Literature trivia questions
1103 multiple-choice Literature trivia questions with four options and the answer.
- I spit upon this dreadful bankers grave who shot his heart out in a Florida dawn O ho alas alas When will indifference come, I moan rave Id like to scrabble till I got right down away down under the grass
- I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. It is futile, I said. You can never — You lie, he cried, And ran on.
- I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind.
- I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. But they pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue. And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look
- Which of these novels is not part of the Forsyte Saga, written by English novelist John Galsworthy?
- This massive novel, consisting of 18 chapters, chronicles the events of one single day in the life of the protagonist Leopold Bloom.
- Which of these influential 20th century authors was not Irish-born?
- In 1989, the author of this book and all those involved in its publication were sentenced to death by the Supreme Leader of Iran.
- Which of these English authors was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a literary circle that rejected the Victorian taboos on religious, artistic, social, and sexual matters?
- Which allegorical novel by William Golding features a group of boys stranded on a desert island?
- What do George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Rudyard Kipling and William Golding have in common?
- Which playwright received the 1938 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay?
- What name was applied to the group of British playwrights and novelists from the 1950s, which included John Osborne, John Braine, and Alan Sillitoe?
- This novel focuses on Winston Smith and his attempt to rebel against the totalitarian state in which he lives.
- Into what creature did Mad Eye Moody turn Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
- Draco Malfoy is a member of this fictional house at Hogwarts which values pure blood heritage.
- In which book of the Harry Potter series is Draco Malfoy made Prefect of his house?
- In the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Draco Malfoy was attacked by this kind of creature while in his Care for Magical Creatures class?
- Ralph, Piggy, Jack Merridew, Simon, Ron are characters in this novel.
- Humbert Humbert, Valeria and Charlotte Haze are characters from this literary work.
- Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes are characters in this novel.
- What novels includes characters named Sethe, Liz Granacher, Paul D. McKnight, Charlie McKnight?
- Willie Stark, Anne Stanton, Judge Montague Irving are characters from this novel.
- Ari, Dov, Kitty Fremont, Akiva, Bruce Sutherland are characters in this novel.
- This novel focuses on the lives of Jake Barnes, Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, Pedro Romero, Bill Gorton, Michael Campbell.
- Which book includes the characters John Converse, Ray Hicks, Marge Converse?
- What Southern novel centers on the lives of these characters: Jason, Quentin, Candice Compson, Dilsey Gibson?
- John Singer, Mick Kelly, Biff Brannon, Jack Blount, Dr. Copeland are characters described in this literary work.
- What novel by Erich Maria Remarque was banned in Nazi Germany for insulting the Wehrmacht?
- Name the author of Animal Farm, an anti-Stalinist novella, which was confiscated in Germany by Allied troops.