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Introduction:
"In literature, a subtitle is a secondary title which is usually explanatory in nature. Can you recognise these famous plays and novels by their subtitles?"


1. In the early 19th century, Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote a play, "Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts", and his wife, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wrote a novel subtitled "The Modern Prometheus", published in 1818. What was the main title of Mary's novel?
    Dracula
    Van Helsing
    Frankenstein
    Victor


2. The central character in this Victorian novel is the heroine, narrator and title character. When it was first published, the novel was subtitled "An Autobiography" and Currer Bell was credited as being the editor, rather than the author. Which novel is it?
    Shirley
    Agnes Grey
    Jane Eyre
    Emma


3. Which controversial anti-slavery novel was subtitled "Life Among the Lowly"?
    "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
    "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain
    "Roots" by Alex Haley
    "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe


4. Which Oscar Wilde play is subtitled "A Play About a Good Woman"?
    Lady Windermere's Fan
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    An Ideal Husband
    A Woman of No Importance


5. This novel, subtitled "Provincial Lives", was very controversial when it was first published in 1857. Its author and publisher were prosecuted for "violation of public morals". Which novel was it?
    "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
    "Madam Bovary" by Gustave Flaubert
    "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding
    "Fanny Hill" by John Cleland


6. Which of the following novels has the subtitle "A Study of Provincial Life" and was written by a woman using a masculine pen-name?
    Villette
    Agnes Grey
    Middlemarch
    Indiana


7. Whose autobiography is entitled "A King's Story: The Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor"?
    Edward VII
    Edward VIII
    George V
    George VI


8. Which of the following fantasy novels is subtitled "There and Back Again" and involves a journey which begins, and ends, at The Hill?
    "Out of the Silent Planet" by C.S. Lewis
    "The Hobbit" by J.R.R. Tolkien
    "The Realm of the Gods" by Tamora Pierce
    "The Forbidden Tower" by Marion Zimmer Bradley


9. Which of the following novels, set in France during the 1830s, has TWO subtitles?
    "The Plague" by Albert Camus
    "The Red and the Black" by Stendahl
    "Madame Bovary" by Gustav Flaubert
    "Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo


10. Which of Shakespeare's comedies has the subtitle "What You Will"?
    Much Ado About Nothing
    A Comedy of Errors
    Twelfth Night
    As You Like It


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