Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- According to Pastor Bruce Barnes from the novel Left Behind, the Tribulation will begin when the Anti-Christ makes a peace treaty between which countries?
- Left Behind character Bruce Barnes believes The Tribulation would last how many years?
- Lord Byron was the lusty, adventurous poet of revolt. He wrote once, “I awoke one morning and found myself famous.” What widely popular travel poem did this bohemian baron write which garnered the fame to which he referred?
- This nature lover felt that poetry should reflect the simple tongue of the common man and that poetry is basically “emotion recollected in tranquility.” Which renowned poet penned “Tintern Abbey” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
- Who wrote these famous lines and in what poem can they be found? “Beauty is truth, truth beauty, That is all ye know on earth, And all ye need to know.
- What was Lord Byron’s original name?
- He was a close friend of Wordsworth. He wrote “Kubla Khan” and the following lines from his most popular poem: The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridegroom’s door.
- Coleridge, Southey, and Wordsworth all resided in the Lake Country of England near Grasmere. What were these three referred to as?
- I weep for Adonais—he is dead! Oh, weep for Adonais! Though our tears Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head! What poet wrote these elegiac lines from “Adonais” in memoriam to John Keats, who died of T.B. at the tender age of only 24 years?
- Who wrote the book Running with Scissors?
- What is the title of William S. Burroughs semi-autobiographical novel depicting the lifestyle of heroin addicts?
- This actress, who won an Oscar at the age of 10, wrote a scathing memoir titled A Paper Life.
- Which Hollywood legends daughter penned the memoir Mommy Dearest?
- Manfred Bloor is a character from which novel?
- Which novel features the characters King Swishbert and Queen Olympia?
- In which novel does the character Dustfinger appear?
- Name the first novel of a popular series which has a main character named Twig.
- Luke is the main character in which of the following books?
- Which novel features the fictional Herdman family?
- Soren is a fictional character depicted in which book??
- In which popular hockey novel does the character Nish appear?
- Parvana is the protagonist of this Canadian novel.
- Mrs. Granger is a popular teacher who appears in this novel.
- Shona Silkfin becomes friends with the title character of which novel?
- Rocky is the best friend of the protagonist in which novel?
- Who wrote the collection of stories titled The Canterbury Tales?
- Who wrote the poems titled Epithalamion (a song in celebration of a wedding) and Amoretti?
- Who wrote The Passionate Sheppard to His Love in 1600?
- What poet wrote Farewell False Love and The Nymphs Reply to the Sheppard?
- Which poet wrote the poems LAllegro and il Penseroso in 1631?