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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
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Who wrote 'The Hobbit'?
- A. J.K. Rowling
- B. J.R.R. Tolkien
- C. C.S. Lewis
- D. George R.R. Martin
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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
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Who wrote 'The Great Gatsby'?
- A. John Steinbeck
- B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- C. Ernest Hemingway
- D. William Faulkner
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Who wrote 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?
- A. Honor de Balzac
- B. Alexander Dumas
- C. Molire
- D. Victor Hugo
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Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?
- A. Charlotte Bronte
- B. Mary Shelley
- C. Jane Austen
- D. Louisa May Alcott
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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
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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
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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
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Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?
- A. Mary Shelley
- B. Emily Bront
- C. Virginia Woolf
- D. Jane Austen
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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
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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
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Who wrote 'Don Quixote'?
- A. Federico Garca Lorca
- B. Miguel de Cervantes
- C. Gabriel Garca Mrquez
- D. Isabel Allende
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In literature, what is a story where animals act like humans called?
- A. Epic
- B. Drama
- C. Haiku
- D. Fable
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What is the term for a three-line Japanese poem?
- A. Sonnet
- B. Limerick
- C. Ode
- D. Haiku
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Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
- A. Chekhov
- B. Leo Tolstoy
- C. Nabokov
- D. Dostoyevsky
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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