Quiz: How Well Do You Know Classic Literature?

The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell.

Although Dorian Gray never contracts with the devil, his sacrifice is similar: he trades his soul for the luxury of eternal youth.

"The Great Gatsby" takes place during the 1920s. This time period is known as the Roaring Twenties during the era of Prohibition, in which alcohol was illegal.

John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost was first published in 1667.

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. It depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a Bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story).

Ishmael is a character in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), which opens with the line, "Call me Ishmael." He is the first person narrator in much of the book.

Holden Caulfield, fictional character, the teenaged protagonist and narrator of J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951).

Rosalind is the heroine and protagonist of the play As You Like It (1600) by William Shakespeare. In the play, she disguises herself as a male shepherd named Ganymede.