Literature & Drama Quiz
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Literature and drama have entertained, educated, and inspired people for thousands of years through stories, poems, plays, and unforgettable characters. Exploring this topic reveal...
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All 20 questions in this Literature & Drama quiz
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Who wrote 'The Little Prince'?
- A. Albert Camus
- B. Jules Verne
- C. Victor Hugo
- D. Antoine de Saint-Exupry
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby,' who is the mysterious millionaire known for throwing lavish parties in West Egg?
- A. Nick Carraway
- B. Tom Buchanan
- C. Jay Gatsby
- D. Meyer Wolfsheim
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Who wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
- A. Mark Twain
- B. James Joyce
- C. Leo Tolstoy
- D. Charles Dickens
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Who wrote 'Harry Potter'?
- A. J.K. Rowling
- B. Roald Dahl
- C. J.R.R. Tolkien
- D. Stephen King
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Which play features the characters Romeo and Juliet?
- A. The Tempest
- B. Macbeth
- C. Othello
- D. Romeo and Juliet
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Published in 1925, which classic American novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald explores themes of decadence, idealism, and the hollow nature of the American Dream?
- A. The Catcher in the Rye
- B. The Grapes of Wrath
- C. To Kill a Mockingbird
- D. The Great Gatsby
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Which dystopian novel famously opens with the line: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"?
- A. Fahrenheit 451
- B. 1984
- C. A Clockwork Orange
- D. Brave New World
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Which Paulo Coelho novel follows a young Andalusian shepherd named Santiago on his journey to the Egyptian pyramids?
- A. Veronika Decides to Die
- B. The Alchemist
- C. Eleven Minutes
- D. The Zahir
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Who is the cynical teenage protagonist of J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye'?
- A. Huckleberry Finn
- B. Holden Caulfield
- C. Tom Sawyer
- D. Jay Gatsby
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Which 14th-century epic poem is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso?
- A. The Odyssey
- B. Paradise Lost
- C. The Divine Comedy
- D. Beowulf
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Which experimental 1922 novel by James Joyce parallels the events of Homer's Odyssey in a single day in Dublin?
- A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- B. Finnegans Wake
- C. Ulysses
- D. Dubliners
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Who wrote 'Hamlet'?
- A. Austen
- B. Dickens
- C. Shakespeare
- D. Twain
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Which 1958 novel by Chinua Achebe is a foundational work of modern African literature, depicting the clash between Igbo culture and British colonialism?
- A. The River Between
- B. Things Fall Apart
- C. Petals of Blood
- D. Arrow of God
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In George Orwell's 'Animal Farm,' which animal represents the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin?
- A. Old Major
- B. Snowball
- C. Napoleon
- D. Squealer
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Published anonymously in 1818, who authored the groundbreaking Gothic novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus"?
- A. Bram Stoker
- B. Jane Austen
- C. Mary Shelley
- D. Charlotte Bront
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Who wrote the 1865 children's classic 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
- A. C.S. Lewis
- B. Roald Dahl
- C. Lewis Carroll
- D. J.M. Barrie
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Which novelist wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea'?
- A. Steinbeck
- B. Faulkner
- C. Joyce
- D. Hemingway
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Which Fyodor Dostoevsky novel tells the story of Rodion Raskolnikov, who commits a murder to test his theory of being an 'extraordinary' man?
- A. The Idiot
- B. The Brothers Karamazov
- C. Crime and Punishment
- D. Notes from Underground
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Who wrote 'War and Peace'?
- A. Chekhov
- B. Leo Tolstoy
- C. Nabokov
- D. Dostoyevsky
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Who is the female lead in 'The Phantom of the Opera'?
- A. Cosette
- B. Eponine
- C. Juliet
- D. Christine Daa