Published in 1949, the novel coined terms like Big Brother.
Question 2 / 10
Which author created Sherlock Holmes?
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Agatha Christie
2
Arthur Conan Doyle
3
Charles Dickens
4
Oscar Wilde
Holmes debuted in A Study in Scarlet (1887).
Question 3 / 10
"Pride and Prejudice" was written by whom?
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Charlotte Brontë
2
Jane Austen
3
Mary Shelley
4
Virginia Woolf
Austen published it anonymously in 1813.
Question 4 / 10
Which epic poem opens "Sing, O muse"?
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The Iliad
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Paradise Lost
3
Beowulf
4
The Aeneid
Homer's Iliad begins with an invocation to the muse.
Question 5 / 10
Gabriel García Márquez is associated with which literary style?
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Magical realism
2
Naturalism
3
Gothic horror
4
Dadaism
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is a landmark novel.
Question 6 / 10
Who wrote "The Odyssey"?
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Virgil
2
Homer
3
Sophocles
4
Plato
Odysseus's journey home follows the Trojan War.
Question 7 / 10
"To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee was from which U.S. state?
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Georgia
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Alabama
3
Mississippi
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Louisiana
The novel draws on Monroeville, Alabama.
Question 8 / 10
Which Russian author wrote "Crime and Punishment"?
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Tolstoy
2
Dostoevsky
3
Chekhov
4
Pushkin
Published in 1866, it follows Raskolnikov.
Question 9 / 10
"The Canterbury Tales" author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote primarily in which language?
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Latin
2
Middle English
3
Old French only
4
Gaelic
Chaucer helped standardize Middle English literature.
Question 10 / 10
Which play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?
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Macbeth
2
Hamlet
3
Othello
4
King Lear
Shakespeare's Hamlet includes courtiers spying on the prince.
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