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Quiz about Literary Characters and Their Creators 6

Literary Characters and Their Creators 6 Quiz

I will give you a clue to a literary character. All you have to do is identify the author who created the character in question.

A matching quiz by Spontini. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Spontini

Time
4 mins

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Match Quiz

Quiz #
400,207

Updated
Dec 03 21

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Easy

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Questions		Choices
1. This character has a very keen sense of smell and enjoys a fresh steak.		Frances Hodgson Burnet
2. A young Canadian orphan girl is mistakenly sent to a farm to live instead of a young boy.		Robert Louis Stevenson
3. This character wears a tall, pointed hat and is a failed wizard.		Hans Christian Andersen
4. The sole survivor of a shipwreck is mentioned in the first sentence of the book he comes from.		Terry Pratchett
5. A hard-boiled investigator smokes Camel cigarettes, drinks whiskey and likes to play chess and read poetry.		Herman Melville
6. Hideously ugly but sensitive, he is shunned by society and seeks revenge.		Thomas Harris
7. Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor visits this person in his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to assist in a legal matter.		Bram Stoker
8. This literary creation is shy, awkward and miserable at first, but later becomes happy and confident.		Raymond Chandler
9. A one legged man has a parrot for a pet.		Mary Shelley
10. An orphaned girl is sent to live with her uncle. One night she is wakened by the sound of a child crying and discovers an apparently crippled boy in a secret bedroom.		Lucy Maud Montgomery

Select each answer

1. This character has a very keen sense of smell and enjoys a fresh steak.

2. A young Canadian orphan girl is mistakenly sent to a farm to live instead of a young boy.

3. This character wears a tall, pointed hat and is a failed wizard.

4. The sole survivor of a shipwreck is mentioned in the first sentence of the book he comes from.

5. A hard-boiled investigator smokes Camel cigarettes, drinks whiskey and likes to play chess and read poetry.

6. Hideously ugly but sensitive, he is shunned by society and seeks revenge.

7. Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor visits this person in his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to assist in a legal matter.

8. This literary creation is shy, awkward and miserable at first, but later becomes happy and confident.

9. A one legged man has a parrot for a pet.

10. An orphaned girl is sent to live with her uncle. One night she is wakened by the sound of a child crying and discovers an apparently crippled boy in a secret bedroom.

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This character has a very keen sense of smell and enjoys a fresh steak.

Answer: Thomas Harris

Hannibal Lecter is introduced in the book "Red Dragon" (1981), written by Thomas Harris. He is best known for the novel "The Silence of the Lambs" (1988).

2. A young Canadian orphan girl is mistakenly sent to a farm to live instead of a young boy.

Answer: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote "Anne of Green Gables" (1908). Anne doesn't like her red hair and freckles but is happy with her nose.
The book recounts Anne's early life on the farm, her school and friendships.

3. This character wears a tall, pointed hat and is a failed wizard.

Answer: Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was a humourist and author most famous for his "Discworld" fantasy novels. Rincewind the failed wizard appears in several of them. Pratchett sold more than 85 million books and was the UK's best selling novelist in the 1990s. My favourite Pratchett quote is "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

4. The sole survivor of a shipwreck is mentioned in the first sentence of the book he comes from.

Answer: Herman Melville

"Call Me Ishmael" is the opening line of "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville. Ishmael is the narrator of the story. "Moby Dick" was not initially well received but is now considered one of the great American novels,

5. A hard-boiled investigator smokes Camel cigarettes, drinks whiskey and likes to play chess and read poetry.

Answer: Raymond Chandler

Philip Marlowe first appears under that name in "The Big Sleep" (1939) created by Raymond Chandler. He wrote a lot of short stories prior to "The Big Sleep" and when they were republished, they now featured Philip Marlowe. Chandler died in 1959, leaving the novel "Poodle Springs" unfinished.

6. Hideously ugly but sensitive, he is shunned by society and seeks revenge.

Answer: Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, wrote the novel "Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus" (1818). Frankenstein does not refer to the monster in the book but rather to Dr. Victor Frankenstein who created him.

7. Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor visits this person in his castle in the Carpathian Mountains to assist in a legal matter.

Answer: Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker, who created Dracula in the novel of the same name, was born in Ireland and is buried in one of London's larger cemeteries. He was better known during his lifetime for being the personal assistant of the famous actor Sir Henry Irving, who many people believe was the inspiration for the character Dracula.

8. This literary creation is shy, awkward and miserable at first, but later becomes happy and confident.

Answer: Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen wrote "The Ugly Duckling" (1843). He wrote many fairy tales and is commemorated by a statue of one of his characters (The Little Mermaid) at the seaward entrance to Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark.

9. A one legged man has a parrot for a pet.

Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson

Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me! Long John Silver is found in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island". It was originally published as a serial in a children's magazine under the title "Treasure Island or the Mutiny on the Hispaniola" by "Captain George North". It was published as the novel "Treasure Island" in 1883.

10. An orphaned girl is sent to live with her uncle. One night she is wakened by the sound of a child crying and discovers an apparently crippled boy in a secret bedroom.

Answer: Frances Hodgson Burnet

The girl in question is Mary Lennox and the book is "The Secret Garden", written by Frances Hodgson Burnet. She was an American novelist who was actually born in England. She is famous as a writer of children's books with "The Secret Garden", "A Little Princess" and "Little Lord Fauntleroy" amongst them.

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