Mixed Bag of Victorian Literature

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1. Who was the villainess of Alexandre Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers”? Madame de Farge Constance Bonacieux Comtesse de Rochefort Milady de Winter

2. Which Walter Scott novel has the characters Front-de-Boeuf, Lady Rowena and Athelstane? Rob Roy Ivanhoe Waverley Redgauntlet

3. In Rider Haggard’s novel, what is the name of the mysterious, long-lived African queen known as “She-who-must-be-obeyed”? Ishtar Nyleptha Soraia Ayesha

4. Professor Aronnax, the narrator of Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”, has a faithful manservant who is an expert at what? Languages Picking pockets Acrobatics Nomenclature

5. Dickens wrote this novel in installments, which were wildly popular on both sides of the Atlantic. Indeed, when the ship carrying one of the final installments arrived in New York, crowds on the dock called up to it: “Is Little Nell dead?” Which novel was it? Oliver Twist Great Expectations The Pickwick Papers The Old Curiosity Shop

6. An educated young woman marries a much older man in the hope of being his research assistant, helpmate, and amanuensis. Which George Eliot novel is this? Sybil The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch Romola

7. In Wilkie Collins’ mystery novel “The Woman in White”, what is the relationship between the two heroines Marion Halcombe and Laura Fairlie? Sisters Maid and mistress Mother and daughter Friends

8. Kim, the eponymous hero of Rudyard Kipling’s novel, is friends with a Muslim horse trader from the markets of Umballa. What is his name? Shoaib Akhtar Imran Khan Mahbub Ali Inzamam ul-Haq

9. What ultimately happens to the owner of the Hound in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles”? He is unmasked by Sherlock Holmes and arrested He is killed when the hound turns on him He drowns in marshland while fleeing the scene He disappears and is later spotted in Italy

10. A nervous young man pays a visit to acquaintances in the country and is told that the family has a tragic past - years ago, three uncles disappeared with their little dog on the moors while hunting. The young man gets the shock of his life when what he assumes are the ghosts of the three uncles enter the room. Name this famous short story by Saki. The Shooting Trip Louis Vera The Open Window

11. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote a number of adventure tales under which pseudonym? X Q Z C

12. Name the first book in Anthony Trollope's series, the "Barsetshire Chronicles". Framley Parsonage The Warden Barchester Towers The First Chronicle of Barset

13. Who was the “Prisoner of Zenda” in Anthony Hope’s novel? An English spy The heir to the throne of Isildur The King of Ruritania The Princess Flavia

14. Jerome K. Jerome’s classic tale of the hapless adventures of three bachelors on holiday is titled “Three Men in a Boat”. What is its subtitle? Or the Greater Enjoyment of Tinned Sardines A Month on the Canals An Excursion in Rowing To Say Nothing of the Dog

15. Who will marry me? My father, Felix, is a rich merchant, but also a fierce miser. I will only be married into a family which can bring an equal wealth to the union. Unfortunately for my papa I fall in love with my cousin Charles, who is penniless. He leaves to make his fortune, and I promise to wait for him, but eventually avarice, not love, wins the day. Who am I? Rebecca de Winter Constance Verrier Eugenie Grandet Madame Bovary