Literary Characters Online Quiz | Literary Characters

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1. Whose profile is this? Username: StraightShot Occupation: Freelance financial consultant Hobbies: Swapping tales, crooning a lusty ballad, quaffing ale with jolly wags at the Blue Boar Inn Favorite color: Lincoln green How the world sees me: Many do like me and wish me well, but few call me honest. Looking for: Stout yeoman to recruit guests and engage in manly sports. Latest update: I will strip from My Lord Bishop of Hereford only a third of his goods for my band and a third for Sir Richard, that he may redeem his lands. That done, My Lord Bishop may go on his way, albeit a bit lighter in the pocket and mayhap a bit wiser in mind.

Answer: Robin Hood

Howard Pyle's "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" was taken from old ballads of the famous outlaw, and lavishly garnished with other ballads of Robin Hood's time. This is probably the version of Robin Hood that Tom Sawyer would have known best.

Robin helped Sir Richard of the Lea, who was being strangled by fines and interest, to pay off his debts and keep his estate. In doing so, Robin made a friend for life.

2. Whose profile is this? Username: Squinty Job: Weaver Hobbies: Simple things with my daughter my my side: gathering medicinal herbs, picking flowers, gardening, or just sitting and pondering together. Most important thing I've learned in life: Money can't buy happiness. Looking for: Old friends from Lantern Yard. Latest update: I can scarce believe it! When Godfrey Cass ordered the Stone Pit drained, what should they find but the body of his long-missing brother -- and my stolen gold! Now my dear Eppie and I will never have cause to worry about money again.

Answer: Silas Marner

Silas, a lonely miser, gained the sympathy of the town when his hoard of gold was stolen. Soon afterward, a foundling turned up on his hearth and he raised her as his own.

Michael Henchard is the title character of "The Mayor of Casterbridge". He sold his wife in a fit of drunken rage.

Guy Montag is the protagonist of "Fahrenheit 451", a fireman whose job was to burn books.

Fitzwilliam Darcy was the love interest of our protagonist in "Pride and Prejudice".

3. Whose profile is this? Username: PlainJane Job: Governess/Teacher Hobbies: Drawing, speaking French, verbal sparring. There's nothing I enjoy quite so much as a lively argument! You'll find me wearing: Plain, simple clothes. Nothing fancy, please! Especially not expensive jewelry. Latest update: I'm really getting to be frightened of that servant, Grace Poole. Aside from her spooky laugh, she's downright dangerous. Last night she tried to burn the master up in his bed! Fortunately I heard her cackling laugh and managed to douse the fire in time.

Answer: Jane Eyre

Published in 1847, "Jane Eyre" has the brooding, Byronic male lead of a Gothic romance, but with a strong, self-determined female protagonist who stands on her own and needs no rescuing. "Jane Eyre" has been released as a motion picture, in various incarnations, 18 times in various languages and cultures, beginning with a silent version in 1910.

Elizabeth Bennett is the protagonist of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice." Hester Prynne is the shunned adulterous of "The Scarlet Letter." Emma Bovary is the title character of Flaubert's "Madame Bovary."

4. Whose profile is this? Username: SuperMan Occupation: Student Hobbies: I have not the time for something as common and trivial as hobbies! My friends would describe me as: I have only one friend, and even he can never fully comprehend me. I am not like other people. I am destined for greatness, and as such am free from the shackles of morality that bind ordinary people. Latest update: How can he know? Yet he must! Why is he taunting me? Or does the blood of that old woman cry out?

Answer: Rodion Roskolnikov

Roskolnikov, the dark and tormented protagonist of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment," loses his moral bearings in a morass of utopian socialism and rationalism, leading him to murder a crotchety old pawn broker in order to prove to himself that he really is superior to ordinary men.

Michael Henchard is the title character in Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge." Fitzwilliam Darcy is Elizabeth Bennett's love interest in "Pride and Prejudice." Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye."

5. Whose profile is this? Username: HalfPint Job: Seamstress / Teacher / Student Things I hate: sewing, being cooped up, towns and crowds, snobs Hobbies: Singing songs with my family while Pa plays his fiddle; reading aloud to my mother and sisters while they do housework; exploring the outdoors. I like to run and play ball but my mother scolds me when she catches me because it's not ladylike. I also love animals, especially horses. My friends would describe me as: affectionate, a good student, a hard worker. Very quiet -- I only speak when there's something to say. Latest update: Another blizzard! When will it ever stop? I'm so tired of sitting in the dark kitchen, grinding wheat for dinner, or sitting in the lean-to, twisting hay into sticks to burn. Ma says we must never complain but must be grateful for what we have, but I still wish I could have just a bite of meat or fish, and even a day of school!

Answer: Laura Ingalls

Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books are a loosely fictionalized autobiography of an American pioneer girl. From "Little House in the Big Woods" (1932, primarily a loving tribute to her father) to "The First Four Years" (published posthumously, a loving tribute to her husband), these books follow Laura from a preschooler to a young married woman.

As Laura grows older, the writing style of the books changes to suit a reader close to the protagonist's age.

6. Whose profile is this? Username: Metalmouth Job: Student Hobbies: Math Pets: A dog and a kitten I hate: School, mean kids, bossy teachers, gossips I love: My family, especially my dad and my little brother, Charles Wallace Someday I'd like to: Find my father. And get my braces off. And I'll be happy if I was even half as pretty and smart as my mother. Latest update: I'm not sure we can trust those crazy old ladies, but Charles Wallace has total faith in them. He's always been wise beyond his years.

Answer: Meg Murry

Margaret "Meg" Murry is the protagonist of Madeleine L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time." Along with her unusually gifted little brother Charles Wallace, and a lonely jock named Calvin O'Keefe, Meg sets off to rescue her missing father.

Hermione Granger is the female protagonist of the "Harry Potter" series. Lucy Pevensie is a main character in several of C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" books. Becky Thatcher is one of Tom Sawyer's two childhood love interests in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

7. Whose profile is this? Username: Fortuna's Fool Job: Bringer of enlightenment, as well as geometry and symmetry Hobbies: I engage in nothing so crass. My time is more productively spent in the writing of my memoirs. I also make regular forays into the local den of iniquitous entertainment to witness the fall of civilization through the base medium of film. Looking for: A female counterpart to myself, attuned to geometry and symmetry and able to discourse on all matters philosophical. Latest update: That minx has sent me yet another missive recounting her low debaucheries, causing yet more spasms of my pyloric valve. O, Fortuna! Why have you spun me so low?

Answer: Ignatius J. Reilly

John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces" was only published because his mother found a smudged carbon copy after Kennedy's suicide, and would not stop pestering people until she found a publisher. The slovenly, appallingly lazy, and melodramatic Ignatius J. Reilly pontificates throughout about philosophy and the deterioration of civilization as threads of a labyrinthine plot weave around him through the French Quarter of New Orleans in the early 1960s.

Benton Lynch is the strangely passive protagonist of T.R. Pearson's "Off for the Sweet Hereafter," which opens with a sentence over 400 words long. Svlad Cjelli is (possibly) the real name of the protagonist in Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" and "The Long, Dark Teatime of the Soul." Jonathan Rebeck is the semi-protagonist of Peter S. Beagle's "A Fine and Private Place."

8. Whose profile is this: Username: TrulyPneumatic Occupation: Vaccination Worker, Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre Hobbies: Feelies, Obstacle Golf, and Centrifugal Bumblepuppy Motto: Ending is better than mending. Looking for: A good time Latest update: I can't believe Bernard took me to that awful place! And we saw that woman -- that Linda. To think! The same unspeakable thing could have happened to me that happened to her! It's all too horrible, really, to get old and ugly and -- Oh, I can't even say the worst of it! Oh, the obscenity of it all! It never would have happened if she had practiced her Malthusian drills, I'm sure of it! I need to go take some Soma, and get that image out of my mind.

Answer: Lenina Crowne

Lenina Crowne is as close as Aldous Huxley came to putting a female lead in "Brave New World." Published in 1932, "Brave New World" is a dystopian fantasy well ahead of its time. Lenina's inexplicable attraction to Bernard Marx carries her to a "Savage Reservation," where she meets the ultimate nightmare for a woman of her world: a mother.

Janie Crawford is the protagonist from Zora Neale Hurston's novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God." Susan Henchard is the mayor's two-time wife in "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy. Catherine Morland is the over-imaginative and melodramatic teen from Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey."

9. Whose profile is this: Username: HoopyFrood Job: President of the Galaxy Favorite Possession: my Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses Accomplishments: Voted "Worst-Dressed Sentient Being in the Universe" seven consecutive times Looking for: Good times and my next Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster Latest update: The very first time we use the Infinite Probability Drive, what happens? Trillian picks up hitchhikers. And not just any hitchhikers, either -- my semi-cousin (who shares three of the same mothers as me) and the monkey man who was chatting up Trillian when I met her. Trillian says this isn't impossible, just very, very improbable, and that I need to get used to stuff like this.

Answer: Zaphod Beeblebrox

Douglas Adams's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" has had many incarnations, including a BBC radio show, a BBC television miniseries, a trilogy of four novels (Yes, four. Don't ask.), and a motion picture. The various versions all center on the adventures of Arthur Dent, who was rescued from the Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace express route.

Valentine Michael Smith is the man from Mars in Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land." Guy Montag is the protagonist in Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." Luna Kaftan is the love interest in Piers Anthony's "On a Pale Horse."

10. Whose profile is this: Username: Scout What I love: Reading, and playing with Dill and Jem What I hate: School, dresses, and being ladylike Latest update: Miss Maudie's house burned down last night. Atticus got me out of bed and outside in case the fire spread, and it sure was cold. We have our suspicions about who wrapped that blanket around me, and it gives me the shivers to think about it.

Answer: Jean Louise Finch

Jean Louise "Scout" Finch is the narrator and central character of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." Scout, accompanied by her brother Jem and best friend Dill, delves into the mysteries of hermit "Boo" Radley, who, like many of the people in their small town of Maycomb, Alabama, turns out to be very different from what the children believe from appearances.

Jane Elizabeth Firesheets is the Bonnie to Benton Lynch's reluctant Clyde in T.R. Pearson's "Off for the Sweet Hereafter." Dolores Haze is the eponymous Lolita of Vladimir Nabokov's novel. Mary Frances "Francie" Catherine Nolan is the protagonist of Maggie Smith's "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."

Source: Author ubermom

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