Match the Character to the Author Quiz

Answer: William Shakespeare

Romeo Montague is the protagonist of Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet". Romeo is the son of Lord Montague and his lady wife, but falls in love and secretly marries Juliet, the daughter of Lord Capulet, whose house and the Montagues are bitter enemies.

Other well-known plays of William Shakespeare are "Macbeth", "Othello" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

Answer: Jane Austen

Fitzwilliam Darcy is the protagonist of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". In the beginning of the book, Darcy is hardly sympathetic to readers, due to his overwhelming pride and sense of superiority, but his love for the book's heroine, Elizabeth Bennett, makes him reconsider his actions and change his way of behaving.

Other famous works by Jane Austen are "Sense and Sensibility", "Emma" and "Mansfield Park".

Answer: Charles Dickens

Ebenezer Scrooge is the central figure in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Scrooge is initially portrayed as a miser who keeps all his money to himself and gives nothing to people in need. Yet, when he is visited by the ghost of his former associate, Marley, and the Ghosts of the Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come, he has a genuine change of heart.

Other famous works by Dickens include "A Tale of Two Cities", "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist".

Answer: Herman Melville

Captain Ahab appears in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick". He is the captain of a whaling ship, who is obsessed with killing a giant sperm whale named Moby Dick, in order to get revenge for the loss of his leg by it.

Other famous works by Herman Melville include "Billy Budd, Sailor", "Redburn: His First Voyage" and the poetry collection "Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War".

Answer: Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is arguably one of the most famous fictional detectives. He has appeared in four novels and 56 short stories. Although in adaptations he has a knack of saying "Elementary, my dear Watson" when his sidekick and chronicler cannot make heads or tails by his observations, in the books he did not say it even a single time.

Apart from the "Sherlock Holmes" stories, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote several stories starring Professor Challenger, including "The Lost World".

Answer: Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot is a fictional Belgian detective created by Agatha Christie. Before emigrating to England, he was a member of the Belgian Police Force. In order to solve the difficult cases presented to him by his clients, Poirot utilizes the "little grey cells", analysing pieces of intellectual evidence.

Apart from Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie has created other detectives, like Miss Jane Marple and Superintendent Battle. She has also written several romantic stories under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott.

Answer: H.G. Wells

The Time Traveller is the unnamed protagonist of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine". The hero manages to invent a time machine and transport himself to the distant future, where the only societies in existence are that of the Eloi and the Morlocks, who often resort to cannibalism. After a dangerous escape, he manages to return to his own era, but later embarks on another journey, possibly never to return.

Other works by H.G. Wells include "The Island of Doctor Moreau", "The War of the Worlds" and "The History of Mr. Polly".

Answer: Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean is the hero of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables". After serving a twenty-year prison sentence because he stole a loaf of bread (his sentence was initially five years, but was extended to twenty due to his escape attempts) he meets the kind bishop Muriel, who manages to lead him away from evil and into good deeds. However, Valjean is ruthlessly followed by his old nemesis, police Inspector Javert, who will not rest until Valjean in imprisoned again.

Other works by Victor Hugo include "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Last Day of a Condemned Man" and "The Man Who Laughs".

Answer: Jules Verne

Phileas Fogg is the protagonist of Verne's "Around the World in Eighty Days". Fogg is a London gentleman, who makes a bet with his friends in his club that he can go around the world in eighty days. He and his French valet Passepartout embark on their journey, but Inspector Fix pursues the pair, wrongly believing that Fogg had stolen a tremendous amount of money from the Bank of England.

Other works by Jules Verne include "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and "Michael Strogoff".

Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien

Bilbo Baggins is the eponymous protagonist of Tolkien's "The Hobbit". Bilbo is living a quiet life in The Shire, a place in the fictional world of Middle Earth, until he is visited one day by the wizard Gandalf the Grey and a company of thirteen Dwarves, led by King Thorin Oakenshield, who want to reclaim their homeland, Mount Erebor, and kill the dragon Smaug who has captured it. Bilbo agrees and the mission is finally successful, although at a great cost. During the journey, Bilbo acquires a magic ring that makes its wearer invisible and uses it on more than one occasions to aid his friends. The true nature of this ring is revealed in Tolkien's most well-known work, "The Lord of the Rings".

Other works by Tolkien include "The Lord of the Rings", "The Silmarillion", "Unfinished Tales" and "The Children of Hurin".