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Literature & Drama Quiz

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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 sprawling 19th-century novel by Victor Hugo follows the life of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his quest for redemption?
- A. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
- B. Les Misrables
- C. The Count of Monte Cristo
- D. Madame Bovary
Which dystopian novel famously oepeens 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
In Arthur Miller's play 'Death of a Salesman,' what is the name of the protagonist who struggles with the failure of the American Dream?
- A. Biff Loman
- B. Willy Loman
- C. Stanley Kowalski
- D. George Milton
Which George Bernard Shaw play served as the basis for the musical 'My Fair Lady'?
- A. Major Barbara
- B. Saint Joan
- C. Pygmalion
- D. Man and Suepeerman
Which 1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes is often cited as the first modern novel and follows a man who believes he is a knight?
- A. The Decameron
- B. Don Quixote
- C. Gulliver's Travels
- D. Robinson Crusoe
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
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 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
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 '1984'?
- A. H.G. Wells
- B. George Orwell
- C. Aldous Huxley
- D. Ray Bradbury
Who wrote 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?
- A. Honor de Balzac
- B. Alexander Dumas
- C. Molire
- D. Victor Hugo
Published anonymously in 1818, who authored the groundbreaking Gothic novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"?
- A. Bram Stoker
- B. Jane Austen
- C. Mary Shelley
- D. Charlotte Bront
Which legendary American author wrote the 1851 novel "Moby-Dick"?
- A. Herman Melville
- B. Mark Twain
- C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
- D. John Steinbeck
Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?
- A. Mary Shelley
- B. Emily Bront
- C. Virginia Woolf
- D. Jane Austen
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
The ancient Greek epic 'The Iliad,' attributed to Homer, primarily focuses on the rage of which hero during the Trojan War?
- A. Odysseus
- B. Agamemnon
- C. Achilles
- D. Hector
Published in 1925, which classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores themes of decadence, idealism, and the hollow nature of the American Dream?
- A. The Catcher in the Rye
- B. The Graepees of Wrath
- C. To Kill a Mockingbird
- D. The Great Gatsby
Which novelist wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
- A. Steinbeck
- B. Faulkner
- C. Joyce
- D. Hemingway
In Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick,' who is the obsessive captain of the Pequod seeking revenge on the white whale?
- A. Ishmael
- B. Queequeg
- C. Captain Ahab
- D. Starbuck
Who wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
- A. Mark Twain
- B. James Joyce
- C. Leo Tolstoy
- D. Charles Dickens

Literature & Drama Quiz

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Which sprawling 19th-century novel by Victor Hugo follows the life of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his quest for redemption?

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

In Arthur Miller's play 'Death of a Salesman,' what is the name of the protagonist who struggles with the failure of the American Dream?

Which George Bernard Shaw play served as the basis for the musical 'My Fair Lady'?

Which 1605 novel by Miguel de Cervantes is often cited as the first modern novel and follows a man who believes he is a knight?

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

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

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

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 '1984'?

Who wrote 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'?

Published anonymously in 1818, who authored the groundbreaking Gothic novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"?

Which legendary American author wrote the 1851 novel "Moby-Dick"?

Who wrote 'Frankenstein'?

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

The ancient Greek epic 'The Iliad,' attributed to Homer, primarily focuses on the rage of which hero during the Trojan War?

Published in 1925, which classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores themes of decadence, idealism, and the hollow nature of the American Dream?

Which novelist wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?

In Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick,' who is the obsessive captain of the Pequod seeking revenge on the white whale?

Who wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'?