550+ Literature Trivia Questions and Answers

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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.

550+ Literature Trivia Questions and Answers

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  1. Joseph Conrad was a novelist who adopted English as a literary language, however, he was a native of:
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    • Spain.
    • Belgium.
    • Poland.
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  2. “Kill me, or else, you are a murderer”.
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    • Herman Melville’s last words
    • Franz Kafka’s last words
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  3. Kris Kelvin, a psychologist, arrives to a scientific research station in a planet to investigate the strange behavior of the scientists. The planet consists of a vast ocean that seems governed by a higher intelligence.
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    • Ursula Le Guin’s “The Left Hand of Darkness”
    • Stanislaw Lem’s “Solaris”
    • Frank Herbert’s “Dune”
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  4. Leviathan, or "The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil", is the best known book of:
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    • Rene Descartes.
    • Baruch Spinoza.
    • Thomas Hobbes.
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  5. “Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true”.
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    • Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
    • Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
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  6. Lord Voldemort’s real name was:
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    • Tom Marvolo Riddle
    • Tom Gaunt Riddle
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  7. [Madame Bovary] Emma Rovault, desperate with unpayable debts, poisons her husband Charles with arsenic and days later she dies of shock: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  8. Male pseudonym that Emily Brontë used to publish her works:
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    • Ellis Bell
    • Acton Bell
    • Currer Bell
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  9. "Man goes much further to avoid what he fears than to achieve what he wants"
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    • The Da Vinci code, Dan Brown.
    • The analyst, John Katzenbach.
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  10. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
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    • Gabriel García Márquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’
    • Jorge Luis Borges, ‘The Dead Man’
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  11. Merciless creator! You have given me feelings and passions, but you have abandoned me to the contempt and disgust of humanity.
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    • Dracula, Bram Stoker.
    • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.
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  12. Monkey Punch is the pen name of which artist?
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    • Yuta Nakamoto
    • Kazuhiko Kato
    • Rumiko Takahashi
    • Kubo Tite
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  13. “My advice is: never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time ”
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    • David Copperfield, Charles Dickens.
    • The book thief, Markus Zusak.
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  14. My kingdom is as big as the world, because I am not Italian, French, Indian, American or Spanish; I am cosmopolitan.
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    • The Count of Monte Cristo, Alejandro Dumas.
    • Around the world in eighty days, Jules Verne.
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  15. “No man is offended by another man’s admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment”.
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    • Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women
    • Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
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  16. "Not all those who wander are lost"
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    • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontte
    • The lord of the rings by J.R.R Tolkien
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  17. Now some general culture… Which famous novel was rejected 12 times by different publishers before being finally accepted by Bloomsbury?
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    • Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code”
    • Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight”
    • J. K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’ Stone”
    • Clive Staples Lewis’s “The Chronicles of Narnia”
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  18. "Of course, it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
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    • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
    • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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  19. Okay, this one is tough for non-readers… Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Old Man and the Sea”, tells the story of an old fisherman’s struggle to catch a big fish. What fish was it?
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    • A marlin
    • A shark
    • A tuna
    • A tarpon
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  20. “On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.”
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    • Fyodor Dostoevsky, ‘Crime and Punishment’
    • Henry James, ‘The American’
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  21. On the "____" year anniversary of Harry’s parents’ death and the first time Voldemort was defeated, 31st October 1991, he and Ron saved Hermione from the troll in the bathroom. This is generally regarded as the day the trio became friends
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    • 5
    • 10
    • July 31, 1980
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  22. On which London station is Platform 9¾ located?
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    • Charing Cross
    • King's Cross
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  23. “One day, I was already old, in the entrance of a public place a man came up to me.”
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    • Marguerite Duras, ‘The Lover’
    • Colette, ‘Gigi’
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  24. [One hundred years of Solitude] Aureliano (II), the house and the rest of the village are swept away by a hurricane. Everything disappears from memory, history and existence: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  25. “Only a man who has felt the utmost despair is able to feel the maximum happiness. It is necessary to have wanted to die to know how good it is to live ”
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    • The perfume, Patrick Süskind.
    • The count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas.
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  26. Otto Lidenbrock, Axel and Arne Saknussemm.
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    • Journey to the center of the earth, Jules Verne.
    • Five weeks in a balloon, Jules Verne.
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  27. “Our lives are defined by opportunities, even those we lose”
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    • The house of the spirits, Isabel Allende.
    • The curious case of Benjamin Button, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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  28. Pablo Picasso painted the Starry Night: True or false?
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    • True.
    • False, it was Vincent Van Gogh.
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  29. “People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore”.
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    • Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    • Ray Bradbury, The Golden Apples of the Sun
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  30. Philip Marlowe is a fictional detective created by:
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    • Dashiell Hammett.
    • Raymond Chandler.
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  31. [Prosecution Witness ] Carter was telling Mr. Wirlfrid that he had to take the boat out for a ten-day vacation. In a gesture of compassion, the nurse left him alone and he didn't go on vacation: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  32. Quasimodo, Esmeralda and Claude Frollo.
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    • Our Lady of Paris, Victor Hugo.
    • The hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo.
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  33. Ravenclaw’s diadem belonged to:
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    • Rowena Ravenclaw
    • Hepzibah Smith
    • the Grey Lady
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  34. Rick Deckard, a police department bounty hunter, is assigned to kill six androids of the highly intelligent and dangerous Nexus-6 model.
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    • Isaac Asimov’s “I, Robot”
    • Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
    • Martin Caidin’s “Cyborg”
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  35. Rita Skeeter was an unregistered Animagus. She took the form of:
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    • A raven.
    • A butterfly.
    • A beetle.
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  36. [Robinson Crusoe] He returned to England, married and had three children. When his wife died he returned to his island, where Atkins had created a village and named it Robinson's Island: True or false?
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    • True
    • False
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  37. Rodión Raskólnikov, Porfirio Petróvich and Avdotia Románovna.
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    • War and peace, León Tolstoy.
    • Crime and punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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  38. Rowling has said that if Voldemort saw a boggart it would embody his own corpse, since death was always his greatest fear
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    • True
    • False
    • A dark wizard
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  39. Santiago Nasar, Ángela Vicario, Bayardo San Román.
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    • Love in the time of cholera, Gabriel García Márquez.
    • Chronicle of a death foretold, Gabriel García Márquez.
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  40. Select Patricia Highsmith's first novel:
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    • The Price of Salt.
    • Strangers on a Train.
    • Mr. Ripley's talent.
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  41. Select the author of "War and Peace".
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    • Leo Tolstoy.
    • Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
    • Nikolai Gogol.
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  42. Select the character created by Agatha Christie.
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    • Tom Sawyer.
    • Dorian Gray.
    • Hercule Poirot.
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  43. Select the character Romeo killed.
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    • Count Paris
    • The young Teobaldo
    • Both of them
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  44. Select the first play written by Miguel de Unamuno:
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    • The bandage.
    • The Sphinx.
    • The deceased.
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  45. Select the name of the character that Juliet's parents arranged to marry her.
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    • Count Bergamotto
    • Count Vermont
    • Count Paris
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  46. Select the name of the Friar who ends up joining Romeo and Juliet in marriage.
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    • Toledo
    • Lawrence
    • Bartholomew
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  47. Select the name of the person in charge of bringing the information to Romeo about the potion.
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    • Friar Juan
    • Friar Lawrence
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  48. Select the name of the tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
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    • Wuthering Heights
    • The portrait of a lady
    • Romeo and Juliet
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  49. Select the name of the writer of Les Misérables.
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    • Victor Hugo.
    • Alejandro Dumas.
    • Emile Zola.
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  50. Select the writer of Harry Potter.
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    • J.K. Rowling.
    • Jane Austen.
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