Literature Quiz
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What kind of creature is a "minotaur"?
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Half Lion And Half Man
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Half Man And Half Bull
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Half Dog And Half Cat
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Half Man And Half Woman
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Literature, the following questions will test your ability to think laterally
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Which novel centers around a portrait that ages while its subject remains young and handsome?
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
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Chronicle Of A Death Foretold
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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Dubliners
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A. The Picture Of Dorian Gray -
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Which Ernest Hemingway novel tells the story of a soldier falling in love with his nurse?
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A Farewell To Arms
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To Have And Have Not
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The Sun Also Rises
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
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A. A Farewell To Arms -
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Who was the Trojan War between?
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Greece And Rome
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Rome And Macedonia
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Rome And Carthage
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Greece And Troy
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A. Greece And Troy -
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Who wrote a novel called "Metamorphosis" about a man who turned into a cockroach?
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Franz Kafka
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Aesop
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Voltaire
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Edgar Allan Poe
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A. Franz Kafka -
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Lord Byron and William Blake wrote primarily in what genre of poetry?
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Renaissance
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Romantic
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Modernist
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Victorian
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A. Romantic -
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Which two stories were written by Washington Irving?
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The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow And "The Lone Wolf"
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Rip Van Winkle And "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow"
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Rip Van Winkle And "A New England Nun"
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North Star And "Rip Van Winkle"
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A. Rip Van Winkle And "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" -
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Which "Winnie-the-Pooh" character has the catch phrase "T.T.F.N., ta ta for now"?
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Rabbit
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Piglet
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Tigger
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Christopher Robin
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A. Tigger -
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What other name has Anne Rice written under?
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Ann Rambling
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Sandy Lestat
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A.N. Roquelaure
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Anna Bond
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A. A.N. Roquelaure -
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Which son of Helios died by driving his father's chariot?
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Romulus
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Simion
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Phaethon
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Negus
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A. Phaethon -
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Who wrote the book "Cosmos"?
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Tom Wolfe
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Albert Einstein
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John Glenn
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Carl Sagan
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A. Carl Sagan -
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Which author wrote "Walden"?
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Walt Whitman
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Robert Frost
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Henry David Thoreau
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A. Henry David Thoreau -
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What sort of animals are featured in "Watership Down"?
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Fish
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Seagulls
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Rabbits
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Geese
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A. Rabbits -
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What is the name of Stephen King's first novel?
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Carrie
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Firestarter
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The Dead Zone
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The Stand
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A. Carrie -
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What kind of mythological creature was Pan?
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Satyr
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Goat
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Centaur
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Human
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A. Satyr -
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