Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- Pennywise is introduced to us in a storm sewer from which Stephen King story?
- Johnny Smith is a character that awakens from a coma in which Stephen King story?
- Arnie Cunninghams character is a nerdy high school student from which Stephen King story?
- What fantasy series tells us first about a sword, then about the elfstones and finally about a wishsong?
- In this sci-fi story, a young boy is given advanced training and then tricked into destroying an invading an alien fleet.
- Which author describes the worlds of the Belgariad and the Malloreon?
- The fictional spice-drug Melange has a central role in which Sci-fi epic?
- This fantasy series features channelers, who can control the One Power, a mighty force that comes from the True Source, and is separated into two halves: a male part -saidin, and a female one - saidar.
- This series depicts a unicorn-riding wizard, who is actually a contestant in a game show, in the futuristic world of Proton.
- This popular fantasy series tells the story of a small human-like character, sent on a mission to save the world. He has to destroy an item of dark and terrible power by casting it into the fires of the mountain, where it was made.
- Which Fantasy Series tells the story of the War Wizard, Richard Rahl?
- Which sci-fi classic features the story of an alien invasion thwarted by earths microorganisms?
- Which fantasy series by C.S. Lewis includes a book entitled The Voyage of the Dawn Treader?
- In the novel Gone with the Wind, what is Scarlett O Haras first name?
- Which war is described in the novel Gone with the Wind?
- In the novel Gone with the Wind, what was the name of Scarletts first house -- the house she had her childhood in and loved more than anything?
- How many children did Scarlett have in the novel Gone with the Wind?
- In the novel Gone with the Wind, what were the names of the two slaves Scarletts father bought, and what relationship did they have?
- Name the 19th century novel, which begins with the following sentence: ‘It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.’
- This quote is from a novel which focuses on the myth of hedonism: ‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.’ Name the novel.
- The following quote is from a novel which describes a society, characterized mainly by the lack of freedom: ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’ Name the novel.
- The main character from this literary work by Philip Roth addresses the following words to his domineering and meticulous Jewish mother: ‘Because to be bad, Mother, that is the real struggle: to be bad and to enjoy it. That is what makes men of us boys.’
- In this novel, with the following sentences, David Lodge sums up the fact that his Catholic characters ceased to believe in the existence of hell: ‘At some point in the nineteen-sixties, Hell disappeared. No one could say for certain when this happened. First it was there and then it wasn’t.
- This is a quote from a novel in which the action takes place in a mental institution: ‘You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.’ Name the novel.
- After Dr. Seuss used 236 different words to write The Cat in the Hat, his publisher, Bennett Cerf, bet $50 that Seuss could not write a book of only fifty words. Seuss won the bet with this book in 1960.
- Published in January 1990, this is the last book written and illustrated by Dr. Seuss. In the US, its a popular graduation gift.
- The plot of this 1984 Seuss satire has been likened to the war between Blefuscu and Lilliput in Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travel and their war over which end of an egg is supposed to be cracked.
- The title of this 1956 Dr. Seuss book has become a popular phrase used to introduce an opinion.
- Published in 1937, this is Dr. Seusss first book. Its main character Marco is based on Marco McClintock, the son of Mike McClintock, Seuss editor, and Helene McClintock, to whom he dedicated the book.
- In this 1954 Dr. Seuss book the moral of the story (and a repeated phrase throughout the book) is: a persons a person no matter how small. This was the first of two Seuss books starring this kind-hearted elephant.