Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- He graduated from Harvard in 1916. He wrote The Enormous Room (1922) about a prison camp during WWI.
- He is largely considered to be the most popular American poet of the 19th century as well as the first professional American poet.
- She was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and bore the same first name as her mother.
- He was born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri and began writing in the 8th grade even though his father discouraged him.
- She wrote Cold Comfort in 1986 and A Space Filled with Movement in 1992.
- Writer and artist Edward St. John Gorey was born on February 22 in what year?
- Writer and illustrator Edward Gorey was fond of animals, which were also the subject of some of his works. What pets did Gorey keep in his house?
- Writer and artist Edward Gorey died at the age of 75 at his home in Cape Cod. What caused his death?
- What are the names of Rolands mother and father in The Dark Tower series?
- Which of the following Steven King books is not connected to the Dark Tower series?
- What was the name of the book that contained the short story The Little Sisters of Eluria, a prequel to The Gunslinger?
- Oscar Wilde is associated with this art movement that began in the late Victorian period and is considered to have ended with Oscar Wildes trial in in 1895.
- Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for two years after being convicted of this crime.
- This literary work, whose preface ends with the sentence, All art is quite useless, is Oscar Wildes only published novel.
- What drama film, starring Scarlett Johansson as Meg Windermere, is based on Oscar Wildes play Lady Windermeres Fan?
- This Oscar Wilde tragedy, originally written in French in 1891, was banned in England until 1931.
- While in prison Oscar Wilde wrote De Profundis, an extended letter in which he expressed his bitter criticism towards this English author, better known as Wildes intimate friend.
- Which characters created by Oscar Wilde are not correctly paired with the literary work?
- Name the witty nobleman who conveys to Dorian Gray his view of indulgent hedonism in one of Oscar Wildes most famous works?
- The death penalty is the main theme of this poem by Oscar Wilde which contains the following often quoted lines: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
- Complete the following statement made by one of Oscar Wildes characters: Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is ..............
- In Stephen Kings novel The Dark Tower, Mordred has the ability to transform himself into what type of creature?
- Once reunited in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet travel to a town called Fedic to stop the activity of a group of individuals who use their psychic powers to break apart the beams that hold the Dark Tower and Mid-World together. What is the name given to this group of psychics?
- Which member of the ka-tet is mortally wounded in The Dark Tower in the battle to free the psychics of Fedic?
- In the final novel of The Dark Tower series, Jake, Roland and Oy travel to Maine in 1999 to do what important task?
- On their travels in the book The Dark Tower, the ka-tet come to a place called ODDS LANE (the S had been added by hand). The only person who lived here was an old guy who called himself Joe Collins, but what was his real name?
- In the novel The Dark Tower, in Joe Collins basement the ka-tet discover a young man named Patrick Danville imprisoned in a cage. What particular skill does Patrick have?
- When close to his goal, The Dark Tower, Roland is attacked by Mordred. Who saves Rolands life, but dies in the process?
- What Shakespearean character usurped the throne by murdering his brother and then married the late kings widow?
- Name the Scottish King whom Macbeth murdered, led by his thirst for power and desire to obtain the throne.