Put your reading memory to the test with 550+ literature trivia questions. Guess the books, recall their authors and characters, then reveal and check the answers.
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- Beauty is, of the forms of genius, the highest, because it has no need to be explained, it is one of the absolute facts of the world.
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- The portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.Correct answer
- The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux.
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- Jun MaedaCorrect answer
- Kenshi Hirokane
- Leiji Matsumoto
- Sui Ishida
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- Molly Weasley.
- Narcissa Malfoy.Correct answer
- Nymphadora Tonks.
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- plasmaCorrect answer
- liquid
- air
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- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare.Correct answer
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë.
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- Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyCorrect answer
- The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
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- Eric Arthur Blair.Correct answer
- Timothy Francis Leary.
- Ray Douglas Bradbury.
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- Alice for the little ones.
- Alice through the mirror.Correct answer
- Alice and the logic game.
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- BibleCorrect answer
- Bhagavad Gita
- Quran
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- Charles Dickens, ‘Great Expectations’
- Herman Melville, ‘Moby Dick’Correct answer
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- Moby-Dick.Correct answer
- Peter Pan and Wendy.
- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea.
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- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville.Correct answer
- Twenty thousand leagues Under the sea, Jules Verne.
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- BibleCorrect answer
- Bhagavad Gita
- Quran
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- … a man that takes a drug and creates an evil double of himself.
- … a man that wakes one morning transformed into a cockroach.Correct answer
- … man transformed into a monster who gets in love with a beautiful girl.
- … a man that drinks a witch’s potion and has transformed into a donkey.
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- Guzmán de Alfarache
- Samson Carrasco
- Cardenio
- Sancho PanzaCorrect answer
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- The name of the rose, Umberto Eco.
- The phantom of the opera, Gastón Leroux.Correct answer
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- Yes
- NoCorrect answer
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- H. G. Wells.
- H. P. Lovecraft.Correct answer
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- Crime and PunishmentCorrect answer
- The Anatomy of Evil
- Inside the Criminal's Mind
- The Jigsaw Man
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- Bonnie Wright
- SeekerCorrect answer
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- Kenshi Hirokane
- Usamaru Furuya
- Gosho AoyamaCorrect answer
- Kazuhiko Kato
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- Quran
- BibleCorrect answer
- Bhagavad Gita
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- Takeshi Obata
- Akira SuzukiCorrect answer
- Usamaru Furuya
- Hiroshi Motomiya
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- True
- FalseCorrect answer
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- Hamlet, William Shakespeare.
- Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes.Correct answer
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- The trickster of Seville, Tirso de Molina.
- Don Quixote de la Mancha, Miguel de Cervantes.Correct answer
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- The wisest
- Eagle
- BumblebeeCorrect answer
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- diamonds
- emeralds
- sapphiresCorrect answer
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- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
- Günther Grass, The Tin DrumCorrect answer
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- The Magician’s Nephew by C.S Lewis
- Les Miserables by Victor HugoCorrect answer
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- Heinrich Heine.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.Correct answer
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- Les Miserables, Victor Hugo.
- Henry VI, William Shakespeare.Correct answer
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- Turning water into wine.Correct answer
- Resurrect the daughter of Jairus.
- Giving sight to Bastiaeus.
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- Leaf Storm.Correct answer
- The General in his Labyrinth.
- Love in the time of cholera.
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- The House of the Spirits.Correct answer
- The City of the Beasts.
- The Forest of the Pygmies.
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- Hopscotch.
- The winners.Correct answer
- Fun.
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- It.
- Carrie.Correct answer
- Christine.
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- Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘Catriona’
- Marcel Proust, ‘In Search of Lost Time’Correct answer
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- Bhagavad GitaCorrect answer
- Bible
- Quran
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- The Godfather by Mario PuzoCorrect answer
- Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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- The metamorphosis, Franz Kafka.Correct answer
- The litter, Gabriel García Márquez.
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- Deception point
- Angels and demons
- The Da Vinci CodeCorrect answer
- Inferno
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- To Kill a MockingbirdCorrect answer
- The Great Gatsby
- The Alchemist
- Lord of the flies
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- To the LighthouseCorrect answer
- Mrs Dalloway
- A room of one’s own
- Orlando : A Biography
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- Invisible ManCorrect answer
- Shadow and Act
- The Kite Runner
- Shadow and Act
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- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
- Persuasion
- EmmaCorrect answer
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- Lord of the RingsCorrect answer
- A Song of Ice and Fire
- The Hunger Games
- The Chronicles of Narnia
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