First Names Only, Please Trivia Quiz

Answer: Great Expectations

In "Great Exectations", Charles Dickens tells the coming-of-age story of Phillip Pirrip (Pip). He and fellow orphan Estelle are brought together as children by Miss Havisham, who was thwarted in love. Pip falls in love with Estella, but she rejects him.

Answer: To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee's classic tells of southern lawyer Atticus Finch, who is representing a black man in a rape trial. His children, Jem (Jeremy) and Scout (Jean Louise), bear the burden of their father's unpopular position and are befriended by their reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley.

Answer: Pride and Prejudice

The Bennetts have no sons to inherit the family home, so Mrs. Bennett must find husbands for her daughters. Despite their mother's bungling attempts, Lizzie and Jane both find love with rich gentlemen.

Answer: The Great Gatsby

Nick Carraway narrates the story of self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby's love for his cousin, Daisy Buchanan. In 1998, "The Great Gatsby" was voted the 20th Century's best American novel by the Modern Library editorial board.

Answer: Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott's historical novel is set at the time of the Third Crusade, when King Richard the Lionheart is away from England. The Saxon Lady Rowena and Jewish nurse Rebecca both love Sir Wilfred Ivanhoe. Robin of Locksley (aka Robin Hood) also features in the adventures.

Answer: Ulysses

James Joyce's classic follows Leopold Bloom through the course of one day in Dublin: June 16, 1904. Other characters include his wife, Molly, and student Stephen Dedalus. Each chapter uses a different literary style and re-interprets an episode from Homer's "The Odyssey".

Answer: Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Agatha Christie wrote 33 mystery novels featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. One of her recurring comic characters is Ariadne Oliver, a celebrated mystery author whose works feature vegetarian Finnish detective Sven Hjerson. Hercule and Ariadne appear together in seven novels.

Answer: The Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemmingway's classic depicts the "lost generation" of expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s. It is a frustrated love story between twice-divorced Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes, a veteran whose war injuries have made him impotent.

Answer: The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne's tale of guilt, punishment, and redemption features Hester Prynne, an adulteress, and her daughter, Pearl. Hester is forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her chest, as public humiliation for her sin. Her lover, Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, manages to hide his role in the affair, but is consumed by guilt and publicly confesses his sin before his death.

Answer: The Brothers Karamazov

Dostoyevsky's last novel uses the story of the three brothers and the murder of their father to explore philosophical topics such as the existence of God and morality. Although Dimitri is engaged to Katrina, he is in love with Grushenka, his father's mistress.

When the father is murdered, Dimitri is tried and convicted, although he claims his innocence. The actual murderer is revealed later in the book...as is the fate of brother Ivan, who goes mad, and Alexei (Alyosha), a novice monk.