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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- "She couldn’t help thinking that the story between them was somehow unfinished."
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- Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- The best of me by Nicholas SparksCorrect answer
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- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame BovaryCorrect answer
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- Arabian Nights.Correct answer
- Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio.
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- Yana Toboso
- Miki Yoshikawa
- Yuu WataseCorrect answer
- Rumiko Takahashi
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- Usamaru Furuya
- Hirohiko Araki
- Takehiko InoueCorrect answer
- Kenta Yamada
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- The Tempest, William Shakespeare.
- The merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare.Correct answer
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- Katsu Aki
- Clamp
- Hiromu Arakawa
- Kentaro MiuraCorrect answer
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- 1949
- 1955Correct answer
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- Mrs. Weasley's fudge
- Lemon drops
- Pumpkin juice
- Treacle tartCorrect answer
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- WaterCorrect answer
- Air
- Fire
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- The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
- The Notebook by Nicholas SparksCorrect answer
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- The Shining, Stephen King.Correct answer
- American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis.
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- François Rabelais, ‘Gargantua and Pantagruel’
- Miguel de Cervantes, ‘Don Quixote’Correct answer
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- FrenchCorrect answer
- Scottish
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- “Carrie”Correct answer
- “The Shining”
- “The Dead Zone”
- “Cujo”
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- The dying animal, Philip Roth.Correct answer
- The old man and the sea, Ernest Hemingway.
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- the Sorting HatCorrect answer
- the Dividing Hat
- the Separating Hat
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- Mercutio (friend of Romeo).Correct answer
- Edgar (friend of Romeo).
- Sasón (friend of Romeo).
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- Hercules Poirot
- Sam Spade
- Sherlock HolmesCorrect answer
- Kurt Wallander
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- Eighties
- FiftiesCorrect answer
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- The art of war, Sun Tzu.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.Correct answer
- In search of lost time, Marcel Proust.
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- Victorian
- GeorgianCorrect answer
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- yellow and blackCorrect answer
- emerald and silver
- blue and bronze
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- Oblivion
- World According to Garp
- Girl without curious Hair
- The Pale KingCorrect answer
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- Farm rebellion, George Orwell.Correct answer
- Charlotte's Web, E. B. White.
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- Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka.
- Anne Frank's diary, Anne Frank.Correct answer
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- Janet Morris.
- John Brunner.
- Joe Haldeman.Correct answer
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- a portrait of the Fat Lady
- a stone wall that opened after giving a password
- a wooden door without a handle, which opened after solving a riddleCorrect answer
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- Kazue Kato
- Fujiko FujioCorrect answer
- Takeshi Obata
- Tooru Fujisawa
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- … Ursula Le Guin
- … J.R.R. TolkienCorrect answer
- … J.K. Rowling
- … Diana Wynne Jones
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- Gordon Gryffindor
- Gilderoy Gryffindor
- Godric GryffindorCorrect answer
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- Nearly Headless Nick
- the Bloody BaronCorrect answer
- the Fat Friar
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- Arundhati RoyCorrect answer
- Chetan Bhagat
- Salman Rushdie
- Rabindranath Tagore
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- The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien.Correct answer
- The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien.
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- Socialism
- Capitalism
- Love
- Postwar societyCorrect answer
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- Kurt Vonnegut
- Neil Stephenson
- Robert Heinlein
- Douglas AdamsCorrect answer
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- the House CupCorrect answer
- the Winners’ Cup
- the Hogwarts Cup
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- Epic.
- Police.
- Science Fiction.Correct answer
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- True.Correct answer
- False, it was written by Lewis Carroll.
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- Honoré de Balzac, ‘Lost Illusions’
- Stendhal, ‘The Red and the Black’Correct answer
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”
- Henry James’s “The Aspern Papers”
- Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre”Correct answer
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- Akira Suzuki and Moto Hagio
- Leiji Matsumoto and Miyako MakiCorrect answer
- Satoshi Urushihara and Kazue Kato
- Uchiha Ichiwara and Keiko Takemiya
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- Anne RiceCorrect answer
- Stehpenie Meyer
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- Epic
- Historical
- Magical realismCorrect answer
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- La Revue de Paris.Correct answer
- Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.
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- True
- FalseCorrect answer
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