Interesting Quiz On Literature
15 Questions
| Total Attempts: 217
Can you pass this interesting quiz about authors and their books?
Questions and Answers
- 1.Which playwright wrote "Doctor Faustus"?
- A.
Christopher Marlowe
- B.
Ben Johnson
- C.
John Webster
- D.
Thomas Kydd
- 2.Which 1960's author was the leader of a group called the "Merry Pranksters"?
- A.
Anthony Burgess
- B.
William S. Burroughs
- C.
Timothy Leary
- D.
Ken Kesey
- 3.In Don Delillo's "Underworld", who is the graffiti artist sought after by Klara Sax and Esther Winship?
- A.
Miraculum.Com
- B.
Moonman 157
- C.
Revolution.Com
- D.
Ink
- 4.With what was Robert Frost "acquainted" as he "looked down the saddest city lane"?
- A.
The Night
- B.
The Police
- C.
The Garbage
- D.
The Snow
- 5.What famous poet repeats the phrase "I shall not be moved" in the poem "Our Grandmothers"?
- A.
Anne Sexton
- B.
Maya Angelou
- C.
Langston Hughes
- D.
Audre Lord
- 6.Who wrote the "Decameron"?
- A.
Machievelli
- B.
Boccaccio
- C.
Uccello
- D.
Chaucer
- 7.Which one of these literary characters is not like the others?
- A.
Touchstone
- B.
Pompey
- C.
Benedick
- D.
Feste
- 8.Which of these literary characters does not have a twin?
- A.
Dromio
- B.
Sebastian
- C.
Florizel
- D.
Viola
- 9.In what city did Allen Ginsberg first recite his poem "Howl"?
- A.
New York City
- B.
Seattle
- C.
Philadelphia
- D.
San Francisco
- 10.What was the name of the popular horror novelist in the movie "In the Mouth of Madness"?
- A.
Sutter Cane
- B.
John Skipp
- C.
Scott Sigler
- D.
Haruki Murakami
- 11.In the Anne Rice novel "Ramses the Damned", whom did Ramses bring back from the dead?
- A.
Julie
- B.
Cleopatra
- C.
Elliot
- D.
Alex
- 12.Which two mythological gods are twins?
- A.
Aphrodite And Artemis
- B.
Apollo And Artemis
- C.
Artemis And Athena
- D.
Apollo And Aphrodite
- 13.Which mortal was married to Eros?
- A.
Psyche
- B.
Cleopatra
- C.
Arachne
- D.
Helen Of Troy
- 14.Which character in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" can put a "girdle about the earth in 40 minutes"?
- A.
Puck
- B.
Titania
- C.
Bottom
- D.
Oberon
- 15.From what university did Hamlet take his leave to attend his mother's wedding?
- A.
Wittenberg
- B.
Harvard
- C.
Oxford
- D.
Cambridge
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