Cool Quiz On Literature - 3
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- 1.What does the name "Cetus" mean?
- A.
Poison
- B.
Sea Monster
- C.
Whale
- D.
Ugly
- 2.Who wrote the novel "Aaron's Rod"?
- A.
W. Somerset Maugham
- B.
Toni Morrison
- C.
Evelyn Waugh
- D.
D.H. Lawrence
- 3.What was the name of the estate in Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw"?
- A.
Quint
- B.
Flora
- C.
Bly
- D.
Aspern
- 4.In Henry James' book "The Aspern Papers", what was character Jeffery Aspern's occupation?
- A.
Lawyer
- B.
Man Of Leisure
- C.
Poet
- D.
Literary Critic
- 5.Who wrote the comic mystery "Tourist Season"?
- A.
Carter Hausman
- B.
L'anna Howard
- C.
L.P. Smoanes
- D.
Carl Hiaasen
- 6.Whose fortune does the count inherit in Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo"?
- A.
Caesar Spada
- B.
Henry VIII
- C.
Louis Xiv
- D.
Abbe Faria
- 7.According to Kurt Vonnegut, how did Bokononists meditate?
- A.
Sole-To-Sole
- B.
Standing On Their Heads
- C.
Palm-To-Palm
- D.
Kneeling
- 8.Georges Perec and Raymond Queneau were members of what literary circle?
- A.
The Beat Generation
- B.
The Bloomsbury Group
- C.
Oulipo
- D.
Academie Francaise
- 9.What is the name of the kid's nemesis in Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"?
- A.
Glanton
- B.
Whiskey Tom
- C.
Sitting Bull
- D.
Judge Holden
- 10.What does the Latin word "volvo" mean?
- A.
I Am Rolling
- B.
Good Wheels
- C.
Carriage
- D.
Forward
- 11.Who is the narrator in Joan Didion's "A Book of Common Prayer"?
- A.
Tuck Bradley
- B.
Leonard Douglas
- C.
Grace Strasser-Menadana
- D.
Charlotte Douglas
- 12.Which contemporary English author wrote "London Fields"?
- A.
Kingsley Amis
- B.
Martin Amis
- C.
A. S. Byatt
- D.
Jane Mendelsohn
- 13.Who wrote, "Bend Sinister and Speak, Memory"?
- A.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- B.
George Bernard Shaw
- C.
Oscar Wilde
- D.
Vladimir Nabokov
- 14.In Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita", how does the title character die?
- A.
Murdered By Richard F. Schiller
- B.
Murdered By Humbert Humbert
- C.
Suicide
- D.
In Childbirth
- 15.Which character is the first person narrator of portions of Charles Dickens' "Bleak House"?
- A.
Sir Leicester Dedlock
- B.
Pip
- C.
Richard Clare
- D.
Esther Summerson
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