Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- The Doll Who Ate His Mother
- Which Scottish poet, born in 1759, wrote the famous song Auld Lang Syne which goes like this: Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne.
- How old was the prominent English poet John Keats when he died in 1821?
- Which one of these plays by English poet and playwright William Shakespeare is not a comedy?
- Which one of these poems was written by American Modernist poet T. S. Eliot and describes his feeling of depression and pessimism about society after World War I?
- This American poet, born in 1874, won the Pulitzer Prize four times and recited his poem The Gift Outright at the inauguration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
- Which Anglo-Scottish poet, author of Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, died in Greece where he participated in the fight for the countrys independence?
- Which famous work by American poet Henry W. Longfellow was based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians?
- Which Norwegian band used William Blakes influential poem The Marriage of Heaven and Hell as lyrics for their 1998 album Themes from William Blakes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell?
- Which one of these poems from Walt Whitmans masterpiece collection Leaves of Grass was dedicated to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln?
- The title of the 2004 movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was taken from the poem Eloisa to Abelard written by which English poet?
- In which book by Mark Twain is Jim a major character?
- In which novel does the evil Injun Joe appear?
- In which work by Mark Twain do we find Adam and Eve writing their diaries?
- Which story features a character named Jim Smiley who was responsible for one of the tallest tales of the Old West?
- Sir Boss is the protagonist of which novel?
- Aunt Polly is a character from which book?
- In which novel did Mark Twain- Special Travelling Correspondent of the Alta appear?
- In this novel we find Cal Higbie and Mark Twain celebrating the curious time when the two were millionaires for ten days?
- In which novel do the Duke and the King do their best to swindle god-fearin folk?
- In which story does Danl Webster appear as a leading character?
- Dying is an art like everything else. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real.
- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked
- Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note
- Penetrating a Fresh Abyss
- This is the way they ring the bells in Bedlam
- Why talk of beauty? What could be more beautiful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter? They did not stop to think--they died instead. Then shall the voice of liberty be mute?
- In the desert I saw a creature naked, bestial. Squatting on the ground he held his heart in his hands and ate of it. I asked Is it good, friend? It is bitter--bitter he replied but I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart.
- We are the hollow men. We are the stuffed men. Leaning together-- headpiece filled with straw--alas! Our dried voices when we whisper together are meaningless as wind in dry grass or rats feet over broken glass in our dry cellar....This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper.
- The Book of Nightmares