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Literature: a quiz

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Here is a quiz to test your knowledge of some great works of literature.

  • Question of

    Which Bronte wrote Jane Eyre?

    • Anne
    • Charlotte
    • Emily
    • Branwell
  • Question of

    Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad, was the basis of which movie by Francis Ford Coppola?

    • Apocalypse Now
    • The Godfather
    • The Outsiders
    • The Rainmaker
  • Question of

    Who wrote the 1924 novel A Passage to India?

    • Evelyn Waugh
    • Graham Greene
    • E M Forster
    • D H Lawrence
  • Question of

    Hilary Mantel’s 2009 novel Wolf Hall is set in the court of which English king?

    • Henry V
    • Henry VI
    • Henry VII
    • Henry VIII
  • Question of

    Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are characters in which novel by Jane Austen?

    • Pride and Prejudice
    • Sense and Sensibility
    • Emma
    • Persuasion
  • Question of

    What was the name that Thomas Hardy used as the geographical settingfor most of his novels?

    • Essex
    • Sussex
    • Middlesex
    • Wessex
  • Question of

    Mary Ann Evans, the author of Middlemarch and Silas Marner, is better known by what name?

    • Jane Austen
    • Anne Bronte
    • George Eliot
    • Mrs Gaskell
  • Question of

    Brobdingnag and Lilliput feature in which early work of fiction?

    • Gulliver’s Travels
    • Robinson Crusoe
    • Tristram Shandy
    • Tom Jones
  • Question of

    Which animals in Animal Farm by George Orwell are used to lampoon Russian communist leaders?

    • Goats
    • Donkeys
    • Pigs
    • Mules
  • Question of

    Which novel was Charles Dickens working on when he died and therefore left unfinished?

    • Our Mutual Friend
    • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    • Little Dorrit
    • Barnaby Rudge

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  4. 5 out of 10 will do better on the next one. I plan to read the Jane Austen series and a lot more of classics. I started collected them a few years ago.