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Quiz about English Lit 101
Quiz about English Lit 101

English Lit 101 Trivia Quiz

See if you can recall facts about authors, poets and their works found in literature from the British Isles.

A multiple-choice quiz by debodun. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
debodun
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
339,251
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
953
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 101 (8/10), Guest 136 (6/10), NETTLES1960 (3/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. In Charles Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby", a young man finds himself the chief means of support for his mother and sister after the death of his father. Of course, there must be a villain in the story. Which character is Nicholas' main antagonist? Hint


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Question 2 of 10
2. Sherlock Holmes employed a page boy to run errands for him. What was the name of this ambitious young man? Hint


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Question 3 of 10
3. William Wordsworth is considered one of the founders of the Romantic movement in English literature. Which other poet is regarded by literary scholars as the co-founder? Hint


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Question 4 of 10
4. In Chaucer's narrative "The Canterbury Tales", who is the hero in the Nun's Priest's story? Hint


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Question 5 of 10
5. Which Scottish writer penned this phrase - "Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung"? Hint


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Question 6 of 10
6. "I married him" is the concluding remark of what 19th Century novel? Hint


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Question 7 of 10
7. Who was the first English author to win a Nobel Prize for Literature? Hint


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Question 8 of 10
8. The UK banned publication of D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" for how many years? Hint


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Question 9 of 10
9. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), was an author and mathematician. He is best known for his nonsensical stories and poems like "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "The Jabberwocky". Which of these is not one of his works? Hint


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Question 10 of 10
10. How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote her most famous novel, "Frankenstein"? Hint



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1. In Charles Dickens' novel "Nicholas Nickleby", a young man finds himself the chief means of support for his mother and sister after the death of his father. Of course, there must be a villain in the story. Which character is Nicholas' main antagonist?

Answer: Ralph Nickleby

 Ralph is Nicholas' uncle and a Scrooge-like character who is obsessed with money. He resents his nephew's idealism and vows to bring the younger man down, but eventually his plots only harm himself. Hawk is more an antagonist of Nicholas' sister and foists his unwanted attentions on her. Nicholas, however, rebuffs Hawk who then vows revenge, but never follows through. Newman is Nicholas' best friend. Gride is another miserly character who tries to manipulate Madeline's inheritance by proposing marriage just to get at her wealth.
2. Sherlock Holmes employed a page boy to run errands for him. What was the name of this ambitious young man?

Answer: Billy

 Billy the page is mentioned in three of Conan Doyle's detective stories - "The Valley of Fear", "The Problem of Thor Bridge" and "The Mazarin Stone". The last has his most significant role as he actually participates in helping Holmes bring the villains, Sylvius and Merton, to justice. He was portrayed in the 1939 movie "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Terry Kilburn.
3. William Wordsworth is considered one of the founders of the Romantic movement in English literature. Which other poet is regarded by literary scholars as the co-founder?

Answer: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Coleridge viewed his poetry as "the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man" while Wordsworth saw his as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." Both Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated on the book "Lyrical Ballads" which was published in 1798.
4. In Chaucer's narrative "The Canterbury Tales", who is the hero in the Nun's Priest's story?

Answer: Chanticleer

 Chanticleer is an egotistical rooster who is captured by a fox and makes use the fox's vanity to escape. Nicholas is the protagonist in the Miller's tale, Theseus is in The Knight's tale and Jankyn appears in the Wife of Bath's story.
5. Which Scottish writer penned this phrase - "Beware a tongue that's smoothly hung"?

Answer: Robert Burns

 Burns wrote this in his 1784 poem "O Leave Novels". It is good advice and warns against fast-talking con artists. Remember that when going shopping for a new car.
6. "I married him" is the concluding remark of what 19th Century novel?

Answer: Jane Eyre

 Published in 1847 by Charlotte Brontė, its soap opera style plot remains popular. It has been dramatized in dozens of movie, radio and TV adaptations, and even made into several musicals. In the end Jane agrees to marry the widowed Edward Rochester.
7. Who was the first English author to win a Nobel Prize for Literature?

Answer: Rudyard Kipling

 Kipling won the seventh Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 "in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author". It was another 18 years until another writer from the British Isles won this award - George Bernard Shaw in 1925.
8. The UK banned publication of D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover" for how many years?

Answer: 32

 Banned in the UK because of its explicit descriptions of physical intimacy and what was considered at that time to be unprintable language, it was first published in 1928 in Florence, Italy. However, societal norms changed and the ban was lifted in 1960.
9. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), was an author and mathematician. He is best known for his nonsensical stories and poems like "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "The Jabberwocky". Which of these is not one of his works?

Answer: Snickersnack and Snickersnee

 Dodgson was also an inventor, clergyman, mathematician and an avid photographer, despite suffering a knee injury and deafness. There are world-wide literary societies dedicated to the study of his satirical works. It is said that he wrote all of his works while standing.
10. How old was Mary Shelley when she wrote her most famous novel, "Frankenstein"?

Answer: 19

 During a vacation to Lake Geneva, Switzerland in 1816, Mary to start writing "Frankenstein" which started out to be a short-story, but at the urging of her intimate companion, Percy Shelley, it expanded into a novel. She later described that summer as "when I first stepped out from childhood into life".
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