Dorothy finds herself in the mysterious, far-away Land of Oz in this 1900 children's book by L. Frank Baum. Use the pictures provided to see if you remember her adventures in this novel! This quiz can not be solved by watching the film!
The titles of two novels by each of ten authors have been mixed up - for example, "'Salem's Mile" and "The Green Lot" un-mix to "'Salem's Lot" and "The Green Mile" by Stephen King. Can you correctly match up the mixed-up pairs?
The speaker of the quote narrates the question, you then tell what quote is the answer. Keep in mind that we're counting down (what in my opinion are) the top 25 most recognizable and all-around quotable Shakespeare quotes.
Just as we all know a little classical music from watching old Bugs Bunny cartoons, everyone has picked up bits and tag ends of poetry. Just complete the line.
I thought Shakespeare was pretty boring until I actually began studying his plays--then I changed my mind completely! Here I've created a tongue-in-cheek one-sentence summary for 10 of his plays. See if you can match the summary to the play!
I simply don't understand people who find Shakespeare dull and boring. When a character in Shakespeare goes over the edge, he/she REALLY goes over the edge. Submitted for your approval...
Shakespeare's plays are full of acts of betrayal (although not all are technically treason). Can you identify the plays where these examples occur? (Caution: spoilers ahead if you haven't read or seen the plays.)
Among the Bard's innumerable contributions to Western culture (not least quiz-making), let's not forget catchy phrases used by some authors to name their literary efforts! Here are some well-known examples from the 20th century.
Are you hoity-toity enough to know just exactly who is who in each of these popular Charles Dickens novels? Match the book with each list of Dickensian characters.
It struck me that if Shakespeare's plays had really happened, they'd be breaking news, so I've written some news stories about a few of his plays. Contains spoilers!
Many female characters in literature have a best friend to help them through various trials and tribulations. Your task is to match the pairs of friends to the author who created them.
I'll try to make this quiz fun for JA lovers. By the way, please join the Jane Austen Lovers group (#116) in the Friends Area of the funtrivia.com homepage.
All of Jane Austen's heroes and heroines had at least one brother or sister. Can you match each set of siblings with the surname they shared (at least until some of the sisters got married)?
Over the years, many talented authors have crafted a variety of impressive characters, heroes, villains and others. How well do you remember ten of them? Enjoy!
The plays of William Shakespeare include quite a few brothers and sisters. Can you match each set of these sets of siblings with the play in which they appeared?
Just for fun. I have taken ten plays by the Bard and distilled them down to four words, which describe either the complete action of a play or a key scene/subplot. (Plot and ending spoilers follow.)
See how much you know about famous--and infamous--ladies in Austen's most popular novel! (A note: I have used quotes from the easy-to-read e-text of the novel found at www.pemberley.com.)
Who says Shakespeare's plays are boring? This quiz will count down the ten bloodiest plays in the Bard's canon to determine which one has the most deaths. Spoilers abound in this quiz.
Each question has two or more word definitions. Just join the answers together to come up with the last name of an author (some answers are literal and others phonetic) and then match them with their first names.
Touchstone in Shakespeare's "As You Like It" defines the quarrel by seven degrees. Here are some thrusts and counterthrusts from "Pride and Prejudice".
Most of the questions in this quiz are on well known quotations from "Macbeth". The first letters of the first nine answers spell the answer to the last question.
One of Shakespeare's techniques to engage his audience was to pose questions, sometimes in soliloquys, sometimes between his characters. See if you can match the question with its origin.
Madness - real or faked - seems to be a recurring theme in Shakespeare's plays. While not all of the characters featured in this quiz can be said to have gone insane in a clinical sense, they indeed exhibit various kinds of bizarre behaviour.
Health is a major theme in the 'Chalet School' books, and many doctors appear throughout the series - some of them even end up marrying pupils! Can you guess who's who?
Jane Austen's characters occasionally travelled to real-life locations in England. Can you match up the events that occurred in one of these places with the novel in which they appeared or were mentioned?
This quiz was published in 2005. I made it into a 50/50 quiz: you only have to decide between two choices. I'll give you a line from a work of literature and you pick the correct one from which it came. Good Luck!
There are not many women in Shakespeare's plays, although in some they play a very important part. In Shakespeare's day the parts of women were played by boys. I give you the woman. You name the play.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged", that quite a few of Jane Austen's young female characters were "in possession of a good fortune" and therefore "in want of a" husband. Here's some questions about them.
There are several families who play a major role in the 'Chalet School' and 'La Rochelle' series, some of whom have many children. Match the parents with the kids!
As you'll see from the short plot summaries in this quiz, Thomas Hardy's novels aren't exactly known as comedies. You just have to match them up with the correct title.
"Jude the Obscure" was so controversial that Thomas Hardy never wrote another novel after its publication. Test your knowledge of one of Hardy's most famous works!
Here is a quiz that explores Geoffrey Chaucer's "General Prologue" from "The Canterbury Tales". Please bear in mind that this quiz focuses solely on Chaucer's perceptions of Christianity during the 14th century and is in no way an ongoing belief. Enjoy!
Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises", a semi-autobiographical novel about a group of expats living in Paris, has been in print continuously since its publication in 1926. How much do you know about this canonical book? Most of the pictures should help a bit.