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Literature Multiple Choice #3

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about famous works of literature?
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1. Which of these characters is from the region known as La Mancha?
D'Artagnan
Othello
Sinbad
Don Quixote
2. Which story tells of the author's travels through the three realms of the dead: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise?
The Divine Comedy
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Odyssey
Gulliver's Travels
3. Which of these is a single novel rather than a collection of stories?
One Thousand and One Nights
The Canterbury Tales
The Pickwick Papers
The Decameron
4. Which of these is not one of the Four Classic Novels of Chinese literature?
The fourth one is Water Margin.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Book of Five Rings
Dream of the Red Chamber
Journey to the West
5. Who were the Three Musketeers?
D'Artagnan, Porthos, and Aramis
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis
Porthos, Athos, and D'Artagnan
Aramis, D'Artagnan, and Athos
6. Okonkwo is the protagonist of which novel?
The Color Purple
Roots
Cry, the Beloved Country
Things Fall Apart
7. Who lives at the address 221B Baker Street?
Sherlock Holmes
Henry Jekyll
Ebenezer Scrooge
Phileas Fogg
8. Who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther?
Hermann Hesse
Hans Christian Andersen
Franz Kafka
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
9. Who wrote the Greek tragedies Oedipus Rex and Antigone?
Sappho
Homer
Sophocles
Euripides
10. Which of these is considered the oldest surviving great work of literature?
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Water Margin
The Iliad
Beowulf
11. Which of these characters is not a pirate?
Captain Nemo is the captain of the submarine Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Captain Hook
Long John Silver
Clement Cleveland
Captain Nemo
12. Who told a new tale every night, but always stopped in the middle so that the king would wait for her to finish instead of executing her?
Scheherazade
Penelope
Circe
Nitocris
13. Which of these is not a pen name?
Mark Twain's real name was Samuel Clemens. George Orwell's real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Lewis Carroll's real name was Charles Dodgson.
Edgar Allan Poe
Lewis Carroll
Mark Twain
George Orwell
14. One Hundred Years of Solitude is the multi-generational story of what family?
Santiago
Trueba
Trask
Buendía
15. Who wrote Le Morte d'Arthur?
Thomas Malory
Daniel Defoe
Geoffrey Chaucer
Alexandre Dumas
10 Comments
+11
Level 66
Mar 18, 2020
This quiz was created after someone commented that my first literature multiple choice quiz was too anglocentric. I agreed with them, and this is the result.
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Level 73
Dec 3, 2020
It's good :)
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Level 66
Dec 10, 2020
Thanks!
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Level 37
Jan 5, 2021
I think the pirate question is not clear cut. Captain Nemo engages in actions that are piratical including attacking and sinking ships. In his role in the League of Extraordinary Gentleman he is clearly described as a pirate. I would replace him with someone like Jack Aubrey in the quiz.
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Level 66
Jan 16, 2021
That's what I get for using a character from a book I haven't read, I guess.

Jack Aubrey is from the Patrick O'Brian novels that begin with Master and Commander, right? I haven't read those either, but I vaguely remember the movie with Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany.

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Level 77
Jun 18, 2021
Agreed. Nemo attacks without warning, sinks his enemies, and doesn't represent a country. Arguably a pirate.

Jack Aubrey spent some time as a privateer ... not a pirate but pretty close. I suggest replacing Nemo with Horatio Hornblower.

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Level 59
Jan 19, 2022
I also thought about that and since I didn't knew Clement Cleveland it was sort of a 50/50 between those two.

But since I don't remember Nemo ever intentionally hunting down other ships to rob them, I decided to see him more like an embittered rebel than a pirate.

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Level 84
Nov 2, 2022
He definitely hunted down other ships. He was a pirate, though he would not consider himself one.
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Level 78
Jan 9, 2023
I don't think Nemo stole from the other ships, though.

Also, taking a loose comic book adaptation as source instead of the actual original book is questionable at the very least.

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Level 71
Dec 9, 2024
In the book, Nemo is not clearly a pirate, more of an embittered anarchist. But he is stateless and sinks ships, so the question is ambiguous enough to confuse people trying to guess. Please change!

(Nice series of quizzes otherwise)