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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- [The old man and the sea] Manolin, the young friend of the old man, who seeing the state of tiredness, sadness and defeat of the old fisherman decides that from now on, letting himself be carried away by fear, he will not accompany him again to the middle of the ocean to fish: True or false?
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- True
- FalseCorrect answer
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- Federico Garcia Lorca.
- Francisco de Quevedo.
- Lope de Vega.Correct answer
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- Bhagavad GitaCorrect answer
- Bible
- Quran
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- Stephen ChboskyCorrect answer
- Dave Eggers
- Richard Grant
- Gilbert King
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- Charlotte's Web, E.B. White.
- The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien.Correct answer
- Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll.
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- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka.Correct answer
- The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas.
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- Coraline, Neil Gaiman.
- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens.Correct answer
- The great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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- the current or former Head of GryffindorCorrect answer
- famous people who were students in Gryffindor
- the families of Gryffindor students
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- Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”Correct answer
- José Saramago’s “Manual of Painting and Calligraphy”
- Henry James’s “The Lesson of the Master”
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- Yes
- NoCorrect answer
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- ambition, cunning, resourcefulness and fraternityCorrect answer
- intelligence, wisdom and originality
- bravery, courage and honesty
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- Kentaro KobayashiCorrect answer
- Akira Hanasaki
- Etsumi Haruki
- Koi Ikeno
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- the dungeonsCorrect answer
- a tower
- the basement
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- Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”
- Wendell Berry’s “The Hidden Wound”
- Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockinbird”Correct answer
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- The Diary of a Young GirlCorrect answer
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Catch 22
- Whom Bell Tolls
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- Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The War of the End of the World”
- Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude”Correct answer
- Alejo Carpentier’s “The Kingdom of This World”
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- Albert Camus.Correct answer
- Henry David Thoreau.
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- Hufflepuff
- Slytherin
- GryffindorCorrect answer
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- a raven
- an eagleCorrect answer
- a badger
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
- The Deathly HallowsCorrect answer
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- The Great Gatsby by Scott FitzgeraldCorrect answer
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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- Emma, Jane Austen.Correct answer
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë.
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- L. P. Hartley’s “The Go-Between”
- Jack London’s “A Call of the Wild”Correct answer
- Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim”
- Bernard Cornwell’s “Sharpe’s Tiger”
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- Macbeth
- Cordelia
- HamletCorrect answer
- Caliban
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- BibleCorrect answer
- Quran
- Bhagavad Gita
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- The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende.
- Love in the times of cholera, Gabriel García Márquez.Correct answer
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- Akira Toriyama
- Takao SaitoiCorrect answer
- Mitsuru Adachi
- Keisuke Itagak
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- Stephen King
- Isaac Asimov
- L. Ron HubbardCorrect answer
- Enyd Blyton
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- A Study in Scarlet.Correct answer
- The sign of the four.
- The baskerville's hound.
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- Comedies
- Tragedies
- Historical Plays
- Narrative PoemsCorrect answer
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- Renaissance
- RomanticismCorrect answer
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- Macbeth
- HamletCorrect answer
- King Lear
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- Gilbert K. Chesterton, The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- Fernando Pessoa, The Book of DisquietCorrect answer
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- Voldemort
- False
- Lucius Malfoy
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- TrueCorrect answer
- False
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- Umberto Eco, The Name of the RoseCorrect answer
- W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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- L. J. Smith.
- Anne Rice.Correct answer
- Stephenie Meyer.
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- Orlando.
- End of the journey.Correct answer
- Mrs. Dalloway.
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- Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
- Anne Frank, DiaryCorrect answer
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- The kingdom of possibility, David Levithan.Correct answer
- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle.
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- QuranCorrect answer
- Bhagavad Gita
- Bible
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- Émile Zola, ‘Nana’
- Gustave Flaubert, ‘Madame Bovary’Correct answer
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- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.Correct answer
- The island of Dr. Moreau, H.G. Wells
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- Montague and CapuletCorrect answer
- York and Lancaster
- Stark and Lannister
- Bennet and Darcy
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- Bran Castle.Correct answer
- Coca Castle.
- Butrón Castle.
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- Blonde
- Black
- BrownCorrect answer
- Gray
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- Peeves
- DobbyCorrect answer
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- A horse
- A dolphin
- A bear
- A whaleCorrect answer
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