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Quiz about Characters And Their Creators 5

Characters And Their Creators 5 Quiz

I will give you a clue to a literary character. All you have to do is identify the author who created the character in question.

A matching quiz by Spontini. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Spontini

Time
4 mins

Type
Match Quiz

Quiz #
400,168

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
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Easy

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Questions		Choices
1. An Empress communicates her feelings by a series of grunts. She lives in property owned by a British lord in a series of humorous books.		Charlotte Bronte
2. A young girl has a shape-shifting companion called Pantalaimon.		Sir Philip Pullman
3. A young baby found in the jungle is raised by a pack of wolves.		Patricia Cornwell
4. A medical practitioner who cuts up dead bodies mainly in the state of Virginia uses her forensic science skills to solve murders.		P. G. Wodehouse
5. A group of cats including, amongst others, Grizabella and Mungojerrie are to be found in a collection of poems.		Rudyard Kipling
6. This boy was adopted by a tribe of apes who had previously killed his father in the jungle.		T. S. Eliot
7. We meet this romantic anti-hero when he is adopted by a Yorkshire family. His foster sister loves him.		Emily Bronte
8. A young woman becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall where she falls for employer.		Edgar Rice Burroughs
9. A young, red headed, superhumanly strong Swedish girl is the main character in a series of books.		Astrid Lindgren
10. An African boy from the Mandinka tribe grows up in The Gambia until one day he is captured, transported to America and sold into slavery.		Alex Haley

Select each answer

1. An Empress communicates her feelings by a series of grunts. She lives in property owned by a British lord in a series of humorous books.

2. A young girl has a shape-shifting companion called Pantalaimon.

3. A young baby found in the jungle is raised by a pack of wolves.

4. A medical practitioner who cuts up dead bodies mainly in the state of Virginia uses her forensic science skills to solve murders.

5. A group of cats including, amongst others, Grizabella and Mungojerrie are to be found in a collection of poems.

6. This boy was adopted by a tribe of apes who had previously killed his father in the jungle.

7. We meet this romantic anti-hero when he is adopted by a Yorkshire family. His foster sister loves him.

8. A young woman becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall where she falls for employer.

9. A young, red headed, superhumanly strong Swedish girl is the main character in a series of books.

10. An African boy from the Mandinka tribe grows up in The Gambia until one day he is captured, transported to America and sold into slavery.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. An Empress communicates her feelings by a series of grunts. She lives in property owned by a British lord in a series of humorous books.

Answer: P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse wrote a series of books about Lord Emsworth who lives in Blandings Castle. Another prominent resident is a pig called the "Empress of Blandings".

2. A young girl has a shape-shifting companion called Pantalaimon.

Answer: Sir Philip Pullman

Lyra Belacqua first appears in "Northern Lights", the first novel in the "His dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman. Her best friend is a daemon called Pantalaimon (known as 'Pan'). Lyra lives in a parallel universe to our own.

3. A young baby found in the jungle is raised by a pack of wolves.

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

"The Jungle Book", a series of short stories written by Rudyard Kipling is about the return of a young Indian boy called Mowgli to a human village after years in the jungle. His best friends are Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther who keep Mowgli safe from the tiger Shere Khan who would love to kill him.

4. A medical practitioner who cuts up dead bodies mainly in the state of Virginia uses her forensic science skills to solve murders.

Answer: Patricia Cornwell

Dr. Kay Scarpetta, the fictional protagonist in a series of novels written by Patricia Cornwell, is based on a real person who was Chief Medical Examiner for the state of Virginia before retiring.

5. A group of cats including, amongst others, Grizabella and Mungojerrie are to be found in a collection of poems.

Answer: T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot wrote a series of poems which together make "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats". Each poem usually tell a story about a cat with a particular name. A stage musical based on the poems was brought to the London stage in 1981.

6. This boy was adopted by a tribe of apes who had previously killed his father in the jungle.

Answer: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan was the son of a British Lord and Lady according to the stories created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Adopted by the apes, Tarzan became a bit of a wild man. He later meets a young American lady, Jane Porter, and falls in love with her.

7. We meet this romantic anti-hero when he is adopted by a Yorkshire family. His foster sister loves him.

Answer: Emily Bronte

Heathcliff is the leading male character in the novel "Wuthering Heights", the only book written by Emily Bronte.

8. A young woman becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall where she falls for employer.

Answer: Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Bronte wrote quite a few books, the most famous of which is "Jane Eyre". It was published at first under the pen name "Currer Bell" in 1847. The pseudonym protected her identity but still preserved her initials. Pseudonyms were used by the Bronte sisters to avoid personal publicity and also because there was often prejudice against female authors.

9. A young, red headed, superhumanly strong Swedish girl is the main character in a series of books.

Answer: Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren wrote several different children's book series, including the Pippi Longstocking series. In January 2017, she was calculated to be the world's 18th most translated author.

10. An African boy from the Mandinka tribe grows up in The Gambia until one day he is captured, transported to America and sold into slavery.

Answer: Alex Haley

Kunta Kinte, the African boy, had learned his family history at the feet of family members who regularly retold stories of past events. When he arrived in America, he was given the slave name Toby. He kept his family history alive by retelling those same stories to his slave family.

The stories enabled Alex Haley to reconstruct his family tree and retell the stories once more in a book titled "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" (1976). The book was made into a hugely successful TV mini-series.

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