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Quiz about Characters in Literary Titles

Characters in Literary Titles Trivia Quiz

Each question offers the name of a character who is mentioned in the title of a literary work. You have to try to identify the author.

A multiple-choice quiz by robert362. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
robert362

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
65,837

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1175

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who is the author of 'Gertrude'and 'Demian'? Hint

Marcel Proust

Thomas Mann

Hermann Hesse

Franz Kafka

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of the following works is not a SHORT STORY (and name of a character) by Edgar Allan Poe? Hint

'Morella'

'Israfel'

Berenice'

'Eleonora'

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who wrote about 'Humphrey Clinker'? Hint

Herman Melville

Tobias Smollett

James Joyce

Albert Camus

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote 'Tristram Shandy'? Hint

Henry Fielding

Laurence Sterne

Anthony Trollope

William Thackeray

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who wrote the play, 'Salome'? Hint

John Millington Synge

T.S. Eliot

George Bernard Shaw

Oscar Wilde

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who wrote about 'Taras Bulba'? Hint

Nikolai Gogol

Boris Pasternak

Alexander Pushkin

Mikhail Sholokhov

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who is the author of 'Cass Timberlane' and 'Ann Vickers'? Hint

John Steinbeck

Sinclair Lewis

William Faulkner

F . Scott Fitzgerald

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who is the author of 'Nostromo'? Hint

Jonathan Swift

Henry James

Joseph Conrad

Daniel Defoe

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Question 9 of 10

9. What author wrote about a girl of the streets named Maggie? Hint

Jack London

Stephen Crane

Thomas Wolfe

Theodore Dreiser

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who wrote poems about 'Lucasta' and 'Althea'? Hint

Robert Burns

Edmund Spenser

Walter Raleigh

Richard Lovelace

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who is the author of 'Gertrude'and 'Demian'?

Answer: Hermann Hesse

Two of his lesser known works. He's better known for 'Siddhartha' and 'Steppenwolf'.

2. Which of the following works is not a SHORT STORY (and name of a character) by Edgar Allan Poe?

Answer: 'Israfel'

Also 'Ligeia' (and others). 'Israfel' is a poem.

3. Who wrote about 'Humphrey Clinker'?

Answer: Tobias Smollett

'The Expedition of Sir Humphrey Clinker'. (No kidding.) Melville wrote 'Billy Budd'.

4. Who wrote 'Tristram Shandy'?

Answer: Laurence Sterne

His masterpiece, they say. Fielding did 'Tom Jones'. Thackeray did 'Barry Lyndon'.

5. Who wrote the play, 'Salome'?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

Shaw did 'Saint Joan' (about Joan of Arc). Wilde (in my opinion) had one outstanding play ('Importance of Being Earnest'), one outstanding novel ('Picture of Dorian Gray'), one outstanding poem ('Ballad of Reading Gaol') and one outstanding memoir ('De Profundis'). Interesting.

6. Who wrote about 'Taras Bulba'?

Answer: Nikolai Gogol

It became a fairly good movie with Tony Curtis and Yul Brynner. Pasternak did 'Dr. Zhivago'.

7. Who is the author of 'Cass Timberlane' and 'Ann Vickers'?

Answer: Sinclair Lewis

Not his best-known works. He's better known for 'Main Street' and 'Arrowsmith'. Faulkner wrote about 'Absalom' and Fitzgerald wrote about 'Gatsby'.

8. Who is the author of 'Nostromo'?

Answer: Joseph Conrad

Conrad also did 'Lord Jim'. Defoe did 'Robiinson Crusoe'. James did 'Daisy Miller'. Swift wrote about 'Gulliver'.

9. What author wrote about a girl of the streets named Maggie?

Answer: Stephen Crane

'Maggie, A Girl of the Streets'. Dreiser wrote about 'Carrie'.

10. Who wrote poems about 'Lucasta' and 'Althea'?

Answer: Richard Lovelace

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Source: Author robert362

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