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Literature & Drama Quiz

Literature & Drama · Exam Mode

20 questions · 30 min timer · Results at the end

Literature and drama represent humanity's attempts to understand the world and itself through storytelling, character, and language. Great works of literature - from Homer's Iliad...

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All 20 questions in this Literature & Drama quiz
  1. Who wrote 'The Hobbit'?

    • A. J.K. Rowling
    • B. J.R.R. Tolkien
    • C. C.S. Lewis
    • D. George R.R. Martin
  2. Which Agatha Christie novel features her famous detective Hercule Poirot solving a murder on a luxury train?

    • A. Death on the Nile
    • B. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
    • C. Murder on the Orient Express
    • D. The ABC Murders
  3. Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?

    • A. John Steinbeck
    • B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
    • C. Ernest Hemingway
    • D. William Faulkner
  4. Who wrote 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?

    • A. Honor de Balzac
    • B. Alexander Dumas
    • C. Molire
    • D. Victor Hugo
  5. Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

    • A. Charlotte Bronte
    • B. Mary Shelley
    • C. Jane Austen
    • D. Louisa May Alcott
  6. Which experimental 1922 novel by James Joyce parallels the events of Homer's Odyssey in a single day in Dublin?

    • A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    • B. Finnegans Wake
    • C. Ulysses
    • D. Dubliners
  7. Which 11th-century Japanese work, written by Murasaki Shikibu, is often called the world's first novel?

    • A. The Pillow Book
    • B. The Tale of the Heike
    • C. The Tale of Genji
    • D. Hojoki
  8. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby,' who is the mysterious millionaire known for throwing lavish parties in West Egg?

    • A. Nick Carraway
    • B. Tom Buchanan
    • C. Jay Gatsby
    • D. Meyer Wolfsheim
  9. Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?

    • A. Mary Shelley
    • B. Emily Bront
    • C. Virginia Woolf
    • D. Jane Austen
  10. Who wrote the 1865 children's classic 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

    • A. C.S. Lewis
    • B. Roald Dahl
    • C. Lewis Carroll
    • D. J.M. Barrie
  11. Which iconic Victorian novel was originally published in 1847 under the androgynous pen name "Currer Bell"?

    • A. Jane Austen
    • B. Charlotte Bront
    • C. Mary Ann Evans
    • D. Emily Bront
  12. Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?

    • A. Federico Garca Lorca
    • B. Miguel de Cervantes
    • C. Gabriel Garca Mrquez
    • D. Isabel Allende
  13. In literature, what is a story where animals act like humans called?

    • A. Epic
    • B. Drama
    • C. Haiku
    • D. Fable
  14. Which author was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas?

    • A. Annie Ernaux
    • B. Han Kang
    • C. Louise Glck
    • D. Olga Tokarczuk
  15. Which 1922 poem by T.S. Eliot begins with the line 'April is the cruellest month'?

    • A. The Hollow Men
    • B. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
    • C. The Waste Land
    • D. Four Quartets
  16. Which Franz Kafka novella tells the story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect?

    • A. The Trial
    • B. The Castle
    • C. The Metamorphosis
    • D. In the Penal Colony
  17. Who is the cynical teenage protagonist of J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'?

    • A. Huckleberry Finn
    • B. Holden Caulfield
    • C. Tom Sawyer
    • D. Jay Gatsby
  18. What is the term for a three-line Japanese poem?

    • A. Sonnet
    • B. Limerick
    • C. Ode
    • D. Haiku
  19. Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

    • A. Chekhov
    • B. Leo Tolstoy
    • C. Nabokov
    • D. Dostoyevsky
  20. Which Colombian author is the primary figure associated with 'Magic Realism' and wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?

    • A. Jorge Luis Borges
    • B. Gabriel Garca Mrquez
    • C. Isabel Allende
    • D. Mario Vargas Llosa