Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- What does the word cretin refer to?
- Leaves of Grass
- At The Mountains of Madness
- Ape and Essance; Eyeless in Gaza; Point Counter Point
- 1984; Animal Farm
- Return of the Native; Jude the Obscure; Far From the Madding Crowd
- The Antichrist; The Gay Science; Beyond Good and Evil; Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- What language can Harry Potter speak?
- Hermione was supposed to turn into this person after drinking the Polyjuice Potion.
- What was Hagrid buying in Knockturn Alley?
- This book by James Joyce was forbidden by the US authorities for 15 years, because it was considered obsene. The ban was lifted in 1933.
- This book about the life of a prostitute was written by John Cleland. It has been banned in the past due to frank sexual descriptions.
- This book tells the story of two women who meet and fall in love with each other. They openly declare their homosexuality to family and friends. Thats why the Kansas school system ordered the removal of all copies of this book from high school libraries.
- This book led Austin Miles to the courts in 1992. Miles was sued because his book was ...a vitriolic attack upon organized Christianity.
- This book by Judy Blume was censored as it discussed adolescent sexuality in too much detail.
- This book by George Orwell was banned as it was pro-communist.
- This Lewis Carrolls work was banned in China because in it humans and animals used the same language.
- Its translation into local languages was forbidden in Burma.
- This book was censored in 1985 in Cairo, Egypt as it contained obscene passages which posed a threat to the countrys moral fabric.
- An edition of Miltons works was bound in:
- Binding books with human hide was a common practice once. Why?
- The name of Cruella de Vil from 101 Dalmatians is meaningful because:
- Who is the Shakespearean villain who had his own brother executed and innocent children killed because they were hindrances to his kingly ambition?
- According to psychologists villains in fairy-tales actually have an important role for the childrens mind formation, namely:
- The famous evil female Baba Yaga comes from:
- Harry Potter is concidered malicious literature by some, because:
- It turns out that people like reading about crime. The top-selling English-language author of all time is:
- Who wrote about the early whodunit archetype, inspector Auguste Dupin?
- Dr. Alex Delaware is the creation of which of these authors?
- What is the name of Colin Creevys brother, who appears in the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?