Literature Classics

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1.Which novel is set on Long Island in the Jazz Age?
- A. The Catcher in the Rye
- B. The Great Gatsby
- C. Crime and Punishment
- D. Treasure Island
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The Great Gatsby
Did you know? F. Scott Fitzgerald published The Great Gatsby in 1925.
2.Which novel follows the ex-convict Jean Valjean?
- A. Jane Eyre
- B. Treasure Island
- C. Les Misérables
- D. The Count of Monte Cristo
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Les Misérables
Did you know? Victor Hugo published Les Misérables in 1862.
3.Which novel tells several generations of the Buendía family in Macondo?
- A. One Hundred Years of Solitude
- B. The Tale of Genji
- C. War and Peace
- D. To Kill a Mockingbird
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Did you know? Gabriel García Márquez published One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967.
4.Which novel follows Edmond Dantès's escape and revenge?
- A. The Stranger
- B. Frankenstein
- C. The Count of Monte Cristo
- D. The Metamorphosis
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Did you know? Alexandre Dumas published The Count of Monte Cristo in 1844.
5.Which novel opens with a pilot stranded in the desert?
- A. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- B. War and Peace
- C. The Little Prince
- D. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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The Little Prince
Did you know? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry published The Little Prince in 1943.
6.Which novel shows a society watched everywhere by Big Brother?
- A. Ulysses
- B. Brave New World
- C. The Tale of Genji
- D. 1984
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1984
Did you know? George Orwell published 1984 in 1949.
7.Which author wrote The Hour of the Star?
- A. Clarice Lispector
- B. Gabriel García Márquez
- C. the Brothers Grimm
- D. Mark Twain
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Clarice Lispector
Did you know? Clarice Lispector is regarded as one of Brazil's greatest writers.
8.Which epic poem follows Odysseus's ten-year journey home to Ithaca?
- A. the Running of the Bulls
- B. The Odyssey
- C. Mary Shelley
- D. Nighthawks
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The Odyssey
Did you know? The Odyssey is the sequel to the Iliad in the Homeric epics.
9.Which children's book features a spider named Charlotte?
- A. Stuart Little
- B. The Wind in the Willows
- C. Charlotte's Web
- D. The Secret Garden
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Charlotte's Web
Did you know? E.B. White wrote Charlotte's Web in 1952.
10.Which literary character commands the submarine Nautilus?
- A. Atticus Finch
- B. Sun Wukong
- C. Phileas Fogg
- D. Captain Nemo
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Captain Nemo
Did you know? Captain Nemo appears in Jules Verne's novels.
11.Which novel is narrated by the teenager Holden Caulfield?
- A. Treasure Island
- B. The Catcher in the Rye
- C. Brave New World
- D. Journey to the West
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The Catcher in the Rye
Did you know? J.D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye in 1951.
12.Which person lived to 122 as the longest verified human lifespan?
- A. the little finger
- B. Captain Ahab
- C. the Channel Tunnel
- D. Jeanne Calment
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Jeanne Calment
Did you know? Jeanne Calment, a Frenchwoman, died in 1997.
13.Which poem describes a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise?
- A. the Slavic languages
- B. triskaidekaphobia
- C. The Divine Comedy
- D. mauveine
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The Divine Comedy
Did you know? Dante Alighieri completed The Divine Comedy in 1320.
14.Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982?
- A. Mary Shelley
- B. Gabriel García Márquez
- C. the Brothers Grimm
- D. Arthur Conan Doyle
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Gabriel García Márquez
Did you know? Gabriel García Márquez was a Colombian pioneer of magical realism.
15.Which epic poem recounts the wrath of Achilles in the Trojan War?
- A. mauveine
- B. The Iliad
- C. the nasal septum
- D. The Stranger
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The Iliad
Did you know? The Iliad is attributed to Homer.
16.Which book introduces the magical land of Oz?
- A. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- B. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- C. Treasure Island
- D. Gulliver's Travels
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Did you know? L. Frank Baum published it in 1900.
17.Which literary character is a creature created by a Swiss student?
- A. Frankenstein's monster
- B. Tarzan
- C. Sun Wukong
- D. Elizabeth Bennet
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Frankenstein's monster
Did you know? The creature never receives a name in the novel.
18.Which novel follows Russian families during Napoleon's invasion of 1812?
- A. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- B. The Little Prince
- C. Dracula
- D. War and Peace
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War and Peace
Did you know? Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace in the 1860s.
19.Which author won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998?
- A. José Saramago
- B. Jorge Luis Borges
- C. Machado de Assis
- D. Jules Verne
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José Saramago
Did you know? José Saramago was a Portuguese writer known for Blindness.
20.Which literary character is the second of five sisters in Pride and Prejudice?
- A. Romeo and Juliet
- B. Ebenezer Scrooge
- C. Elizabeth Bennet
- D. the three musketeers
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Elizabeth Bennet
Did you know? Elizabeth Bennet's suitor is Mr. Darcy.
21.Which novel follows one Dublin day in the life of Leopold Bloom?
- A. The Catcher in the Rye
- B. Madame Bovary
- C. Ulysses
- D. Anna Karenina
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Ulysses
Did you know? James Joyce published Ulysses in 1922.
22.Which author wrote The War of the Worlds about a Martian invasion?
- A. Agatha Christie
- B. H.G. Wells
- C. Jorge Luis Borges
- D. the Brothers Grimm
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H.G. Wells
Did you know? H.G. Wells also wrote The Time Machine.
23.Which literary character is pursued through the years by Inspector Javert?
- A. Romeo and Juliet
- B. Zorro
- C. Jean Valjean
- D. Ebenezer Scrooge
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Jean Valjean
Did you know? Jean Valjean is the hero of Les Misérables.
24.Which novel features the famous whitewashing fence scene?
- A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- B. Frankenstein
- C. Dracula
- D. Pride and Prejudice
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Did you know? Mark Twain published Tom Sawyer in 1876.
25.Which literary character rafts down the Mississippi with a man named Jim?
- A. Count Dracula
- B. the three musketeers
- C. Huckleberry Finn
- D. Phileas Fogg
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Huckleberry Finn
Did you know? Huckleberry Finn narrates his own novel.

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