Famous Characters in Fiction Trivia Quiz

Answer: Walter Mitty

Peter Pan is a character from a J.M. Barrie story. Typical of him is that he refuses to grow up. Little Lord Fauntleroy is a very polite boy in neat clothes. He occurs in a Frances Hodgson Burnett story.
Of Rip van Winkle it's well known that he misses out on a number of years in world-history because he had overslept.

Answer: Pinocchio

"The Adventures of Pinocchio" was first published as a serial in the 'Giornale dei Bambini'. The story is about a wooden puppet carved by a friendly old man Gepetto. Suddenly one night the puppet comes to life. Alas the puppet is given to telling lies. Fortunately for Pinocchio's education every time he tells a lie, his nose begins to grow longer. So he has a good reason to start reforming his behaviour.

The author C. Collodi was born in Florence in 1826, the son of a cook and a servant. Collodi died in his hometown in 1890.

Answer: Sherlock Holmes

In 1999 a statue of the famous detective was placed near Baker Street Underground Station, to commemorate the fictitious upstairs apartment of house number 221 where Sherlock Holmes was supposed to have his residence.

Answer: Leopold Bloom (Joyce)

Molly and Leopold Bloom live in North Dublin on 7 Eccles Street. From 1908 to 1910 this was the home of a friend of James Joyce's, one J.F. Byrne. It was during a stay here that Joyce heard possibly slanderous stories about his wife Nora having had a lover before she met Joyce. Byrne comforted him.

The door of this house has been salvaged and can now be seen at "The Bailey" on Duke Street.

Answer: Canon Chasuble

In this play, Rev. Canon Chasuble is a middle-aged man of the cloth (fiftyish) with a proper parish in the area where John Worthing keeps his country estate. Smitten with Miss Prism, the governess who was hired to tutor Cecily Cardew, John Worthing's ward. Affable and friendly, with a tendency towards flowery speech. Always looks for the good in any person and situation.

Answer: Miss Prism

Miss Prism can suffer from acute absent-mindedness. This accounts for a key element in the plot: John Worthing was lost in a suitcase on a railway platform and from then on treated as an orphan. At the end of the plot his true original identity is established. And fortunately enough for him, it is discovered that by his "lost parents" he had been given the first name Ernest.

This saves him from all further trouble, as that was the condition that his beloved Gwendolen had been 100% serious about: she only wanted to marry a man of the name of...Ernest.

Answer: Wilkie Collins - "The Woman in White"

In this story Laura Fairlie marries the wrong man because she feels tied by a promise she has made to her father. Later her husband, Sir Percival Glyde, tries to replace her by a look-alike, who is an escapee from an asylum, one Anne Catherick. Laura is overpowered and sent off to the asylum where she is supposed to be Anne.

The man who was Laura's real love, a painter, gets help from Laura's half-sister Marian to unravel the complicated intrigue. Count Fosco and Sir Percival Glyde are the "villains of the piece". Sir Percival Glyde is Laura Fairlie's husband. Count Fosco is married to Laura's aunt, who inherits ten thousand pounds on the false Laura's death.

The money is not recovered, when the fraud is exposed, but Laura later inherits an estate from her uncle.In this way we still get some kind of happy end. Sir Percival gets accidentally killed when he sets fire to the parish registry where the documents about his illegitimate birth are kept.

Answer: Richard Newsom

Jude Fawley is from "Jude the Obscure". Richard Phillotson is his former schoolmaster. Angel Clare is from "Tess of the D'Urbervilles". He is the one who takes care of her after she has killed her cousin and seducer Alec.

Answer: the Rev. Pontifex

Dr. Primrose is the "Vicar of Wakefield" (by Goldsmith). "The Way of All Flesh" depicts four generations of Pontifexes. Ernest Pontifex is tyrannised by his father Theo(bald) who has a cruel and disciplarian concept of parenthood. The effects of this over-repressive education are that the boy is completely out of balance. We see him give away his money to a pregnant maid, become a priest, mistake a respectable lady for a whore and after release from prison start an unwise relationship with the maid Ellen.

The story and its conclusion question the values of Victorian society and emphasize the superiority of the individual mind above convention.

Answer: "Ulysses" by James Joyce

The novel is set in Dublin on the day of June 16, 1904. In the opening chapters of Part II ("Calypso" and "Lotus Eaters") we learn that Bloom is a servile husband who prepares breakfast and runs errands on behalf of his wife Molly who remains half asleep in bed. We also learn that later he has to attend the funeral of his friend Paddy Dignam.