Is It Right or Is It Wrong? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jane Fairfax in 'Emma'

Jane Fairfax is an orphan in 'Emma'. She is beautiful, talented and accomplished, having been taken in by an army friend of her late father, who provided her education. She is the only person whom Emma envies.

Fanny Price is the shy, timid heroine of 'Mansfield Park'. She finally marries Edmund Bertram at the end of the novel.

Marianne Dashwood comes across as immature and selfish at the start of 'Sense and Sensibility' (the sensibility element), but her character develops over time and she decides to model her behaviour on that of her more sensible elder sister, Elinor.

Elizabeth Bennet is the second eldest of the five Bennet sisters in 'Pride and Prejudice'. Her mother's overarching ambition in life is to marry off all five of her daughters to wealthy gentlemen. Elizabeth finally marries Fitzwilliam Darcy, but only after she has overcome her prejudice and he his pride.

Answer: Gertrude in 'Hamlet'

At the start of 'Hamlet', Hamlet's father, King of Denmark, has just died and his widow Gertrude enters into a hasty marriage with King Claudius, who is successor to the throne and Hamlet's uncle - this much to Hamlet's chagrin.

Beatrice is the sharp-tongued niece of Leonato and cousin of Hero in 'Much Ado About Nothing'. After much intrigue and mistaken identity, she finally marries Benedick.

Cordelia is the youngest of King Lear's daughters and his favourite. She is sincere and good and, unlike her father and two hypocritical sisters, Goneril and Regan, is able to distinguish between love and land. Her father exiles her, because he erroneously thinks she doesn't love him enough, but he then goes mad when his two evil daughters reject him. Cordelia returns in the final act to help her ailing father.

Rosalind is the beautiful daughter of Duke Senior in 'As You Like It'. The Duke has been exiled by his evil usurping younger brother Frederick, but after much disguise and intrigue, Rosalind marries her sweetheart Orlando and Frederick repents his wicked deeds and restores his brother to the dukedom.

Answer: George Milton in 'Of Mice and Men'

George Milton and Lennie Small are migrant field workers in 'Of mice and Men'. George is intelligent but uneducated and Lennie is mentally disabled but enormously strong. George's dream is to settle down on their own patch of land - a dream that is almost realised thanks to the intervention of Candy - but it all goes tragically wrong when Lennie accidentally breaks Curley's wife's neck and George ends up shooting Lennie dead.

Tom Joad is the protagonist of 'The Grapes of Wrath', for which Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1962. The novel is set during the Great Depression and tells the story of the tribulations suffered by a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home.

Adam Trask, son of Cyrus, is a wealthy man in 'East of Eden', but wealth does not bring happiness. His wife shoots him in the shoulder and leaves to become a prostitute. They have two sons, Caleb and Aron, loosely modelled on Cain and Abel.

Lee Chong is the shrewd Chinese owner of the local grocery store in 'Cannery Row'.

Answer: Miss Havisham in 'Great Expectations'

Miss Havisham is Estella's embittered guardian in 'Great Expectations'. She never recovered from being rejected by her prospective bridegroom on the day of their wedding.

Esther Summerson is the heroine of 'Bleak House' and is Dickens' only female narrator.

Bob Cratchit is a clerk in 'A Christmas Carol' and symbolises poor working conditions and long working hours.

Nell Trent is the beautiful young orphan in 'The Old Curiosity Shop'.

Answer: Angel Clare in 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles'

Tess meets and falls in love with Angel Clare, while she is working as a dairymaid at Talbothays Dairy.

Clym Yeobright is the eponymous character of 'The Return of the Native'. Having been a successful diamond merchant, he returns home from Paris with plans to study to become a schoolmaster for the poor of the neighbourhood.

Michael Henchard is the Mayor of Casterbridge, who years earlier sold off his wife and baby daughter to a sailor for five guineas.

William Boldwood is the prosperous farmer in 'Far from the Madding Crowd' who becomes obsessed with Bathsheba after she sends him a valentine card in jest.

Answer: Maggie Pollitt in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'

'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' portrays a dysfunctional southern family, including alcoholic Brick, his wife Maggie (also known as 'Maggie the Cat', but that would have given the game away), Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, and Big Mama.

'The Glass Menagerie' tells the story of Tom, his mother Amanda and his sister Laura. Laura is handicapped by a limp (the result of polio) and an overwhelming lack of confidence. The play centres on an evening when Tom invites Jim, an acquaintance from work, to dinner with the family.

'Sweet Bird of Youth' deals with the story of Chance Wayne, who has managed to fail both in his Florida home town of St Cloud and in Hollywood. Chance returns to St Cloud in the hope of being reunited with his childhood sweetheart, Heavenly Finley. It transpires that he infected Heavenly with a venereal disease the last time they were together, which has led to her sterility, and her father and brother are intent on revenge.

'A Streetcar Named Desire' tells the story of the decline and subsequent mental breakdown of Blanche Dubois, who utters to the doctor the famous line, 'Whoever you are, I have always depended upon the kindness of strangers'.

Answer: Ambrose Ashley in 'My Cousin Rachel'

Ambrose Ashley is the guardian of his orphaned cousin Philip and marries another cousin, Rachel, while wintering in Italy.

John and Laura are the couple in the macabre short story 'Don't Look Now', from which Hitchcock's film of the same name is adapted.

Mrs Danvers is the redoubtable housekeeper in 'Rebecca', who undermines and intimidates the new wife taken by Maxim de Winter after Rebecca's death. Ironically, the titular protagonist is dead, whereas we never learn the first name of the actual protagonist, the second Mrs de Winter. Hitchcock's film 'Rebecca' is based on this novel.

Answer: Dr Thomas Stockmann in 'An Enemy of the People'

Dr Thomas Stockmann, the protagonist of 'An Enemy of the People', is the Medical Officer of the contaminated Municipal Baths and a highly principled person. He becomes branded an enemy of the people as a result of political intrigue and other people's corruption and self-interest.

George Tesman is Hedda Gabler's husband in the play of the same name that deals with academic intrigue and jealousy.

Halvard Solness is the master builder in the play of the same name. Despite his acrophobia (morbid fear of heights), he is persuaded by the scheming Hilda Wangel to climb to the top of a steeple at the public opening of his latest project. He loses his footing and falls to his death.

Nora Helmer is the protagonist of 'A Doll's House'. During the course of the play, she comes to realize that her husband is not the honourable and principled person she thought he was. She says she needs to go away to find her real self, having been treated first by her father and then by her husband as a mere plaything - a doll (hence the play's title).

Answer: Miss Marple in 'A Caribbean Mystery'

In 'A Caribbean Mystery', Miss Marple solves a murder at the Golden Palm resort on the Caribbean island of St Honoré.

'They Do It with Mirrors' deals with a murder that takes place in a home for delinquent boys. Miss Marple deduces that the crime was covered up using a mixture of illusion, misdirection of attention and acting skills.

'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' takes place in King's Abbot, which is the village where Hercule Poirot, now retired, lives. He comes out of retirement at the request of Ackroyd's niece Flora to solve the case.

'A Murder is Announced' begins with the strange situation of a notice appearing in the paper of a small English village, giving the details (time and location) of a murder that will take place. It is Miss Marple who solves the mystery at the end of a hugely complicated plot.

Answer: Captain Keith Mallory in 'The Guns of Navarone'

'The Guns of Navarone' takes place in WWII and tells the story of a small Allied commando team attempting to destroy a seemingly impregnable German fortress on the island of Navarone. In the film, Captain Mallory was played by Gregory Peck.

Commander Swanson is the commander of the submarine USS 'Dolphin', sent on a rescue mission to British meteorological Station Zebra, situated on an ice floe in the Arctic Sea, after this latter is hit by a catastrophic oil fire. In the film, Commander Swanson is changed to Commander James Ferraday, played by Rock Hudson.

Major John Smith is the leader of a commando team sent to a mountaintop fortress in the Alps of southern Bavaria that can only be reached by cable car or helicopter. Their mission is to rescue a senior military planner shot down and taken prisoner by the Nazis before they can interrogate him. In the film, Smith is played by Richard Burton.

Philip Calvert is a British secret agent sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea. In the film, he is played by Anthony Hopkins.