Agatha Christie and Literature

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1. The title for the novel ‘Postern of Fate’ is inspired by a poem ‘Gates of Damascus’. This poem is also featured in another short story. Can you identify the book which contains this short story? The Mysterious Mr. Quin The Tuesday Club Murders Parker Pyne Investigates The Labors of Hercules

2. The title of the novel ‘Taken at the Flood’ is inspired from a line in a play by William Shakespeare. Do you know the name of the play? Julius Caesar Romeo and Juliet Much Ado about Nothing King Lear

3. One of Agatha Christie’s novels features a character who is described as “exactly like a young man out of one of Mr. P. G. Wodehouse’s books.” Can you identify the name of this novel? The Man in the Brown Suit The Hollow Mrs. McGinty’s Dead Murder in Mesopotamia

4. The title of the novel ‘The Mirror Crack’d’ is from a famous poem by Lord Tennyson. Do you know which poem? Galahad The Lady of Shalott Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere Enoch Arden

5. ‘Partners in Crime’ is a Tommy and Tuppence short story collection, where the duo mimics famous fictional detectives. Who among the following fictional detectives is NOT featured in this book? Father Brown Hercule Poirot Sherlock Holmes Auguste Dupin

6. The title of the novel ‘The Pale Horse’ features a verse from a book of the New Testament. Which book is this? Luke John Acts Revelation

7. The title of the Tommy and Tuppence novel ‘By the Pricking of my Thumbs’ is inspired by the lines from William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. True False

8. “The Moving Finger writes and having writ moves on..” is a line from a poem that has inspired a Christie novel titled ‘The Moving Finger’. Can you name the poet? Omar Khayyam William Wordsworth William Shakespeare Lord Tennyson

9. ‘Sad Cypress’ is yet another novel where the title is inspired from a Shakespeare play. Which is this play? King John As You Like It Twelfth Night The Tempest

10. The title of the Christie novel ‘Endless Night’ is inspired from a poem. Do you know the name of the poet? W B Yeats Lord Tennyson William Blake John Keats