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Literature & Drama Quiz

Literature & Drama · Timed

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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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Which Fyodor Dostoevsky novel tells the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, who commits a murder to test his theory of being an 'extraordinary' man?
- A. The Idiot
- B. The Brothers Karamazov
- C. Crime and Punishment
- D. Notes from Underground
Who authored the epic 14th-century poem "The Divine Comedy," fundamentally shaping the modern Italian language?
- A. Dante Alighieri
- B. Petrarch
- C. Giovanni Boccaccio
- D. Niccol Machiavelli
Which semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott follows the lives of the four March sisters?
- A. Jane Eyre
- B. Little Women
- C. The Secret Garden
- D. Anne of Green Gables
Which play features the characters Romeo and Juliet?
- A. The Tempest
- B. Macbeth
- C. Othello
- D. Romeo and Juliet
In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm,' which animal represents the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin?
- A. Old Major
- B. Snowball
- C. Napoleon
- D. Squealer
Which Shakespearean play is set in the Kingdom of Denmark and follows a prince seeking revenge for his father's murder?
- A. Macbeth
- B. Othello
- C. Hamlet
- D. King Lear
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
Who wrote '1984'?
- A. H.G. Wells
- B. George Orwell
- C. Aldous Huxley
- D. Ray Bradbury
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
Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?
- A. Herman Melville
- B. Edith Wharton
- C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
- D. Henry James
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
Which dystopian novel famously opens with the line: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"?
- A. Fahrenheit 451
- B. 1984
- C. A Clockwork Orange
- D. Brave New World
What is a poem of fourteen lines called?
- A. Haiku
- B. Sonnet
- C. Ode
- D. Limerick
Which 19th-century German drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tells the story of a scholar who makes a pact with the devil?
- A. Wilhelm Tell
- B. The Robbers
- C. Faust
- D. Woyzeck
Who wrote 'Harry Potter'?
- A. J.K. Rowling
- B. Roald Dahl
- C. J.R.R. Tolkien
- D. Stephen King
In Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' which character is the moral backbone of the story, defending a black man in a racially charged trial?
- A. Jem Finch
- B. Atticus Finch
- C. Boo Radley
- D. Tom Robinson
Which Toni Morrison novel won the Pulitzer Prize for its haunting portrayal of the legacy of slavery through the character of Sethe?
- A. The Bluest Eye
- B. Song of Solomon
- C. Beloved
- D. Sula
Originating in Japan, a traditional haiku is a short form of poetry consisting of exactly how many total syllables (or phonetic units) spread across three lines?
- A. 15
- B. 17
- C. 21
- D. 12
Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
- A. Chekhov
- B. Leo Tolstoy
- C. Nabokov
- D. Dostoyevsky
Who wrote 'The Little Prince'?
- A. Albert Camus
- B. Jules Verne
- C. Victor Hugo
- D. Antoine de Saint-Exupry

Literature & Drama Quiz

Literature & Drama · Timed

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Which Fyodor Dostoevsky novel tells the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, who commits a murder to test his theory of being an 'extraordinary' man?

Who authored the epic 14th-century poem "The Divine Comedy," fundamentally shaping the modern Italian language?

Which semi-autobiographical novel by Louisa May Alcott follows the lives of the four March sisters?

Which play features the characters Romeo and Juliet?

In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm,' which animal represents the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin?

Which Shakespearean play is set in the Kingdom of Denmark and follows a prince seeking revenge for his father's murder?

Which Franz Kafka novella tells the story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into a giant insect?

Who wrote '1984'?

Who is the cynical teenage protagonist of J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'?

Who wrote 'Moby-Dick'?

Which experimental 1922 novel by James Joyce parallels the events of Homer's Odyssey in a single day in Dublin?

Which dystopian novel famously opens with the line: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"?

What is a poem of fourteen lines called?

Which 19th-century German drama by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe tells the story of a scholar who makes a pact with the devil?

Who wrote 'Harry Potter'?

In Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' which character is the moral backbone of the story, defending a black man in a racially charged trial?

Which Toni Morrison novel won the Pulitzer Prize for its haunting portrayal of the legacy of slavery through the character of Sethe?

Originating in Japan, a traditional haiku is a short form of poetry consisting of exactly how many total syllables (or phonetic units) spread across three lines?

Who wrote 'War and Peace'?

Who wrote 'The Little Prince'?