virginia Woolf ✓
V. S. Naipaul ✓
14. In the story "Maltilda" by Roald Dahl, what supernatural power does Matilda have?
Precognition ✓
Telekinesis ✓
Telepathy ✓
Telekinesis is the ability to move objects with one's mind
15. Where did James Joyce's novel "Ulysses" take place?
Athens ✓
Dublin ✓
New York City ✓
The Moon ✓
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21 Comments
Islandcarver
+5
Level 80
Jan 29, 2019
Good mix of lit from all over the world.
tshalla
+16
Level 76
Feb 23, 2019
Except for Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, that's true.
Blaidd
+1
Level 51
Jan 5, 2020
Heart of darkness was set in africa
RobNobody
+6
Level 77
Mar 20, 2021
Right, but this is about where the books were written and/or published, not where they took place.
rocamorar
+20
Level 78
Feb 24, 2019
Really? 15 questions. 1 book in Classic Greek, 1 in German, 1 in French, 1 in Spanish, 1 in Russian, 10 in English.

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.

NathanIQMaster
+1
Level 20
Jan 29, 2019
Quizmaster and some of the others can you just check out my quizzes and see if you can make it featured if not how to get it featured
jetlifari
+1
Level 69
Jan 30, 2019
Great quiz!
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Feb 4, 2019
Great quiz! And I was pleased to see from the scores that we seem to be a literary bunch as well, as opposed to just sports, geography, and history nerds :-D
sulfuratus
+4
Level 66
Feb 23, 2019
Somehow I managed to get all of them, even though I had to guess a few times. There's a typo in the “Maltilda” question by the way.
stockiebasher97
+2
Level 60
Feb 23, 2019
13/15 having read none of these books.
CardinalSin
+1
Level 78
Feb 23, 2019
I did badly - but it was a very good quiz. Thanks
Oatmeal11
+2
Level 74
May 20, 2021
Quoth the raven: "CAW!!!!!"
scramer51
+2
Level 61
Nov 7, 2021
Colonel Kurtz is not a soldier?
Quizmaster
+5
Level ∞
Apr 25, 2022
Colonel Kurtz is from the movie "Apocalypse Now".
mrputter
+1
Level 82
Jun 20, 2022
As Quizmaster points out, Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now was a soldier.

Kurtz from Heart of Darkness was neither a colonel, nor a soldier.

HyddenRizz
+1
Level 67
Aug 13, 2024
To add, the film 'Apocalypse Now' transposes the basics of the story 'Heart of Darkness' into the setting of the Vietnam war.

The two Kurtz characters are linked but not strictly the same. It's a cheeky question by the quiz. Obviously Quizmaster knows what he's doing, yet he's treating scramer51 like he's never heard of Apocalypse Now.

freehuggs
+4
Level 62
Jun 20, 2022
You may know the war from War and Peace, but did you know that the original title was "War, What is it Good For?"
oranje
+1
Level 65
Jun 20, 2022
Absolutely Nothing!
aetherel
+5
Level 45
Jun 20, 2022
In question 14, "Matilda" is typoed the first time as "Maltilda".
Koopa
+3
Level 79
Oct 10, 2023
I got the Les Mis question from reading A Tale of Two Cities, and I got the War and Peace question from the TMNT movie (1990).
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 73
Aug 11, 2024
It doesn't look like suggested changes do anything, given the fact that the misspelling of Matilda is still up there, but here's a different suggestion: add "King John" to the Shakespeare question. It will bring the number of choices up to 4 and might trap some unwary quiz takers. It once was one of the most popular Shakespeare plays (Lincoln would sometimes quote Constance's pathetic speech about her dead son after his own son Willie died).

And maybe give quiz takers a fourth choice for Matilda.

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