Cool Quiz On Literature - 2
Some tough but interesting quiz on literature
- 1.In the Richard Laymon novel "Darkness Tell Us", what is the name of the spirit contacted with the ouija board?
- A.
Butler
- B.
Amy
- C.
Simon
- D.
Reed
- 2.Which town did not appear in any H.P. Lovecraft works?
- A.
Dunwich
- B.
Arkham
- C.
West Bedford
- D.
Innsmouth
- 3.In "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad", what is the name of Mr. Toad's horse?
- A.
Widowmaker
- B.
Philippe
- C.
Cyril Proudbottom
- D.
Samson
- 4.Who was the last captain of the U.S.S. Caine?
- A.
De Vreiss
- B.
Maryk
- C.
Keefer
- D.
Keith
- 5.Who wrote the non-fiction account "A Night to Remember"?
- A.
Walter Lord
- B.
James Cameron
- C.
Lord Byron
- D.
Paula Parisi
- 6.When was Ernest Hemingway born?
- A.
January 5, 1860
- B.
June 25, 1829
- C.
July 21, 1899
- D.
April 4, 1833
- 7.Which of these is not a character in Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"?
- A.
Roger Mexico
- B.
Pirate Prentice
- C.
Slothrop
- D.
Oedipa Maas
- 8.Who is considered the first professional female writer in English?
- A.
Aphra Behn
- B.
George Elliot
- C.
Jane Austen
- D.
The Wife Of Bath
- 9.Which of the following Irish writers did not win the Nobel Prize?
- A.
Sean O'Casey
- B.
Seamus Heaney
- C.
George Bernard Shaw
- D.
Samuel Beckett
- 10.What famous novel begins with the line "Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes"?
- A.
Napoleon By Abel Gance
- B.
The Leopard By Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
- C.
War And Peace By Leo Tolstoy
- D.
Middlemarch By George Eliot
- 11.What is credited with being the longest novel written in English?
- A.
Our Mutual Friend
- B.
Middlemarch
- C.
Moby Dick
- D.
Clarissa
- 12.Which short story begins with "None of them knew the color of the sky"?
- A.
The Open Boat
- B.
The Painted Bird
- C.
Dead Souls
- D.
Notes From Underground
- 13.Who wrote the Law of Storms?
- A.
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
- B.
Howard Wilson Hawk
- C.
William Herschel
- D.
Heinrich Hess
- 14.Where in New York did "The Great Gatsby" live?
- A.
West Brooklyn
- B.
East Egg
- C.
West Egg
- D.
Staten Island
- 15.Who wrote the epic poem, "Drake"?
- A.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- B.
Alfred Noyes
- C.
William Wordsworth
- D.
Lord Byron
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