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Lit Characters Trivia Quiz

This is a light literature quiz based mostly on English writings of the 20th century. The Modern Library's 100 are used as the basis for most of the questions about various unforgettable characters.

A multiple-choice quiz by bardovinci. Estimated time: 6 mins.

Author
bardovinci

Time
6 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
4,141

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
1041

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. What act led to Henry Scobie's downfall in Graham Greene's novel? Hint

murder of a policeman

borrowing money

stealing diamonds

selling secrets to Germany

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Question 2 of 10

2. In 'A Room with a View,' which book was mocked or praised as an essential reference to Florence? Hint

Middlemarch

Frohicke's

Baedeker's

Smith and Barton's

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Question 3 of 10

3. In Ellison's masterwork, what was the name of the narrator's 'Leader' in the quasi-Communist movement? Hint

Jack

Emerson

Stefan

Uncle

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who tells the tale of 'life,' according to a distraught Macbeth? Hint

a king

a warrior

an idiot

a clown

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Question 5 of 10

5. Other than drink and watch bullfights, what do the lead character and his English buddy do in Spain to pass the time in 'The Sun Also Rises'? Hint

paint

play chess

fish

pickpocket

6. In John Huston's film version of 'the Dead,' a character who was not in the story is added into the film. This character reads a poem collected by the Lady Gregory in one of her writings about the West. What is the speaker in the poem afraid has been taken from her by her lover in the poem's very last line (as it is read in the film)? Hint

God

Her soul

Her heart

Her shoes

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Question 7 of 10

7. Leander Wapshot dies at the end of Cheever's book. Whose death is his reminiscent of? Hint

Shakespeare's Romeo

Chopin's Edna

Hardy's Tess

Bronte's Catherine

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Question 8 of 10

8. In Carson McCullers' 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,' four very different people are drawn to bare their souls in some sense or other to one man. What word, in part, describes him? Hint

rich

mute

thrifty

domineering

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Question 9 of 10

9. In Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five,' where is the slaughterhouse located? Hint

Paris

Dresden

another planet

Massachussetts

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Question 10 of 10

10. Philip Roth's protagonists in 'Portnoy's Complaint' and 'Sabbath's Theater' are both very involved in frequent... Hint

investing

meditation

flying

masturbation

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What act led to Henry Scobie's downfall in Graham Greene's novel?

Answer: borrowing money

He did this for nothing, it would seem...

2. In 'A Room with a View,' which book was mocked or praised as an essential reference to Florence?

Answer: Baedeker's

This book said nothing about a murder by the fountain, unfortunately....

3. In Ellison's masterwork, what was the name of the narrator's 'Leader' in the quasi-Communist movement?

Answer: Jack

They met before the narrator 'disappeared.'

4. Who tells the tale of 'life,' according to a distraught Macbeth?

Answer: an idiot

Full of sound and fury...there's a title in there somewhere, hm?

5. Other than drink and watch bullfights, what do the lead character and his English buddy do in Spain to pass the time in 'The Sun Also Rises'?

Answer: fish

The Englishman begs the protagonist to stay and do this one more time before he leaves Spain for France.

Answer: God

'it was a bad time she took for telling me that: it was shutting the barn door after the horses were out.'

7. Leander Wapshot dies at the end of Cheever's book. Whose death is his reminiscent of?

Answer: Chopin's Edna

the voice invites one...

8. In Carson McCullers' 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,' four very different people are drawn to bare their souls in some sense or other to one man. What word, in part, describes him?

Answer: mute

By the end of the book, he had lost a dear friend, with whom he had shared this ambiguous trait.

9. In Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five,' where is the slaughterhouse located?

Answer: Dresden

the prisoners survive

10. Philip Roth's protagonists in 'Portnoy's Complaint' and 'Sabbath's Theater' are both very involved in frequent...

Answer: masturbation

Even in cemeteries.

Source: Author bardovinci

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