Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- In 1920 Ernest Hemingway accepted a job at this Canadian newspaper, where he met Morley Callaghan.
- In Our Time was first published in 1925 and marked Hemingways American debut. Which of the following short story titles is not part of this collection?
- In his 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway tells the story of Robert Jordan, a U.S. guerrilla warrior serving in the Spanish Civil War. who is given the assignment to blow up a bridge near what Spanish city?
- What Ernest Hemingway novel was published in 1950, following For Whom the Bell Tolls?
- The Old Man and the Sea brought Ernest Hemingway enormous success and earned him the Noble Prize in Literature in what year?
- This Ernest Hemingway book, published posthumously, tells the story of a bullfighter named Antonio Ordonez.
- Ernest Hemingway belonged to this group of expatriate American writers, who lived in Paris from the end of World War I till the beginning of the Great Depression.
- The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, written by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, was first published in Spanish. What nationality is Márquez?
- What dystopian novel is set in Oceania, an intercontinental super-state ruled by an enigmatic dictator?
- Name the author of the 19th century novels A Captain at Fifteen, Around the World in 80 Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
- Which of the following novels by Agatha Christie features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot?
- This post-World War II satirist wrote a popular anti-war novel, whose title has become a commonly used idiomatic phrase, referring to a a no-win situation or a double bind.
- Which one of the main characters, depicted by Alexandre Dumas in The Three Musketeers, has a mysterious past connecting him with Milady de Winter, the female antagonist of the novel?
- The title of Ken Keseys novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is derived from which of the following?
- What post-modern novel, following the experiences of Billy Pilgrim, contains the prayer, God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference”?
- What is the name of the fictional submarine, commanded by Captain Nemo, in the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?
- What does the number 451 in the title of Ray Bradburys novel Fahrenheit 451 refer to?
- This novel by Nevil Shute is set in the future after WWIII. Due to the nuclear fallout, only land in the southern hemisphere is inhabitable.
- In 1946 this author received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in Württemberg, Germany to a Christian missionary family that worked in India. He is best known for his novel Steppenwolf.
- Author Gabriel García Márquez stresses in this 1985 novel that love-sickness is a literal disease causing pain and other physical symptoms.
- Originally written in French, this 1949 Samuel Beckett play is about Vladimir and Estragon who expect a man, they barely know, to arrive.
- Published in 1963, The Bell Jar is this poets only novel. It was published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.
- In Nathanial Hawthornes The House of the Seven Gables, the destitute Hepzibah Pyncheon lives in the house and supports her brother, Clifford, who has just been released from jail. Why was he in jail?
- This 1857 collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire caused him to be convicted in France of offending the morals of the time, resulting in fines and the banning of 6 of the poems.
- Who wrote the poem Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came that inspired Stephen King to write the first novel in The Drak Tower series?
- Stephen Kings novel The Gunslinger was written in five parts and published individually in which of the following?
- How long did it take Stephen King to complete the novel The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger?
- How does the book The Gunslinger by Stephen King begin?
- In a saloon, the gunslinger from Stephen Kings self-titled novel hears a crowd singing what tune that is well known in our world?
- In the Novel The Gunslinger, the gunslinger meets a boy called Jake. What is Jakes actual name?