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Classic literature quiz questions
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Who wrote the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Sophocles
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In which century was Don Quixote published?
Answer: 17th century
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What is the first name of Dr. Jekyll in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Answer: Henry
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Which Charles Dickens novel begins with the line: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
Answer: A Tale of Two Cities
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Who is the narrator of Moby-Dick?
Answer: Ishmael
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Which novel features the character Heathcliff?
Answer: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Who is the name of the epic poem written by John Milton?
Answer: Paradise Lost
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What is the subtitle of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?
Answer: The Modern Prometheus
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Who wrote the play A Streetcar Named Desire?
Answer: Tennessee Williams
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In what language was Don Quixote originally written?
Answer: Spanish
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In Jane Eyre, who is the mysterious employer of Jane?
Answer: Mr. Rochester
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What is the full title of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn?
Answer: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Who wrote the Divine Comedy?
Answer: Dante Alighieri
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In which novel does Elizabeth Bennet appear?
Answer: Pride and Prejudice
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What is the title of the second novel in The Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Answer: The Two Towers
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Who is the author of The Scarlet Letter?
Answer: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Who is the author of the 18th-century satirical work Candide?
Answer: Voltaire
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What is the setting for Wuthering Heights?
Answer: The Yorkshire moors
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Which Russian novel begins with the line, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”?
Answer: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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In Dante’s Divine Comedy, what is the name of the guide who leads Dante through Hell?
Answer: Virgil
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What is the name of the ship in Treasure Island?
Answer: The Hispaniola
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What is the central conflict in The Iliad?
Answer: The Trojan War
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What animal is central to Orwell's allegorical novella Animal Farm?
Answer: Pigs
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Which novel tells the story of Jean Valjean?
Answer: Les Misérables
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What is the real name of the author known as Mark Twain?
Answer: Samuel Langhorne Clemens
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Who is the author of The Odyssey?
Answer: Homer
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In The Scarlet Letter, what does the letter “A” on Hester Prynne’s dress symbolize?
Answer: Adultery
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Who is the tragic hero in Oedipus Rex?
Answer: Oedipus
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What is the genre of Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Answer: Gothic fiction
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Which novel by Charles Dickens features the character Ebenezer Scrooge?
Answer: A Christmas Carol
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Which book begins with "Call me Ishmael"?
Answer: Moby-Dick
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Who wrote Anna Karenina?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
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What is the primary setting of Great Expectations?
Answer: England
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Who is the name of the author of Madame Bovary?
Answer: Gustave Flaubert
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Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer
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In which play does the line "To be, or not to be" appear?
Answer: Hamlet
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Who is the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Answer: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What is the name of the monster in Beowulf?
Answer: Grendel
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Who wrote The Last of the Mohicans, a novel set during the French and Indian War?
Answer: James Fenimore Cooper
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What is the theme of A Tale of Two Cities?
Answer: Sacrifice and resurrection
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Who is the name of the author of Gulliver’s Travels?
Answer: Jonathan Swift
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Which novel is set during the Napoleonic Wars?
Answer: War and Peace
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Who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo?
Answer: Alexandre Dumas
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Which Shakespearean play features the character Shylock?
Answer: The Merchant of Venice
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What is the setting of The Grapes of Wrath?
Answer: Dust Bowl-era America
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Which American poet wrote Leaves of Grass?
Answer: Walt Whitman
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Who wrote Heart of Darkness?
Answer: Joseph Conrad
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What is the central theme of The Old Man and the Sea?
Answer: Struggle and perseverance
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Who is the protagonist in Dracula?
Answer: Jonathan Harker
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What is the main conflict in Romeo and Juliet?
Answer: Feuding families
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Modern and contemporary literature quiz questions
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Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Name the dystopian novel written by George Orwell.
Answer: 1984
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Who is the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye?
Answer: Holden Caulfield
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What is the central theme of Of Mice and Men?
Answer: The American Dream and friendship
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Which book begins with “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow”?
Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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Who wrote The Road?
Answer: Cormac McCarthy
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, who is Atticus Finch?
Answer: A lawyer and the father of Scout and Jem
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Name the author of Beloved.
Answer: Toni Morrison
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Which dystopian novel features the character Winston Smith?
Answer: 1984
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Who wrote The Kite Runner?
Answer: Khaled Hosseini
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What is the name of the dystopian society in The Handmaid’s Tale?
Answer: Gilead
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Who is the protagonist in Life of Pi?
Answer: Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi)
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Which book by Margaret Atwood won the Booker Prize in 2000?
Answer: The Blind Assassin
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Who wrote Slaughterhouse-Five?
Answer: Kurt Vonnegut
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What is the setting of The Hunger Games?
Answer: Panem
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Name the author of A Thousand Splendid Suns.
Answer: Khaled Hosseini
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Which American writer wrote Infinite Jest?
Answer: David Foster Wallace
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Who is the author of Norwegian Wood?
Answer: Haruki Murakami
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Which novel features the city of Macondo?
Answer: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
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In which U.S. state does most of the Twilight series take place?
Answer: Washington
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Name the author of Shantaram.
Answer: Gregory David Roberts
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Which book features the phrase "So it goes"?
Answer: Slaughterhouse-Five
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Who wrote The Goldfinch?
Answer: Donna Tartt
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What is the central theme of Atonement?
Answer: Guilt and redemption
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Name the author of The Secret History.
Answer: Donna Tartt
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Who wrote The Lovely Bones?
Answer: Alice Sebold
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In which book does Lisbeth Salander appear?
Answer: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
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Who is the author of The Underground Railroad?
Answer: Colson Whitehead
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What is the primary setting of Big Little Lies?
Answer: Monterey, California
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Who wrote Intermezzo?
Answer: Sally Rooney
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Which book brought Sally Rooney widespread acclaim?
Answer: Normal People
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Name the author of Cloud Atlas.
Answer: David Mitchell
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What is the theme of An American Marriage by Tayari Jones?
Answer: Love and systemic injustice
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Who wrote The Light We Carry?
Answer: Michelle Obama
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What are the names of Harry Potter’s two best friends?
Answer: Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley
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What is the name of the father figure in The Road?
Answer: His name is not mentioned (he is referred to as "the man").
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Who wrote The Night Circus?
Answer: Erin Morgenstern
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Which novel explores the theme of cloning and immortality?
Answer: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Name the author of Room.
Answer: Emma Donoghue
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Who is the author of A Man Called Ove?
Answer: Fredrik Backman
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In which book does the city of Gilead appear?
Answer: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Name the author of Everything I Never Told You.
Answer: Celeste Ng
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Who wrote Homegoing?
Answer: Yaa Gyasi
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Name the Booker Prize-winning novel by Arundhati Roy.
Answer: The God of Small Things
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What is the theme of Pachinko?
Answer: Family, identity, and resilience
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Who is the author of The Midnight Library?
Answer: Matt Haig
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What is the main character’s name in Where the Crawdads Sing?
Answer: Kya Clark
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Name the author of The Dutch House.
Answer: Ann Patchett
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Who wrote Lessons in Chemistry?
Answer: Bonnie Garmus
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Which book by Anthony Doerr won a Pulitzer Prize?
Answer: All the Light We Cannot See
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Literary awards quiz questions
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What is the name of the literary award given annually by the Swedish Academy?
Answer: The Nobel Prize in Literature
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Which prestigious award is given for fiction, drama, and poetry in the United States?
Answer: The Pulitzer Prize
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Who was the first recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901?
Answer: Sully Prudhomme
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Which British literary award is given annually for the best original novel written in English and published in the UK?
Answer: The Booker Prize (formerly the Man Booker Prize)
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Who won the Booker Prize in 2022 for the novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida?
Answer: Shehan Karunatilaka
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What is the name of the American award for science fiction and fantasy works?
Answer: The Hugo Award
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Which poet won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for their collection The Tradition?
Answer: Jericho Brown
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Which award is given to the best original French-language novel of the year?
Answer: Prix Goncourt
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Who was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: Toni Morrison
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Which novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2023?
Answer: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver and Trust by Hernan Diaz (joint winners)
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What is the name of the award given by the British Crime Writers' Association?
Answer: The Gold Dagger Award
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Which author won the Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies?
Answer: Hilary Mantel
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What is the name of the literary award given for children's books in the United States?
Answer: The Newbery Medal
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Who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021?
Answer: Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Which award is presented annually by PEN America for literary excellence?
Answer: The PEN/Faulkner Award
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Which author won the 2020 Booker Prize for the novel Shuggie Bain?
Answer: Douglas Stuart
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What is the name of the literary prize awarded to works written in Spanish?
Answer: The Miguel de Cervantes Prize
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Which award is given annually for the best debut novel written by a British, Irish, or Commonwealth author?
Answer: The Dylan Thomas Prize
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Who won the Hugo Award in 2019 for The Calculating Stars?
Answer: Mary Robinette Kowal
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Which American literary prize is awarded for achievements in literature for young adults?
Answer: The Printz Award
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Who was the first woman to win the Booker Prize in 1970?
Answer: Bernice Rubens for The Elected Member
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Which Japanese author has been nominated multiple times but has not won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: Haruki Murakami
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What is the name of the literary award for excellence in Canadian literature?
Answer: The Governor General's Literary Awards
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Which writer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for contributions to music and songwriting?
Answer: Bob Dylan
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Who won the International Booker Prize in 2023 for the novel Time Shelter?
Answer: Georgi Gospodinov
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Famous authors’ quiz questions
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Who is the author of The Midnight Library, a contemporary bestseller about life choices?
Answer: Matt Haig
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Which author wrote the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, a popular fantasy series?
Answer: Sarah J. Maas
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Who is the author of the novel It Ends With Us, a top-selling romance book?
Answer: Colleen Hoover
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Which bestselling thriller author wrote The Silent Patient?
Answer: Alex Michaelides
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Which famous author wrote Les Misérables?
Answer: Victor Hugo
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Which Japanese author is known for Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore?
Answer: Haruki Murakami
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Who is the author of the Bridgerton series, which inspired the hit Netflix show?
Answer: Julia Quinn
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Who is the author of The Chronicles of Narnia?
Answer: C.S. Lewis
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Who wrote Lessons in Chemistry, a recent bestseller about a woman scientist?
Answer: Bonnie Garmus
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Which author created the fictional world of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings?
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Who is the author of the Shadow and Bone trilogy and Six of Crows duology?
Answer: Leigh Bardugo
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Which author wrote Daisy Jones & The Six, recently adapted into a TV series?
Answer: Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Who is the author of Malibu Rising and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo?
Answer: Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Which thriller author wrote the Jack Reacher series?
Answer: Lee Child
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Who wrote Shatter Me, a bestselling YA dystopian series?
Answer: Tahereh Mafi
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Which American author wrote The Great Gatsby?
Answer: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
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Which author wrote Verity, a dark thriller novel?
Answer: Colleen Hoover
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Who is the author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a critically acclaimed novel about gaming and creativity?
Answer: Gabrielle Zevin
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Which South Korean author wrote The Vegetarian, a Booker Prize-winning novel?
Answer: Han Kang
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Which author wrote the Song of Achilles, another Greek mythology-based bestseller?
Answer: Madeline Miller
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Who is the author of The Paris Library, a novel about World War II librarians?
Answer: Janet Skeslien Charles
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Who wrote Crime and Punishment?
Answer: Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Who wrote A Man Called Ove, a heartwarming novel about a grumpy old man?
Answer: Fredrik Backman
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Which American author is known for the novels The Color Purple and Possessing the Secret of Joy?
Answer: Alice Walker
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Children’s literature quiz questions
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Who wrote Charlotte's Web, the story of a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte?
Answer: E.B. White
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What type of animal is Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia?
Answer: A lion
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Who is the author of Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Answer: Roald Dahl
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What is the name of the hobbit who goes on an adventure in The Hobbit?
Answer: Bilbo Baggins
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Who wrote Anne of Green Gables, the story of a spirited orphan girl?
Answer: L.M. Montgomery
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What is the title of the first book in the Harry Potter series?
Answer: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (or Philosopher’s Stone outside the U.S.)
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In Peter Pan, what is the name of the Darling family’s dog?
Answer: Nana
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Who wrote the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series?
Answer: Rick Riordan
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In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, what color is the Queen of Hearts associated with?
Answer: Red
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What are the names of the four Pevensie siblings in The Chronicles of Narnia?
Answer: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy
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English literature quiz questions
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Who is the author of Pride and Prejudice?
Answer: Jane Austen
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Who is the second character to appear in Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
Answer: Francisco
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What is the name of the monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?
Answer: The creature (often mistakenly called Frankenstein)
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Who wrote the epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What is the name of the heroine in Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd?
Answer: Bathsheba Everdene
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In which English novel does the character Pip appear?
Answer: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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Which Romantic poet wrote the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?
Answer: William Wordsworth
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Who wrote the Gothic novel Wuthering Heights?
Answer: Emily Brontë
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Which novel by George Orwell explores themes of totalitarianism and surveillance?
Answer: 1984
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Who wrote the satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest?
Answer: Oscar Wilde
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What is the setting for William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies?
Answer: A deserted island
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Which Elizabethan poet and dramatist wrote Doctor Faustus?
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
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What is the title of the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
Answer: Through the Looking-Glass
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Who wrote the dystopian novel Brave New World?
Answer: Aldous Huxley
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Which famous English poet is buried in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner and wrote Paradise Lost?
Answer: John Milton
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In which Shakespearean tragedy does the character Iago appear?
Answer: Othello
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Who wrote the detective novel The Hound of the Baskervilles?
Answer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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What is the name of the family estate in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility?
Answer: Norland Park
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Who wrote the play Waiting for Godot, often classified as part of the Theatre of the Absurd?
Answer: Samuel Beckett
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What is the subtitle of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
Answer: A Shilling Shock
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Russian literature quiz questions
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Who wrote War and Peace?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
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What is the name of the protagonist in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment?
Answer: Rodion Raskolnikov
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Which Russian author wrote The Master and Margarita?
Answer: Mikhail Bulgakov
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In Anna Karenina, what is the name of Anna’s lover?
Answer: Count Alexei Vronsky
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What is the title of Nikolai Gogol’s famous short story about a stolen piece of clothing?
Answer: The Overcoat
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Who is the author of the play The Cherry Orchard?
Answer: Anton Chekhov
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What is the central theme of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov?
Answer: Faith, morality, and free will
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Which 19th-century poet wrote Eugene Onegin, often called the “novel in verse”?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin
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Who wrote Dead Souls, a satirical novel about Russian bureaucracy?
Answer: Nikolai Gogol
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Which Russian author is known for his science fiction works such as We?
Answer: Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Who is the author of the novella A Hero of Our Time?
Answer: Mikhail Lermontov
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What is the title of Leo Tolstoy’s novella that explores existential themes of death?
Answer: The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Which character in Crime and Punishment represents Raskolnikov’s moral conscience?
Answer: Sonia (Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladov)
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What is the title of the dystopian novel written by Andrei Platonov?
Answer: The Foundation Pit
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Who wrote the novel Doctor Zhivago, which won the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Answer: Boris Pasternak
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What is the setting of Chekhov’s play Three Sisters?
Answer: A provincial Russian town
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Which Russian author wrote the poem The Bronze Horseman?
Answer: Alexander Pushkin
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In The Master and Margarita, who is the devilish character that visits Moscow?
Answer: Woland
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What is the name of the character in Gogol’s The Nose, whose nose takes on a life of its own?
Answer: Major Kovalyov
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Which Russian author wrote One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novel about life in a Soviet labor camp?
Answer: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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