Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- What room does Harry Potter go to for his hearing in the 5th book of the series?
- In chapter 24 of book 5, what breaks Snapes attempt to use Legilimency on Harry Potter?
- Who wrote the novel Gone With the Wind?
- In 2000, Alice Randall wrote a new version of Gone With the Wind in which the story is told from the point of view of the slaves. What was the name of this novel?
- In 1962, the best known music theme from the movie Gone with the Wind often called Taras Theme, was made into a hit record on the pop charts. Which group had a 1962 hit with My Own True Love?
- Who portrayed Ashley Wilkes in the popular movie Gone with the Wind?
- Excluding the opening music, the intermission, and exit music, how long does the movie Gone with the Wind run?
- Three men are given credit as directors of the movie Gone with the Wind. Which one of the following directors is not among them?
- How much did David O. Selznick pay for the rights to the book Gone with the Wind?
- The producer of the movie Gone with the Wind was short of money and needed a male lead. With whom did he make a deal?
- Which American author is popularly known as the chronicler of the Jazz Age - the period between World War I and World War II?
- Which novel by Ernest Hemingway was published in Great Britain under the title Fiesta?
- Which 1929 novel narrates the decline of the distinguished Southern family, the Compsons?
- The 1961 publication of this sexually explicit novel led to an obscenity trial in the USA.
- Which novel, set in the Great Depression of the 1930s, won the the Pulitzer Prize in 1940?
- Which of the following is not a character depicted by Joseph Heller in his anti-war novel Catch-22?
- Humbert Humbert is the protagonist and narrator of which 1955 novel?
- Which of these novels is not part of the popular Rabbit series written by John Updike?
- Which author was not a reperesentative figure of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s?
- Who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Junkie, which gives an account of the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s?
- In this book, a man loses his memory during the war, falls in love and marries, then hits his head and remembers his former life, forgetting his wife completely.
- This novel tells the story of a man that meets his double and changes identities with him.
- A man who searches for inner peace, finally finding it by the side of a river is the protagonist of this 1922 German novel.
- In this book, a man says that he will stop the motor of the world. He does so by removing the creative and visionary leaders from society one by one, tempting them to come live in an utopian society in the wilderness.
- The main character of this novel can make people disappear from existence with an effort of will.
- In this novel, the son of a wealthy man is obsessed with creating more wealth, in a subconscious desire to rebel against his father. In the end, he discovers that he has become his father. During his life, he invests in airplanes and movies, among other things. He has many affairs with beautiful women along the way.
- Electrodes are implanted into the brain of this book’s protagonist in an effort to cure his seizures. But the electrodes fire too often, making him go on a murderous rampage.
- A mild-mannered coward is enlisted to help a group of hardened criminals pull off a museum theft in this 1962 English novel.
- In this novel, an adult man is obsessed with a teenage girl.
- This book tells the story of a pilot and a scientist on an air expedition to Greenland who have separate dreams of being two long-dead lovers.