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Literature Quiz for English Majors

A multiple choice quiz about literature. Do you know your classics?

A multiple-choice quiz by scottm. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
scottm

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
1,812

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
4613

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Who wrote 'The Monk'? Hint

Matthew Lewis

C. S. Lewis

Jonathan Swift

John Donne

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who wrote 'Don Juan'? Hint

John Keats

Lord Tennyson

William Wordsworth

Lord Byron

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who wrote 'The Faerie Queene'? Hint

Spenser

Shakespeare

Chaucer

Milton

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which poem did John Keats NOT write? Hint

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to the West Wind

Ode to Psyche

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who wrote 'Doctor Zhivago'? Hint

Leo Tolstoy

Anton Chekov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Boris Pasternak

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Question 6 of 10

6. 'Mansfield Park' was written by what author? Hint

Jane Austen

Mary Shelley

George Eliot

Emily Bronte

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who wrote 'Anna Karenina'? Hint

Charles Mann

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Leo Tolstoy

Franz Kafka

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Question 8 of 10

8. Sir Thomas Malory wrote about what legendary figure? Hint

Jesus Christ

King Arthur

Buddha

William Wallace

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who wrote 'The Aeneid'? Hint

Ovid

Virgil

Sappho

Sophocles

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who is the hero of 'The Iliad'? Hint

Ajax

Priam

Achilles

Helen of Troy

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Who wrote 'The Monk'?

Answer: Matthew Lewis

Matthew Lewis wrote this novel in six weeks --- when he was only 19 years old!

2. Who wrote 'Don Juan'?

Answer: Lord Byron

3. Who wrote 'The Faerie Queene'?

Answer: Spenser

4. Which poem did John Keats NOT write?

Answer: Ode to the West Wind

5. Who wrote 'Doctor Zhivago'?

Answer: Boris Pasternak

6. 'Mansfield Park' was written by what author?

Answer: Jane Austen

7. Who wrote 'Anna Karenina'?

Answer: Leo Tolstoy

8. Sir Thomas Malory wrote about what legendary figure?

Answer: King Arthur

From 'Le Morte D'Arthur'

9. Who wrote 'The Aeneid'?

Answer: Virgil

10. Who is the hero of 'The Iliad'?

Answer: Achilles

Source: Author scottm

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Referenced Topics

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